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P Passed

P HB2121

Higher Education academic programs. Provides that Tidewater Community College may offer, subject to the approval of the State Council of Higher Education, a three-year program of educational instruction in applied sciences and coordinate such program with apprenticeship programs offered by Virginia's ship manufacturing and ship repair companies. Such apprenticeship programs shall be established for the purpose of enhancing the education and skills of Virginia's shipyard workers. The General Assembly may appropriate funds for the administration and implementation of such degree program and/or apprenticeship programs, including scholarships to shipyard workers enrolled in the degree program.
Patron - Wardrup

P HB2144

School accreditation and college admission. Provides that the boards of visitors or other governing body of Virginia's public institutions of higher education cannot consider the accreditation status of a Virginia public high school in making admissions determinations for students who have earned a diploma in accordance with the regulations of the Board of Education. This bill is identical to SB 1324.
Patron - Drake

P HB2495

Hampton Roads Museum Consortium. Creates the Hampton Roads Museum Consortium addressing accredited private museums in jurisdictions located within the boundaries of Planning District 23, including the Counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Southampton, and York; and the Cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg. The Consortium may consist of any or all accredited museums located within Hampton Roads that are not state agencies. Other museums and cultural facilities located in Hampton Roads may join the Consortium upon the approval of the governing board. The governing board of the Consortium is to consist of the chief executive officer of each of the member museums. The region's legislators may serve as nonvoting, advisory members. The Consortium is to serve the school divisions of Hampton Roads in providing training to the teachers, administrators and students in the various Standards of Learning for English, social studies and history, science, and mathematics. In addition, the Consortium is to (i) coordinate among its members and the school divisions of Hampton Roads the development of joint educational initiatives; (ii) establish and deliver, in conjunction with the school divisions of Hampton Roads, regional programs to address area education needs, particularly, to assist area schools in meeting the Board of Education's Regulations for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia and to assist area students in achieving passing scores on the Standards of Learning assessments; and (iii) provide technical assistance to the school divisions of Hampton Roads in achieving full accreditation, including administrator, teacher, and student training.
Patron - Larrabee

P HB2565

The Advantage Virginia Incentive Program; qualified jobs; selection of beneficiaries. Revises the focus of the Advantage Virginia Incentive Program, i.e., a program focused on and designed to provide scholarships for job training. This bill changes "occupational areas where there is a high demand for workers" to "qualified jobs," which is defined as jobs that are in high demand in the Commonwealth and designated as such by the Virginia Workforce Council. The bill deletes the requirement that the qualified jobs must be located in high unemployment areas and replaces the requirement with a provision that students who attended high schools located in high unemployment areas will be given preferences in selecting beneficiaries for the Advantage Virginia Incentive Program.
Patron - Scott

P HB2762

Immunization of full-time four-year students enrolled in public institutions of higher education against meningococcal disease. Requires all incoming full-time four-year students, prior to enrollment in public institutions of higher education, to be immunized against meningococcal disease. This bill provides for a waiver of this requirement if the institution of higher education provides the student or, if the student is a minor, the student's parent or other legal representative, detailed information on the risks associated with meningococcal disease and on the availability and effectiveness of any vaccine, and the student or, if the student is a minor, the student's parent or other legal representative signs a written waiver stating that he has received and reviewed the information on meningococcal disease and the availability and effectiveness of any vaccine and has chosen not to be or not to have the student vaccinated. In addition, the State Council of Higher Education must, in cooperation with the Board and Commissioner of Health, encourage private colleges and universities to develop a procedure for providing information about the risks associated with meningococcal disease and the availability and effectiveness of any vaccine against meningococcal disease. The existing religious exemption from other immunizations also applies to the meningococcal vaccine.
Patron - Bryant

P SB872

Gunston Hall; certain powers of board. Authorizes the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall to determine the significance or suitability of the furnishings, household items, and other objects acquired by or for Gunston Hall and to sell or exchange those items deemed of little or no significance or unsuitable, consistent with the terms of their acquisition. These furnishings and items and any net proceeds of their sale will comprise a discrete fund of Gunston Hall, restricted to future acquisitions of such period items as well as the conservation of all such holdings of Gunston Hall. The measure deems donations of any funds, securities, and any other property, real or personal as endowments or unrestricted gifts, within the meaning of § 23-9.2; therefore, these donations would not affect any state appropriations to Gunston Hall. Finally, the measure also allows the Board to change the form of investment of any funds, securities, or other property, real or personal, consistent with the terms of the instrument under which the property was acquired, and to sell or convey any such property, except that any transfers of real property must be made with the consent of the Governor. This language mirrors those powers already granted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in § 23-253.4 and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in § 23-288.
Patron - Puller

P SB1120

Donations to the Roanoke Higher Education Authority. Permits any locality to make donations of property or money to the Authority.
Patron - Edwards

P SB1324

P SB1375

Roanoke Higher Education Authority and Center. Adds to the list of educational institutions declared to be public bodies and constituted as governmental instrumentalities for the dissemination of education the Roanoke Higher Education Authority and Center.
Patron - Edwards

P SB1408

State Council of Higher Education; appointment of members. Beginning January 1, 2002, provides for the Joint Rules Committee to appoint five of the 11 members of the State Council of Higher Education, and for the Governor to appoint six members. Initial appointments to be made by the Joint Rules Committee are as follows: two members shall be appointed in 2002, one member shall be appointed in 2003, and two members shall be appointed in 2004. Appointments made by the Joint Rules Committee shall be from a list(s) of persons recommended by the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health, and the House Committees on Appropriations and Education. Current law provides for the Governor to make all appointments to the State Council of Higher Education.
Patron - Chichester

P SB1419

Property transfer. Allows the College of William and Mary to transfer to the Virginia Department of Transportation sufficient real property to permit the reconstruction of the intersection of Virginia Route 615 (Ironbound Road) and Virginia Route 321 (Monticello Avenue).
Patron - Norment

F Failed

F HB1553

Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2001. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Virginia Constitution in an amount not exceeding $670,400,000, subject to approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the Commonwealth voting thereon at the November 6, 2001, general election. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds for paying, together with any other available funds, the cost of acquiring, constructing, restoring, repairing, improving, renovating and refurbishing the physical plants, including incidental equipment, of higher education and related educational facilities. The full faith and credit of the Commonwealth is pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and any bond anticipation notes or refunding bonds. The bill authorizes the Treasury Board, by and with the consent of the Governor, to fix the details of such bonds, to borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of the bonds, and to issue refunding bonds. The bill shall not become effective, and no bonds shall be issued, unless and until voter approval is obtained.
Patron - Diamonstein

F HB1604

Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2001. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Virginia Constitution in an amount not exceeding $671,000,000, subject to approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the Commonwealth voting thereon at the November 6, 2001, general election. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds for paying, together with any other available funds, the cost of acquiring, constructing, restoring, repairing, improving, renovating and refurbishing the physical plants, including incidental equipment, of higher education and related educational facilities. The full faith and credit of the Commonwealth is pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and any bond anticipation notes or refunding bonds. The bill authorizes the Treasury Board, by and with the consent of the Governor, to fix the details of such bonds, to borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of the bonds, and to issue refunding bonds. The bill shall not become effective, and no bonds shall be issued, unless and until voter approval is obtained. Incorporated into HB 1747 (Callahan).
Patron - Diamonstein

F HB1680

School calendar for higher education. Clarifies the authority of the boards of visitors of institutions of higher education to set the calendar for the academic year, which, in the case of four-year institutions, must provide for the cessation of classes and the closure of relevant institutions from midday Tuesday before Thanksgiving through and including the Monday following Thanksgiving each year.
Patron - Tate

F HB1747

Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2001. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Education and Related Educational Facilities Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Virginia Constitution in an amount not exceeding $803,703,975, subject to approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the Commonwealth voting thereon at the November 6, 2001, general election. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds for paying, together with any other available funds, the cost of acquiring, constructing, restoring, repairing, improving, renovating and refurbishing the physical plants, including incidental equipment, of higher education and related educational facilities. The full faith and credit of the Commonwealth is pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and any bond anticipation notes or refunding bonds. The bill authorizes the Treasury Board, by and with the consent of the Governor, to fix the details of such bonds, to borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of the bonds, and to issue refunding bonds. The bill shall not become effective, and no bonds shall be issued, unless and until voter approval is obtained. Incorporates HB 1604.
Patron - Callahan

F HB1915

University of Virginia board of visitors. Increases the membership of the University of Virginia board of visitors from 16 to 17 by adding a member who must be a resident of the local community. Because members are appointed for terms that expire on March 1, an emergency clause was included to make the measure effective upon its passage and to facilitate timely appointment.
Patron - Van Yahres

F HB2267

Selected Sciences Grants Program. Creates the Selected Sciences Grants Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education, to provide tuition assistance in the form of grants and fellowships awarded to bona fide domiciliaries of Virginia who (i) attend public or private, accredited, nonprofit institutions of collegiate education outside the Commonwealth whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education, and not to provide religious training or theological education; and (ii) are enrolled in programs leading to an undergraduate degree in meteorological sciences shall be eligible for grants pursuant to this chapter. Grant amounts cannot exceed the annual average appropriation per full-time equivalent student for the previous year from the general fund of the state treasury for operating costs at two- and four-year public institutions of collegiate education in Virginia and must be used only for payment of charges for tuition, fees, room, board, or other educational expenses. Grants are limited to four years of undergraduate study. State Council regulations will address the forfeiture and repayment of grants by recipients who fail to complete the degree program.
Patron - Griffith

F HB2343

Higher education affordability; New Century Scholars Program. Establishes the Commonwealth's financial aid policy as being to meet at least 100 percent of the true financial need of domiciled Virginia residents attending Virgina's public colleges and universities as undergraduate students. This bill also establishes the New Century Scholars Program; a scholarship for students who are domiciled Virginians attending Virginia post-secondary or higher education institutions that have met one of two sets of criteria. The criteria are that (i) the student has a grade point average ranking him within the top 20 students in his high school graduating class at a high school in Virginia; has not been suspended or expelled from any public or private school; and has enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited, degree-granting public or private institution of higher education in Virginia or a career school, physically located in Virginia and accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Secretary of Education that is determined to be eligible to participate in the program by the Attorney General; or (ii) the student has scored at the advanced level on end-of-course Standards of Learning tests; has maintained at least a B average, i.e., 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its equivalent in high school; has not been suspended or expelled from any public or private school; and has enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited, degree-granting public or private institution of higher education in Virginia or a career school, physically located in Virginia and accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Secretary of Education that is determined to be eligible to participate in the program by the Attorney General. This bill is identical to SB 1234.
Patron - Harris

F HB2377

Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and the boards of visitors of any four-year state institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their boards. In the case of the State Board for Community Colleges, the representatives must be appointed from among persons elected by the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee. Faculty representatives to local community college boards and boards of visitors of public four-year institutions must be elected by the faculty, faculty senate, or other equivalent group of the institution. All representatives must serve terms of not less than one twelve-month period, which is coterminous with the institution's fiscal year, or for terms mutually agreed to by (i) the State Board for Community Colleges and the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee, or (ii) the local community college board or the board of visitors, as the case may be, and the institution's faculty senate or other equivalent group. The State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors may exclude such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances, faculty or staff disciplinary matters, or salaries.
Patron - Landes

F HB2480

Prepaid college scholarships for children of VIEW participants. Establishes the Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) scholarship account program for qualified beneficiaries who are children of VIEW participants. Ownership of the scholarship shall be retained by the Department of Social Services until such time as the student and the student's family complete any activities or actions prescribed by the State Board of Social Services, in consultation with the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan, as conditions for receipt of a VIEW scholarship account. Such accounts shall be an incentive for previously unemployed parents to gain long-term employment and to redirect their children's lives by providing them with an opportunity for a college education. Neither the qualified beneficiary nor the family of such a qualified beneficiary may cancel a scholarship or receive any refund of the amount paid for a scholarship, in lieu of the use of the scholarship for the payment of a qualified beneficiary's tuition.
Patron - Moran

F HB2506

Ratio of in-state and out-of-state students. Requires the governing bodies of public four-year institutions of higher education, beginning with the incoming freshman class of fall 2004, to maintain a ratio of the in-state and out-of-state student population in each incoming freshman class that is not less than 75 percent in-state students. Out-of-state students receiving full or partial athletic scholarships are not included in the calculation of out-of-state enrollments. The measure does not apply to Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University, and Virginia State University.
Patron - Reid

F HB2707

Virginia College Building Authority; museums as educational institutions. Adds the Commonwealth's seven state agency museums--Chippokes Plantation Foundation, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the Science Museum of Virginia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall, and the Frontier Culture Museum--to the definition of "educational institutions" for purposes of eligibility for participation in funding from the Virginia College Building Authority. Projects eligible for funding include "any building, facility, addition, extension or improvement" for an educational institution, "including, without limitation, administration, teaching, lecture and exhibition halls, libraries, dormitories, student apartments, faculty dwellings, dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, laundries, hospitals, laboratories, research centers, infirmaries, field houses, gymnasiums, auditoriums, student unions, recreation centers, stadiums, athletic facilities, garages, parking facilities, warehouses and storage buildings, book and student supplies centers and all buildings, lands and any other appurtenances, furnishings and equipment necessary or desirable in connection therewith or incidental thereto and ... personal property at the institutions."
Patron - Clement

F HB2805

Virginia Hope Scholarship Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Hope Scholarship Program and Fund for the purpose of closing the academic achievement gap between minority and non-minority students, promoting academic achievement among high school students of under-represented groups in higher education who desire to attend college, and to provide financial assistance to such students, low-income students, and first-generation college students to enable them to obtain an undergraduate or first graduate or professional degree. The Program shall consist of scholarships awarded on the basis of need annually to eligible students who are accepted for admission or enrolled in accredited public or private four-year institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth, and who are enrolled full time in a degree-granting program at a public or private four-year institution of higher education in Virginia, as an undergraduate, a graduate, or professional school student. The scholarship program will be phased in over a four-year period. The first awards must be made after July 1, 2001, with the amounts and maximum number of scholarships awarded in any year of its operation to be determined by the appropriations made available for this Program by the General Assembly. Recipients may use the scholarship for tuition, fees, room, board, books, or other educational expenses as approved by the State Council of Higher Education. A Fund has been established to receive any appropriations, gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds that may be received on its behalf by the Council. The Program will be administered by the State Council of Higher Education, which shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of the Program. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on Access and Diversity in Higher Education.
Patron - Jones, J.C.

F HB2817

Virginia Community College Tuition Incentive Program. Creates the Virginia Community College Tuition Incentive Program to award tuition grants to Virginia high school students who (i) are domiciled residents of Virginia as described by § 23-7.4; (ii) have maintained at least a 2.0 grade point average on a scale of 4.0, or its equivalent, after completing the twelfth grade and obtaining a high school diploma; and (iii) have been accepted for full-time enrollment at a comprehensive community college within the Virginia Community College System. The Program shall be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in consultation with the State Board for Community Colleges. SCHEV regulations shall address criteria for determining tuition grant amounts. The Council shall award tuition grants to all eligible students for no more than one academic year. The full amount of such grants shall be used for tuition, fees, or other educational expenditures approved by SCHEV.
Patron - Scott

F HB2870

F HJ639

Cultural diversity competency training. Requests the State Council of Higher Education to urge institutions of higher education to provide cultural diversity competency training in undergraduate and graduate degree programs for teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers. Appropriate preparation and training of these professionals regarding the impact of culture, poverty, race, and language, etc. on the identification of minority students for special education would help to reduce the disproportionate representation of such students in these programs. This resolution is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Overrepresentation of African-American Students in Special Education Programs.
Patron - McEachin

F SB866

In-state tuition for certain public school teachers and administrators. Authorizes governing bodies of institutions of higher education to grant in-state tuition to any teacher or administrator who has accepted employment on a full-time basis by a local school board in the Commonwealth and who has established a legal residence in Virginia but has not met the requirements for establishing domicile. This benefit is only available for the first year of such full-time employment, after which time the teacher or administrator must meet the standard in-state tuition requirements or other special requirements set to maintain such in-state tuition eligibility.
Patron - Byrne

F SB936

Senior Citizens Higher Education Act. Increases the income eligibility threshold from $10,000 to $35,000, waives the application fee for admission, and prohibits the charging of any fee for the request for the benefits of the Senior Citizens Higher Education Act.
Patron - Howell

F SB1121

Tuition and fees for in-state students. Amends the statute requiring all public institutions of higher education to reduce the tuition and mandatory educational and general fees in effect on June 30, 1999, for in-state undergraduate students by 20 percent to require that the tuition and fees for graduate students in effect on June 30, 2001, be reduced by 20 percent from the July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002, school year.
Patron - Edwards

F SB1132

Diversity of employees of local school boards and institutions of higher education. Requires the Board of Education, local school boards, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and the Board for Community Colleges to promote racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity among the employees of the local school divisions and the institutions of higher education. Each of these entities must establish guidelines for cultural diversity policies to (i) prepare students to live and participate effectively in a global community and an increasingly pluralistic society; (ii) facilitate racial harmony and tolerance; (iii) reduce barriers among individuals of different races and cultures through meaningful interaction; (iv) improve campus climate, student retention, and the academic performance of students; (v) contribute to the robust exchange of ideas; (vi) reinforce the principle of the worth and value of all human beings; and (vi) increase the representation of minority persons in positions in which they have been traditionally underrepresented. The Board of Education and the State Council of Higher Education are also required to identify best practices within and without Virginia. The State Council of Higher Education's authority to provide advisory services regarding specific matters to certain private, accredited and nonprofit institutions of higher education has been broadened to include advisory services concerning cultural diversity policies. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on Access and Diversity in Higher Education.
Patron - Marsh

F SB1234

F SB1384

University of Virginia Medical Center interest income. Requires the Comptroller to credit the account of the University of Virginia Medical Center each month with the imputed interest earned on the investment of moneys derived from nongeneral operating cash balances, including but not limited to, balances derived from patient care revenues. To phase in the cost to the Commonwealth of crediting imputed interest earned on the investment of moneys derived from nongeneral operating cash balances and patient care revenues, the University of Virginia Medical Center is required to make the following deposits into the general fund from interest income earned on such nongeneral operating cash balances, as follows: $4,400,000 on or before June 30, 2002; $2,200,000 on or before June 30, 2003; and $1,100,000 on or before June 30, 2004. In addition, minor technical revisions have been made to the statute in this bill to conform to current drafting styles.
Patron - Couric

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