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1999 SESSION
SB 962 Compulsory school attendance; (GED) testing.
Introduced by: Jane H. Woods | 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 The repealed sections are moved to § 22.1-254. The bill also includes technical amendments and is identical to HB 2384.
FULL TEXT
- 01/18/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 992737836 pdf
- 02/03/99 Senate: Floor substitute printed 992776760-S1 (Woods) pdf
- 03/04/99 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB962ER) pdf
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/18/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 992737836
- 01/18/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/28/99 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/99 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/29/99 Senate: Reported from Finance (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/99 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/03/99 Senate: Committee amendments rejected
- 02/03/99 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/99 Senate: Substitute by Sen. Woods agreed to 992776760-S1
- 02/03/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - fl. sub. 992776760-S1 (Woods)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Floor substitute printed 992776760-S1 (Woods)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/04/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/99 House: Read first time
- 02/05/99 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/12/99 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 1
- 02/19/99 House: Reported from Education with amendments (23-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/99 House: Read second time
- 02/23/99 House: Read third time
- 02/23/99 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/23/99 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/23/99 House: Passed House with amendments (Block Vote) (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/99 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/25/99 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/99 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENTS (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/99 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB962ER)
- 03/12/99 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/12/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 488 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488)