Bill Text: VA HB1437 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Public school students; sight and hearing testing, exceptions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) [HB1437 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HB1437-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §22.1-273 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§22.1-273. Sight and hearing of students to be tested.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prepare or
cause to be prepared, with the advice and approval of the State Health
Commissioner, suitable test cards, blanks, record books, and other appliances
for testing the sight and hearing of the pupils students in the public schools
and necessary instructions for the use thereof. The State Department of
Education shall furnish the same free of expense to all schools in a school
division upon request of the school board of such division accompanied by a
resolution of the school board directing the use of such test cards, blanks,
record books and other appliances in the schools of the school division.
Within the time periods and at the grades provided in
regulations promulgated by the Board of Education, the principal of each such
school shall cause the sight and hearing of the relevant pupils students in the school to be
tested, unless such students are pupils any such student is admitted
for the first time to a public kindergarten or elementary school who have and
has been so tested as part of the comprehensive physical
examination required by §22.1-270, any such
student has any defect of vision or hearing or
disease of the eyes or ears that requires
the use of a corrective or supplemental device as set forth in such student's
Individualized Education Program, or the parents or
guardians of any such students
student object on religious grounds and the students show student shows no obvious
evidence of any defect or disease of the eyes or ears. The principal shall keep
a record of such examinations in accordance with instructions furnished.
Whenever a pupil
student is found to have any defect of vision or hearing or
a disease of the eyes or ears, the principal shall forthwith notify the parent
or guardian, in writing, of such defect or disease. Copies of the report shall
be preserved for the use of the Superintendent of Public Instruction as he may
require.
