School boards; required to allocate certain percentage of budget to instructional spending, report. (HB481)

Introduced By

Del. Jeff Frederick (R-Woodbridge) with support from co-patrons Del. Dave Albo (R-Springfield), Del. Clay Athey (R-Front Royal), Del. Tom Gear (R-Hampton), Del. Steve Landes (R-Weyers Cave), and Del. Chris Saxman (R-Staunton)

Progress

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

Description

Education; expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school division to allocate 65% of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their operating budgets allocated to instructional spending. Any school division that fails to meet the 65 percent requirement must present a plan to the Board of Education to increase instructional spending by 0.5% in the following year. School divisions failing to submit such a plan must be audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts who in turn must submit recommendations to the Board including instruction on how such school divisions can increase their instructional spending to 65%. In addition, the Board must annually report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations the amount of spending allocated by the local school divisions to instructional spending based on the reports submitted annually by the local school boards. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/09/2006Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 063573303
01/09/2006Referred to Committee on Education
01/18/2006Assigned to Education sub-committee: Teachers and Administrative Action (Rapp)
02/15/2006Left in Education

Duplicate Bills

The following bills are identical to this one: HB780.