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2005 SESSION
HB 2122 Tuition, in-state; eligibility for students seeking asylum or refugee status.
Introduced by: Albert C. Eisenberg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
In-state tuition; applicants for asylum or refugee status. Grants in-state tuition to any person who has applied with the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service for admission or classification as a refugee or asylum status, as the case may be, on the basis of fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion shall be entitled to in-state tuition charges (i) if the student has, for at least one year immediately prior to the date of alleged entitlement for in-state tuition charges, resided in Virginia, and if the parent of such student has, for at least one year immediately prior to the date of alleged entitlement for in-state tuition charges, resided in Virginia, been employed full-time, and paid individual income taxes to Virginia; or (ii) in the case of a student who is an emancipated minor has, for at least one year immediately prior to the date of alleged entitlement for in-state tuition charges, resided in Virginia, been employed on a full- or part-time basis, and paid individual income taxes to Virginia.
Current law provides that an alien holding an immigration visa or classified as a political refugee may establish eligibility for in-state tuition in the same manner as any other student.
The State Council of Higher Education is to issue and revise guidelines for determinations of eligibility for in-state tuition.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 058856301
- 01/11/05 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/27/05 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: Higher Education-S...
- 01/31/05 House: Tabled in Education (22-Y 0-N)