Educational Institutions
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Commending the Norfolk State University men's cross country team. [SJR-137]
Commending the Norfolk State University men's cross country team.
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Commending the Norfolk State University football team. [SJR-136]
Commending the Norfolk State University football team.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Commending Norfolk State University on hosting Sesquicentennial of Civil War Conference. [SJR-135]
Commending Norfolk State University on hosting the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission's 2010 Signature Conference.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child abuse; mandatory reporting, penalty. [SB-622]
Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty; damages. Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children, any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education, and any other person with responsibility for the care, control, or custody of children to the list of individuals required to report suspected child abuse or neglect. The bill increases the penalty for failure of a person required to make a mandatory report of suspected child abuse or neglect
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; adds King College to Board of Trustees. [SB-617]
Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; King College. Adds King College to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees and allows graduate degree instructional programs in education to be provided with King College at the Center.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; military personnel eligibility. [SB-605]
Eligibility for in-state tuition; military personnel. Provides that, for current and former military personnel and their dependents, the intent to attend a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth is sufficient for the purpose of establishing domiciliary intent and determining eligibility for in-state tuition rates.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia College Savings Plan; JLARC to oversee and evaluate, report. [SB-599]
Virginia College Savings Plan Oversight Act. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to oversee and evaluate the Virginia College Savings Plan on a continuing basis. The bill requires JLARC and the Virginia College Savings Plan to make certain reports to the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Colleges, etc., projects, certain; required to hold at least one public hearing before undertaking. [SB-530]
Public hearings prior to certain VDOT projects. Requires the institution of higher education to hold at least one public hearing before VDOT undertakes any safety-related or congestion management-related highway project requested by any college, university, or institution of higher education in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Commonwealth Health Research Board; certain employees shall be entitled to state employee benefits. [SB-53]
Commonwealth Health Research Board; staffing. Provides that employees of the Commonwealth Health Research Board, which provides financial support for health research funded through assets distributed to the Commonwealth as a policyholder pursuant to the conversion of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia, shall be employees of the Department of Accounts and shall be entitled to all benefits available to state employees. The bill directs the Board to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Accounts concerning staff support.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Real Estate Appraiser Board; shall develop continuing education curriculum for licensees, report. [SB-507]
Real Estate Appraiser Board; continuing education. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board to evaluate the development of a continuing education curriculum for licensees that includes the effects of the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy equipment on the determination of the fair market value in the appraisal of non-income-producing residential real estate. Under the bill, the Board is required to report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology and the
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; mental health and parental notification policies. [SB-374]
Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who is treating a student may determine to withhold parental notification of a dependent student's mental health treatment if such person determines that the notification may result in substantial harm. Currently, only a physician or clinical psychologist can make such a determination.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; establishment of violence prevention committees, etc. [SB-373]
Higher education; violence prevention. Clarifies that the establishment of violence prevention committees and threat assessment teams by public colleges and universities, as required by current law, may occur as such resources and individuals may become available for those purposes.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services. [SB-372]
State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health services action plan.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provision for certain educational materials. [SB-37]
Sales and use tax exemption; certain educational materials. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2017, on the sales and use tax exemption for textbooks and other educational materials withdrawn from inventory at book-publishing distribution facilities for free distribution to professors and other individuals who have an educational focus.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; crisis and emergency management plans. [SB-346]
Institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans. Increases the Department of Emergency Management's oversight of institutional crisis and emergency management plans by requiring institutions to certify in writing to the Department that the required annual reviews and functional exercises have been conducted.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2012; created. [SB-31]
Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000, plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acquiring certain revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child abuse; mandatory reporting by public and private college employees. [SB-303]
Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse; public and private college employees. Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education to the list of individuals required to report suspected abuse or neglect of a child.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Campus police; mutual aid agreements with local law-enforcement agencies and State Police. [SB-302]
Campus police; MAAs with local law-enforcement agencies. Requires campus police to enter into mutual aid agreements with an adjacent local law-enforcement agency or the State Police for cooperation in providing assistance with the investigation of deaths and alleged rapes occurring on college campuses.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Sexual assault response teams; State attorney to invite chiefs of campus police to annual meeting. [SB-301]
Sexual assault response teams; addition of campus police. Requires each attorney for the Commonwealth to invite any chiefs of campus police of institutions of higher education located within the jurisdiction to the annual SART meeting.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporting, penalties. [SB-239]
Suspected child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporting; penalties. Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children and any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education, other than an attorney employed by a public or private institution of higher education who gains information indicating reason to suspect a child is abused or neglected in the course of providing legal representation to a client, to the list of individuals required to report
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