We are pleased see some significant bills to improve early childhood education introduced by our bi-partisan early childhood champions. Our primary interests are in the bills that Delegate Tag Greason has filed to improve the early childhood workforce and promote mixed-delivery preschool, and the bills that continue the work to improve child care safety filed by Delegates Filler-Corn and Hester and Senators Hanger, Wexton and Vogel.

Track the progress of these bills as of 2.26.16 by clicking on the bill numbers below.

House Bill Description Committee Position/Outcome HB46– (Update)School Readiness Council (Greason) (Update) Establishes a Council under the Sec of Ed and Sec of HHR to establish an effective professional development & credentialing system and related innovations in early education Sen Ed & Health Support

REPORTED to full committee

HB47– Mixed Delivery Preschool Grant

(Greason)

Award competitive grants to localities to field test innovative strategies to develop a mixed-delivery preschool system Sen Ed & Health Support

REPORTED to full Senate

HB242– VPI; eliminates local matching funds

(Lingamfelter)

Eliminates the local match requirement for VPI funds Approps- Ed Subc Support

TABLED

HB474– (wrong title)

Task force to study licensing exemptions

(Filler-Corn)

Establishes a task force to review requirements for license-exempt care and make recommendations HWI- Sub #3 Support

REQUEST A LETTER OF DSS

HB500– Fingerprint background checks

(Filler-Corn)

Requires fingerprint background checks for all licensed and registered child care providers HWI- Sub #3 Support

CONTINUED

HB532– LCI, additional factors

(Murphy)

Requires additional risk factors to be calculated in LCI, would help low-income communities with local match requirements for VPI Ed- Elem & Secondary Support

TABLED

HB896– Background checks, private schools

(Greason)

Noadditional background checks from what is already required by state accreditation Sen Ed & Health Monitor

REPORTED to Full Senate

HB925– VPI student eligibility

(Mason)

Would add additional categories to VPI eligibility criteria Education- Ed Innovation Monitor

TABLED

HB1019– Ed improvement scholarship tax credit, preschool

(Massie)

Extends the tax credit to preschool age children attending a state accredited or level 3 rated private preschool Finance, Sub #3 Monitor

CONTINUED

HB1189– Operation w/o license result in negligence/death

(Hester)

Establishes a felony penalty if a child is harmed in the care of a provider operating without a license Senate FINANCE Support

REPORTED & REFERRED TO FINANCE

HB1306– Voluntary listing of certain family-day homes

(Orrock)

Would allow unlicensed providers to be listed rather than voluntarily registered HWI Oppose

CONTINUED

HJ151– ECE JLARC Study

(Jones)

Directs JLARC to study ECE programs Rules Monitor

TABLED

 

Senate Bill Description Committee Position/Outcome SB238- VA Property Owners Assoc, home-based businesses

(Petersen)

Provides that a HOA may not prohibit a home-based business General Laws Monitor

STUDY- VA HOUSING COMM

SB269– Board of Social Services, child care reps

(Chafin)

Changes to composition of the Board of Social Services to 2 general members to represent rather than specific reps Rehab & Soc Ser Monitor

STRICKEN

SB279– Background check, current subject of CPS compliant

(Wexton)

Would add that child care background checks include if individual is under investigation of CPS claim HWI Support

REPORTED TO HOUSE

SB419–  Operation w/o license result in negligence/death

(Vogel)

Establishes a felony penalty if a child is harmed in the care of a provider operating without a license FINANCE Support

LEFT IN FINANCE

SB467– Public school licensing exemption

(Wagner)

Exempts some preschool programs from licensure HWI Monitor

REPORTED to HOUSE

SB540- early childhood programs

(Edwards)

Expands access to early childhood education for 3 & 4 year olds Ed & Health Support

PASSED BY

SB601– fingerprint background check

(Wexton)

Requires a fingerprint background check of all licensed and registered providers HWI Support

CONTINUED TO 2017

 

SJ188– ECE JLARC study

(Norment)

Asks JLARC to study ECE programs House Rules Monitor

REPORTED by the Studies subcommittee

SJ63– DSS to review licensing exemptions & report

(Hanger)

Asks DSS to review exemptions from child care licensure and make recommendations House Rules Support

REPORTED by the Studies subcommittee

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