Institutions Of Higher Education; Other Educational And Cultural Institutions
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Education improvement scholarships tax credit; pre-kindergarten eligibility. [HB-1963]
Educational Improvement Scholarships tax credit; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Expands 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 the Virginia Preschool Initiative for the locality in which the
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Massie
Tabled In Finance By Voice Vote on 02/01/2017
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Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals. [HB-1848]
Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants. Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to SB 1032.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0318) on 03/13/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Tuition, in-state; eligibility, certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency, etc. [HB-1857]
Eligibility for in-state tuition; certain individuals who Eligibility for in-state tuition; certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency; certain individuals approved under deferred action programs. Declares eligible for in-state tuition any individual who (i) attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education; (iii) registers as an entering
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Tabled In Education By Voice Vote on 02/01/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; duties of board of trustees. [HB-1780]
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; board of trustees; duties. Authorizes the board of trustees of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to enter into contracts for the use and rental of agency facilities, structures, spaces, and personal property under the control of the Foundation. This bill is identical to SB 1555.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0230) on 02/23/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher education; in-state tuition. [SB-1087]
Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits, without the prior statutory approval of the General Assembly, any percentage increase in in-state tuition or instructional fees for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher education that exceeds twice the annual percentage increase, as determined by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in the Average Consumer Price Index for all items, all urban consumers (CPI-U), as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, from January 1
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; fixed four-year tuition rate. [SB-1088]
Public institutions of higher education; fixed four-year tuition rate. Requires the governing boards of baccalaureate public institutions of higher education to annually establish an in-state tuition rate class cap that identifies the annual amount that the cost of in-state tuition will not exceed for each of the following four years. The bill prohibits the cost of in-state tuition from exceeding the class rate cap for an in-state student in the relevant class.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Education improvement scholarships tax credit; eligibility requirements. [HB-1756]
Education improvement scholarships tax credit; eligibility requirements. Eliminates the requirement that a student currently or recently have attended public school in order to qualify for a scholarship from a scholarship foundation that provides tax-credit-derived scholarships. The bill increases the maximum annual scholarship amount from 100 percent of the per pupil amount distributed to the local school division as its share of standards of quality costs (i) for a student with a disability, to 400 percent of such amount and (ii) for a student
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Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Left In Finance on 02/07/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Community Colleges, State Board for; reduced rate tuition and mandatory fee charges. [HB-1721]
State Board for Community Colleges; reduced rate tuition and mandatory fee charges; certain students who are active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States. Permits the State Board for Community Colleges to charge reduced rate tuition and mandatory fees to any student who is (i) an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed outside of the Commonwealth; (ii) enrolled in a degree program at a comprehensive community college, provided that any such comprehensive community college that offers online degree programs
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0782) on 04/05/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; possession and administration of epinephrine. [HB-1746]
Institutions of higher education; possession and administration of epinephrine, insulin, and glucagon. Authorizes and provides liability protection for employees of a public or private institution of higher education who are authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine, insulin, or glucagon to possess and administer such epinephrine, insulin, or glucagon. This bill is identical to SB 944.
Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Rush
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0294) on 03/03/2017
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Tuition; eligibility for in-state charges for members of Virginia National Guard. [HB-1724]
Eligibility for in-state tuition charges; members of the Virginia National Guard who reside in the Commonwealth. Declares eligible for in-state tuition charges any member of the Virginia National Guard who resides in the Commonwealth, regardless of the domicile of such individual. The bill removes the current requirement that guard members be mobilized or on temporary active orders for 180 days or more in order to be eligible for in-state tuition charges.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Study; State Council of Higher Ed. for Va; applied baccalaureate degrees at community colleges. [HJR-611]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; applied baccalaureate degrees at comprehensive community colleges; report. Requests that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia study the feasibility and benefits of comprehensive community colleges offering applied baccalaureate degrees by analyzing and making recommendations on (i) the affordability of obtaining an applied baccalaureate degree at a comprehensive community college as compared to a baccalaureate public institution of higher education, including the extent to which
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/26/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Student loan servicers; student loan ombudsman. [SB-1035]
Student loan servicers; student loan ombudsman. Prohibits any person from acting as a student loan servicer without first obtaining a license from the State Corporation Commission (SCC) and establishes procedures pertaining to such licenses. Banks and credit unions are exempt from the licensing provisions. The servicing of a student loan encompasses (i) receiving any scheduled periodic payments from a student loan borrower pursuant to the terms of a student education loan; (ii) applying the payments of principal and interest and such other payments
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Education And Health (15-y 0-n) on 01/26/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; established, report. [SB-1036]
Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; refinancing loan guaranty program. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority (the Authority), to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which the Authority may guarantee the obligations of an individual who incurred qualified education loan debt as a Virginia student at an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth under loans that refinance such education loan debt. The Authority is authorized to issue bonds to finance
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health With Letter (15-y 0-n) on 01/26/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals. [SB-1032]
Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants. Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to HB 1848.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0306) on 03/03/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
SCHEV; collection and publication of wage data. [HB-1664]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; collection and publication of wage data and the Virginia Longitudinal Data System. Authorizes the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (Council) to publish data on the proportion of graduates of each public institution of higher education and each nonprofit private institution of higher education eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program who are employed at 18 months and five years after the date of graduation. The bill directs that the data include the program and the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Greason
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0376) on 03/13/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; general education course credit, dual enrollment courses. [HB-1662]
Public institutions of higher education; general education course credit; dual enrollment courses. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in consultation with each public institution of higher education, to establish a policy for granting undergraduate general education course credit to any entering freshman student who has successfully completed a dual enrollment course. The bill requires SCHEV and each public institution of higher education to make the policy available to the public on the SCHEV and institution's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0316) on 03/13/2017
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Northern Va. Community College, et al.; computer science training, etc., for public school teachers. [HB-1663]
Northern Virginia Community College; computer science training and professional development for teachers. Requires Northern Virginia Community College (i) in consultation with the Department of Education, to contract with a partner organization to develop, market, and implement high-quality and effective computer science training and professional development activities for public school teachers throughout the Commonwealth for the purpose of improving the computer science literacy of all public school students in the Commonwealth and (ii) to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0779) on 04/05/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Study; State Council of Higher Ed; rates of in-state and out-of-state undergraduate admissions. [HJR-585]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; rates of in-state and out-of-state undergraduate student admissions and enrollment at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth and in each other state; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study rates of in-state and out-of-state undergraduate student admissions and enrollment at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth and in each other state and to report its findings to the General Assembly no later than the first day
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/26/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher education; in-state tuition. [SB-985]
Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits any percentage increase in in-state tuition or instructional fees for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher education that exceeds the annual percentage increase, as determined by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in the Average Consumer Price Index for all items, all urban consumers (CPI-U), as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, from January 1 through December 31 of the year immediately preceding the affected year.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Higher education; in-state tuition. [SB-986]
Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits any percentage increase in in-state tuition or instructional fees for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher education that exceeds the annual percentage increase, as determined by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in the national average wage index as defined in ? 209(k)(1) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1), of the calendar year immediately preceding the affected year.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2017