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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Higher Education

Locke (Chair), Pillion, Head, Aird, VanValkenburg

Clerk: Hobie Lehman
Staff: Julia Bergamini, Hannah Yates
Date of Meeting: February 19, 2024
Time and Place: 8:30 AM / Senate Room C, 3rd Floor, General Assembly Building
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H.B. 163

Patron: Cole

Public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers. Requires each public institution of higher education to maintain and annually update as necessary to ensure accuracy and currency a website page that includes telephone numbers for certain emergency services enumerated in the bill and to include (i) the URL of such website page on each new digital student identification card and any replacement digital student identification card issued by the institution beginning with the 2024%962025 academic year and (ii) the URL of or a QR Code that directs to such website page on each new physical student identification card and any replacement physical student identification card issued by the institution beginning with the 2024%962025 academic year.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-802.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers.

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H.B. 566

Patron: Askew

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of one of the Commonwealth's historically black colleges or universities. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-200 of the Code of Virginia, relating to State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university.

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H.B. 700

Patron: Tata


Certain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance. Adds the cost of room and board to the amount of the grants required to be provided by comprehensive community colleges to certain individuals who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or were considered a special needs adoption; expands such requirement to include all associate-degree-granting and baccalaureate public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; and makes eligible for such grants any individual who meets certain other eligibility criteria and was in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or was considered a special needs adoption at any time after he turned 14. Current law requires such an individual to have been in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption at the time that his high school diploma or equivalency examination certificate was awarded. The bill also requires each public institution of higher education to identify at least one employee of the institution to serve as a point of contact for each enrolled student who was in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or was considered a special needs adoption in order to provide such student with support and guidance, including support and guidance relating to financial aid and any associated applications or other required paperwork.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-601 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance.

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H.B. 713

Patron: Torian

Institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring that a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to and completed by all first-year students by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution. The bill provides that such training program will focus on active shooter event preparedness and may be offered in any format and include any supplementary materials as the governing board of each such institution deems appropriate. Finally, the bill directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to encourage private institutions of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to each first-year student by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-808.2, relating to institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review.

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H.B. 832

Patron: McQuinn

Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law requires at least one but no more than two members to be appointed from each congressional district in the Commonwealth.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-3222 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership.

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H.B. 1133

Patron: Carr

Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan. Renames the Virginia College Savings Plan as the Commonwealth Savers Plan.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-2744, 2.2-2753, 2.2-2905, 2.2-3114, 2.2-3705.4, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, 2.2-3705.7, 2.2-3711, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, 2.2-4006, 2.2-4343, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, 8.01-424, 23.1-306, 23.1-700, 23.1-701, 23.1-1004, 30-330 through 30-333, 30-335, 51.1-505.01, 58.1-322.02, 58.1-322.03, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, and 58.1-344.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan.

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H.B. 1373

Patron: Ballard

Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive community colleges to meet specialized noncredit workforce training needs identified by industry but provides that if local comprehensive community colleges are unable to meet identified industry needs, then the board may seek to collaborate with other education providers to provide or may provide Roanoke Higher Education Center-delivered specialized noncredit workforce training independent of local comprehensive community colleges.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-3118 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training.

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