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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Higher Education

Edwards (Chairman), Saslaw, Quayle, Ruff, Locke

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: January 17, 2008
Time and Place: Thursday, 2:30 PM, 3rd Fl West Conference Rm, G.A.B.

S.B. 125 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.

Patron: Edwards

Community College Scholarship Match Program.  Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education.  Funds may be paid on the basis of one dollar of state general fund appropriation for every one dollar donated by private individuals, foundations, or corporations beginning on July 1, 2008.  These funds shall be used to award scholarships to students who (i) are domiciled residents of Virginia, (ii) graduated from a public or private Virginia high school, and (iii) are enrolled in a Virginia community college.  The provisions of the bill are contingent upon an appropriation of general funds in the 2008 General Appropriation Act.

S.B. 126 Dependent Children of University and College Faculty Reduced Tuition Program; created.

Patron: Edwards

Partial tuition waiver; children of university and college faculty.  Establishes the Dependent Children of University and College Faculty Reduced Tuition Program, to provide 50% tuition waivers for the children of current full-time faculty members who have been employed full-time by any one or more public Virginia colleges or universities for an aggregate period of at least seven years. The tuition waivers shall be used for undergraduate education at any public institution of higher education in Virginia.

S.B. 256 Public institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans.

Patron: Deeds

Public institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans.  Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education to develop, adopt, and keep current a written crisis and emergency management plan. Such plan must be reviewed and revised every four years. The Department of Emergency Management must assist institutions, as needed, in their development of the plan.

S.B. 358 Management agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University.

Patron: Watkins

Management agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University. Provides a management agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act.

S.B. 442 Public institutions of higher education; operational authority.

Patron: Houck

Public institutions of higher education; operational authority.  Provides operational authority for public institutions of higher education in the areas of information technology, procurement, and capital outlay pursuant to the Restructuring Act of 2005.

S.B. 510 Institutions of higher education; student lending policies; report.

Patrons: McEachin, Petersen

Institutions of higher education; student lending policies; report.  Requires the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to develop policies and procedures for disclosing certain information to students on student lending practices, and to report this information annually to the State Council for Higher Education.  This information shall include (i) disclosure of the for-profit status of private vendors, (ii) the criteria used to determine which lenders, if any, are recommended or endorsed by the school, and (iii) explicit notification that students are free to borrow from any lender of their choosing and are not limited to a list offered by the school.  Also the bill prohibits public institutions of higher education from entering into exclusive agreements with vendors, and prohibits employees from accepting gifts to induce endorsement of certain vendors.

S.B. 538 Higher education; first warning and emergency notification system required.

Patron: Obenshain

Higher education; first warning and emergency notification system required. Mandates that by August 1, 2008, each public institution of higher education establish a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning and emergency notification system for students, staff, and faculty.

S.B. 539 Higher Education; threat assessment teams at each public institution of higher education.

Patron: Obenshain

Higher Education; threat assessment teams at each public institution of higher education.  Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to establish a threat assessment team. The bill also requires the team to adopt a campus-wide threat assessment policy and to regularly seek cooperation from (i) residential life; (ii) academic affairs; (iii) law enforcement; (iv) the counseling center; and (v) student judicial affairs.