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| Bill | Public school students; sight and hearing testing, exceptions. | Excludes from the requirement that the sight and hearing of public school students be tested any student who has an Individualized Education Program or a Section 504 Plan that documents a defect of vision or hearing or a disease of the eyes or ears when the principal determines that such a test would not identify any previously unknown defect of vision or hearing or disease of the eyes or ears. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1437 | Virginia HB 1437 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1437 (2017) — Public school students; sight and hearing testing, exceptions.
Excludes from the requirement that the sight and hearing of public school students be tested any student who has an Individualized Education Program or a Section 504 Plan that documents a defect of vision or hearing or a disease of the eyes or ears when the principal determines that such a test would not identify any previously unknown defect of vision or hearing or disease of the eyes or ears.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1437ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104523D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101120D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2016-11-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101120D
introduction - 2016-11-22 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2017-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
referral-committee - 2017-01-24 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-25 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-25 Committee substitute agreed to 17104523D-H1
- 2017-01-25 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1437H1
- 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-02-20 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-23 Enrolled
- 2017-02-23 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
- 2017-03-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 765 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/476e3ffe-e6ac-4b92-b43d-05329ef92b82. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).