Children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; parent resource. (SB983)
Introduced By
Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Arlington) with support from co-patron Del. Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke)
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 |
Description
Children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; parent resource; tools or assessments for educators; report. Requires the Division of Special Education and Student Services of the Department of Education to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that it establishes, language development milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report, using existing data reported in compliance with the federally required state performance plan on students with disabilities, that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing and make such report available to the public on its website. The bill is a recommendation of the Disability Commission. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/03/2017 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102216D |
01/03/2017 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
01/25/2017 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
01/30/2017 | Impact statement from DPB (SB983) |
02/02/2017 | Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |