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HB 442 Career and technical education credentials; testing accommodations for English language learners.
Introduced by: Jennifer Carroll Foy | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Career and technical education credentials; testing accommodations for English language learners. Requires the Department of Education to develop, maintain, and make available to each local school board a catalogue of the testing accommodations available to English language learners for each certification, examination, assessment, and battery that satisfies the career and technical education credential graduation requirement. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement policies to require each high school principal or his designee to notify each English language learner of the availability of such testing accommodations prior to the student's participation in any such certification, examination, assessment, or battery. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2019.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102028D pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18105520D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB442ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/02/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/06/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102028D
- 01/06/18 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/18 House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/24/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/18 House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/29/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18105520D-H1
- 01/31/18 House: Read first time
- 02/01/18 House: Read second time
- 02/01/18 House: Committee substitute agreed to 18105520D-H1
- 02/01/18 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB442H1
- 02/02/18 House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/18 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 3-N)
- 02/05/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/07/18 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/15/18 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/18 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/18 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB442ER)
- 02/21/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/18 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- 02/26/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- 03/02/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/02/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139)