Virginia House Bill 981

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to develop, maintain, and post publicly on the financial aid page of such institution's website informational materials relating to the dependency override application process and to review and update such materials as necessary to reflect current federal law and guidance on such process. The bill requires such informational materials to include, in a language and format accessible to students enrolled at and potential applicants for admission to such institution, (i) an explanation of the purpose of and eligibility requirements for a dependency override, (ii) an explicit list of the circumstances on which a student may base a dependency override application, (iii) an explanation of the dependency override application process at such institution, and (iv) links to relevant federal guidance on the dependency override process.

Higher ed. institutions, public; tuition and financial aid, dependency override application form.

Del. Rodney Willett [D]

Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-31	House	Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
2024-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
2024-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103526D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	611.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB981
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB981+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB981F122+PDF