Virginia Senate Bill 1278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 4 2019 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-19 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Increases from 540 hours to 990 hours the minimum instructional hours in a school year for students in kindergarten. The bill directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2021, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten average at least 5.5 instructional hours in order to qualify for full accreditation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.

Public schools; increases kindergarten instructional time.

Sen. George Barker [D]

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2019-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N) (Y: 18 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 4-N) (Y: 5 N: 4 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) (Y: 30 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) (Y: 34 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - 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 Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-19	House	Left in Appropriations
2019-02-13	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2019-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-02-13	House	Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N)
2019-02-13	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2019-02-13	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 4-N)
2019-02-08	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-04	Senate	Passed Senate (30-Y 10-N)
2019-02-04	Senate	Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-04	Senate	Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N)
2019-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-04	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2019-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
2019-01-23	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2019-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101549D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1278
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1278+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0138+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0313SB1278+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0355SB1278+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0370SB1278+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0371SB1278+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0372SB1278+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0902V0035+SB1278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H09V0147+SB1278