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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 20, 2014
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjournment - 3rd Fl. 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. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with the Department of Veteran Affairs, to establish guidelines for the implementation of such additions.

H.B. 206

Patron: Hope

Four-year public institutions of higher education; mental health resources. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to create and feature on its website a page with information dedicated solely to the mental health resources available to students at the institution. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2015.

H.B. 258

Patron: Lingamfelter

Restrictions on student speech at institutions of higher education; limitations. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing restrictions on the time, place, and manner of student speech that occurs in the outdoor areas of the institution's campus and is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution unless the restrictions (i) are reasonable, (ii) are justified without reference to the content of the regulated speech, (iii) are narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and (iv) leave open ample alternative channels for communication of the information.

H.B. 501

Patron: Lingamfelter

Counting students granted in-state tuition for certain purposes. Requires students who live outside the Commonwealth, have been employed full time inside Virginia for at least one year, and were granted in-state tuition to be counted as in-state students for the purposes of determining college admissions, enrollment, and tuition and fee revenue policies. The bill requires (i) any person who is enrolled in certain programs, domiciled in, and entitled to reduced tuition charges in a Southern Regional Education Compact member state that has similar reciprocal provisions for persons domiciled in Virginia, (ii) any student from a foreign country who is enrolled in a foreign exchange program during the same period that an exchange student from the same state institution entitled to in-state tuition is attending the foreign institution, (iii) any high school or magnet school student who is enrolled in courses specifically designed as part of the high school or magnet school curriculum in a community college pursuant to a dual enrollment agreement, and (iv) any active duty members, activated guard or reservist members, or guard or reservist members mobilized or on temporary active orders for six months or more residing in Virginia granted in-state tuition to be counted as out-of-state students for the purposes of determining college admissions, enrollment, and tuition and fee revenue policies.

H.B. 573

Patron: Cox

Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's appropriations for undergraduate student financial assistance before grants are awarded to students with equivalent remaining need,(ii) each eligible student receive an award in an amount greater than other grants awarded to students with equivalent remaining need, (iii) each eligible student receive an award in an amount greater than the award of each eligible student with equivalent remaining need in the next-lowest class level, and (iv) each award be determined by a proportionate award schedule adopted by each institution and vary according to each student's remaining need and the total of tuition, fees, and other necessary charges, including books.

H.B. 886

Patron: Peace

State Council of Higher Education; postsecondary education and employment data. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to disseminate to each public high school and each institution of higher education in the Commonwealth for which the Council has student-level data a link on its website to certain published postsecondary education and employment data. The bill requires each institution of higher education to publish the link on its website and each local school board to provide annual notice on its website to each enrolled high school student and his parents about the availability of such data.

H.B. 1109

Patron: Bulova

Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; membership. Increases the membership of the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments from seven to eight by adding one faculty member of a public institution of higher education as a nonvoting member.  The bill sets the quorum for the Commission at three voting members.

H.B. 1137

Patron: Cox

Public institutions of higher education; unfunded scholarships. Adds graduate assistants to the number of graduate students used to calculate the total value of unfunded scholarships annually awarded to graduate students and clinical faculty.