Virginia Senate Bill 160 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on December 28 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-11-30 - Left in Education and Health
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that the bill establishes, language development milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf or hard of hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and make such report available to the public on its website.

Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

Sen. Louise Lucas [D]

2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-11-30	Senate	Left in Education and Health
2018-02-01	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2017-12-28	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2017-12-28	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103397D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	2	314.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB160
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB160+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04C0120+SB0160