Virginia Senate Bill 1527 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 13 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program, including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive a grant from the institution's appropriations for undergraduate student financial assistance before Commonwealth Award grants are awarded to students with equivalent remaining need, (ii) each eligible student receive a Program grant in an amount greater than Commonwealth Award grants awarded to students with equivalent remaining need, (iii) each eligible student receive a Program grant in an amount greater than the grant of each eligible student with equivalent remaining need in the next-lowest class level, and (iv) each Program grant be determined by a proportionate award schedule adopted by each institution and vary according to each student's remaining need and the total of tuition, fees, and other necessary charges, including books. This bill is identical to HB 2427.

Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; changes to Program, Commonwealth Award grants.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2017-02-20 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N) (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-13		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335)
2017-03-13		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 335 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-02-23		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-02-23	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
2017-02-22	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-22	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1527ER)
2017-02-22	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-20	Senate	Title replaced 17105424D-H1
2017-02-20	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1527H1
2017-02-16	House	Committee substitute agreed to 17105424D-H1
2017-02-16	House	Read third time
2017-02-15	House	Passed by for the day
2017-02-14	House	Read second time
2017-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 17105424D-H1
2017-02-13	House	Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
2017-02-08	House	Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
2017-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2017-02-08	House	Read first time
2017-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-03	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2017-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-01	Senate	Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
2017-01-26	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2017-01-26	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2017-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2017-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 17103881D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	638	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1527
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1527+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1527H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1527ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0335+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S04V0081+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S05V0189+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0254SB1527+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0291SB1527+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0292SB1527+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H02V0149+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2401+SB1527
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0690SB1527+SB1527