Virginia House Bill 1206 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 18 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Comprehensive community colleges; noncredit workforce credentials; Virginia Pathway to the Middle Class: Noncredit Workforce Credentials Act. Establishes the Virginia Pathway to the Middle Class: Noncredit Workforce Credentials Program (Program), to be administered by the Virginia Community College System (System). The bill requires the System to approve (i) a plan and funding formula to support capacity building for and development and expansion of noncredit workforce credential programs at comprehensive community colleges that prepare students for in-demand noncredit workforce credentials that are aligned with the knowledge and skill sets that are required for the available occupations in each region, (ii) a plan for providing financial incentives to comprehensive community colleges that demonstrate exceptional performance or improvement in the development and expansion of such noncredit workforce credential programs, and (iii) a plan and timeline for assessing the impact of a pilot set of noncredit workforce credentials on short-term and long-term job attainment and wages. The bill requires the System to submit a report to the General Assembly and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development no later than January 1 of each year with certain data from the previous fiscal year on noncredit workforce credential attainment by students at comprehensive community colleges.

Comprehensive community colleges; Noncredit Workforce Credentials Act.

Del. Thomas Greason [R]

Del. Mark Keam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Education
2016-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-29	House	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-18	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2016-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 16104243D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1206
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1206+hil