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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Carrico, Howell, Locke, Black, Newman

Clerk: Patty Lung, Cheryl Law
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 11, 2013
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjour. - 3rd Fl. East

H.B. 1350

Patron: Albo

Mathematics assessments; targeted remediation and intervention for computational deficiencies. Requires local school divisions to provide targeted mathematics remediation and intervention to students in grades six through eight who show computational deficiencies on any diagnostic or grade-level Standards of Learning mathematics test that measures non-calculator computational skills.

H.B. 1420

Patron: Pogge

Board of Education; definition of "intervener." Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations defining "intervener" as an individual with knowledge and skill in the mode of communication of a deaf-blind student and who can communicate to the deaf-blind student what is occurring in the student's educational setting.

H.B. 1735

Patron: Toscano

Local school boards; salary increases. Specifies that salary increases for local school boards representing a city or town established in a year preceding a year in which members are to be appointed or elected shall become effective on July 1 of the year in which the election or appointment occurs if the election or appointment occurs prior to July 1 and shall be become effective January 1 of the following year if the election or appointment occurs after June 30.

H.B. 1871

Patron: McClellan

Student and school employee conduct; bullying. Defines the term "bullying" and requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a prohibition against bullying.  The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop model policies and procedures and school boards to adopt policies and procedures to educate school board employees about the need to create a bully-free environment.

H.B. 1926

Patron: Morris

Selection of local school boards; school board selection commissions. Abolishes school board selection commissions in school divisions composed of a single county and gives the county governing body all powers and duties previously held by the school board selection commission, including selection of the school board. The bill also eliminates, in single-county school divisions, referendums as a method of authorizing school board appointment by the county governing body or abolishing the school board selection commission.

H.B. 2019

Patron: LeMunyon

Public schools; policies and regulations. Requires that a current copy of all school division policies and regulations approved by the local school board must be posted on the division's website and available to employees and to the public. Printed copies of such policies and regulations are required to be available as needed to citizens who do not have online access.