Virginia Senate Bill 1405 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-01-26 - Incorporated by Education and Health
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; notice of proposed tuition increase. Prohibits the governing board of a public institution of higher education from approving an increase in tuition or mandatory fees without first publishing in a prominent location on the institution's website a brief synopsis of the proposed increase including an explanation of the need for such increase and the maximum potential amount of such increase and notice of the date, time, and location of any vote on the increase at least 30 days prior to such vote. The bill requires a copy of the synopsis and the notice to be emailed to each student and requires that public comment be accepted at any hearing on the increase.

Higher educational institutions, public; notice of proposed tuition increase.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2017-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-26	Senate	Incorporated by Education and Health
2017-01-23	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2017-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2017-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102301D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	509.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1405
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1405+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S04V0065+SB1405