Virginia House Bill 1367 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures to students. The bill provides that if a public institution of higher education, with the approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council), offers alternative tuition or fee structures, including discounted tuition, four-year flat tuition rates, discounted student fees, or student fee and student services flexibility, to any Virginia-domiciled, first-time, incoming freshman undergraduate student who enrolls full time with the intent to earn a degree in a program that leads to employment in a high-demand field in the region, according to guidelines established by the Council, each student who receives the benefits of such an alternative tuition or fee structure shall count one and a half times for the purpose of (i) targeted economic and innovation incentives to increase degree completion in a timely or expedited manner, (ii) the base adequacy funding guidelines adopted and periodically updated by the Joint Subcommittee Studying Higher Education Funding Policies, or (iii) biennial assessments of institutional performance as set forth in Part 4 of the general appropriation act and consistent with §23-9.6:1.01.

Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Education
2016-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-29	House	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-22	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2016-01-22	House	Presented and ordered printed 16102533D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1367
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1367+hil