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2019 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Higher Education

Saslaw (Chairman), Black, Chase, Cosgrove, Petersen, Howell

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: February 12, 2019
Time and Place: Immediately upon Adj.-Subcommittee Rm. 3, 5th Fl, Pocahontas Bldg

H.B. 2020

Patron: James

Virginia Community College System; certain registered apprenticeships; uniform instruction. Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop and deliver uniform, related instruction for registered apprenticeships in high-demand programs, as determined by the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and the Virginia Employment Commission, and for which coursework is not otherwise available. The bill requires such instruction to be available statewide and to be delivered in a face-to-face, online, or blended format.

H.B. 2336

Patron: Landes

Public institutions of higher education; executive officers; salaries. Provides that no salary of any executive officer of a public institution of higher education hired on or after July 1, 2019 shall exceed the midpoint of the Level I Range for agency heads set forth in Part 4 of the general appropriation act, provided, however, that (i) the governing board of any institution located in Planning District 8 may adjust the salary of any such executive officer by no more than 19 percent of such midpoint and (ii) the governing board of any institution may supplement the salary of any such executive officer with private gifts, endowment funds, foundation funds, and income from private gifts and endowments.

H.B. 2350

Patron: Miyares

Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fees; foster care youth. Requires each associate degree-granting public institution of higher education (i.e., Richard Bland College and each comprehensive community college) and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to provide a grant for the payment of tuition and certain fees for any Virginia student who (i) (a) has received a high school diploma or has passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and was in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or is considered a special needs adoption at the time such diploma or certificate was awarded or (b) was in foster care when he turned 18 and subsequently received a high school diploma or passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and (ii) meets certain other criteria. Under current law, such grants are limited to tuition and fees for Virginia students who are enrolled at comprehensive community colleges.

H.B. 2380

Patron: Hurst

Public institutions of higher education; online course catalogue; no-cost and low-cost course materials. Requires the registrar or another appropriate employee of each public institution of higher education to identify conspicuously in the online course catalogue or registration system, as soon as practicable after the necessary information becomes available, each course for which the instructor exclusively uses no-cost course materials or low-cost course materials.

H.B. 2591

Patron: Kory

Public institutions of higher education; students; determination of domicile. Prohibits any student at a public institution of higher education from being deemed ineligible to establish domicile and receive in-state tuition charges solely on the basis of the immigration status of his parent.

H.B. 2702

Patron: Orrock

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia State University; joint plan for new degree program. Requires Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia State University to jointly develop and report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than the first day of the 2020 regular session of the General Assembly a plan for the establishment of a baccalaureate or other degree program that prepares graduates to be effective career and technical education teachers in order to address persistent teacher shortages in career and technical education subject areas in the Commonwealth.