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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 22, 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 a report to the Board with any recommendations he deems appropriate concerning how these school divisions can increase their instructional spending. 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. This bill incorporates HB 96 (Loupassi) and HB 898 (Comstock).

H.B. 331 Charter schools, public; Board may submit recommendation to school board to approve applications.

Patron: Marshall, R.G.

Public charter schools; approval of applications. Allows the Board of Education to submit recommendations to local school boards as to the approval or disapproval of charter school applications, and requires local school boards to provide, in writing, their reasons for denying an application or revoking or failing to renew a charter school agreement.

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 to be considered on a case-by-case basis.

H.B. 1245 Surplus property; school boards may donate obsolete technology hardware to nonprofit organizations.

Patron: Kory

Surplus property of local school boards.  Authorizes elected local school boards to donate obsolete personal property to a Virginia nonprofit charitable organization.