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2024 SESSION
HB 647 Public education; student literacy measures.
Introduced by: Carrie E. Coyner | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying that the term "evidence-based literacy instruction" does not include practices that instruct students to gain meaning from print through the use of (a) three-cueing, which includes semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues; (b) meaning, structure, and visual cues; or (c) visual memory for word recognition; (ii) removing the option to use a literacy screener approved by the Department of Education for certain purposes enumerated in the Act; (iii) requiring the Department to develop a list of core literacy curricula for students in kindergarten through grade five and supplemental instruction practices and programs and intervention programs for students in kindergarten through grade eight that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with science-based reading research; and (iv) requiring each divisionwide literacy plan to address how the local school board will align (a) core reading and literacy curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade five and (b) screening, supplemental instruction, and interventions for students in kindergarten through grade eight with evidence-based literacy instruction practices aligned with science-based reading research. This bill is identical to SB 624.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100696D pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB647ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/08/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100696D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/24 House: Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/23/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/24 House: Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/24 House: Read first time
- 01/29/24 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/30/24 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/31/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/15/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/24 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB647ER)
- 02/22/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/01/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
- 03/01/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
- 03/08/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 44 (effective 7/1/24)
- 03/08/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044)