Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources. (HB1410)

Introduced By

Del. Gordon Helsel (R-Poquoson)

Progress

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

Description

Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that the bill 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 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 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 that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and make such report available to the public on its website. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/15/2018Committee
01/15/2018Presented and ordered printed 18104083D
01/15/2018Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
01/19/2018Impact statement from DPB (HB1410)
01/19/2018Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
02/02/2018Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2019
02/13/2018Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions

Duplicate Bills

The following bills are identical to this one: HB735.