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HB 2337 Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, tuition and mandatory fee rates.

Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fee increases; public comment; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education, prior to a vote on an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees, to permit public comment on the proposed increase at a meeting of the governing board. The bill requires each such governing board to establish policies for such public comment, which may include reasonable time limitations. The bill requires each such governing board to provide, at any meeting at which it approves an increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, an explanation of any deviation from the project range of the planned increase in such tuition and fees that it previously provided to students and the public. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to provide to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance an annual report on any increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at a public institution of higher education, the public comment relating to such increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, and any deviation in the increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees from the increase projected in the institutional six-year plan.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fee rates; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to provide and discuss certain information relating to the rate of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at meetings preceding the meeting at which it sets such rate, including the factors that it expects will influence such rate and a projected range of the increase in such rate. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education to submit to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance an annual report that contains an assessment of such information.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fee rates. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to approve rates for tuition and mandatory fees for each academic year no later than December 1 of the immediately preceding academic year.