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SENATE BILL NO. 572 Offered January 14, 2002 A BILL to amend and reenact § 23-215 of the Code of Virginia, relating to responsibilities of Virginia Community College System. ---------- Patron-- Ruff ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 23-215 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23-215. Responsibilities of Board and System.

A. The State Board for Community Colleges heretofore established by law is continued. The Board shall be a corporation under the style of "the State Board for Community Colleges." The State Board shall be responsible, through the exercise of the powers and performance of the duties set forth in this chapter, for the establishment, control, and administration of a statewide system of publicly supported comprehensive community colleges which shall be known as the Virginia Community College System.

B. The Virginia Community College System shall be the state agency with primary responsibility for coordinating workforce training at the postsecondary to the associate degree level, exclusive of the career and technical education programs provided through and administered by the public school system. This responsibility shall not preclude other agencies from also providing such services as appropriate, but these activities shall be coordinated with the community colleges.

C. In addition to other responsibilities of the Virginia Community College System, the community colleges shall (i) offer non-credit courses at a time and place that meet the needs of employers and at a cost not to exceed the incremental cost of each course, and (ii) deal directly with employers in designing and offering courses to meet real, current and projected workforce training needs. For purposes of this section, incremental cost is the addition to total cost that is incurred as a result of the course. The procedures for determining incremental costs shall be promulgated by the Auditor of Public Accounts and shall be used by each community college in carrying out the provisions of this subsection. The community colleges shall report annually to the General Assembly on actions taken to meet the requirements of this subsection.