| VA | SB627 | Pass | Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB506 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; powers and duties; legal counsel; scope of employment. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall have authority over the employment of all legal c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB21 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 491 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB599 | Pass | Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $124,285,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at James Madison University, Virginia State University, and The College of William and Ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 514 (effective 4/4/24) |
| VA | SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB530 | Pass | Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law require... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| VA | SB46 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002) |
| VA | SB159 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) |
| VA | SB613 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Ph... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| VA | SR125 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State University marching band. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate (SR125ER) |
| VA | SB466 | Engross 50% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB535 | Engross 50% | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB563 | Engross 50% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB501 | Intro 25% | Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund. Directs the board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to deposit $250 million per year of surplus moneys from the Plan's fund into the Virginia College Opportunity Fund,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB678 | Intro 25% | Intercollegiate athletics, student-athletes; compensation and representation for name, image, or likeness. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB723 | Intro 25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB418 | Intro 25% | Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution under the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the Museum is governed by a 15-member board of trustees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB62 | Intro 25% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB124 | Intro 25% | Sports betting; Virginia college sports. Permits betting, with the exception of proposition betting, on Virginia college sports. Under current law, betting other than proposition betting is allowed on all college sports except Virginia college sports... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB717 | Intro 25% | Public institutions of higher education; duties of governing boards; acceptance and use of donations. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education may receive, take, hold, and enjoy any donation or gift made to suc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB219 | Intro 25% | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB318 | Intro 25% | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB279 | Intro 25% | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; board of directors membership; powers and duties; capital projects; issuance of bonds. Provides for a number of reforms related to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB287 | Intro 25% | Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. Authorizes the State Board for Community Colleges, subject to approval and certification by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia of a proposa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB71 | Intro 25% | Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 Incorporated by Education and Health |