Bill Text: VA HB2702 | 2019 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: VPI & SU and VSU; joint plan for new baccalaureate degree program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) [HB2702 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2019-HB2702-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 592 An Act to require Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia State University to jointly develop a plan for a new degree program. [H 2702] Approved March 18, 2019

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia State University shall jointly develop and report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 1, 2019, a plan for the establishment of a baccalaureate or other degree program that prepares graduates to be effective career and technical education teachers in order to address persistent teacher shortages in career and technical education subject areas in the Commonwealth.