Virginia Senate Bill 402 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-02 - Left in Education and Health
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class of 2017, the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education to maintain a ratio of the in-state and out-of-state student population in each incoming freshman class that is not less than 55 percent in-state students. The bill stablishes the Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Fund and Program. The program grants scholarships to the top two percent of graduates from Virginia public high schools. The scholarships pay for tuition, mandatory fees, room, and board for eight semesters over five years. Recipients may apply the scholarships to one of nine public institutions of higher education on the basis of the locality of the student's high school or to Norfolk State University, Virginia Military Institute, or Virginia State University.

Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund; created.

Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

2016-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2017 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-02	Senate	Left in Education and Health
2016-01-28	Senate	Continued to 2017 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 16104835D-S1
2016-01-25	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100793D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB402
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB402+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB402S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S04C0040+SB0402