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2002 SESSION

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HB 794 Basal textbook selection.

Introduced by: Thomas M. Bolvin | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Textbook selection. Directs the Board of Education, in approving basal textbooks for reading in kindergarten and first grade, to establish a minimum decodability standard based on words that students can correctly read by properly attaching speech sounds to each letter to formulate the word at seventy percent or above for such textbooks.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/02  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/09/02 022297646  pdf
• 01/25/02  House: Printed as engrossed 022297646-E  pdf | impact statement
• 03/08/02  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB794ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/04/02  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/09/02  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/09/02 022297646
• 01/14/02  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 01/23/02  House: Reported from Education with amendments (20-Y 0-N)
• 01/24/02  House: Read first time
• 01/25/02  House: Read second time
• 01/25/02  House: Committee amendments agreed to
• 01/25/02  House: Engrossed by House as amended
• 01/25/02  House: Printed as engrossed 022297646-E
• 01/28/02  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/02  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/02  House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 01/28/02  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/02  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/02  House: Communicated to Senate
• 01/29/02  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/29/02  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/28/02  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
• 03/01/02  Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/01/02  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: Read third time
• 03/04/02  Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/02  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/08/02  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB794ER)
• 03/09/02  House: Enrolled
• 03/09/02  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/09/02  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/02/02  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 421 (effective 7/1/02)
• 04/04/02  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)