HB 676

  • Virginia House Bill
  • 2019 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Jan 09, 2018
  • Passed House Feb 13, 2018
  • Senate
  • Governor

Children; services for deaf or hard of hearing.

Abstract

Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that each child who is deaf or hard of hearing is (i) as linguistically ready for kindergarten as his peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and (ii) receptively and expressively literate in English and literate in written English by the end of third grade. The bill requires each agency of the Commonwealth that is responsible for providing services to children who are deaf or hard of hearing to collaborate to provide unified and seamless services for each such child from the onset of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention process through the end of his elementary and secondary school career. The bill also establishes a 14-member Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children's Advisory Subcommittee within the Disability Commission to advise the Commission on the provision of services in the Commonwealth for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Bill Sponsors (4)

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Actions


Feb 14, 2018

Senate

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Senate

Constitutional reading dispensed

Feb 13, 2018

House

Read third time and passed House (70-Y 30-N)

Feb 12, 2018

House

Committee substitute agreed to 18106363D-H1

House

Read second time

House

Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB676H1

Feb 09, 2018

House

Read first time

Jan 19, 2018

House

Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2

Jan 09, 2018

House

Referred to Committee on Education

House

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101906D

Bill Text

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House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101906D HTML
House: Committee substitute printed 18106363D-H1 HTML

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