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1995 SESSION

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HB 2352 Bar exam.

Introduced by: William P. Robinson, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Bar exam. Allows graduates of the Northern Virginia Law School ( Alexandria) to sit for the bar exam in July 1995, February 1996 and July 1996 although the law school has not been approved by the ABA. The Board of Bar Examiners will no longer be accrediting law schools. Their accrediting requirements currently are identical to the ABA. The bill recognized that the U.S. Department of Education may approve accrediting bodies, other than the ABA, and Virginia will recognize those bodies. After July 1996, graduates of the Northern Virginia Law School will be allowed to sit for the bar only if the law school has been approved by an appropriate accrediting body and authorized to issue the juris doctor degree by the State Council of Higher Education.

The bill specifically provides that approval is not to be denied the law school solely because they do not have full-time faculty, given that the school is exclusively a weekend, part-time law school.

FULL TEXT

• 01/23/95  House: Presented & ordered printed LD7662432  pdf
• 02/06/95  House: Printed as engrossed LD7662432-E  pdf
• 02/20/95  Senate: Committee substitute printed LD6386432-S1  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/23/95  House: Presented & ordered printed LD7662432
• 01/23/95  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/27/95  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 3/4
• 02/05/95  House: Read first time
• 02/05/95  House: Reported from C. J. with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/95  House: Read second time
• 02/06/95  House: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/06/95  House: Engrossed by House as amended
• 02/06/95  House: Printed as engrossed LD7662432-E
• 02/07/95  House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/07/95  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
• 02/07/95  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/08/95  Senate: Read first time
• 02/08/95  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/16/95  Senate: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: Civil Law
• 02/19/95  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice w/sub. (10-Y 4-N 1-A)
• 02/20/95  Senate: Committee substitute printed LD6386432-S1
• 02/20/95  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/20/95  Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/21/95  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/22/95  Senate: Read third time
• 02/22/95  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/22/95  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to LD6386432-S1
• 02/22/95  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. LD6386432-S1
• 02/22/95  Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
• 02/22/95  Senate: Recommitted to Courts of Justice
• 02/24/95  Senate: Left in Courts of Justice