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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 25, 2010
Time and Place: Thursday, 2:30 PM, 3 W Conf. Rm, General Assembly Building

H.B. 928 Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation; created.

Patron: Bell, Robert B.

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.

H.B. 1066 Higher Education, State Council of; develop uniform certificate of general studies program.

Patron: Athey

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; uniform general studies certificate.  Requires the development of a uniform certificate of general studies program by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with the Virginia Community College System and Virginia public institutions of higher education, to be offered at each community college in Virginia. The program must ensure that a community college student who completes the one-year certificate program may transfer all credits to a four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth, upon acceptance to the institution.