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VAHB962Enroll
75%
Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB509Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB617Enroll
75%
High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB690Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB700Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB827Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1089Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1083Enroll
75%
Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virgi...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1087Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1357Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1404Enroll
75%
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; disparity study; report. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1477Enroll
75%
Public schools; instructional time; competency-based education. Requires the Board of Education to provide local school boards maximum flexibility to waive existing instructional clock hour requirements by developing alternative instructional time mo...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1467VetoBaccalaureate 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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1505Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB163Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB832Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB566Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1133Enroll
75%
Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan. Renames the Virginia College Savings Plan as the Commonwealth Savers Plan.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB713Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB980Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1055Enroll
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 ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1342Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1365Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1455Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB738Enroll
75%
Space Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in a branch of the Armed Forces. Amends several provisions of law related to certain benefits and privileges available to persons serving or having served in a branch of th...
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2024-03-09
Passed by until Reconvene, Wednesday, April 17, 2024
VAHB48PassPublic 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...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 15 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1044PassState 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...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/26)
VAHB675Engross
50%
Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian...
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2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1445Engross
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...
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2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB366Engross
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...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1373Engross
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...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB83Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB145Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB544Engross
50%
Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill directs the Department ...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 50-N)
VAHB802Intro
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.
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1255Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB706Intro
25%
Public secondary schools; public institutions of higher education; Internet safety education required; report. Requires the Board of Education to develop and approve objectives for Internet safety education at the middle and high school grade levels ...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB1422Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB1188Intro
25%
Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB881Intro
25%
Public institutions of higher education; Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program (the Program) to address student hunger at public institutions of higher...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1008Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB1120Intro
25%
K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, int...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB1229Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB502Intro
25%
Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB211Intro
25%
Department of Education; audit of education preparation programs at public institutions of higher education; science-based reading research and evidence-based literacy instruction; frequency. Changes from once every seven years to biennially the freq...
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2024-02-07
To House Education Committee
VAHB1051Intro
25%
Public education; dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment; high school graduation. Makes several changes relating to graduation from a public high school in the Commonwealth, including (i) eliminating the requirement for a student to complete one v...
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2024-02-07
To House Education Committee
VAHB1081Intro
25%
Public schools; instructional time. Makes several changes relating to student instructional time in public elementary and secondary schools, including (i) defining "instructional hour" for the purpose of minimum annual instructional hour requirements...
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2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education
VAHB1305Intro
25%
Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund. Directs the board of the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Plan) to deposit $250 million per year of surplus moneys from the Plan...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1121Intro
25%
Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means...
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2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee
VAHB369Intro
25%
Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual viole...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
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