Virginia House Bill 1915 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-05 - Left in Science and Technology
Pending: House Science and Technology Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Access to electronic textbooks. Prohibits school boards from making electronic textbooks available for use by students in their residence or residences unless the school board implements measures to ensure that every student in the local school division has access to a personal computing device approved by the Board and access to Internet service in his residence or residences. The bill permits a local school board to establish a pilot program for the use of electronic textbooks at any secondary school in the local school division provided that (i) each student at the secondary school has access to a personal computing device approved by the Board and access to Internet service in his residence or residences and (ii) the secondary school is receiving federal funds pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, P.L. 89-10, as amended, or no more than 5% of the students in the local school division or 300 children, whichever is greater, participate in the pilot program.

Electronic textbooks; prohibits school board from making available for use by students in residence.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in Science and Technology
2013-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
2013-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101813D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	241.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1915
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1915+hil