School board policies; homework assignments, Internet connection.
Summary
School board policies; homework assignments;Internet connection. Requires each school board to establisha policy to prohibit any teacher in the school division from assigningto any student a homework assignment that requires the use of anInternet connection that is capable of transmitting information ata rate that is not less than 256 kilobits per second in at leastone direction when such student lacks meaningful access to such anInternet connection.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Last action Jan 29, 2020
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103485D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Charles D. Poindexter
RRepublican
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