Educational Institutions
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Student mental health policies and procedures; violence prevention committees. [SB-239]
Public institutions of higher education; violence prevention committee policies and procedures. Requires the violence prevention committee of each public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures that outline circumstances under which all faculty and staff are to report threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a physical threat to the community. The bill also requires each violence prevention committee to include notification of family members or guardians, or both, as a sufficient means of action in the committee's
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Virginia College Savings Plan; Plan established as a body politic and corporate. [SB-215]
Virginia College Savings Plan; incorporated government agency. Declares the Virginia College Savings Plan to be a body politic and corporate. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; SCHEV to study feasibility of implementing. [HJR-72]
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 financing tuition model to increase access to educational opportunities and to decrease the debt burden on students in the Commonwealth. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commending the Patrick Henry College moot court team. [HJR-472]
Commending the Patrick Henry College moot court team.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; aid for students attending nonprofit higher educational institutions, etc. [HJR-44]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); aid for nonpublic higher education; religious or theological education for military chaplains. Allows the General Assembly to provide for loans to, and grants to or on behalf of, students attending nonprofit institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth whose primary purpose is to provide religious training or theological education, provided the students are approved candidates for the chaplaincy of any active duty or reserve component of the United States armed forces, including the Virginia National
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
School buses; JLARC to study effectiveness of requiring seat belts. [HJR-34]
Study; JLARC; effectiveness of requiring seat belts on school buses in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effectiveness of requiring seat belts on every school bus in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commending the Virginia State University Gospel Chorale. [HJR-276]
Commending the Virginia State University Gospel Chorale.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commending Longwood University. [HJR-199]
Commending Longwood University.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Physicians, nineteenth-century; VCU to memorialize contributions of African American cadavers. [HJR-175]
Requesting Virginia Commonwealth University to memorialize the contributions of African American cadavers to the training of nineteenth-century physicians in Richmond.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Tech; updating 2010 report on veterans. [HJR-102]
Study; Virginia Tech; veterans; report. Requests Virginia Tech to update its 2010 study report on "Assessing Experiences, Supportive Service Needs, and Service Gaps of Veterans in the Commonwealth of Virginia" and to report its findings and recommendations.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Driver education; community colleges shall have authority to offer courses to become instructor. [HB-925]
Driver education instructors. Allows community colleges to offer courses required to become driver education instructors.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; postsecondary education and employment data. [HB-886]
State Council of Higher Education; postsecondary education and employment data. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to disseminate to each public high school and each institution of higher education in the Commonwealth for which the Council has student-level data a link on its website to certain published postsecondary education and employment data. The bill requires each institution of higher education to provide the link and each local school board to provide annual notice on its website to each enrolled high school student and his
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; student eligibility, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. [HB-88]
In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (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 registered as an entering student or is enrolled in a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth; (iv) he has provided documentation that he has been
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2014; created. [HB-869]
Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $245,020,705 plus financing costs to finance revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Students; members of various education boards. [HB-781]
Student members of education boards. Adds one student member to the Board of Education, each local school board, the board of visitors of each four-year public institution of higher education, the State Board for Community Colleges, each local community college board, and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The bill requires the Governor to make such appointments for two-year terms. The bill specifies that student members are voting members on all nonfiscal issues.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Surviving spouses of military members; eligibility for in-state tuition charges. [HB-776]
Surviving spouses; eligibility for in-state tuition charges. Waives the requirement that the factors presented in support of entitlement to in-state tuition must exist for the one-year period prior to the date of the alleged entitlement for spouses of certain military members who were killed in action, are missing in action, or are prisoners of war.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Benefits consortia; benefits plans. [HB-757]
Benefits consortia; benefits plans. Permits employees of the sponsoring association of a benefits consortium, employees of a benefits consortium, and their dependents to participate in the benefits plan offered by a benefits consortium consisting of five or more private educational institutions that have established a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Information Technologies Agency; private institutions of higher education. [HB-749]
Virginia Information Technologies Agency; private institutions of higher education. Provides for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) to allow private institutions of higher education chartered in Virginia and granted tax-exempt status under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to purchase directly from contracts established for state agencies and public bodies. The bill also requires VITA to seek the assistance of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia and the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; student eligibility, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. [HB-747]
In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (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 registered as an entering student or is enrolled in a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth; (iv) he has provided an I-797 Approval Notice stating
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure, increases membership. [HB-725]
Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure; membership. Increases from 19 to 21 the total number of members and increases from two to four the number of members who shall be faculty members in teacher preparation programs in public or private institutions of higher education on the Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure.