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1999 SESSION
HB 2384 Compulsory school attendance; (GED) testing.
Introduced by: James H. Dillard II | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Compulsory school attendance; general educational development (GED) testing. Authorizes local school boards to allow compulsory attendance requirements to be satisfied for any student who is at least age 16, upon a meeting between the student, the student’s parents, and the principal or his designee, in which an individual student alternative education (ISAEP) plan is developed in conformity with guidelines prescribed by the Board, which plan must include career guidance counseling, mandatory enrollment in a GED testing program or other alternative education program approved by the local school board, counseling on the economic impact of failing to complete high school and provisions for re-enrollment in school. Such students may take the GED test. From such funds as may be appropriated, local school boards must implement GED testing and preparatory programs consistent with guidelines to be developed by the Board of Education. The guidelines must include a provision allowing such preparatory and testing programs to be offered jointly by two or more school boards. No one under age 16 is eligible for GED testing programs. A student for whom an ISAEP has been granted and who fails to comply with such plan shall be deemed to be in violation of compulsory attendance requirements. Students enrolled with an ISAEP shall be counted in the average daily membership in the relevant school division. Additional amendments provide that home-schooled students need not have three consecutive years of home instruction to be eligible to take the GED test and that, effective July 1, 2000, parents electing to provide home instruction must notify the division superintendents by August 15 of each year. The bill combines and reorganizes several Code sections addressing compulsory school attendance. The repealed sections are moved to § 22.1-254.
This measure includes technical amendments and is identical to SB 962.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 992711836 pdf
- 02/05/99 House: Committee substitute printed 992774212-H1 pdf
- 03/09/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2384ER) pdf
- 04/05/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 992711836
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/26/99 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 2
- 02/01/99 House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 4-N)
- 02/01/99 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/05/99 House: Reported from Appropriations with sub. (30-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 House: Committee substitute printed 992774212-H1
- 02/06/99 House: Read first time
- 02/07/99 House: Read second time
- 02/07/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 992774212-H1
- 02/07/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 992774212-H1
- 02/08/99 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/10/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/99 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/99 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/99 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/23/99 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/23/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/23/99 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/99 House: Senate amd. agreed to by House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE-ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2384ER)
- 03/12/99 House: Enrolled
- 03/12/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 552 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/05/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)