Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §23.1-905.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§23.1-905.1. Dual enrollment courses; quality standards; universal transfer course credit.
A. The Council, in consultation with the Department of Education and each public institution of higher education, shall establish (i) quality standards for dual enrollment courses, including quality standards for course instructors, materials, and content, and (ii) a process by which dual enrollment courses that meet or exceed such quality standards are certified as universal transfer courses. Each universal transfer course shall satisfy course credit or other academic requirements at any public institution of higher education.
B. The Council, in consultation with the Department
of Education and each public institution of higher education, shall
establish a policy for granting undergraduate general education the
satisfaction of course credit to any entering student who has
successfully completed a dual enrollment course or other academic
requirements through the successful completion of universal transfer courses by
entering students. The policy shall:
1. Outline the conditions necessary for each public
institution of higher education to grant general education course credit for
the successful completion of a dual enrollment course;
2. Identify the general education course credit
or other academic requirements of each public institution of higher education
that the student satisfies by successfully completing a dual enrollment
universal transfer course; and
3. 2. Ensure, to the extent possible, that the
grant satisfaction of general education course credit or
other academic requirements is consistent across each public institution of
higher education and each such dual enrollment universal transfer
course.
B. C. The Council and each public institution of
higher education shall make the universal transfer course credit policy established
pursuant to subsection B available to the public on their websites.
C. D. The Council shall annually report to the
House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health
on the implementation of the universal transfer course credit policy by
each public institution of higher education.