Educational Institutions
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Campus police officers; included in definition of law-enforcement officers. [HB-967]
Law-enforcement officers; campus police officers; definitions. Includes within various definitions of "law-enforcement officers" campus police officers at institutions of higher education.
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Campus police; mutual aid agreements with local law-enforcement agencies and State Police. [HB-965]
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
Medical College of Virginia; naming conventions. [HB-935]
Medical College of Virginia; naming conventions. Requires Virginia Commonwealth University to include the name "Medical College of Virginia" or the acronym "MCV" in all references to The Medical College of Virginia, Health Sciences Division of Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; possession of concealed handguns by faculty members. [HB-91]
Possession of concealed handguns; faculty members at public institutions of higher education. Allows full-time faculty members of public institutions of higher education who possess a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun on campus.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; mental health and parental notification policies. [HB-900]
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 education; establishing violence prevention committees and threat assessment teams. [HB-851]
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
Virginia College Savings Plan; acceptance of commemorative coins minted by State Treasurer. [HB-819]
Virginia College Savings Plan; acceptance of commemorative coins minted by the State Treasurer. Requires the Plan to accept as payment under prepaid tuition contracts and savings trust accounts gold, platinum, or silver coins minted by the State Treasurer for commemorative use. Under the bill, any gain on the sale of the coins would be deductible for Virginia income tax purposes.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Freedom of Information Act; use of general fund appropriations. [HB-818]
Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that the University of Virginia may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the University in relation to the enforcement of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
FOIA; use of general fund appropriations by colleges or universities. [HB-817]
Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a Virginia college or university may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the enforcement of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Freedom of Information Act; university-related foundation funds. [HB-816]
University-related foundation funds; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if a Virginia college or university uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the enforcement of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the foundation shall provide a list of its donors for the prior three years to the college or university. The college or university shall disclose this list to any party upon request and shall make no attempt to withhold it.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
University of Virginia; university-related foundation funds used in relation to FOIA. [HB-815]
University-related foundation funds; University of Virginia; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if the University of Virginia uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the University in relation to the enforcement of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the foundation shall provide a list of its donors for the prior three years to the University. The University shall disclose this list to any party upon request and shall make no attempt to withhold it.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
In-state tuition; undocumented persons eligibility. [HB-779]
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 this state; (ii) he has graduated from a public or private high school in Virginia or has received a General Education Development (GED) certificate in Virginia; (iii) he has resided in the Commonwealth
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Campus police officers; included in definition of law-enforcement officers. [HB-771]
Law-enforcement officers; campus police officers. Provides that campus police officers, as appointed by public and private institutions of higher education, are included within the definition of law-enforcement officer. The bill exempts campus police from undergoing a background check when purchasing a firearm, gives campus police the same authority to make arrests without a warrant as other law-enforcement officers, includes the children and spouses of campus police in the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, includes such
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; indemnification agreements. [HB-764]
Division of Risk Management; risk management plans for public liability; indemnification agreements by public institutions of higher education. Provides that no Virginia public institution of higher education shall be authorized to enter into an indemnification agreement to indemnify any person or entity against damages arising from a sponsored project conducted by such institution. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia College Savings Plan; JLARC to oversee and evaluate, report. [HB-739]
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
Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; adds two citizen members representing higher education. [HB-737]
Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; membership. Adds to the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council two citizen members representing Virginia public institutions of higher education that have modeling and simulation capabilities.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcement agency. [HB-701]
Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcement agency. Requires the chief law-enforcement officer of a public or private institution of higher education to report the death or an alleged rape of any person on campus property to the law-enforcement agency of the locality in which the institution is located. The local law-enforcement agency would assume responsibility for leading the investigation with cooperation from the institution of higher education.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services. [HB-662]
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
Higher educational institutions; graduation rates. [HB-655]
Public institutions of higher education; graduation rates. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education to report annually its four-year graduation rate to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and requires SCHEV to publish this information on its website.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
In-state tuition; eligibility of members of Virginia National Guard residing in state. [HB-644]
In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition at a public institution of higher education. This is broader than the current provision, which requires a guard member to be (i) activated or mobilized or on temporary active orders for six months or more, (ii) stationed or assigned by military service to a work location in Virginia, and (iii) residing in Virginia.