2026 SESSION

INTRODUCED

26100672D

SENATE BILL NO. 16

Offered January 14, 2026

Prefiled November 17, 2025

A BILL to amend and reenact Chapter 122 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, relating to the Board of Education; through year-growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2025 through 2027-2028 school years.

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Patron—Suetterlein

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Referred to Committee on Education and Health

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Chapter 122 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024 is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1. Notwithstanding subsection C of § 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code of Virginia, the Board of Education shall permit school boards to administer, during the 2024–2026  2024–2025 through 2027–2028 school years, assessments as alternatives to the through-year growth assessment system established by the Board of Education pursuant to such provision of law, provided that any such alternative assessment is aligned to the Standards of Learning.