SB490: No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education to make recommendation regard to participation therein.

Chief Patron

Emmett Hanger (R-24)
Served: 1996–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

04/11/2008: signed by governor

View Entire History

01/09/2008 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08
01/09/2008 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086210232
01/09/2008 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
01/23/2008 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
01/30/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB490)
01/31/2008 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
01/31/2008 Rereferred to Finance
02/05/2008 Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2008 Committee substitute printed 082935212-S1
02/06/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/07/2008 Read second time
02/07/2008 Reading of substitute waived
02/07/2008 Committee substitute agreed to 082935212-S1
02/07/2008 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB490S1
02/08/2008 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/08/2008 Communicated to House
02/13/2008 Placed on Calendar
02/13/2008 Read first time
02/13/2008 Referred to Committee on Education
02/18/2008 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
02/18/2008 Committee substitute printed 083375748-H1
02/19/2008 Read second time
02/20/2008 Substitute bill reprinted 083375748-H1
02/20/2008 Read third time
02/20/2008 No action taken on Committee substitute 083375748-H1
02/20/2008 Floor substitute printed 084251712-H2 (Saxman)
02/20/2008 Substitute by Delegate Saxman agreed to 084251712-H2
02/20/2008 Engrossed by House - floor substitute SB490H2
02/20/2008 Passed House with substitute (92-Y 5-N)
02/20/2008 VOTE: --- PASSAGE (92-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)
02/22/2008 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) (see vote tally)
02/25/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB490H2)
02/26/2008 House insisted on substitute
02/26/2008 House requested conference committee
02/28/2008 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/28/2008 Conferees appointed by Senate
02/28/2008 Senators: Hanger, Whipple, Miller J.C.
02/29/2008 Conferees appointed by House
02/29/2008 Delegates: Landes, Tata, Englin
03/07/2008 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N)
03/07/2008 VOTE: --- ADOPTION (96-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
03/08/2008 Reading of conference report waived
03/08/2008 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
03/24/2008 Enrolled
03/24/2008 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB490ER)
03/24/2008 Signed by Speaker
03/26/2008 Signed by President
03/27/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB490ER)
04/11/2008 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 831 (effective 7/1/08)

Summary

No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to develop a plan for the withdrawal from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, unless waivers that allow Virginia's existing educational accountability system, as set forth in the Standards of Quality, Standards of Learning, and Standards of Accreditation, to substantially meet the requirements of the Act are granted by the U.S. Department of Education.

View Full Text »

Video

Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/09/2008, 01/09/2008, 01/23/2008, 01/23/2008, 01/30/2008, 01/30/2008, 01/31/2008, 02/06/2008, 02/06/2008, 02/07/2008, 02/07/2008, 02/08/2008, 02/08/2008, 02/13/2008, 02/13/2008, 02/18/2008, 02/18/2008, 02/19/2008, 02/19/2008, 02/20/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/25/2008, 02/26/2008, 02/26/2008, 02/28/2008, 02/28/2008, 02/29/2008, 03/07/2008 and 03/07/2008.

Comments

James writes:

This is a great bill! Keep schools local. I must also ask what are they teaching kids with math now? there teaching them to use a 4 sqaure guessing game thing and thats supposed to tach them to divide? I dont get it, you guess a number till its right. Go back to the old ways of doing it.

Posted 5 months ago. #