HB 753

            
2020 SESSION

20106542D

HOUSE BILL NO. 753

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Appropriations

on January 27, 2020)

(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Rasoul)

A BILL to require the Department of Education to develop
guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public school
students; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. � 1. The Department of Education shall (i)
establish a uniform definition of social-emotional learning and develop
guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public students in
grades kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth; (ii) make such standards
available to each local school division no later than July 1, 2021; and (iii)
issue a report no later than November 1, 2021, on the resources needed to
successfully support local school divisions with the implementation of a statewide
social-emotional learning program.