Del. Vivian Watts
Sponsored bills
Requires the Department of Education to develop, maintain, and make available to each local school board a catalogue of the testing accommodations available to English language learners for each certification, examination, assessment, and battery that satisfies the career and technical education credential graduation requirement. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement policies to require each high school principal or his designee to notify each English language learner of the availability of such testing accommodations prior to the student's participation in any such certification, examination, assessment, or battery. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2019.
Clarifies that disclosure of health records of a person committed to a state, local, or regional correctional facility to such facility is not subject to general provisions governing disclosure of health records but is subject to provisions specific to persons committed to such facilities. The bill also provides that the person in charge of a correctional facility or his designee is entitled to obtain from a health care provider medical records concerning a person committed to such facility.