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2016 SESSION
House Education
MEMBERSHIP
Landes (Chair), Lingamfelter, Cole, Pogge, Massie, Greason, Bell, Richard P., LeMunyon, Robinson, Yost, Yancey, Dudenhefer, Davis, Leftwich, LaRock, McClellan, Tyler, Bulova, Keam, Hester, Lindsey, Bagby
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Monday and Wednesday, 8:30 a.m., House Room D
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- HB 8 Virginia Virtual School; Board established.
- HB 36 Government courses at public high schools; civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test.
- HB 46 School Readiness Committee; Secretary of Education, et al., shall establish, increases membership.
- HB 47 Mixed-Delivery Preschool Fund and Grant Program; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 57 Student attendance; withdrawal of students absent without excuse.
- HB 66 New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program; established.
- HB 131 Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs.
- HB 166 Visually impaired students; each student to be evaluated and receive instruction in Braille.
- HB 196 Public elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions; information and forms.
- HB 209 Educational Institutions; revising and recodifying laws.
- HB 236 Teacher Emeritus Fund and Program; established.
- HB 241 Students who are English language learners; BOE to consider certain assessment.
- HB 259 SOL; Bd. of Education prohibited from adopting revisions that implement Common Core State Standards.
- HB 261 Armed Forces of the U.S. or Va. National Guard, former members of; provisional teaching licenses.
- HB 263 Western Virginia Public Education Consortium; decreases membership.
- HB 279 Career and technical education; three-year licenses.
- HB 309 School boards, local; licensed behavior analysts and assistant, support services positions.
- HB 353 School boards, local; transportation agreements with nonpublic schools.
- HB 357 Public schools; physical activity requirement for students in grades kindergarten through five.
- HB 365 Adaptive Learning Tools Grant Fund; established.
- HB 381 Standards of Learning; alternative means for children with disabilities to demonstrate achievement.
- HB 389 Virginia Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts; established, report, effective clause.
- HB 436 Standards of Learning assessments in English reading and mathematics; retake, recovery credit.
- HB 450 Comprehensive community colleges, certain; veterans advisors and veterans resource centers.
- HB 453 Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula Public Education Consortium; regional boundaries and governing board.
- HB 475 Students who have been treated for pediatric cancer; return to learn protocol.
- HB 487 School resource officers; those employed pursuant to School Resource Officer Grants Program.
- HB 503 Public Instruction, Superintendent of; tracking teacher turnover, report.
- HB 515 Higher educational institutions; institutional 6-year plan, economic development, report.
- HB 516 Education, Board of; policy on sexually explicit instructional material.
- HB 518 School boards, local; to provide students with option to transfer to another school division.
- HB 519 School-affiliated entities; definition, providing protection for student personal information.
- HB 521 Education, Board of; annual report includes reporting requirements of local school divisions.
- HB 523 Higher educational institutions; student mental health policies.
- HB 524 Teacher performance and quality; confidentiality.
- HB 525 Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; review of standardized testing in public high schools.
- HB 557 School efficiency reviews; scope and costs.
- HB 565 Charter schools, public; changes to provisions for establishment and operation.
- HB 571 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and determining opening day of school.
- HB 659 High school family life education curriculum; programs on prevention of dating violence, etc.
- HB 678 Human trafficking training; DCJS to establish for law-enforcement, etc.
- HB 682 Teacher licensure; waiver of requirements, trade and industrial education programs.
- HB 749 School service providers; protection of student personal information.
- HB 750 Student personal information; definition of school services, college & career readiness assessment.
- HB 753 School calendar.
- HB 831 Standards of Learning; curriculum shall include computer science and computational thinking.
- HB 842 Teachers; preparation and licensure, professional development in indicators of dyslexia.
- HB 894 Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; change in membership.
- HB 895 High school graduation; graduation requirements.
- HB 936 Students, certain, with limited English proficiency; Board shall make provision in its regulations.
- HB 942 School boards; reasonable access by certain youth groups.
- HB 954 Concussions; local school division policy to include Return to Learn Protocol for student-athletes.
- HB 961 Higher educational institutions; alternative tuition or fee structures to students, report.
- HB 1015 Higher educational institutions; memorandum of understanding with local law-enforcement agencies.
- HB 1029 Critical National Security Language Grant Fund and Program; established.
- HB 1036 Longitudinal data system; SCHEV to develop and maintain, report.
- HB 1061 Students; expulsion and referral to a local law-enforcement agency.
- HB 1062 Higher educational institutions; management agreements.
- HB 1103 ABLE savings trust accounts; exclusion from determination of state means-tested assistance, etc.
- HB 1132 School principals; incident reports.
- HB 1134 Disorderly conduct; provisions shall not apply to certain students if occurs on school property.
- HB 1176 In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard.
- HB 1230 Higher educational institutions; student intellectual property rights.
- HB 1234 School security officers; carrying a firearm.
- HB 1253 Norfolk, City of; repeals obsolete provisions for appointment of members to school board.
- HB 1279 Public schools; fire drills and lock-down drills.
- HB 1303 Higher educational institutions; educational programs for members of board of visitors.
- HB 1321 Higher educational institutions, private; memoranda of understanding, sexual assaults.
- HB 1377 School boards; assignment of teachers, reduces maximum class sizes.
- SB 17 STEM programs; grants for donations to programs at qualified schools.
- SB 83 Higher educational institutions; required agreements with law enforcement.
- SB 211 Public schools; physical activity requirement for students in grades kindergarten through five.
- SB 224 Public schools; prohibited use of tobacco products on school bus, etc.
- SB 245 Comprehensive community colleges; dual enrollment of students into Career Pathways program.
- SB 246 STEM Competition Team Grant Program and Fund; established, created.
- SB 250 Local school boards; transportation agreements with nonpublic schools.
- SB 313 Virginia College Building Authority; financing projects, participating institutions.
- SB 336 High school graduation; graduation requirements.
- SB 338 Higher educational institutions; study abroad programs.
- SB 360 Teachers; Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide a model exit questionnaire.
- SB 368 Public schools; standards for accreditation, corrective action plan.
- SB 425 Higher education; student mental health policies.
- SB 427 Standards of Learning assessments; Board of Education's calculation of passage rate.
- SB 438 Higher educational institutions; social media accounts.
- SB 452 Medical school; clinical rotation requirements.
- SB 458 Alternatives to suspension; Board of Education shall establish guidelines for local school boards.
- SB 502 School efficiency reviews; scope and costs.
- SB 538 Students with limited English proficiency; alternative to the eleventh grade Standards of Learning.
- SB 573 Part-time teachers; Board of Education to provide for issuance of permits.
- SB 576 New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program; established, Fund created, report.
- SB 612 Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs.
- SB 665 Middle school student-athletes, public; pre-participation physical examination.
- SB 734 Public charter schools.
- SB 776 Public schools; residency of children in kinship care.
- SB 780 Home instruction or religious exemption; information disclosure.