Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations.
Summary
Public schools; severe weather conditions andother emergency situations; unscheduled remote learning days. Providesthat when severe weather conditions or other emergency situationshave resulted in the closing of any school in a school division forin-person instruction, the school division may declare an unscheduledremote learning day whereby the school provides synchronous or asynchronousinstruction, or some combination thereof, to all students in theschool in lieu of in-person instruction without a reduction in theamount paid by the Commonwealth from the Basic School Aid Fund, providedthat the school division has established an unscheduled remote learningday plan that ensures that every student is provided instruction and services on such unscheduled remote learning day that are comparablein quality to the instruction and services provided to learners onany other remote learning day.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Feb 2021
Introduced Jan 1, 2021
Signed Feb 25, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2021 · House of Delegates Jan 25, 2021
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 15, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
10
Committee
7
Amendments
1
Feb 25, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 26, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed House (75-Y 25-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (77-Y 23-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 21, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 20, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1790E
lower
Jan 20, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Jan 18, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 1, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 1, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101395D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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