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2009 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 15, 2009
Time and Place: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1/2 hr. after Senate adj., 3rd E, GAB

S.B. 866 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 paid shall not exceed $5 million in any fiscal year. 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.

S.B. 977 SCHEV guidelines; State Council of Higher Education to develop guidelines for curriculum adjustment.

Patron: Stuart

SCHEV guidelines; developmentally disabled students.  Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to develop guidelines for curriculum adjustments for developmentally challenged and developmentally disabled students that shall be implemented by all public two-year institutions of higher education.

S.B. 994 Institutions of higher education; employment of campus police.

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Institutions of higher education; employment of campus police.  Allows any public institution of higher education to direct that its campus police officers and any auxiliary forces not be governed by the Virginia Personnel Act. Also makes a technical amendment, correcting an outdated Code citation.

S.B. 1037 In-state tuition; illegal aliens.

Patron: Hanger

In-state tuition; illegal aliens.  Establishes that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his parent, guardian, or other person standing in loco parentis while attending a public or private high school in this state; (ii) he has graduated from a public or private high school in Virginia or has received a General Education Development (GED) certificate in Virginia; (iii) he has resided in the Commonwealth for at least three years as of the date he graduated from high school, or one year of residency if a veteran or an active duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces; (iv) he has registered as an entering student in an institution of higher education; (v) he has provided evidence to the institution establishing that he is not currently in removal proceedings and is a direct or derivative beneficiary of a petition to become a permanent resident of the United States that has been filed with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and that he is actively pursuing such permanent residency; and (vi) he has submitted evidence that he, or in the case of a dependent student, at least one parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, has filed, unless exempted by state law, Virginia income tax returns for at least three years prior to the date of enrollment.