Bill Text: VA HB1508 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School boards; qualified instructional positions and support services positions, additional funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-13 - Left in Appropriations [HB1508 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2018-HB1508-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1508 Offered January 18, 2018 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-98.3, relating to school boards; qualified instructional positions and support services positions; additional funding. ---------- Patron-- Adams, L.R. ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-98.3 as follows:

§22.1-98.3. Policy; additional funding for certain school boards.

It is the policy of the Commonwealth that school boards that are unable to fund the total amount required by the locality's composite index of local ability to pay to reach the prevailing funded salary for (i) qualified instructional positions funded under the Standards of Quality, as set out in Direct Aid to Public Education in the general appropriation act, and (ii) support services positions shall receive, to the extent practicable, state funds for qualified instructional positions and support services positions in addition to those state funds that the school board receives for public school purposes pursuant to §22.1-88.