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HB 241 Students who are English language learners; BOE to consider certain assessment.
Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Students who are English language learners; alternative assessments. Requires the Board of Education to consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of students who are English language learners and that may be administered to such students as Board of Education-approved alternatives to Standards of Learning end-of-course English reading assessments. This bill is identical to SB 538.
FULL TEXT
- 12/29/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101325D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105039D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/08/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB241ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/28/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/29/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101325D
- 12/29/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 12/29/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/15/16 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation
- 02/02/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/16 House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105039D-H1
- 02/04/16 House: Read first time
- 02/05/16 House: Read second time
- 02/05/16 House: Committee substitute agreed to 16105039D-H1
- 02/05/16 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB241H1
- 02/08/16 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/16 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/18/16 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/16 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/16 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
- 02/22/16 Senate: Recommitted to Education and Health
- 03/03/16 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/16 Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/16 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/16 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB241ER)
- 03/08/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/16 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/11/16
- 03/11/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, April 10, 2016
- 03/28/16 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 516 (effective 7/1/16)
- 03/28/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)