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2006 SESSION
SJ 91 Incarcerated persons; joint subcommittee to study increasing access to higher education therefor.
Introduced by: Stephen D. Newman | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Study; Joint subcommittee to study increasing accessibility to higher education for incarcerated persons. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study increasing the accessibility to higher education for incarcerated persons. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) evaluate the existing college education program for prisoners in Virginia, including its advantages, the effect on recidivism, the benefits of such programs to prisoners, their families, and the community; (ii) identify program needs and recommend solutions; (iii) review prisoner college education programs in other states, (iv) consider financial aid alternatives to assist inmates in accessing college, and ways to finance prisoner college education programs in the Commonwealth; (iv) recommend ways in which more inmates may be accommodated in prisoner college education programs; and (v) consider such other related matters as the joint subcommittee may deem necessary and appropriate to satisfy the objectives of this study.
The joint subcommittee must submit its interim findings and recommendations to the 2006 Session of the General Assembly and its final findings and recommendations to the 2007 Session of the General Assembly.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/06 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 061651776
- 01/11/06 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/03/06 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote