HB 10 Virginia House of Delegates · 2024 Regular Session

High school graduation; requires passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization Test.

Summary
High school graduation requirements; passingscore on select questions from the U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school studentwhose individualized education program indicates otherwise, eachhigh school student to take and correctly answer at least 70 percentof the questions on a test composed of at least 50 but not more than60 of the questions on the civics portion of the U.S. NaturalizationTest in order to graduate high school with a standard or advancedstudies diploma, provided that such student may take such test atany time during grades nine through 12 and as many times during suchperiod as necessary to achieve the minimum 70 percent passing score.
Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2023
Committee Review
Jan 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Dec 6, 2023 Last action Jan 24, 2024
Floor votes · House of Delegates Jan 24, 2024

How they voted

210
Passed
Total votes 21
Jan 24, 2024
D Democratic11
11 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican10
10 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
6
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Jan 24, 2024
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (21-0)
house of delegates
Jan 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Dec 6, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

Sponsors