2024 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

SB83: Home instruction; removes certain criteria for parents.

Legislative Summary

Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria–holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child–by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends. Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria–holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child–by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends.

Bill History

1/1/2024
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102945D
Senate
1/1/2024
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Senate
1/10/2024
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Senate
1/18/2024
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
1/18/2024
11
Yea
4
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/1/2024)
Chamber
Senate
Sine DiePrior Session

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Primary Sponsor

John McGuire
John McGuire
Republican

Documents

Prefiled
Bill Text1/1/20247.0 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/12/202455.3 KB