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2008 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL NO. 672
Offered January 9, 2008
Prefiled January 8, 2008
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23-7.6, relating to dormitories at four-year public institutions of higher education.
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Patron-- Marshall, R.G.
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Referred to Committee on Education
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 23-7.6 as follows:

§ 23-7.6. Single-sex on-campus housing; required upon request.

The board of visitors or other governing body of each four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth shall establish a policy to provide single-sex housing to students that are entitled to on-campus housing and request single-sex living arrangements through the designation of at least a single-sex floor or single-sex section of a dormitory, dependent on the total number of total requests.