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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Blevins (Chairman), Howell, Ruff, Locke, Miller, J.C.

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 15, 2010
Time and Place: Monday, 1/2 hr. after Senate adj., 4 E Conf. Rm, Gen. Assembly Bl

H.B. 76 Instructional spending; local school board to report expenditures annually.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their operating budgets allocated to instructional spending. Any school division that fails to meet the 65 percent requirement must present a plan to the Board of Education to increase instructional spending by 0.5 percent in the following fiscal year. School divisions failing to submit such a plan must be audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts, who is required to submit recommendations to the Board, including instruction concerning how failing school divisions can increase their instructional spending to 65 percent. In addition, the Board must annually report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations the amount of spending allocated by the local school divisions to instructional spending based on the reports submitted annually by the local school boards.

H.B. 1199 Waiver of certain graduation requirements; Board of Education to provide only for good cause.

Patron: Iaquinto

Waiver of certain graduation requirements; pursuant to Board of Education criteria. Requires the Board of Education to provide for the waiver of certain graduation requirements to be granted only for good cause and subject to reasonable procedures and criteria to be established.

H.B. 1245 Surplus property; authorizes school boards to convey title to nonprofit charitable organizations.

Patron: Kory

Surplus property of local school boards.  Authorizes local school boards to convey title to surplus real property to a Virginia nonprofit charitable organization or to donate obsolete personal property to such an organization.