Virginia Senate Bill 1209 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 10 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Grants for earning workforce training credentials; New Economy Industry Credential Assistance Training Grants. Establishes a grant program that would pay grants to certain individuals enrolled at a two-year or four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth in a noncredit workforce training program as a prerequisite to earning a related credential in a high-demand field. The grant, up to a total of $1,000, would be limited to payment of tuition charged for the training program, the cost of any required textbooks, and the cost of any examination required to earn the credential. The Virginia Board of Workforce Development would maintain a list of high-demand fields and the related credentials on its website, and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia would administer the grants. The amount of grants available each year for the program would be determined by the general appropriation act. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2016.

New Economy Industry Credential Assistance Training Grants; established.

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]	Sen. Ralph Smith [R]	Sen. Frank Wagner [R]	Sen. William Stanley [R]
Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

2015-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	Left in Appropriations
2015-02-12	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-12	House	Read first time
2015-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-10	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-10	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1209S1
2015-02-10	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 15104814D-S1
2015-02-10	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-10	Senate	Read second time
2015-02-09	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104814D-S1
2015-02-05	Senate	Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2015-02-05	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2015-02-05	Senate	Rereferred from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
2015-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2015-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103444D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1209
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1209+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1209S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S04V0103+SB1209
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S05V0174+SB1209
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0345SB1209+SB1209
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0372SB1209+SB1209
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0373SB1209+SB1209