HB 2032 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

English language learner expenditures & students; DOE shall develop data collection process.

Summary

Department of Education; English language learner students; data collection on expenditures. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a data collection process related to English language learner expenditures and student English proficiency levels and identify other options to support English language learners and provide a status report to the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding on its implementation and data collection efforts by September 1, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Jan 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Last action Feb 17, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Appropriations Substitute · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended from its original introduced version to a House Appropriations Substitute version. The substantive policy content regarding English language learner funding and staffing requirements was removed from the main text, while the Department of Education's data collection mandate was simplified and moved to a standalone provision. This represents a significant reduction in the bill's scope, as the detailed staffing ratios and funding mechanisms for English language learners were eliminated in favor of a narrower directive focused solely on data collection.

Scope change

The bill's scope was substantially reduced. The original version included comprehensive staffing requirements for English language learners, dual language teachers, and related funding mechanisms. The substitute version removes these detailed provisions and focuses only on requiring the Department of Education to collect data on English language learner expenditures and proficiency levels.

REQUIREMENT

Removed detailed staffing ratios and funding add-ons for English language learners, including provisions for dual language teachers and weighted funding based on English proficiency levels.

Eliminated provisions allowing school divisions to use SOQ Prevention, Intervention, and Remediation funds to employ additional English language learner teachers.

Simplified the Department of Education's data collection mandate from a broader directive to specifically collect data on English language learner expenditures and student English proficiency levels.

TIMELINE

Maintained the September 1, 2025 deadline for the Department to provide a status report to the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding.

MODIFIED

Changed document formatting from original bill introduction to House Substitute amendment format with updated bill number (25105299D) and date (January 22, 2025).

Floor votes · House of Delegates Jan 28, 2025

How they voted

67–31

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 100

Jan 28, 2025

D Democratic51

51 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican49

16 Yea 31 Nay 2

63% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)

upper

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Assigned Education sub: Public Education

upper

Jan 29, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

upper

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (67-Y 31-N 1-A)

lower

Jan 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 15, 2025

Committee

Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education

lower

Jan 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Education and referred to Appropriations (12-Y 9-N)

lower

Jan 14, 2025

Committee

Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (5-Y 2-N)

lower

Jan 13, 2025

Committee

Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee

lower

Jan 7, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education

lower

1 primary · 5 co-sponsors