Bill Text: VA HB658 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Higher educational institutions; campus housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-13 - Left in Education [HB658 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB658-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §23.1-2209 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-411 as follows:
§23.1-411. Enrolled students; campus housing.
Except in the case of students participating in a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program on campus or students enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute, no student enrolled at a public institution of higher education shall be required to live in a campus housing facility.
§23.1-2209. Powers and duties.
A. The board shall (i) care for and preserve all property
belonging to the University,; (ii) grant to the president
of the University supreme administrative direction over all the schools,
colleges, divisions, and branches of the University,; and (iii) examine the
progress of the students in each year and give to those who excel in any course
of study such honors as it deems proper.
B. The board may (i) remove the president of the University or
any professor with the assent of two-thirds of its members,; (ii) prescribe the duties of
each professor and the course and mode of instruction,; (iii) appoint a comptroller
and proctor and employ any other agent or servant,; (iv) consistent
with the provisions of §23.1-411, regulate the renting of
the rooms and dormitories,; and (v) to enable the board
to procure a supply of water and construct and maintain a system of waterworks,
drainage, and sewerage for the University, acquire such springs, lands, and
rights-of-way as may be necessary, according to the provisions of Title 25.1.
