2025 SESSION

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE

25106289D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1769

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Education

on January 29, 2025)

(Patrons Prior to Substitute—Delegates Martinez and Orrock [HB 1788])

A BILL to exclude excused student absences of a certain length from the calculation of chronic absenteeism for the purpose of the readiness indicator in the Board of Education's School Performance and Support Framework.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. In any case in which the parent of a student notifies the student's school in advance of an excused absence of 15 or more school days in length that will cause the student to be considered withdrawn from the school pursuant to 8VAC20-110-130 of the Virginia Administrative Code, any such period of excused absence shall be excluded from the calculation of chronic absenteeism for the purpose of the readiness indicator in the Board of Education's school accountability system known as the School Performance and Support Framework or any successor school accountability system.