VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

1995 SESSION

• | print version

SB 637 Free textbooks and textbook rental systems for public school students.

Introduced by: H. Russell Potts, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Free textbooks and textbook rental systems for public school students. Reauthorizes the use of textbook rental systems. This provision reinstates the law as it existed prior to July 1, 1994. In 1993, free textbook systems were mandated via Chapter 654 (1993 Acts), contingent upon the appropriation of state funds “sufficient to cover the state share of textbooks and workbooks” during the 1994 Session of the General Assembly. “Sufficient” funds to cover the state share were appropriated, and the free textbook requirement was implemented, thereby eliminating authority to operate textbook rental systems. Pursuant to this bill, rental systems, which were, in some cases, revenue generating, could be reinstated.

FULL TEXT

• 01/11/95  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/06/95 LD1344724  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/11/95  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/06/95 LD1344724
• 01/11/95  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/08/95  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Ed. & Health (10-Y 5-N)