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2022 SESSION
Locke (Chair), Petersen, Cosgrove, Hashmi
Clerk: Michael Jackson,Thomas Jackson
Staff: Julia Carlton, Anna Moir
Date of Meeting: January 31, 2022
Time and Place: 30 mins. after adj. / Subcommittee #2 -5th Floor Pocahontas
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Patron: Chase
Employers; institutions of higher education; localities; public schools; face coverings. Prohibits any locality, institution of higher education, employer, school board, division superintendent, school principal, or private school from adopting, implementing, or enforcing any policy, rule, or order related to COVID-19 that requires individuals to wear a face covering.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 15.2-1413.1, 22.1-6.2, 23.1-801.1, and 40.1-27.5, relating to employers; institutions of higher education; localities; public schools; face coverings.22104211D
Patron: Hashmi
Innovative Internship Program; Virginia Office of Education Economics. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to partner with the Virginia Office of Education Economics to collect and utilize data that includes the gaps that are most significant in hindering the Commonwealth from achieving its goals that its funds are intended to accomplish under the Innovative Internship Program, and provides other directives to the Council and the Office to collaborate on and accomplish for the Innovative Internship Program.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-903.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Innovative Internship Program; Virginia Office of Education Economics.22104777D
Patron: Mason
Advanced Manufacturing Talent Investment Program and Fund. Creates the Advanced Manufacturing Talent Investment Program and Fund to assist qualified institutions, as defined in the bill, in reaching, by 2042, a goal of increasing by at least 25,000 new eligible credentials, which are noncredit workforce credentials awarded by a qualified institution in a high demand advanced manufacturing field as identified by the Board of Workforce Development. To be eligible for an annual grant, a qualified institution is required to enter into a memorandum of understanding setting forth specific criteria for eligible credentials, eligible expenses, credential production goals, and completion rates.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 23.1 a chapter numbered 12.2, consisting of sections numbered 23.1-1244 through 23.1-1248, relating to Advanced Manufacturing Talent Investment Program and Fund.22102566D
Patron: Reeves
Public institutions of higher education; foreign governments; programs and grants. Prohibits employees at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth from participating in Chinese-sponsored talent recruitment programs or receiving Chinese-funded grants. The bill also requires each employee at such institutions to disclose to the Council all financial payments received from foreign governments.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-111, relating to public institutions of higher education; foreign governments; programs and grants.22103971D
Patron: Dunnavant
Standardized Health Care Academy Program; established. Establishes the Standardized Health Care Academy Program for the purpose of providing training and opportunities to high school students in health care professional programs that are offered by associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher education. The bill directs the State Board for Community Colleges to establish the Program and work with the Department of Education in setting out parameters for the Program.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23.1-2911.3, relating to Standardized Health Care Academy Program; established.22104534D
Patron: Reeves
Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-608 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program.22104975D