VA HB669 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning in grades six through 12 and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction in grades six through 12 the study of the dangers of communism.

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Title

Standards of Learning; instruction on dangers and victims of communism.

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Roll Calls

2024-02-05 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N) (Y: 6 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-02-13HouseLeft in Education
2024-02-05HouseSubcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N)
2024-01-19HouseAssigned Education sub: Higher Education
2024-01-09HouseReferred to Committee on Education
2024-01-09HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100253D

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
223320.1(n/a)See Bill Text
221253.13:1(n/a)See Bill Text

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