Virginia Senate Bill 575 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-11 - Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Comprehensive community colleges; noncredit workforce credentials; Virginia Pathway to the Middle Class: Noncredit Workforce Credentials Act. Establishes the Virginia Pathway to the Middle Class: Noncredit Workforce Credentials Program (Program), to be administered by the Virginia Community College System (System). The bill requires the System to approve (i) a plan and funding formula to support capacity building for and development and expansion of noncredit workforce credential programs at comprehensive community colleges that prepare students for in-demand noncredit workforce credentials that are aligned with the knowledge and skill sets that are required for the available occupations in each region, (ii) a plan for providing financial incentives to comprehensive community colleges that demonstrate exceptional performance or improvement in the development and expansion of such noncredit workforce credential programs, and (iii) a plan and timeline for assessing the impact of a pilot set of noncredit workforce credentials on short-term and long-term job attainment and wages. The bill requires the System to submit a report to the General Assembly and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development no later than January 1 of each year with certain data from the previous fiscal year on noncredit workforce credential attainment by students at comprehensive community colleges.

Comprehensive community colleges; noncredit workforce credentials.

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]

2016-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-11	Senate	Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
2016-01-21	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102555D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB575
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB575+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0098+SB0575