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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Carrico (Chairman), Dunnavant, Howell, Locke, Peake

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: February 11, 2019
Time and Place: 8:30 am - Subcommittee Room 2, 5th Fl. Pocahontas Bldg.

H.B. 1752

Patron: Krizek

Election day; school holiday. Prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

H.B. 1868

Patron: Hurst

Virginia Index of Performance incentive program; Exemplar School Recognition Program. Renames the Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) incentive program as the Exemplar School Recognition Program (the Program) and makes several changes to the Program to align it with recent changes made by the Board of Education (the Board) to the Standards of Accreditation, including requiring the Board to design the Program to recognize and reward (i) schools that exceed Board-established requirements or show continuous improvement on academic and school quality indicators and (ii) schools, school divisions, and school boards that implement effective, innovative practices that are aligned with the Commonwealth's goals for public education.

H.B. 2297

Patron: Simon

Free public elementary and secondary education; eligibility criteria. Requires every person of school age to be deemed to reside in a school division for the purpose of eligibility for free public elementary and secondary education in such school division when all or any portion of the building in which such person resides with certain other individuals or as an emancipated minor is taxable by the locality in which the school division is located.

H.B. 2570

Patron: LaRock

Family life education programs; student participation. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school student from participating in any family life education program without the prior written consent of his parent.