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2021 SESSION
SB 1401 Standards of Learning; reduces total number & type of required assessments to minimum requirements.
Introduced by: Todd E. Pillion | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. The bill requires the Department of Education to annually report on the estimated projected and actual savings from the implementation of the bill and report the amount of such savings to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly. The bill also requires that such amount be included in the total for Direct Aid to Public Education in any general appropriation act.
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HISTORY
- 01/13/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100971D
- 01/13/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/20/21 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 01/28/21 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
- 01/28/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 12-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote