Dependent Children of University and College Faculty Reduced Tuition Program; created. (SB104)
Introduced By
Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke) with support from co-patron Del. Kaye Kory (D-Falls Church)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Higher education; partial tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Requires public institutions of higher education to grant a 50 percent tuition waiver to dependent students of current full-time faculty members who have been employed full time by any one or more public Virginia colleges or universities for an aggregate period of at least seven years. The waiver would be valid at any public institution of higher education. View Full Text »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
- 01/09/2012 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100593D
- 01/09/2012 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/17/2012 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 01/26/2012 Impact statement from DPB (SB104)
- 02/02/2012 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/02/2012 Rereferred to Finance
- 02/09/2012 Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/09/2012 Committee substitute printed 12105129D-S1
- 02/13/2012 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/14/2012 Read second time
- 02/14/2012 Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/2012 Committee amendment rejected
- 02/14/2012 Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/2012 Committee substitute agreed to 12105129D-S1
- 02/14/2012 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB104S1
- 02/14/2012 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/14/2012 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/16/2012 Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/2012 Read first time
- 02/16/2012 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/17/2012 Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
- 02/23/2012 Impact statement from DPB (SB104S1)
- 03/05/2012 Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
- 03/10/2012 Left in Appropriations
Comments
Thank you for supporting this bill. I am a community college professor with three children and this partial waiver will provide the help our family needs to send our children to college in Virginia. Your support for this bill speaks volumes about how much you appreciate the work we do as public college professors.
I appreciate Virginia's government officials thinking about this, but what about children of full-time classified staff members? Especially those who have worked in higher education institutions for many years. No disrespect to faculty, but their salaries afford them better opportunities for their children in higher education, especially those who teach in four-year institutions. I can't speak to those who teach in the community college system. Our combined income is too much for our children to get work study or grant money, so when our daughters finish their undergraduate degrees, they have probably $20,000 or more in student loans to repay. And, we are still paying for our first daughter's education who graduated in 2004. This bill should be extended to include full-time classified staff, even if only for those who have worked for higher education institutions for 15 years or more.
Absolutely Not!!!!! What an INSULT to private wage earners of Virginia. Unbelivable. The Commonwealth is going to reward some of its children, but not mine? Without the private sector paying all those taxes, there would be no public higher education.
I am a staff employee at a 4 year university I instruct a lab and instruct around 700 students a year.When I first started reading the artical about this I was surprised and excited but it was short.It was insulting that someone that is in office to represent me thought my child was less of a investment than a person that can move here and be compensated 4 times my wages a year.Our representitives need to remember what they are there for.Me personally I know one that will never receive my vote again.
Any idea why it failed in the House? Seems like it sailed through the Senate.