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2024 SESSION
Locke (Chair), Pillion, Head, Aird, VanValkenburg
Clerk: Hobie Lehman
Staff: Julia Bergamini, Hannah Yates
Date of Meeting: February 26, 2024
Time and Place: 8:30 AM / Senate Room C, 3rd Floor, General Assembly Building
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Patron: O'Quinn
Institutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the New College Institute, the Roanoke Higher Education Authority, the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, to establish and maintain a campus security department and to employ security personnel. Under current law, the governing board of any such educational institution is only authorized to contract for security services.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-818 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 31 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-3100.1, relating to institutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized.24103255D
Patron: Cousins
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is addressing on-campus food insecurity, including specific methods, programs, sources of funding, expenditures, communications strategies, and staffing; (ii) compile and make available to each such institution a guidance document containing best practices for leveraging all available resources and opportunities, including public benefits programs and donation programs, to ensure that students do not face food insecurity on campus; and (iii) report its findings and any recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than November 1, 2024.
A BILL to require the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to survey each public institution of higher education and compile and make available a guidance document on addressing on-campus food insecurity; report.24107078D
Patron: Tran
Institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; on-campus mental and behavioral health support. Requires each public institution of higher education and nonprofit private institution of higher education to provide information about on-campus individuals or entities that are qualified to provide the appropriate ongoing mental and behavioral health support to any student who reports to the institution an act of hazing or an act of bullying experienced as the result of a report of an act of hazing.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 23.1-819 and 23.1-821 of the Code of Virginia, relating to institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; information about on-campus mental and behavioral health support.24106343D
Patron: Knight
Board of directors of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University; membership; meetings; removal. Adjusts the membership and terms of the standing committee of the Old Dominion Board of Visitors that is established to serve as the board of directors of the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University by (i) adding the president of the University and the executive vice president for health sciences at the University to serve as ex officio nonvoting members, (ii) removing the nonlegislative citizen member to be appointed by the primary teaching hospital affiliated with the University, (iii) increasing from one to two the number of nonlegislative citizen members to be appointed by the Governor, (iv) decreasing from nine to seven the number of nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation or any successor foundation and establishing certain qualifications for such members, and (v) staggering the initial appointments of members. The bill permits the primary teaching hospital affiliated with the University to submit to the Governor a list of at least three nominees with certain qualifications for any vacancy on the standing committee that is to be filled by the Governor. The bill requires the standing committee to meet four times per year and at such other times as it determines. The effective date of the establishment of the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University and its board of directors, and by extension the effective date of the foregoing provisions of this bill, is delayed until the date on which the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations provide written approval for Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School to complete a merger to create the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University. The bill finally requires, by January 1, 2029, the Old Dominion University Board of Visitors, the standing committee of the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University, the Governor, and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations to provide written input to one another on whether the standing committee governance provisions contained in the bill should be revised.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-2002, as it may become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to board of directors of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University; membership; meetings.24107014D
Patron: Shin
Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; provision of physical evidence recovery kits. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to either (i) staff its on-campus student health center with at least one on-campus certified sexual assault forensic examiner for the purpose of administering a physical evidence recovery kit to any student who is in need of such a kit or (ii) enter into a memorandum of understanding with a local organization or entity that is capable of providing the services of a certified sexual assault forensic examiner for the purpose of administering a physical evidence recovery kit to any student who is in need of such a kit.
24107028D
Patron: Marshall
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to encourage and coordinate the development and delivery of noncredit courses with a focus on statewide and regional critical shortage areas and the needs of industry that include needed adult education and workforce training. The bill requires the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research 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 of trustees may seek to collaborate with other education providers or other public or private organizations to provide, or itself may provide, specialized noncredit workforce training independent of local comprehensive community colleges.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 23.1-3107 and 23.1-3109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training.24104014D
Patron: Carr
Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enrolled at such institution upon the request of the student. The bill also prohibits any public institution of higher education from conditioning the release of an academic transcript to a student currently or formerly enrolled at such institution on the payment of an outstanding debt if (i) such outstanding debt is less than $500; (ii) such outstanding debt is less than $1000 and such currently or formerly enrolled student received a Federal Pell Grant at any time during his enrollment; or (iii) such currently or formerly enrolled student has enrolled in a repayment plan and has made at least three consecutive monthly payments on such outstanding debt.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-900.2, relating to public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts.24101946D
Patron: Phillips
New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, and other relevant agencies and organizations, any workforce development programs necessary to support the initiatives of any relevant agency or office of the Commonwealth, including adult education and workforce training programs. The bill contains a reenactment clause.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-3111 of the Code of Virginia, relating to New College Institute; duties.24105651D
Patron: Carr
Virginia Center on Aging; Virginia Memory Project established. Establishes the Virginia Memory Project in the Virginia Center on Aging at Virginia Commonwealth University to collect and analyze data on Alzheimer's disease, related dementias, and other neurodegenerative diseases; provide assistance to individuals with Alzheimer's disease, related dementias, and other neurodegenerative diseases and their families and physicians; and assist in the development of relevant public policy. The bill provides that no publication of information shall be made that identifies any patient by name. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23.1-2311.1, relating to Virginia Center on Aging; Virginia Memory Project established.24105393D
Patron: Laufer
Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; membership. Expands the membership of the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to include two nonvoting advisory members consisting of (i) one faculty member of the institution who is an officer of the institution's faculty senate or faculty-at-large and is chosen by majority vote of such senate or faculty-at-large and (ii) one staff member of the institution who is an officer of the institution's staff senate or staff-at-large and is chosen by majority vote of such senate or staff-at-large.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 23.1-1300, 23.1-1401, 23.1-1501, 23.1-1601, 23.1-1701, 23.1-1801, 23.1-1901, 23.1-2001, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, 23.1-2101, 23.1-2201, 23.1-2303, 23.1-2501, 23.1-2601, 23.1-2701, and 23.1-2801 of the Code of Virginia, relating to baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; membership.24107390D
Patron: Austin
Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth (institution) for the use of the name, image, or likeness of such student-athlete, including (i) prohibiting any athletic association, athletic conference, or other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing an institution, its supporting foundations, or an entity acting on its behalf from identifying, creating, negotiating, facilitating, supporting, engaging with, assisting with, or otherwise enabling a name, image, or likeness opportunity for a student-athlete; (ii) requiring each institution to develop and submit to the institution's governing board or similar governing body for approval policies or procedures that govern the compensation of a student-athlete for the use of his name, image, or likeness; and (iii) permitting any institution to provide assets, resources, or benefits as an incentive to individuals, companies, or other entities to provide money, benefits, opportunities, or services to an outside entity that supports name, image, or likeness opportunities for the institution's student-athletes.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-408.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness.24105659D