Virginia House Bill 968 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Student Loan Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which (i) each individual who incurred qualified education loan debt as a Virginia student at a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education and who is eligible, on the basis of criteria established by the Authority that are substantially similar to criteria used by private lenders in the Commonwealth to evaluate student eligibility for an unsecured personal loan at market rates, may receive a loan from the Authority to refinance all or part of his qualified education loans, as that term is defined in relevant federal law, and (ii) each Virginia student who is eligible, on the basis of criteria established by the Authority that are substantially similar to criteria used by private lenders in the Commonwealth to evaluate student eligibility for an unsecured personal loan at market rates, may receive a direct qualified education loan from the Authority to attend a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education.

Virginia Student Loan Authority; established, report.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]
Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]
Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2018-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Appropriations
2018-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-19	House	Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100908D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	2905	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3705.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3711	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4006	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	713.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	713.10	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB968
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB968+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0206V0007+HB0968