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2010 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Higher Education

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

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Date of Meeting: January 21, 2010
Time and Place: Thursday, 2:30 PM, 3 W Conference Rm, Gen. Assembly Bldg

S.B. 209

Patron: Barker

International Baccalaureate; course credit.  Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies to grant a minimum of 24 undergraduate semester credit hours to entering freshman students who have successfully completed the International Baccalaureate diploma program. The governing boards must report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia the policy adopted and implemented, and make the policy available on the institution's website.

S.B. 312

Patron: Martin

In-state tuition; DOD employees.  Provides in-state tuition for dependents of civilian Department of Defense employees located in Virginia.

S.B. 326

Patron: Stuart

Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation. Creates the Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation as a body corporate and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Foundation shall identify, obtain, disburse, and administer funding for (i) research and development of alternative fuels, clean energy production, and related technologies; (ii) support of economic development projects in disadvantaged rural areas; and (iii) the provision of assistance in the commercialization of alternative fuels and clean energy technologies. Funding shall be awarded only to those proposed projects that best meet the established criteria and purposes of this act.

S.B. 403

Patron: Petersen

SCHEV; publication of administrators’ salaries.  Requires the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) to annually collect and publish a list of administrators at public institutions of higher education whose salary and compensation is in excess of $150,000.

S.B. 544

Patron: Colgan

In-state tuition; certain Department of Defense employees.  Provides that any civilian employees of the Department of Defense that are realigned to Virginia as a result of Base Realignment and Closure, and their dependents, shall pay the in-state tuition rate at the public institution of higher education in which they are enrolled.

S.B. 598

Patron: Herring

Regulation of private and out-of-state institutions of higher education; exemptions. Exempts yoga teacher training programs from state law provisions regarding regulation of certain private and out-of-state institutions of higher education.