Educational Institutions
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commending Virginia Wesleyan College on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. [HJR-877]
Commending Virginia Wesleyan College on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
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Commending the Virginia Tech Lumenhaus team. [HJR-806]
Commending the Virginia Tech Lumenhaus team.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
FERPA and HIPAA, federal; urges Congress to restore in loco parentis, etc. [HJR-733]
Memorializing Congress to amend the federal to amend the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191). Urges Congress to restore in loco parentis at institutions of higher education and to require parental notification of destructive and illegal student behaviors by amending the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. §1232g) and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191).
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commending Big Blue of Old Dominion University, 2010 Capital One Mascot of the Year. [HJR-713]
Commending Big Blue of Old Dominion University, 2010 Capital One Mascot of the Year.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commending Emory & Henry College. [HJR-684]
Commending Emory & Henry College.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commending Shenandoah University on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in Winchester. [HJR-671]
Commending Shenandoah University on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in Winchester.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Cell phone; Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to study disincentives for use in motor vehicles. [HJR-621]
Study; Virginia Tech Transportation Institute; cell phone use; report. Requests the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to study disincentives for cell phone use in motor vehicles.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commending The George Washington University's Virginia Science and Technology Campus. [HJR-537]
Commending The George Washington University's Virginia Science and Technology Campus.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011; established, report. [HB-2510]
Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011. Establishes the Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011 for the purpose of fueling strong economic growth in the Commonwealth and preparing Virginians for the top job opportunities in the knowledge-driven economy of the 21st century. The bill provides for (i) a new higher education funding policy; (ii) the calculation of the state general fund share of an institution's basic operations and instruction funding need; (iii) per student enrollment-based funding; (iv) targeted economic and
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcement agency. [HB-2490]
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 local 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 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth Project Management Standard; created for information technology projects, etc. [HB-2375]
Commonwealth Information Technology Governance and Oversight; information technology project risk and complexity. Provides for the creation of the Commonwealth Project Management Standard, by which information technology projects in state agencies and most public institutions of higher education will be initiated, procured and governed. Also, this bill clarifies the roles of the Secretary of Technology and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the governance and oversight of technology projects. Projects shall be approved or disapproved by either
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; compensation of athletic coaches. [HB-2346]
Public institutions of higher education; compensation of athletic coaches. Requires that the board of visitors of every public institution of higher education adopts and implements policies such that the annual total compensation provided to any coach of an intercollegiate athletic team shall not include more than $300,000 of state funding.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth Scholars Program and Investment Fund; established. [HB-2296]
Commonwealth Scholars Program and Investment Fund; established. Provides for the establishment of the Commonwealth Scholars Program and Investment Fund whereby public or private organizations and individuals may make monetary contributions to provide scholarships for eligible students in order to expand access to higher education. Scholarship funds may be paid to any accredited, degree-granting public or private nonprofit institution of higher education in Virginia. Eligibility for the scholarships is limited to domiciled residents of Virginia as
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
State boards, commissions, and other collegial bodies; compensation paid to citizen members. [HB-2277]
Compensation paid to citizen members of state boards, commissions, and other collegial bodies. Provides that nonlegislative members of boards, commissions, committees, councils, or other collegial bodies who are appointed at the state level and who receive three or more travel reimbursements annually shall be required to participate in the Electronic Data Interchange Program administered or authorized by the Department of Accounts as a condition of accepting such appointment. The bill provides that the requirement applies only to such nonlegislative
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; Virginia College Building Authority to issue credit enhancements. [HB-2264]
Private institutions of higher education; credit enhancement. Allows the Virginia College Building Authority to issue or acquire credit enhancements to secure payment of bonds issued by the Authority. Credit enhancements include, without limitation, surety bonds, insurance policies, letters of credit, guarantees and other forms of collateral or security as well as capital reserve funds for private institutions of higher education.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
SCHEV; creation of nonstock corporation to support academic research. [HB-2250]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; creation of nonstock corporation to support academic research. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to establish a nonprofit, nonstock corporation under Chapter 10 (§13.1-801 et seq.) of Title 13.1 as a public instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions to assist the Council in (i) supporting academic research in Virginia; (ii) encouraging research initiatives, with emphasis on biological systems and nanotechnology, to support Virginia industry; (iii)
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; certain civilian employees of Department of Defense employees shall pay. [HB-2246]
In-state tuition; certain Department of Defense employees. Provides that any civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are realigned to Virginia as a result of Base Realignment and Closure, and their dependents, shall pay the in-state tuition rate at the public institution of higher education in which they are enrolled.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Commonwealth University; board of visitors to convey certain property to City of Richmond. [HB-2209]
Property transfer; Virginia Commonwealth University: City of Richmond. Authorizes the board of visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University to convey certain real property to the City of Richmond. Under the bill, the property must be used for the official Richmond Slave Trail located in Richmond, Virginia, and such use must commence within five years of the conveyance. If these conditions are not met, the property shall revert to the board of visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Continuing education for prescriber; completion of certain coursework for renewal, etc., of license. [HB-2169]
Continuing education for prescribers; substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices. Requires the Board of Dentistry, Board of Medicine, and Board of Optometry to require continuing education on the topics of substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices for licensed practitioners who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; unlawfully present aliens in U.S. shall not be eligible. [HB-2153]
In-state tuition and educational benefits for unlawfully present aliens. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit including, but not limited to, in-state tuition and state financial aid unless citizens or nationals of the United States are eligible for such benefits in no less an amount, duration, and scope, without regard to whether such citizens or nationals are Virginia residents.