Virginia Senate Bill 274 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Increases from 540 hours to 990 hours the minimum instructional hours in a school year for students in kindergarten. The bill directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2020, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten average at least 5.5 instructional hours in order to qualify for full accreditation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2020.

Public schools; increases kindergarten instructional time.

Sen. George Barker [D]

2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-01	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
2018-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101971D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB274
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB274+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0142+SB0274