Virginia Senate Bill 609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)
Status: Engrossed on February 1 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-29 - Tabled in Education by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Academic credit; industry credentials. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt a policy for the award of academic credit to any student enrolled in a comprehensive community college who has successfully completed a third-party industry credential identified as in demand and applicable to the student's certificate or degree program requirements. The bill also requires the State Board, in consultation with the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and local business and industry leaders, to identify in-demand third-party industry credentials for each community college region.

Academic credit; industry credentials.

Sen. Kenneth Alexander [D]	Sen. Benton Chafin [R]	Sen. John Cosgrove [R]	Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]
Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]	Sen. Mamie Locke [D]
Sen. Louise Lucas [D]	Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]	Sen. John Miller [D]	Sen. Stephen Newman [R]
Sen. Frank Wagner [R]	Sen. Jennifer Wexton [D]

2016-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-29	House	Tabled in Education by voice vote
2016-02-15	House	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2016-02-05	House	Read first time
2016-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2016-02-02	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2016-02-01	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2016-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2016-01-28	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-21	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-01-13	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 16103416D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB609
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB609+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0054+SB0609
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0135SB0609+SB0609
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0158SB0609+SB0609