Educational Institutions
Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia College Savings Plan, Board of; elected positions, technical amendments. [HB-2127]
Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan; elected positions. Eliminates the position of secretary from the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan. The bill also changes the time frame for the election of Board positions from each calendar year to annually. The bill contains technical amendments.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0586) on 03/20/2013
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Opportunity Educational Institution; established, report. [HB-2096]
Opportunity Educational Institution established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accreditation and permits any school that has been accredited with warning for three consecutive years to be transferred to the Institution and remain in the Institution for five years or until the school achieves full accreditation. The bill also sets forth requirements for student attendance, staffing, and funding for
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Defeated By Senate (19-y 21-n) on 02/21/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Postsecondary schools; student records and closures. [HB-2088]
Postsecondary schools; student records and closures. Provides that in the event of a postsecondary school closure, the school shall transfer the academic and financial records of its students to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia or enter an agreement with another school to preserve such records. The bill also requires that a closing school develop and submit to the Council a "teachout plan," which is a written agreement between or among postsecondary schools that provides for the equitable treatment of students if one of those institutions
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0229) on 03/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Public procurement; increases public notice of requests for proposals, technical amendments. [HB-2078]
Public procurement; design-build; construction management; protests; private investment. Increases public notice of requests for proposals from 10 to 30 days. The bill also (i) limits the use of competitive negotiation for construction projects, including certain public institutions of higher education, for which the aggregate or sum of all phases is not expected to exceed $10 million, the nature of the project is such that it is unusually complex or extraordinary conditions exist, and the Director of the Department of General Services and the Secretary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Left In General Laws on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; memoranda of understanding, etc. [HB-2057]
Public institutions of higher education; memoranda of understanding. Clarifies the procedure for adopting new measures to be followed by institutions of higher education that seek to enter into memoranda of understanding for additional operational authority.
Sponsored by: Rep. S. Chris Jones
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0438) on 03/16/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; active duty member, etc. mobilized or on temporary active orders. [HB-2027]
In-state tuition; active duty members. Allows any active duty member, activated guard or reservist member, or guard or reservist member mobilized or on temporary active orders for six months or more to pay no more than the in-state tuition rate to attend a public institution of higher education if he resides in Virginia. Currently, such an individual is required to be stationed or assigned to work in Virginia and reside in Virginia to receive the rate of no more than in-state tuition.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0302) on 03/13/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
University of Virginia; Board of Visitors, composition and quorum. [HB-1978]
University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition and quorum. Requires at least one member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors to have administrative experience at an institution of higher education or have experience as a professor in the study of higher education. The bill also requires the board of visitors to appoint a faculty representative to serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity. The bill changes the number of board members that constitutes a quorum from five members to a majority of members. Finally, the bill removes the
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Toscano
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Higher Education, Virginia Commission on; Board appointments. [HB-1976]
Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Clarifies that the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments is required to evaluate potential appointees to higher education governing boards and to make recommendations to the Governor. Currently, these actions are considered powers and duties of the Commission and the Commission only makes recommendations upon the request of the Governor. The bill also requires the Commission to consider each list of qualified persons submitted to the Governor by the alumni association
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Toscano
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; board of visitors governance, report. [HB-1952]
Boards of visitors of public institutions of higher education; public access to information and governance. Adds specific topics to be covered during the educational programs for governing boards and requires such programs to be delivered by the State Council of Higher Education annually. The bill also requires each board of visitors to adopt bylaws with certain provisions relating to the Freedom of Information Act; annually meet with the president of the institution to deliver a review of the president's performance; designate its executive committee
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text Reprinted (chap0577) on 03/26/2013
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Community Colleges, State Board for, et al; faculty representatives & student representatives. [HB-1940]
Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors; student representatives to boards of visitors. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors of any four-year public institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their respective boards. Current law permits, but does not require, such appointments. The bill removes the option for local community college boards and
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (8-y 7-n) on 02/14/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; undocumented persons to meet certain criteria. [HB-1934]
In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that an undocumented person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his parent, guardian, or other person standing in loco parentis while attending a public or private high school in the Commonwealth; (ii) he has graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or has received a General Education Development (GED) certificate in the Commonwealth; (iii) he has
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Small businesses; tax credit for those hiring graduates of Virginia's colleges and universities. [HB-191]
Tax credit for small businesses hiring graduates of Virginia's colleges. Creates, beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for certain small businesses creating new full-time jobs that are filled by persons holding associate's or bachelor's degrees from in-state institutions of higher education. The credit would equal $2,500 for each such new full-time job. The credit would be claimed for the taxable year at which time the new full-time job was continuously filled for at least 12 months. Any unused credit would be
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Left In Finance on 11/29/2012
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
University of Virginia; appointment to Board of Visitors. [HB-1881]
University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition. Adds two members to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors: one member of the faculty senate, nominated by the faculty senate and approved by the remainder of the board, and one currently enrolled student, nominated by the dean of students and approved by the remainder of the board.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Community Colleges, State Board for; faculty member added to board of visitors and State Board. [HB-1875]
Boards of visitors and the State Board for Community Colleges; faculty member. Adds one faculty member to the board of visitors of each public institution of higher education and of the State Board for Community Colleges to be appointed by the other members of the board for a four-year term after election by the respective institution's faculty senate. The faculty member has voting privileges. Currently, each board of visitors and the State Board for Community Colleges may appoint one or more nonvoting advisory faculty members for a term of at least
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia Open Education Resources Council; established. [HB-1777]
Virginia Open Education Resources Council and Virginia Digital Open Source Textbook Library. Establishes the Virginia Open Education Resources Council to (i) identify and acquire digital open source textbooks to be used in 50 undergraduate courses in public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth and (ii) develop the Virginia Digital Open Source Textbook Library as the digital repository of such open source textbooks. The Council shall be staffed by one faculty member from each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Tabled In Science And Technology By Voice Vote on 01/30/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Machinery and Equipment Donation Grant Program; established. [HB-1767]
Grants for donation of machinery and equipment to certain schools; fund established. Establishes a fund for a grant program for business donations of new machinery and equipment, purchased within the last 12 months by the business, to Virginia's community colleges and vocational schools. The machinery and equipment are to be principally used in Virginia in teaching or training students of the donee community college or vocational school, and the recipient community college or school must certify that the machinery or equipment was needed. The grant
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Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0566) on 03/20/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Students; admission of those domiciled in State at higher educational institutions. [HB-1700]
Admission of students domiciled in Virginia at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for the Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University, and Virginia State University, must establish rules and regulations requiring that by the start of the 2018-2019 academic year, at least 75 percent of students admitted and enrolled at the institution are domiciled in Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Unified Innovation Fund; created. [HB-1651]
Unified Innovation Fund established. Consolidates funding for virtual school programs, charter schools, college partnership laboratory schools, and other innovative education projects by repealing the Public Charter School Fund and the College Partnership Laboratory School Fund and creating the Unified Innovation Fund to be disbursed by the Board of Education for the award of grants to individuals and entities on a competitive basis to fund education innovation projects.
Sponsored by: Rep. K. Rob Krupicka
Left In Education on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tradesmen; Board for Contractors shall evaluate continuing education requirements, report. [HB-1645]
Board for Contractors; tradesmen licenses. Provides that licenses for tradesmen shall be valid for three years from the date of issuance by the Board for Contractors. This measure is an attempt to sync changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code, which are on a three-year cycle, to the expiration of a tradesman license, which is currently every two years.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Tata
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0738) on 04/03/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Student organizations; religious or political organizations may determine core functions, etc. [HB-1617]
Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct certain activities. The bill also prohibits, to the extent allowed by law, public institutions of higher education from discriminating against a student organization that makes such a determination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0696) on 03/22/2013