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2022 SESSION
HB 585 SOL; work group to revise summative assessments, etc.
Introduced by: Schuyler T. VanValkenburg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Secretary of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction; revisions to Standard of Learning summative assessments. Directs the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and consult a work group to revise the Standards of Learning summative assessments of proficiency and to develop a plan for implementation of such revised assessments that shall consider best practices and innovations in summative assessments of proficiency, alternative approaches to current and new assessment items, assessment items that include open-ended questions, long-form writing, and other tasks, a plan for pilot implementation of such assessment items prior to the 2027–2028 school year, the development of a bank of vetted sample assessment items, recommended legislative and regulatory changes and funding necessary to implement approaches considered by the work group, and a proposed timeline for implementation. The bill requires the Department of Education to submit its initial plan for implementation of revised Standards of Learning summative assessments developed by the work group to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023, with annual updates on implementation of such plan no later than November 1 each year thereafter through 2027.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102169D pdf
- 02/07/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22105747D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106487D-H2 pdf | impact statement
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB585ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/11/22 House: Governor's substitute printed 22108141D-H3 pdf
- 04/27/22 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB585ER2) pdf
- 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102169D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/26/22 House: Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
- 02/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/22 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22105747D-H1
- 02/07/22 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/22 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 02/11/22 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106487D-H2
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee on Education substitute rejected 22105747D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 22106487D-H2
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB585H2
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/24/22 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 4-N 2-A)
- 02/24/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/02/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 1-N)
- 03/03/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/07/22 Senate: Read third time
- 03/07/22 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 03/07/22 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 03/07/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/07/22 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (20-Y 19-N)
- 03/08/22 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/22 House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/22 House: Enrolled
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB585ER)
- 03/10/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/22/22 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/11/22 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/11/22 House: Governor's substitute printed 22108141D-H3
- 04/27/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/27/22 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (97-Y 3-N)
- 04/27/22 House: VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 3-N)
- 04/27/22 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (33-Y 7-N)
- 04/27/22 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/27/22 House: Reenrolled
- 04/27/22 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB585ER2)
- 04/27/22 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/27/22 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/27/22 House: Enacted, Chapter 760 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760)