Virginia House Bill 215 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Teacher licensure; one-year license; instructors at regionally accredited institutions of higher education. Declares eligible for a renewable one-year license to teach in public high schools in the Commonwealth any individual who has (i) received a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (ii) completed at least 30 credit hours of teaching experience as an instructor at a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (iii) received qualifying scores on the professional teacher's assessments prescribed by the Board, including the communication and literacy assessment and the content-area assessment for the endorsement sought; and (iv) completed certain other licensure requirements.

Teacher licensure; regulations governing licensure.

Del. Barry Knight [R]	Del. Richard Bell [R]	Del. Matt Fariss [R]	Del. Gordon Helsel [R]
Sen. John McGuire [R]	Del. Robert Thomas [R]	Del. Lee Ware [R]

2018-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-06 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-30		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711)
2018-03-30		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 711 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-06		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
2018-03-06	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2018
2018-03-03	Senate	Signed by President
2018-02-28	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-02-28	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB215ER)
2018-02-28	House	Enrolled
2018-02-26	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-26	Senate	Read third time
2018-02-23	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2018-02-22	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2018-02-14	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2018-02-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2018-02-06	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-02-06	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-02-05	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB215H1
2018-02-05	House	Committee substitute agreed to 18106407D-H1
2018-02-05	House	Read second time
2018-02-02	House	Read first time
2018-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 18106407D-H1
2018-01-31	House	Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2018-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
2017-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2017-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100346D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	298.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB215
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB215+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB215H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB215ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0711+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0901V0024+HB0215
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H09V0031+HB0215
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0352+HB0215
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0267+HB0215
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0676HB0215+HB0215
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0689HB0215+HB0215