Virginia Senate Bill 501 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-09 - Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits, without the prior statutory approval of the General Assembly, any percent increase in in-state tuition or instructional fees for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher education that exceeds twice the annual percent increase, as determined by the State Council for Higher Education, in the Average Consumer Price Index for all items, all urban consumers (CPI-U), as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, from January 1 through December 31 of the year immediately preceding the affected year.

Higher educational institutions; increases in-state tuition.

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

2016-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-09	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-28	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2016-01-28	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-21	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 16100937D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB501
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB501+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0044+SB0501
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S05V0086+SB0501