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Bill Standards of Learning; reading & mathematics assessments for students in grades three through eight. Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment and for the purpose of providing measures of individual student growth over the course of the school year, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to include at least one beginning-of-year and one end-of-year assessment in order to provide individual student growth scores over the course of the school year, provided that the total time scheduled for taking all such assessments shall not exceed 150 percent of the time scheduled for taking a single end-of-year proficiency assessment. The bill requires the Department of Education to ensure adequate training for teachers and principals on how to interpret and use student growth data from such assessments to improve reading and mathematics instruction in grades three through eight throughout the school year. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to be fully implemented in each local school division no later than the 2024-2025 school year. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 HB 2027 Virginia HB 2027 (2021)
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Virginia HB 2027 (2021) — Standards of Learning; reading & mathematics assessments for students in grades three through eight.

Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment and for the purpose of providing measures of individual student growth over the course of the school year, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to include at least one beginning-of-year and one end-of-year assessment in order to provide individual student growth scores over the course of the school year, provided that the total time scheduled for taking all such assessments shall not exceed 150 percent of the time scheduled for taking a single end-of-year proficiency assessment. The bill requires the Department of Education to ensure adequate training for teachers and principals on how to interpret and use student growth data from such assessments to improve reading and mathematics instruction in grades three through eight throughout the school year. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to be fully implemented in each local school division no later than the 2024-2025 school year.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0443 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 21103824D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee substitute printed 21200494D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. HB2027ER (committee substitute) — source
  5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102777D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 1-N) — 201 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — 71 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — 981 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 211 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Carrie E. Coyner — primary (person)
  • Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
  • Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
  • Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
  • Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
  • David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
  • Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
  • Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
  • Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
  • Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
  • John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
  • Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
  • Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
  • Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
  • Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
  • Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
  • Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
  • Siobhan S. Dunnavant — cosponsor (person)
  • Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102777D introduction
  • 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2021-01-14 Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ referral-committee
  • 2021-01-18 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-01-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
  • 2021-01-18 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
  • 2021-01-20 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-01-20 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2021-01-20 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
  • 2021-01-27 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-03 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-03 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-03 Committee substitute printed 21103824D-H1 substitution
  • 2021-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB2027)
  • 2021-02-03 Read first time reading-1
  • 2021-02-04 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-04 Committee on Education amendments rejected
  • 2021-02-04 Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 21103824D-H1
  • 2021-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2027H1
  • 2021-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB2027H1)
  • 2021-02-05 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2021-02-05 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N)
  • 2021-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2021-02-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-18 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-18 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2021-02-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-22 Committee substitute printed 21200494D-S1 substitution
  • 2021-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-25 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-25 Passed by temporarily
  • 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB2027S1)
  • 2021-02-25 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2021-02-25 Committee amendments rejected
  • 2021-02-25 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2021-02-25 Committee substitute agreed to 21200494D-S1
  • 2021-02-25 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2027S1
  • 2021-02-25 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2021-02-25 Placed on Calendar
  • 2021-02-25 Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200494D-S1 (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-03-09 Enrolled
  • 2021-03-09 Signed by President
  • 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB2027ER)
  • 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
  • 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-30 Approved by Governor-Chapter 443 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/564b49cd-eb30-483b-9cc0-5e1e09dcdd12. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).