Career and technical education credentials; testing accommodations for English language learners.
Summary
Requires the Department of Education to develop, maintain, and make available to each local school board a catalogue of the testing accommodations available to English language learners for each certification, examination, assessment, and battery that satisfies the career and technical education credential graduation requirement. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement policies to require each high school principal or his designee to notify each English language learner of the availability of such testing accommodations prior to the student's participation in any such certification, examination, assessment, or battery. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2019.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2018
Committee Review
Feb 2018
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2018
Senate Passage
Feb 2018
Signed into Law
Mar 2018
Introduced Jan 6, 2018
Signed Mar 2, 2018
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
4
Committee
6
Mar 2, 2018
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 7, 2018
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
legislature
Feb 5, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
legislature
Feb 2, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N)
legislature
Feb 1, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB442H1
legislature
Feb 1, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 18105520D-H1
legislature
Jan 19, 2018
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
legislature
Jan 6, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
legislature
Jan 6, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102028D
legislature
1 primary · 19 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jennifer Carroll Foy
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Danica Roem
DDemocratic
Co
Debra H. Rodman
DDemocratic
Co
Eileen Filler-Corn
DDemocratic
Co
Hala S. Ayala
DDemocratic
Co
Jennifer Boysko
DDemocratic
Co
Kathleen Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
Kathy Tran
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
Co
Ken Plum
DDemocratic
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