Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations.
Summary
Public schools; severe weather conditions andother emergency situations; unscheduled remote learning days. Providesthat when severe weather conditions or other emergency situationshave resulted in the closing of any school in a school division forin-person instruction, the school division may declare an unscheduledremote learning day whereby the school provides synchronous or asynchronousinstruction, or some combination thereof, to all students in theschool in lieu of in-person instruction without a reduction in theamount paid by the Commonwealth from the Basic School Aid Fund, providedthat the school division has established an unscheduled remote learningday plan that ensures that every student is provided instruction and services on such unscheduled remote learning day that are comparablein quality to the instruction and services provided to learners onany other remote learning day.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Jan 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Dec 31, 2020
Signed Mar 18, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jan 19, 2021 · House of Delegates Feb 15, 2021
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Jan 19, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
32
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Amendments
5
Mar 18, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 293 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 17, 2021
Introduced
House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendment (84-Y 16-N)
lower
Feb 15, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Feb 10, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2021
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 2, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 19, 2021
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1132E
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Amendment by Senator Suetterlein agreed to
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Jan 14, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N 1-A)
upper
Dec 31, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Dec 31, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101830D
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David Suetterlein
RRepublican
Co
Joe McNamara
RRepublican
Co
SD
Siobhan Dunnavant
RRepublican
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