Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain, report. (SB1329)

Introduced By

Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) with support from co-patron Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax)

Progress

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

Description

Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, and a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; and (iv) provides functionality to enable school division personnel to manage and restrict user access to students and their parents. The bill requires the Board and the Department of Education to provide certain guidance and technical assistance to local school divisions on professional development for principals and teachers in parent engagement on and interpretation of student assessment data available through the Portal and requires each school board to annually provide high-quality professional development to principals and teachers on such topics. The foregoing provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2024 Session of the General Assembly. Finally, the bill establishes a work group for the purpose of advising the Board of Education on the criteria for and the process of procuring the goods and services necessary to implement the Portal and requires such work group to submit a report containing its findings and any recommendations to the Board of Education and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023. This bill is identical to HB 1629. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/10/2023Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103843D
01/10/2023Referred to Committee on Education and Health
01/25/2023Assigned Education sub: Public Education
01/26/2023Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
02/02/2023Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2023Committee substitute printed 23104710D-S1
02/02/2023Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
02/02/2023Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2023Committee substitute printed 23106298D-S2
02/03/2023Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/03/2023Impact statement from DPB (SB1329S1)
02/03/2023Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2023Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2023Read second time
02/06/2023Education and Health Committee substitute rejected 23104710D-S1
02/06/2023Reading of substitute waived
02/06/2023Finance and Appropriations Committee substitute agreed to 23106298D-S2
02/06/2023Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1329S2
02/06/2023Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2023Placed on Calendar
02/09/2023Read first time
02/09/2023Referred to Committee on Education
02/10/2023Impact statement from DPB (SB1329S2)
02/13/2023House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/13/2023Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/13/2023Committee substitute printed 23106601D-H1
02/14/2023Impact statement from DPB (SB1329H1)
02/15/2023Read second time
02/16/2023Read third time
02/16/2023Committee substitute agreed to 23106601D-H1
02/16/2023Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1329H1
02/16/2023Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/16/2023VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2023House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2023Title replaced 23106601D-H1
02/23/2023Enrolled
02/23/2023Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1329ER)
02/23/2023Impact statement from DPB (SB1329ER)
02/23/2023Signed by Speaker
02/25/2023Signed by President
03/02/2023Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
03/02/2023G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
03/26/2023G Approved by Governor-Chapter 653 (effective - see bill)
03/26/2023G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)

Duplicate Bills

The following bills are identical to this one: HB1629.

Comments

Michael Albin writes:

Although I support the intention underlying this bill, I have two concerns. First, is the cost of the accumulating, securing and publishing the data. Second, there the bill is contradictory in its call for data collection, etc, while at the same time requiring strict security controls. The part of the language should be strengthened. "Complies with relevant privacy standards, including §§ 2.2-3802 and 22.1-287.02 and 20 U.S.C. § 1232g."