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2015 SESSION
HB 1962 School board members, local; professional development activities requirement.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Local school board members; professional development. Adds additional topics to the professional development activities required of local school board members and requires members to certify their compliance annually with the clerk of the school board. The bill requires the local clerk to record individual members' compliance at the first school board meeting of the year. The bill also directs the Board of Education, in conjunction with the Virginia School Boards Association, to establish criteria for the professional development and training of local school board members. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101931D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/15 House: Printed as engrossed 15101931D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101931D
- 01/13/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/23/15 House: Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
- 01/29/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/04/15 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 02/06/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/15 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendments (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/15 House: Read first time
- 02/09/15 House: Read second time
- 02/09/15 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/09/15 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1962E
- 02/09/15 House: Printed as engrossed 15101931D-E
- 02/10/15 House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 2-N)
- 02/10/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (98-Y 2-N)
- 02/11/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/19/15 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N)