2025 SESSION

SENATE SUBSTITUTE

25105094D

SENATE BILL NO. 784

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health

on January 23, 2025)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Senator Suetterlein)

A BILL to direct the Board of Education to revise its Three "E" Readiness Framework to include and incentivize participation in work-based learning experiences.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Education shall revise its Three "E" Readiness Framework: Employment, Enlistment, and Enrollment, adopted pursuant to the Department of Education's public school accountability system to measure high school student postsecondary readiness, to include as an indicator of postsecondary readiness and incentivize participation in and completion of work-based learning experiences, with the maximum number of points for such indicator awarded to students who participate in a minimum of 90 hours of work-based learning experiences.