| 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] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1055 | Enroll
75% | Board of directors of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University; membership; meetings; removal. Adjusts the membership and terms of the standing committee of the Old Dominion Board of Visitors that is established to serve as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| 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] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1467 | Veto | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; membership. Requires the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to include two nonvoting, advisory representatives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1505 | Pass | Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 837 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB827 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 644 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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 | HB1087 | 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 647 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1365 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 750 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1342 | Pass | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; provision of physical evidence recovery kits. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to either (i) staff its on-campus student health center with at least one on-campu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 554 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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 | HB509 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| VA | HB711 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| 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 | HB700 | Pass | Certain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance. Expands to include each public institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| VA | HB980 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; on-campus mental and behavioral health support. Requires each public institution of higher education and nonprofit priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| VA | HB1089 | Pass | Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 468 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB1455 | Pass | Virginia Center on Aging; Virginia Memory Project established. Establishes the Virginia Memory Project in the Virginia Center on Aging at Virginia Commonwealth University to collect and analyze data on Alzheimer's disease, related dementias, and othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| VA | HB163 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers. Requires each public institution of higher education to maintain and annually update as necessary to ensure accuracy and cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| VA | HB832 | 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 (CHAP0208) |
| 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 | HB1133 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan. Renames the Virginia College Savings Plan as the Commonwealth Savers Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| VA | HB566 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195) |
| VA | HB690 | 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] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202) |
| VA | HB713 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| VA | HB1357 | Pass | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to encourage and coordinate th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| VA | HB48 | 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 (CHAP0015) |
| 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 | HB1044 | 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 (CHAP0059) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1445 | Engross
50% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB366 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1373 | Engross
50% | Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 | HB83 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dual enrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges and school boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree, the Pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB145 | Intro
25% | Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps established. Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for the purposes of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB232 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB802 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1255 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; annual certification. Requires the chief executive officer of each public institution of higher education to annually submit to the State Council of Higher Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB881 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student hunger at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Program shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; legacy admissions prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from utilizing legacy admissions for any student applicant. The bill defines "legacy admissions" as any policy or practice whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1072 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1008 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; financial value transparency information and acknowledgement; requirements. Requires each public institution of higher education to require each student enrolled at such institution to sign, at the time such s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1066 | Intro
25% | Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth established; report. Establishes the 19-member legislative Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1229 | Intro
25% | Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in sports; access to restrooms and changing rooms. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1120 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Education 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 |
