Virginia House Bill 961 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 29 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-29 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [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 that result in lower cost of attendance to students. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) shall offer guidance, upon request, to any public institution of higher education in establishing such alternative tuition or fee structure. The Council is also directed to develop recommendations regarding financial incentives and benefits that might be offered to public institutions of higher education that offer alternative tuition and fee structures and to report its recommendations to the Joint Subcommittee on the Future Competitiveness of Virginia Higher Education by November 1, 2016.

Higher educational institutions; alternative tuition or fee structures to students, report.

Del. Larry Rush [R]	Del. Terry Austin [R]	Sen. John Bell [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]
Sen. Chris Head [R]	Del. Gordon Helsel [R]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Dave LaRock [R]	Del. Marcia Price [D]

2016-03-08 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-10 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-29		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)
2016-03-29		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/16)
2016-03-11		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, April 10, 2016
2016-03-11	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/11/16
2016-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2016-03-09	House	Signed by Speaker
2016-03-09	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB961ER)
2016-03-09	House	Enrolled
2016-03-08	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
2016-03-08	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 16106104D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
2016-03-07	House	Placed on Calendar
2016-03-04	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
2016-03-04	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2016-03-04	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
2016-03-04	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB961S1
2016-03-04	Senate	Substitute by Senator Norment agreed to 16106104D-S1
2016-03-04	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2016-03-04	Senate	Floor substitute printed 16106104D-S1 (Norment)
2016-03-04	Senate	Read third time
2016-03-03	Senate	Passed by for the day
2016-03-03	Senate	Read third time
2016-03-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2016-03-02	Senate	Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N)
2016-02-25	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2016-02-25	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2016-02-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-02-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2016-02-15	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-15	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-12	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB961H1
2016-02-12	House	Committee substitute agreed to 16105107D-H1
2016-02-12	House	Read second time
2016-02-11	House	Read first time
2016-02-10	House	Committee substitute printed 16105107D-H1
2016-02-10	House	Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2016-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
2016-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100965D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB961
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB961+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB961H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB961S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB961ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0523+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H0902V0013+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H09V0053+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0503+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0213+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S05V0247+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0841HB0961+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0866HB0961+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0871HB0961+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0872HB0961+HB0961
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV1259+HB0961