Virginia House Bill 742 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Elementary and secondary schools; electronic textbooks. Specifies that a local school board's contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board for use in kindergarten through grade 12 shall allow for the purchase of printed textbooks, printed textbooks with electronic files, or electronic textbooks separate and apart from printed versions of the same textbook. Under current law, contracts and purchase orders for textbooks in these three forms is only permitted for textbooks to be used in grades six through 12. The bill also clarifies that if a local school board decides to purchase an electronic textbook, it shall provide it to each student free of charge. The bill finally requires the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Center for Innovative Technology, to report annually to the General Assembly on (i) the level of broadband connectivity of each local school division, and (ii) the ability of each student within each school division to access electronic textbooks, both at school and outside of school.

Electronic textbooks; use in kindergarten through grade 12.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Sam Rasoul [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Education
2014-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2014-02-04	House	Reconsideration by Subcommittee by voice vote
2014-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
2014-01-27	House	Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
2014-01-27	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2014-01-27	House	Referred from Science and Technology by voice vote
2014-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
2014-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101191D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	243	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	243.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB742
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB742+hil