Alternative education programs; Department of Education to annually collect data on programs.
Summary
Requires the Department of Education to annually collect from each school board and publish on its website various enrollment and achievement data on alternative education programs for students who have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise precluded from attendance at school. The bill requires such data to be published in a manner that protects the identities of individual students and disaggregated by local school division and by student race, ethnicity, gender, and disability. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Jan 7, 2019
Signed Feb 21, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2019 · House of Delegates Jan 28, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 8, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Feb 21, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 8, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 4, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 1, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1985E
lower
Jan 31, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Jan 28, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (21-0)
house of delegates
Jan 11, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 7, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 7, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101690D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Richard P. Bell
RRepublican
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