The General Assembly returned to the Capitol today for the
reconvened session to consider the Governor's vetoes and amendments.
HB1626, the Tebow Bill, was vetoed by the Governor, and the
House, the chamber of origin, failed to override the veto on a 60-39 vote. It takes two thirds of the votes to override
so this bill is dead.
Two of the silliest bills of the session, HB1752 and SB724 would
have prohibited the Board of Education to replacing the Standards of Learning
with Common Core State Standards without approval of the General Assembly. The Board rejected the Common Core in 2010,
and there is no indication that anyone in Virginia wants to adopt the Common
Core. Beyond that, the Board of
Education should not me micromanaged by the General Assembly in regard to
standards. The Senate sustained the
Governor's veto of SB724 on a 22-18 vote.
The House overrode the Governor's veto of HB1752 on a 70-28 vote;
however, the Senate sustained the veto ob HB1752 on a 22-18 vote, killing the
bill.
