VA HB1742 | 2021 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Introduced on November 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on November 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who withdraws his child from attendance to receive, upon request, an education voucher in an amount equal to a prorated share of the applicable Standards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division, including the per-pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per-pupil share of special education funding for which the child is eligible, to cover the expenses of providing in-person instruction in an alternative setting. The bill permits the Department of Education to establish rules, regulations, or procedures for the issuance of such education vouchers. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Title
In-person instruction; education vouchers, etc.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2021-01-15 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N) (Y: 3 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-05 | House | Left in Education |
| 2021-01-15 | House | Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N) |
| 2021-01-13 | House | Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 |
| 2020-11-23 | House | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 2020-11-23 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21100770D |
