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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Higher Education

Locke (Chairman), Saslaw, Smith, McWaters

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2014
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adj. / 3rd Floor West

H.B. 132

Patron: Lingamfelter

Commissioned officers; tuition-free instruction. Adds the departments of emergency management, emergency services, public safety, and disaster management to the list of departments at state institutions of higher education in which commissioned officers of the organized militia and the Governor's military staff may receive instruction for a period not exceeding 10 months without being required to pay any fee or charge for tuition.

H.B. 133

Patron: Cole

Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; amount of award and eligibility criteria. Increases from $8,000 to $12,000 the maximum Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the family's financial information reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), for a student to be eligible for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program. The bill permits a student to enroll in a four-year institution by the spring following the award of an associate's degree and remain eligible for a grant under the program. Current law requires a student to enroll in a four-year institution by the following fall to be eligible. The bill also provides that the amount of each award will be determined in the appropriation act. Under current law, each award is fixed at $1,000 per student per year.

H.B. 205

Patron: Landes

Boards of visitors; student-athlete discipline policies. Requires the board of visitors or other governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to establish and enforce policies for the discipline of students who participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics.

H.B. 465

Patron: Massie

University of Virginia Board of Visitors; executive committee. Increases from six to seven the maximum number of members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors permitted to serve on the executive committee.

H.B. 467

Patron: Massie

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; interstate agreements. Authorizes the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to enter into interstate reciprocity agreements authorizing postsecondary distance education. SCHEV will administer the agreements and will approve or disapprove participation in the agreements by degree-granting institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Participation in the agreements by the institutions is voluntary. The bill also requires SCHEV to establish the Distance Learning Reciprocity Advisory Council, which will include representatives from each participating institution.

H.B. 757

Patron: Rust

Benefits consortia; benefits plans. Permits employees of the sponsoring association of a benefits consortium, employees of a benefits consortium, and their dependents to participate in the benefits plan offered by a benefits consortium consisting of five or more private educational institutions that have established a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan.

H.B. 776

Patron: Wilt

Surviving spouses; eligibility for in-state tuition charges. Waives the requirement that the factors presented in support of entitlement to in-state tuition must exist for the one-year period prior to the date of the alleged entitlement for spouses of certain military members who were killed in action, are missing in action, or are prisoners of war.