republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1414.md

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Bill	Standards of Learning; DOE to review multipart assessment questions, partial credit, etc.	Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the existing educational advisory committees in the Commonwealth that advise on student assessments to review multipart Standards of Learning assessment questions and determine the feasibility of awarding students partial credit for correct answers on one or more parts of such questions. The bill requires the Department to report its determination to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2017. The bill prohibits the Department from taking action regarding the awarding of partial credit prior to the 2018 Session of the General Assembly.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1414	Virginia HB 1414 (2017)	bill	Education General Assembly Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Terry L. Austin	4	23	9	2016-10-11	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/71bbfe22-a9ac-4a51-89e7-0b3fa44093aa	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1414	17221f1abdbec5f8637e4f55f92e50a23ec6f1080bc1a60b8609dc2e0759aee5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1414 (2017) — Standards of Learning; DOE to review multipart assessment questions, partial credit, etc.

Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the existing educational advisory committees in the Commonwealth that advise on student assessments to review multipart Standards of Learning assessment questions and determine the feasibility of awarding students partial credit for correct answers on one or more parts of such questions. The bill requires the Department to report its determination to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2017. The bill prohibits the Department from taking action regarding the awarding of partial credit prior to the 2018 Session of the General Assembly.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1414ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104647D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100564D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 94–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendment — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-10-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100564D introduction
• 2016-10-11 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 17104647D-H1
• 2017-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1414H1
• 2017-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-20 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendment agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
• 2017-02-24 Enrolled
• 2017-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 313 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71bbfe22-a9ac-4a51-89e7-0b3fa44093aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).