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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: February 4, 2010
Time and Place: Thursday, 2:30 PM, 3 W Conference Rm, Gen. Assembly Bldg

S.B. 141 Higher educational institutions; shall not be prohibited from selling complimentary materials.

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Higher education; complimentary materials.  Specifies that instructional faculty at a Virginia public college or university shall not be prohibited from selling, gifting, or otherwise disposing of complimentary books or other instructional materials sent or given to them by publishers, whether those instructional materials were requested as examination copies or were sent to them unsolicited by the publishers.

S.B. 326 Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation; created.

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. 720 Tuition; covered higher educational institutions to charge based on ability to pay.

Patron: Norment

Tuition charges; covered institutions of higher education.  Authorizes the covered institutions governed by Subchapter 3 (§ 23-38.91 et seq.) of the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act to charge either a fixed tuition amount or a variable tuition amount based on ability to pay.