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HB 118 Higher education; required to report to SCHEV on steps taken to ensure academic freedom, etc.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Higher education; academic freedom. Requires each public institution of higher education to annually report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) the steps the institution is taking to ensure academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas. SCHEV must compile the information and report to the General Assembly by December 31 of the last year of each biennium.
FULL TEXT
- 12/17/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083320592 pdf
- 01/23/08 House: Printed as engrossed 083320592-E pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/17/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083320592
- 12/17/07 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/21/08 House: Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/08 House: Read first time
- 01/23/08 House: Read second time
- 01/23/08 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/23/08 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB118E
- 01/23/08 House: Printed as engrossed 083320592-E
- 01/24/08 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/08 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/25/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/08 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 02/28/08 Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)