Educational Institutions
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; established, report. [HB-400]
Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which each individual who incurred qualified education loan debt as a Virginia student at an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and who is eligible, on the basis of criteria established by the Authority that are substantially similar to criteria used by private lenders in the Commonwealth to evaluate student eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/01/2016
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Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; established, report. [SB-52]
Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which each individual who incurred qualified education loan debt as a Virginia student at an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and who is eligible, on the basis of criteria established by the Authority that are substantially similar to criteria used by private lenders in the Commonwealth to evaluate student eligibility
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In Education And Health on 12/02/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Education improvement scholarships; modifies tax credit program, pre-kindergarten eligibility. [HB-1019]
Educational improvement scholarships tax credit program; Educational improvement scholarships tax credit program; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Modifies the educational improvement scholarships tax credit program by including as eligible scholarship recipients children enrolled in or attending nonpublic pre-kindergarten programs. The maximum annual scholarship that a child enrolled in or attending a nonpublic pre-kindergarten program will receive is the lesser of the child's actual educational expenses or the state share of the grant per child under
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Left In Finance on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; SCHEV to study feasibility of implementing. [SJR-86]
Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" higher education tuition financing model to increase access to educational opportunities and to decrease the debt burden on students in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Rules on 12/02/2016