Virginia Senate Bill 1218 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2019 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-19 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Public high schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Standards of Learning assessments administered to students in grades nine through 12 to include reading, writing, mathematics, biology, and Virginia and U.S. history. The bill requires each such Standards of Learning assessment to consist of a Board-developed end-of-course assessment and prohibits such from being performance-based. The bill requires each school board to annually certify that it has provided instruction and administered an alternative assessment, consistent with Board guidelines, to students enrolled in a high school course in mathematics, science, or history and social science for which an end-of-course Standards of Learning assessment was administered prior to July 1, 2019, and was subsequently eliminated by the Board. The bill requires the Department of Education to perform reviews on such locally administered alternative assessments for high school courses and to report such review based on the 2019-2020 school year outcomes to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2020. The bill requires the Board, in its graduation requirements, to require students to earn a verified unit of credit in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and Virginia and U.S. History. The bill requires each such verified credit to be earned only by (i) the successful completion of a Board-developed end-of-course Standards of Learning assessment; (ii) achievement of a passing score on a Board-approved standardized test administered on a statewide, multistate, or international basis that measures content that incorporates or exceeds the Standards of Learning content in the course for which the verified credit is given; or (iii) achievement of criteria for the receipt of a locally awarded verified credit from the local school board in accordance with criteria established in Board guidelines when the student has not passed the corresponding Standards of Learning assessment. The bill authorizes the Board to permit transfer students to graduate with a reduced number of credits. The provisions of the bill requiring certain verified credit become effective beginning with first-time ninth grade students in the 2019-2020 school year.

Public high schools; Standards of Learning assessments.

Sen. Stephen Newman [R]

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

Sen. David Suetterlein [R]

2019-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-19	House	Left in Education
2019-02-08	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-02-08	House	Read first time
2019-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-05	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-05	Senate	Printed as engrossed 19105522D-ES1
2019-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1218ES1
2019-02-05	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2019-02-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2019-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19105522D-S1
2019-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2019-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
2019-01-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2019-01-24	Senate	Incorporates SB1585 (Suetterlein)
2019-01-24	Senate	Incorporates SB1525 (Sturtevant)
2019-01-24	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19105522D-S1
2019-01-24	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2019-01-16	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2019-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102794D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1218
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1218+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1218S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1218ES1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0083+SB1218
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0225+SB1218
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0353SB1218+SB1218
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0418SB1218+SB1218
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0421SB1218+SB1218