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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 1303 Local school divisions; availability of virtual and in-person learning to all students.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
School boards; in-person instruction. Requires each school board to offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. The bill contains certain exceptions to the abovementioned requirement. The bill requires each school board to provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bill requires the Department of Education to establish benchmarks for successful virtual learning and guidelines for providing interventions to students who fail to meet such benchmarks and for transitioning such students back to in-person instruction. The bill also requires all teachers and school staff to be offered access to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccination through their relevant local health district. The bill has an expiration date of August 1, 2022.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102517D pdf
- 02/01/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21102517D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21200505D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/09/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1303ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/30/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments not adopted
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102517D
- 01/12/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/13/21 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 01/28/21 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/01/21 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/01/21 Senate: Amendments by Senator Dunnavant agreed to
- 02/01/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1303E
- 02/01/21 Senate: Emergency clause deleted
- 02/01/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21102517D-E
- 02/02/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
- 02/13/21 House: Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
- 02/15/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 House: Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 3-N)
- 02/22/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21200505D-H1
- 02/23/21 House: Read second time
- 02/24/21 House: Read third time
- 02/24/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21200505D-H1
- 02/24/21 House: Motion to pass by floor amendment offered by Delegate Avoli agreed to (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/24/21 House: VOTE: Pass By (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/24/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1303H1
- 02/24/21 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/24/21 House: Passed House with substitute (88-Y 9-N)
- 02/24/21 House: VOTE: Passage (88-Y 9-N)
- 02/25/21 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Title replaced 21200505D-H1
- 03/09/21 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/09/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1303ER)
- 03/09/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/21 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 03/15/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/30/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 456 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/30/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456)