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2015 SESSION
HB 1692 Higher educational institutions; alternative tuition or fee structures offered to students.
Introduced by: Nick Rush | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures to students. The bill provides that if a public institution of higher education, with the approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council), offers alternative tuition or fee structures, including discounted tuition, four-year flat tuition rates, discounted student fees, or student fee and student services flexibility, to any Virginia-domiciled, first-time, incoming freshman undergraduate student who enrolls full time with the intent to earn a degree in a program that leads to employment in a high-demand field in the region, according to guidelines established by the Council, each student who receives the benefits of such an alternative tuition or fee structure shall count one and a half times for the purpose of (i) targeted economic and innovation incentives pursuant to subdivision 3 of § 23-38.87:16, (ii) the base adequacy funding guidelines adopted and periodically updated by the Joint Subcommittee Studying Higher Education Funding Policies, or (iii) biennial assessments of institutional performance as set forth in Part 4 of the general appropriation act and consistent with § 23-9.6:1.01.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101165D pdf
- 02/02/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104491D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101165D
- 01/12/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/23/15 House: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 01/27/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/15 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/02/15 House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/02/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104491D-H1
- 02/03/15 House: Read first time
- 02/04/15 House: Read second time
- 02/04/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15104491D-H1
- 02/04/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1692H1
- 02/05/15 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/05/15 House: Passed House (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/13/15 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 02/19/15 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/15 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/23/15 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (10-Y 4-N)