West Virginia House Bill 4608 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-17 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to require that the policies and procedures established by the Higher Education Policy Commission ensure that credits, earned by students while attending a college or other in-state higher education institution that is accredited, shall be transferable to another state college or in-state higher education institution if the college or in-state higher education institution attended loses it accreditation. The bill permits students to be reimbursed for tuition and other costs from college of in-state higher education institution that loses its accreditation. And, the bill permits students to take professional board examinations, where applicable, if the student otherwise qualified before accreditation was lost.

Relating to the powers and duties of Higher Education Policy Commission

Del. William Anderson [R]

Del. Thomas Campbell [D]

Del. Denny Canterbury [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-17		To House Education
2012-02-17		Introduced in House
2012-02-17		To Education then Finance
2012-02-17		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18B	1B	4	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4608&year=2012&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4608%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=4608