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2023 SESSION

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SB 1286 Virginia Community College System; duties of State Board for Community Colleges.

Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Virginia Community College System; duties of State Board for Community Colleges; standardization of health care-related programs. Directs the State Board for Community Colleges to develop and implement a plan to standardize across all comprehensive community colleges the courses offered for health care-related degree, credential, or licensure programs, excluding any registered nursing programs. The bill requires such plan to include procedures and criteria for (i) standardizing such courses by name, curriculum, coursework, quality, academic rigor, and standard of evaluation; (ii) awarding credit toward the completion of any such health care-related program; and (iii) standardizing the manner in which academic and clinical hour credits are awarded for such courses to ensure that they are stackable and transferrable across all comprehensive community colleges.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/23  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101501D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/02/23  Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105758D-S1  pdf | impact statement
• 03/07/23  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1286ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/26/23  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered

HISTORY

• 01/10/23  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101501D
• 01/10/23  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 01/27/23  Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
• 02/02/23  Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/02/23  Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105758D-S1
• 02/03/23  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/23  Senate: Read second time
• 02/06/23  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/06/23  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 23105758D-S1
• 02/06/23  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1286S1
• 02/06/23  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/23  Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/10/23  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/10/23  House: Read first time
• 02/10/23  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 02/10/23  House: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
• 02/13/23  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 02/13/23  House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/15/23  House: Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/23  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/20/23  House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/22/23  House: Read second time
• 02/23/23  House: Read third time
• 02/23/23  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
• 02/23/23  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N)
• 03/07/23  Senate: Enrolled
• 03/07/23  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1286ER)
• 03/08/23  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/08/23  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/13/23  Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
• 03/13/23  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
• 03/26/23  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 542 (effective 7/1/23)
• 03/26/23  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)