Bill Text: VA HB2008 | 2019 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Energy career cluster; Department of Education, et al., to establish, report.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)

Status: (Passed) 2019-03-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) [HB2008 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2019-HB2008-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 2008 Offered January 9, 2019 Prefiled January 7, 2019 A BILL to require the Department of Education to establish an energy career cluster. ---------- Patron-- Garrett ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Department of Education, in consultation with representatives from pertinent industries such as renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear energy, coal, and oil, shall establish as its seventeenth approved career cluster an energy career cluster. In developing the energy career cluster, the Department of Education shall base the knowledge and skill sets contained in such career cluster on the energy industry competency and credential models developed by the Center for Energy Workforce Development in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Education shall report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than December 1, 2019, on its progress toward establishing such energy career cluster.