Virginia House Bill 732 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

In-state tuition; limitation on eligibility; 75 percent Virginia domicile requirement. Provides that students entitled to in-state tuition, who have already completed eight semesters for a four-year degree or 10 semesters for a five-year degree, will be assessed a surcharge upon satisfactorily completing 110 percent of credit hours, called the credit hour threshold, needed to obtain a degree in the student's chosen program. Each additional credit hour will be charged at the rate charged to non-Virginia domiciles. The money raised by such surcharge must be used by the institution to create additional in-state student slots. A waiver of the surcharge may be granted by the relevant institution, in accordance with the guidelines and criteria established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). The bill provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for the Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University, and Virginia State University, must set a goal and establish a plan eventually requiring that at least 75 percent of undergraduate students admitted and enrolled at the institution be Virginia domiciles. The plan shall provide (i) for an increase in out-of-state tuition charges to the level of similarly situated private institutions, to be determined by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, with the additional money raised being allocated to the creation of additional student slots for Virginia domiciles and (ii) that any funds received by an institution from the state on or after July 1, 2010, above and beyond inflation shall be allocated to the creation of additional student slots for Virginia domiciles, until 75 percent of the institution's enrolled undergraduate students are Virginia domiciles. A second enactment clause requires SCHEV to revise its guidelines for determining in-state tuition charges, which are not subject to the Administrative Process Act, to include these requirements by July 1, 2010. A third enactment clause specifies that the legislation does not apply to any public four-year institution at which 75 percent or greater of its enrolled students are Virginia domiciles. A fourth enactment clause specifies that the legislation does not apply to any public four-year institution at which fewer than 75 percent of its enrolled students are Virginia domiciles but which has expanded the total of in-state slots by 10 percent or more beyond its 2009 level.

Tuition, in-state; students entitled to who have completed 8 semesters will be assessed a surcharge.

Del. David Albo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Appropriations
2010-02-08		House: Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB1026-Hugo) by voice vote
2010-01-25		House: Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
2010-01-20		House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2010-01-20		House: Referred from Education by voice vote
2010-01-12		House: Referred to Committee on Education
2010-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103464D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB732
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB732+hil