VA SB609 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-08 - Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-08 - Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program, defined in the bill as any state funding provided for programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation or pursuant to the at-risk add-on for the purpose of supporting programs for students who are educationally at risk. The bill requires (i) the determination of the amount of state funding for which a school division is eligible pursuant to the At-Risk Program to be based on the school division's identified student percentage, defined in the bill as the fraction, expressed as a percentage, that results from dividing the number of identified students enrolled in a school division by the total number of students enrolled in such school division, weighted by the factor of 1.5, and then adjusted by the addition of a percentage that corrects for undercounting English language learner students as identified students and (ii) such funding to be distributed as follows: 60 percent on a flat per-student rate and 40 percent on a variable rate set out in the general appropriation act based on the concentration of poverty in the school division. The bill provides that any school division that would have received more state funds for the at-risk add-on and programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation than it would pursuant to the consolidation of such state funding sources under the At-Risk Program established in the bill shall be held harmless and shall not have its share of such state funding reduced, effective for the 2024–2025 school year through the 2026–2027 school year.
Title
At-Risk Program; established, public school funding.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-08 | Senate | Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| 2024-02-01 | Senate | Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations |
| 2024-02-01 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-24 | Senate | Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education |
| 2024-01-10 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 2024-01-10 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104574D |
Same As/Similar To
HB825 (Similar To) 2024-03-09 - Left in Finance and Appropriations
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | 199.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 22 | 1 | 253.13:2 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 51 | 1 | 617 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
