Virginia Senate Bill 1401 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 4 2021 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-03-01 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. The bill requires the Department of Education to annually report on the estimated projected and actual savings from the implementation of the bill and report the amount of such savings to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly. The bill also requires that such amount be included in the total for Direct Aid to Public Education in any general appropriation act. Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. The bill requires the Department of Education to annually report on the estimated projected and actual savings from the implementation of the bill and report the amount of such savings to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly. The bill also requires that such amount be included in the total for Direct Aid to Public Education in any general appropriation act.

Standards of Learning; reduces total number & type of required assessments to minimum requirements.

Sen. Todd Pillion [R]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. John Edwards [D]	Sen. Monty Mason [D]
Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]	Sen. David Suetterlein [R]	Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2021-02-15 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 4-N) (Y: 4 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 12-N) (Y: 26 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-01	House	Left in Education
2021-02-15	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 4-N)
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
2021-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2021-02-07	House	Read first time
2021-02-07	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-05	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 12-N)
2021-02-04	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2021-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-03	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
2021-01-28	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2021-01-28	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
2021-01-20	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2021-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2021-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100971D

SB1401 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1401
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1401+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+SB1401F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S04C0085+SB1401
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S05C0138+SB1401
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SC0293SB1401+SB1401
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SC0369SB1401+SB1401
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H0903V0007+SB1401