Virginia House Bill 486 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic year, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, with the exception of Norfolk State University, Virginia Military Institute, and Virginia State University, to ensure that the annual percentage of undergraduate non-Virginia students in each incoming freshman class does not exceed 45 percent. The bill also establishes the Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program whereby certain Virginia public high school graduates who graduated at or near the top of their graduating classes are permitted to apply to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia for a scholarship in an amount equal to the cost of tuition, room and board, and mandatory fees to attend a public institution of higher education enumerated in the bill for eight semesters.

Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program; created and established.

Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

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
2024-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102067D

HB486 (Carry Over) 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	1311	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	616.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	616.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB486
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB486+hil