Virginia House Bill 1975 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; survivors of criminal sexual assault and certain other sex crimes. Declares eligible for counseling at no cost and a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at any public institution of higher education any individual who, when he was under the age of 18 and a resident of the Commonwealth, became the victim of criminal sexual assault, sex trafficking, or child pornography, as evidenced by the conviction of the perpetrator of such crime. The bill provides that any individual who receives such waiver and counseling shall remain eligible if he maintains a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.5 on a scale of 4.0 or its equivalent.

Higher educational institutions, public; tuition and mandatory fee waivers, survivors of sex crimes.

Del. Larry Rush [R]

2021-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-25 - House - House: Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) (Y: 17 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-20 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2021-02-01	House	Rereferred to Appropriations
2021-02-01	House	Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2021-01-29	House	Passed by for the day
2021-01-28	House	Read first time
2021-01-27	House	Reported from Appropriations (17-Y 0-N)
2021-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2021-01-25	House	Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
2021-01-25	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-25	House	Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N)
2021-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
2021-01-15	House	Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
2021-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2021-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100931D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	610.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB1975
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB1975+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB1975F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0902V0007+HB1975
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H09V0033+HB1975
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0206V0003+HB1975
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H02V0043+HB1975