Bill Text: VA HB753 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Social-emotional learning; DOE to develop guidance standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-03-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) [HB753 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2020-HB753-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 753 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Appropriations on January 27, 2020) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Rasoul) A BILL to require the Department of Education to develop guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public school students; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Department of Education shall (i) establish a uniform definition of social-emotional learning and develop guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public students in grades kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth; (ii) make such standards available to each local school division no later than July 1, 2021; and (iii) issue a report no later than November 1, 2021, on the resources needed to successfully support local school divisions with the implementation of a statewide social-emotional learning program.