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2004 SESSION
HB 156 Higher educational institutions; prohibits admission of illegal aliens.
Introduced by: John S. Reid | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Higher education; admission of illegal aliens prohibited. Provides that public institutions of higher education may not knowingly accept for enrollment any illegal alien, and directs each institution, upon discovering an enrollment of an illegal alien, to provide for the prompt dismissal of any such person from the institution.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that undocumented alien children are ensured access to public education in grades K through 12; the Court found that the denial of public school enrollment violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This case was limited to public school enrollment and did not address postsecondary education. (Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)).
In September, 2003, a lawsuit was filed in filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of anonymous high school students and recent high school graduates, challenging the denial of college admission to undocumented alien students by the College of William and Mary, George Mason University, James Madison University, Northern Virginia Community College, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Tech. (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 12, 2003).
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HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/05/04 043705488
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/02/04 House: Reported from Education (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/03/04 House: Read first time
- 02/04/04 House: Read second time
- 02/04/04 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/04/04 House: Engrossed by House
- 02/05/04 House: Read third time and passed House (71-Y 29-N)
- 02/05/04 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (71-Y 29-N)
- 02/05/04 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/05/04 House: Passed House (72-Y 23-N)
- 02/05/04 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (72-Y 23-N)
- 02/05/04 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/06/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 03/04/04 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Ed. & Health (12-Y 2-N 1-A)