HB2039: Diploma, advanced technical; Board of Education to establish requirements therefor.
Chief Patron
Del.
Phil Hamilton (R-93)
Phil Hamilton
(R-93)
Newport News, VA
Served: 1988–
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Status
04/04/2007: enacted
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- 01/08/2007 Committee
- 01/08/2007 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 072307316
- 01/08/2007 Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/15/2007 Assigned Education sub: Standards of Quality (Lingamfelter)
- 01/22/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB2039)
- 01/24/2007 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 01/24/2007 Committee substitute printed 072367316-H1
- 01/25/2007 Read first time
- 01/26/2007 Read second time
- 01/26/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 072367316-H1
- 01/26/2007 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2039H1
- 01/29/2007 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2007 Communicated to Senate
- 01/30/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/2007 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/02/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB2039H1)
- 02/06/2007 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/16/2007 Committee substitute printed 075412316-S1
- 02/16/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2007 VOTE: (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/19/2007 Read third time
- 02/19/2007 Reading of substitute waived
- 02/19/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 075412316-S1
- 02/19/2007 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2039S1
- 02/19/2007 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/20/2007 Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB2039S1)
- 02/21/2007 Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 3-N)
- 02/21/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 3-N) (see vote tally)
- 03/07/2007 Enrolled
- 03/07/2007 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2039ER)
- 03/07/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB2039ER)
- 03/07/2007 Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/2007 Signed by President
- 03/26/2007 Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/03/2007 Placed on Calendar
- 04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter (effective 7/1/07)
- 04/04/2007 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 0-N)
- 04/04/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 04/04/2007 G Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/04/2007 Reenrolled
- 04/04/2007 Reenrolled bill text (HB2039ER2)
- 04/04/2007 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/04/2007 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter 859 (effective 7/1/07)
- 04/11/2007 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0859)
Summary
Standard diploma in career and technical education. Requires
the Board of Education to establish requirements for a standard diploma in
career and technical education, comprised of 22 total credits as follows: (i)
four credits in English, one of which must be in technical writing or reading;
(ii) three credits in mathematics; (iii) two credit units in laboratory
science; (iv) two credits in history and social sciences; (v) one credit in the
fine or practical arts; (vi) two credits in health or physical education; and
(vii) eight credits in career and technical education. Of the 22 total credits,
a total of six verified units of credit must be required to earn the standard
diploma in career and technical education.
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CTE course electves are embedded in the Standard and Advanced Studies Diploma. Students need strong academic, as well as technical, skills to succeed in the global workforce. There is not sound rational to consider adding a third diploma and this bill should not be considered.