HB 975 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Standards of Quality; state funding, ratios of teachers to English language learners.

Summary
Standards of Quality; state funding; ratiosof teachers to English language learners. Requires state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided pursuantto Standard 2 of the Standards of Quality to support divisionwideratios of English language learner students in average daily membershipto full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: (i) for eachEnglish language learner identified as proficiency level one, oneposition per 25 students; (ii) for each English language learneridentified as proficiency level two, one position per 30 students;(iii) for each English language learner identified as proficiencylevel three, one position per 40 students; and (iv) for all other English language learners, one position per 58 students. Currentlaw requires 17 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each1,000 students identified as having limited English proficiency.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020 Signed Apr 10, 2020
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
53
Key actions
20
Committee
23
Amendments
3
Apr 10, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 1034 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 8, 2020
Upper · Passed
Conference report agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N)
upper
Mar 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (52-Y 39-N)
lower
Mar 7, 2020
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Senate requested conference committee
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Senate insisted on amendments (34-Y 6-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (24-Y 16-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 2-N)
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (58-Y 40-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB975EH1
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee on Education substitute agreed to 20105767D-H1
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 8-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (18-Y 4-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104130D
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors

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