Files
2026-07-06 17:28:36 -04:00

5.7 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Career and technical education credentials; testing accommodations for English language learners. 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. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2018 HB 442 Virginia HB 442 (2018)
bill
Education
enacted
Jennifer Carroll Foy
3 18 6 2018-01-06 2018-03-02 openstates ocd-bill/650c35ba-4b5d-42b2-972c-32dca06e1ed9 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB442 78aac9b0b5acfba485021094eb88ff809d6a9552c21998291aacf1e69f15b077 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-va

Virginia HB 442 (2018) — Career and technical education credentials; testing accommodations for English language learners.

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.

Version chain

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

  1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB442ER) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Committee substitute printed 18105520D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102028D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Education with substitute — 211 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 100 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House — 953 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 380 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Education and Health — 150 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
  • Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
  • Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
  • Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
  • Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
  • Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
  • Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
  • Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
  • Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
  • Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
  • Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
  • Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
  • Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
  • Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102028D introduction
  • 2018-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2018-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2018-02-01 Read second time reading-2
  • 2018-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 18105520D-H1
  • 2018-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB442H1
  • 2018-02-02 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2018-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2018-02-07 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2018-02-19 Read third time reading-3
  • 2018-02-21 Enrolled
  • 2018-02-21 Signed by Speaker
  • 2018-02-23 Signed by President
  • 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
  • 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
  • 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/650c35ba-4b5d-42b2-972c-32dca06e1ed9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).