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Bill Public education; student literacy measures. Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying that the term "evidence-based literacy instruction" does not include practices that instruct students to gain meaning from print through the use of (a) three-cueing, which includes semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues; (b) meaning, structure, and visual cues; or (c) visual memory for word recognition; (ii) removing the option to use a literacy screener approved by the Department of Education for certain purposes enumerated in the Act; (iii) requiring the Department to develop a list of core literacy curricula for students in kindergarten through grade five and supplemental instruction practices and programs and intervention programs for students in kindergarten through grade eight that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with science-based reading research; and (iv) requiring each divisionwide literacy plan to address how the local school board will align (a) core reading and literacy curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade five and (b) screening, supplemental instruction, and interventions for students in kindergarten through grade eight with evidence-based literacy instruction practices aligned with science-based reading research. This bill is identical to HB 647. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 SB 624 Virginia SB 624 (2024)
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Virginia SB 624 (2024) — Public education; student literacy measures.

Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying that the term "evidence-based literacy instruction" does not include practices that instruct students to gain meaning from print through the use of (a) three-cueing, which includes semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues; (b) meaning, structure, and visual cues; or (c) visual memory for word recognition; (ii) removing the option to use a literacy screener approved by the Department of Education for certain purposes enumerated in the Act; (iii) requiring the Department to develop a list of core literacy curricula for students in kindergarten through grade five and supplemental instruction practices and programs and intervention programs for students in kindergarten through grade eight that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with science-based reading research; and (iv) requiring each divisionwide literacy plan to address how the local school board will align (a) core reading and literacy curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade five and (b) screening, supplemental instruction, and interventions for students in kindergarten through grade eight with evidence-based literacy instruction practices aligned with science-based reading research. This bill is identical to HB 647.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0012 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103040D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB624ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — 981 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N) — 201 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
  • Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
  • Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103040D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2024-01-24 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2024-02-01 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB624)
  • 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2024-02-14 Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-16 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
  • 2024-02-19 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2024-02-19 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) passage
  • 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB624ER) passage
  • 2024-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB624ER)
  • 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
  • 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled
  • 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
  • 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69923dd1-cf2f-4d0a-ad48-f3022e918bff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).