Virginia Senate Bill 159 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-08 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; debt collection; transcripts and degrees. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from (i) refusing to provide a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt; (ii) conditioning the provision of a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the payment of a debt, other than a fee charged to provide the transcript or degree; (iii) charging a higher fee to a current or former student for obtaining a transcript or degree, or providing less favorable treatment of a transcript or degree request because a current or former student owes a debt; or (iv) using transcript or degree issuance as a tool for debt collection. Public institutions of higher education; debt collection; transcripts and degrees. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from (i) refusing to provide a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt; (ii) conditioning the provision of a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the payment of a debt, other than a fee charged to provide the transcript or degree; (iii) charging a higher fee to a current or former student for obtaining a transcript or degree, or providing less favorable treatment of a transcript or degree request because a current or former student owes a debt; or (iv) using transcript or degree issuance as a tool for debt collection.

Higher educational institutions, public; debt collection, transcripts and degrees.

Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

2022-02-28 - House - House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N) (Y: 16 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) (Y: 25 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 4-N) (Y: 9 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-08	House	Left in Appropriations
2022-03-01	House	Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
2022-02-28	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2022-02-28	House	Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N)
2022-02-21	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2022-02-21	House	Read first time
2022-02-21	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N)
2022-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB159S1
2022-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 22104995D-S1
2022-01-31	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2022-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2022-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2022-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 22104995D-S1
2022-01-27	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 4-N)
2022-01-21	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2022-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102612D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4806	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	200	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB159
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB159+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB159S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22104995D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22106873A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB159AH
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB159F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0051+SB0159
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0141SB0159+SB0159
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0177SB0159+SB0159
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H09V0177+SB0159