HB259: Students; transferring out of a public school.
Chief Patron
Del.
Bill Fralin (R-17)
Bill Fralin
(R-17)
Roanoke, VA
Served: 2004–
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Status
03/05/2008: signed by governor
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- 01/02/2008 Committee
- 01/02/2008 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088042504
- 01/02/2008 Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/16/2008 Impact statement from DPB (HB259)
- 01/23/2008 Reported from Education with amendment (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 01/24/2008 Read first time
- 01/25/2008 Read second time
- 01/25/2008 Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/25/2008 Engrossed by House as amended HB259E
- 01/25/2008 Printed as engrossed 088042504-E
- 01/28/2008 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2008 VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 01/28/2008 Communicated to Senate
- 01/28/2008 Impact statement from DPB (HB259E)
- 01/29/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/29/2008 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/2008 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/21/2008 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (13-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/22/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/25/2008 Read third time
- 02/25/2008 Reading of amendment waived
- 02/25/2008 Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/25/2008 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/25/2008 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/25/2008 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/25/2008 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/26/2008 Placed on Calendar
- 02/27/2008 Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/2008 VOTE: --- ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/29/2008 Enrolled
- 02/29/2008 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB259ER)
- 02/29/2008 Impact statement from DPB (HB259ER)
- 02/29/2008 Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/2008 Signed by President
- 03/05/2008 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/08)
- 03/14/2008 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422)
Summary
Students transferring out of a local school division. Requires
a local school division to obtain written documentation, to the extent
practicable, from the school to which a student has transferred before making
any status classification in an information management system.
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Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight
has video: 01/24/2008, 01/24/2008, 01/25/2008, 01/28/2008, 01/29/2008, 01/29/2008, 02/12/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/25/2008, 02/26/2008, 02/26/2008 and 02/29/2008.
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Comments
The purpose of this bill is to encourage schools to track down students when their whereabouts are unknown and to prevent dropouts from being mislabeled as transfers. It does not require anything extra from schools -- they should already receive records requests from the receiving school when a student is a bona fide transfer. Soon high school accreditation in Virginia will be based on graduation and completion statistics as well as test scores. There will be mounting pressure to mislabel dropouts as transfers in order to maintain full accreditation.
No mention is made of the EIMS state testing/tracking number assigned to all students. The Department of Education is now able to track all students using the State Testing Identifier and the four State Reporting submissions. If a student transfers within Virginia, the fail-safe is already in place, and school districts already are tracking these "lost sheep" students. If this bill is considered a high priority, then I would fully expect a funding bill to be attached for the state to fund such a position in each school district.