Subject Educational Institutions | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1537 | Student teachers and student teacher supervisors; fingerprinting, criminal history records check, and child abuse and neglect data. Requires any student teacher at an accredited public or private institution of higher education, as a condition of par... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1543 | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1590 | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1605 | Admission of students domiciled in Virginia at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1651 | Unified Innovation Fund established. Consolidates funding for virtual school programs, charter schools, college partnership laboratory schools, and other innovative education projects by repealing the Public Charter School Fund and the College Partne... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1700 | Admission of students domiciled in Virginia at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for the Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk St... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1976 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Clarifies that the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments is required to evaluate potential appointees to higher education governing boards and to make recommendations to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2078 | Public procurement; design-build; construction management; protests; private investment. Increases public notice of requests for proposals from 10 to 30 days. The bill also (i) limits the use of competitive negotiation for construction projects, incl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2230 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; composition. Adds a tenured faculty member from a four-year public institution of higher education and a faculty member from a community college to the Virginia Commission on Higher Educatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2159 | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has provided an affidavit to the public institution of higher education for which he has registered stating that he ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1978 | University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition and quorum. Requires at least one member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors to have administrative experience at an institution of higher education or have experience as a professor i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1881 | University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition. Adds two members to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors: one member of the faculty senate, nominated by the faculty senate and approved by the remainder of the board, and one currently e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1934 | In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that an undocumented person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his paren... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1875 | Boards of visitors and the State Board for Community Colleges; faculty member. Adds one faculty member to the board of visitors of each public institution of higher education and of the State Board for Community Colleges to be appointed by the other ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1490 | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if he meets the following criteria: (i) he has graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or has recei... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB1344 | The State Council of Higher Education; accrediting agencies. Prohibits the State Council of Higher Education from recognizing or relying on the ratings of any national or regional accrediting agency unless such agency is certified by the Council. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1233 | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has provided an affidavit to the public institution of higher education for which he has registered stating that he ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB1090 | In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that an undocumented person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his paren... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1777 | Virginia Open Education Resources Council and Virginia Digital Open Source Textbook Library. Establishes the Virginia Open Education Resources Council to (i) identify and acquire digital open source textbooks to be used in 50 undergraduate courses in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 Tabled in Science and Technology by voice vote |
| VA | SB856 | Boards of visitors; rectors and terms. Requires members of boards of visitors of four-year public institutions of higher education to have served four years on the board prior to being elected or appointed rector. The bill stipulates that such rector... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1087 | The University of Virginia; board of visitors. Changes the composition of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia from 17 visitors appointed by the Governor to 13 visitors appointed by the Governor and four visitors directly elected by th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB877 | 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 subst... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1085 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Clarifies that the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments is required to evaluate potential appointees to higher education governing boards and to make recommendations to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (7-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR733 | Commending J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ733ER) |
| VA | SB1000 | Tax credits for donations to scholarships foundations. Provides for the repeal of tax credits for donations to scholarship foundations for kindergarten through twelfth grade students attending nonpublic schools. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1206 | Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Eliminates the requirement that schools with students who receive scholarships from tax-credit-derived sources report achievement test results to the Department of Education, and that the Department of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR637 | Commending School of Professional and Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ637ER) |
| VA | HB1486 | Insurance agent; continuing education materials. Requires instructors of an approved insurance agent continuing education course to mail to agents enrolled in the course a postcard that provides the agent with the option to either (i) download the ed... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-10 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | HJR97 | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; management and structure of higher education centers; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the management and structure of the Commonwealth's four regiona... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB137 | Gunston Hall; administration. Clarifies that, consistent with existing law, any administrative head of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason bequeathed to the Commonwealth by a former owner, is appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure. Ad... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB372 | State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health ser... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB605 | Eligibility for in-state tuition; military personnel. Provides that, for current and former military personnel and their dependents, the intent to attend a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth is sufficient for the purpose of e... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB624 | Institutions of higher education; suicidal students. Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents any time the institution receives notification from any source that a student may be suicidal, to the extent permitted by the fede... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB191 | Tax credit for small businesses hiring graduates of Virginia's colleges. Creates, beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for certain small businesses creating new full-time jobs that are filled by persons holding ass... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB486 | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB697 | Higher education; mental health. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a policy requesting each student to identify points of contact to be notified should the student experience a ment... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB815 | University-related foundation funds; University of Virginia; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if the University of Virginia uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the University in relation t... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB816 | University-related foundation funds; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if a Virginia college or university uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the e... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB817 | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a Virginia college or university may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB818 | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that the University of Virginia may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the Un... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB819 | Virginia College Savings Plan; acceptance of commemorative coins minted by the State Treasurer. Requires the Plan to accept as payment under prepaid tuition contracts and savings trust accounts gold, platinum, or silver coins minted by the State Trea... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1207 | Right of students to assert conscientious objection to any requirement of an academic degree program in an institution of higher education; liability. Provides that no public or private institution of higher learning may penalize or deny academic cre... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HJR173 | Study; merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University. In conducting its study, t... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
