Bill Text: VA SB46 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002) [SB46 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-SB46-Comm_Sub.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 46 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health on January 18, 2024) (Patrons Prior to Substitute--Senators VanValkenburg and McPike [SB 71]) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23.1-407.2, relating to public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 23.1-407.2 as follows:

§23.1-407.2. Admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited.

A. As used in this section, "legacy status" means the familial relationship of an individual applying for admission to an institution of higher education to an alumnus of such institution.

B. No public institution of higher education shall provide any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution.