SB 1590 Virginia Senate · 2019 Regular Session

Virtual Virginia; availability to all public schools.

Summary
Requires that the Virtual Virginia program, be made available to all public schools. Currently, the program is available only to high schools. The bill requires the Department to utilize a learning management system for the purposes of implementing Virtual Virginia. The bill also authorizes the Department to charge a per-student fee to school divisions for each student enrolled in a Virtual Virginia course beyond an initial allotment of 15 such students per school division and prohibits the Department from limiting the total number of such students by school division. The bill requires the Department to annually report on the Virtual Virginia program that includes student outcomes to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Education and the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health. The Department is required to make such report by November 1 of each year for the previous school year.
Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2019 Last action Feb 12, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 5, 2019

How they voted

36–0
Passed
Total votes 36
Feb 5, 2019
D Democratic16
16 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican20
20 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
3
Committee
9
Feb 12, 2019
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
lower
Feb 11, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Feb 11, 2019
Committee
Referred from Education by voice vote
lower
Feb 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Feb 5, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1590S1
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19105247D-S1
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (36-0)
senate
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Rereferred to Finance
upper
Jan 16, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 9, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101926D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
SD
Siobhan Dunnavant
RRepublican
VA
12