Virginia House Bill 1830 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certain institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; scope; student rights. Requires the Virginia Community College System, Richard Bland College, each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each nonprofit private institution of higher education to include in its sexual violence policy certain rights of each student who alleges a violation of such policy and each student who is alleged to have violated such policy, including notice, an opportunity to be heard, and assistance by a licensed attorney, an advocate supervised by a licensed attorney, or another trained advocate in any disciplinary proceeding relating to the alleged violation. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) (i) in consultation with state and local bar associations and legal services providers with experience and expertise in disciplinary proceedings relating to alleged violations of the sexual violence policies of such institutions, to generate and maintain a list of attorneys and advocates who are qualified and willing to provide such assistance to students on a pro bono basis or at a reduced-fee rate equivalent to the fee charged by the Legal Services Corporation of Virginia to provide such assistance and (ii) to provide to any attorney or advocate retained by a student funds to provide such assistance at such reduced-fee rate, regardless of whether such attorney or advocate is on the list generated and maintained by the Council.

Higher educational institutions, certain; sexual violence policies, student rights.

Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Education
2019-01-11	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3
2019-01-02	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-01-02	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101981D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	808	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1830
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1830+hil