Virginia Senate Bill 904 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 31 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-31 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; dyslexia and literacy; multisensory structured language education. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to facilitate the development of a statewide coalition of public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth, by December 1, 2020, to gather and share information on the latest evidence-based methods and approaches to prepare teachers to effectively educate K-12 students in reading, including multisensory structured language education to instruct students with dyslexia. The bill allows each public institution's school of education, education department, or relevant department for the career paths of K-12 reading specialists and teachers to collect such information and collaborate with other public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth regarding the latest reliable research for reading instruction to all K-12 students, with an emphasis on improving reading instruction to students with dyslexia.

Higher educational institutions, public; dyslexia and literacy.

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-28 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-24 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 21 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-31		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584)
2020-03-31		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 584 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-06	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-06	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB904ER)
2020-03-06	Senate	Enrolled
2020-03-02	Senate	Title replaced 20109314D-H2
2020-03-02	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-28	House	VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2020-02-28	House	Passed House with substitute (99-Y 0-N)
2020-02-28	House	Engrossed by House - floor substitute SB904H2
2020-02-28	House	Substitute by Delegate Keam agreed to 20109314D-H2
2020-02-28	House	Committee substitute rejected 20108906D-H1
2020-02-28	House	Read third time
2020-02-28	House	Floor substitute printed 20109314D-H2 (Keam)
2020-02-27	House	Passed by for the day
2020-02-27	House	Read third time
2020-02-26	House	Read second time
2020-02-24	House	Committee substitute printed 20108906D-H1
2020-02-24	House	Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
2020-02-13	House	Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-10	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB904S1
2020-02-10	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107622D-S1
2020-02-10	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-10	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107622D-S1
2020-02-06	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-29	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-01-08	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 20104687D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB904
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB904+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB904S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB904H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB904H2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB904ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0584+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0147+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0410SB0904+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0450SB0904+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0451SB0904+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H09V0244+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1618+SB0904
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1355SB0904+SB0904