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HB 215 Teacher licensure; regulations governing licensure.
Introduced by: Barry D. Knight | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Teacher licensure; one-year license; instructors at regionally accredited institutions of higher education. Declares eligible for a renewable one-year license to teach in public high schools in the Commonwealth any individual who has (i) received a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (ii) completed at least 30 credit hours of teaching experience as an instructor at a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (iii) received qualifying scores on the professional teacher's assessments prescribed by the Board, including the communication and literacy assessment and the content-area assessment for the endorsement sought; and (iv) completed certain other licensure requirements.
FULL TEXT
- 12/29/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100346D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18106407D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB215ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/29/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100346D
- 12/29/17 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/18 House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/29/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/18 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18106407D-H1
- 02/02/18 House: Read first time
- 02/05/18 House: Read second time
- 02/05/18 House: Committee substitute agreed to 18106407D-H1
- 02/05/18 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB215H1
- 02/06/18 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/18 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/14/18 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/22/18 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/18 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/18 House: Enrolled
- 02/28/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB215ER)
- 02/28/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/06/18 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2018
- 03/06/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
- 03/30/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 711 (effective 7/1/18)
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711)