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2022 SESSION
SB 265 Children who are deaf or hard of hearing; language development, assessment resources.
Introduced by: Ghazala F. Hashmi | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Education, in coordination with the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that the bill establishes, language developmental milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf or hard of hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and make such report available to the public on its website. The bill states that the advisory committee function shall terminate effective June 30, 2023. This bill is identical to HB 649.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104072D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105891D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106322D-S2 pdf
- 02/11/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106550D-S3 (Hashmi) pdf
- 02/23/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106920D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/22 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB265ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/08/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104072D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/25/22 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/03/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105891D-S1
- 02/03/22 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (12-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/09/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106322D-S2
- 02/10/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106550D-S3 (Hashmi)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/22 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22105891D-S1
- 02/11/22 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22106322D-S2
- 02/11/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/22 Senate: Substitute by Senator Hashmi agreed to 22106550D-S3
- 02/11/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB265S3
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/23/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106920D-H1
- 02/23/22 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/22 House: Read second time
- 02/28/22 House: Read third time
- 02/28/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106920D-H1
- 02/28/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB265H1
- 02/28/22 House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/22 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/22 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/22 Senate: Title replaced 22106920D-H1
- 03/07/22 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/22 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB265ER)
- 03/08/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/22/22 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/08/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 240 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/08/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240)