Institutions Of Higher Education; Other Educational And Cultural Institutions
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date. [SB-159]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0003) on 03/08/2024
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Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc. [HJR-25]
Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and universities in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and three members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study the challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program; created and established. [HB-486]
Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic year, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, with the exception of Norfolk State University, Virginia Military Institute, and Virginia State University, to ensure that the annual percentage of undergraduate non-Virginia students in each incoming freshman class
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 01/31/2024
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Students with disabilities; SCHEV to study process used to determine eligibility for accommodations. [HB-509]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representatives of public institutions of higher education, disability advocacy organizations, students enrolled at public institutions of higher education, higher education disability accommodation professionals, and a subject matter expert, to (i) study the processes by which each public institution of higher education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0444) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; SCHEV to study guaranteed first-year admission policy. [HJR-21]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a guaranteed first-year admission policy at each public institution of higher education for certain high school graduates in the Commonwealth and report its findings and recommendations no later than the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Study; State Council of Higher
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcus Simon
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Sports betting; permitted on Virginia college sports. [SB-124]
Sports betting; Virginia college sports. Permits betting, with the exception of proposition betting, on Virginia college sports. Under current law, betting other than proposition betting is allowed on all college sports except Virginia college sports.
Sponsored by: Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (14-y 0-n) on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Sexual misconduct policies; SCHEV to convene task force on combating violence, civil penalty. [HB-369]
Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual violence for the purpose of developing a base sexual misconduct campus climate survey to be distributed to institutions of higher education no less than annually. The bill defines "institution of higher education" as any public institution of higher education or any private institution of higher education. The bill permits each institution of higher education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Va. Nat'l Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; provisions relating to eligibility for grants. [HB-366]
Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the requirements and conditions for eligibility for and award of grants under the Program subject to regulations as prescribed by the Adjutant General, (ii) eliminating the requirement to satisfy financial obligations with the institution of higher education at the beginning of each semester, (iii) simplifying
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (13-y 2-n) on 02/27/2024
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Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus and private police officers. [HB-232]
Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education or private police department that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Dependents of public school personnel, etc.; SCHEV to study reduced in-state tuition rates. [HJR-15]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; offering reduced rate in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to dependents of public school instructional, administrative, and support personnel in the Commonwealth; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the feasibility and efficacy of offering the dependents of public school instructional, administrative, and support personnel in the Commonwealth reduced
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established, report. [HB-207]
Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student hunger at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Program shall be managed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and available for participation by public institutions of higher education; however, participation in the Program shall be optional for such institutions. Under the bill, if a public institution of higher education satisfies certain criteria
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Incorporated By Education on 01/24/2024
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Higher educational institutions, public; Dept. of Education to audit education preparation programs. [HB-211]
Department of Education; audit of education preparation programs at public institutions of higher education; science-based reading research and evidence-based literacy instruction; frequency. Changes from once every seven years to biennially the frequency with which the Department of Education is required to audit each education preparation program for compliance with the requirements set forth in relevant law relating to student coursework and mastery in science-based reading research and evidence-based literacy instruction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Fernando Martinez
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/07/2024
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Higher educational institutions, public; student identification cards, emergency services website. [HB-163]
Public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers. Requires each public institution of higher education to maintain and annually update as necessary to ensure accuracy and currency a website page that includes telephone numbers for certain emergency services enumerated in the bill and to include (i) the URL of such website page on each new digital student identification card and any replacement digital student identification card issued by the institution beginning with the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0176) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps; established, report. [HB-145]
Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps established. Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for the purposes of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students seeking to obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students upon completion of their degree or certificate to fill teaching positions for one year for each year of scholarship receipt at a high-need school, as defined
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
New College Institute; duties. [SB-62]
New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, and other relevant agencies and organizations, any workforce development programs necessary to support the initiatives of the Office of the Governor, including adult education and workforce training programs.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (14-y 1-n) on 02/06/2024
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Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc. [SB-71]
Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Incorporated By Education And Health on 01/18/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements, parameters. [HB-83]
Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dual enrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges and school boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree, the Passport Program, or a one-year Uniform Certificate of General Studies from a comprehensive community college concurrent with a high school diploma or high school equivalency program. Current law requires such agreements to specify options for students to complete an associate degree, the Passport Program,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc. [SB-46]
Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution.
Sponsored by: Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0002) on 03/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc. [HB-48]
Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0015) on 03/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
School crossing zones; expands definition of zones to include areas surrounding schools, etc. [HB-21]
School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institutions of higher education and nonprofit private institutions of higher education. Currently, the definition of "school crossing zone" includes only areas surrounding schools where the presence of children requires such warning. Existing provisions of law allowing photo speed monitoring devices to be
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Jones
Incorporated By Transportation on 02/06/2024