Bill Text: VA HJR65 | 2022 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Constitutional amendment; education, state appropriations to private schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-15 - Left in Privileges and Elections [HJR65 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-HJR65-Prefiled.html
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:
Amend Section 10 of Article VIII of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:
Section 10. State appropriations prohibited to schools or institutions of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some subdivision thereof; exceptions to rule.
No appropriation of public funds shall be made to any school
or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or
some political subdivision thereof; provided, first, that the General Assembly
may, and the governing bodies of the several counties, cities and towns may,
subject to such limitations as may be imposed by the General Assembly,
appropriate funds for educational purposes which may be expended in furtherance
of elementary, secondary, collegiate or graduate education of Virginia students
in public and nonsectarian
private schools and institutions of learning, in addition to those owned or
exclusively controlled by the State or any such county, city or town; second,
that the General Assembly may appropriate funds to an agency, or to a school or
institution of learning owned or controlled by an agency, created and
established by two or more States under a joint agreement to which this State
is a party for the purpose of providing educational facilities for the citizens
of the several States joining in such agreement; third, that counties, cities,
towns and districts may make appropriations to
nonsectarian schools of manual, industrial or technical
training and also to any school or institution of learning owned or exclusively
controlled by such county, city, town or school district.