Virginia House Bill 13 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on December 7 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school student whose individualized education program indicates otherwise, each high school student to take and correctly answer at least 70 percent of the questions on a test composed of at least 25 but not more than 50 of the questions on the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test in order to graduate high school with a standard or advanced studies diploma, provided that such student may take such test at any time during grades nine through 12 and as many times during such period as necessary to achieve the minimum 70 percent passing score.

High school graduation; requires passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization, etc.

Del. Lee Ware [R]

Del. Baxter Ennis [R]

2024-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Education
2024-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N)
2024-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
2023-12-07	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2023-12-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103269D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB13
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB13+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB13F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0901V0009+HB0013