Cooperative degree program; Secretary of Education, et al., shall develop a plan to establish. (HB2320)

Introduced By

Del. Ben Cline (R-Amherst) with support from co-patrons Del. Jeff Campbell (R-Marion), and Del. Scott Garrett (R-Lynchburg)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Cooperative degree; establishment of Western Governors University-Virginia. Requires the Secretary of Education, in consultation with each two-year and four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and the Virginia Community College System, to make reasonable efforts to establish and advertise a cooperative degree program whereby any undergraduate student enrolled at any such public institution of higher education may complete, through the use of online, community college, or public college or university courses, the course credit requirements to receive a degree at a tuition cost not to exceed $16,000 per academic year. The bill requires the Secretary, in the event that the establishment of such program does not succeed, to consult with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, to establish Western Governors University-Virginia (the University) as the state affiliate of Western Governors University in the Commonwealth for the purpose of increasing the capacity for students in the Commonwealth to earn degrees from an online institution of higher education. The bill declares the University to be a private, nonprofit, online institution of higher education that shall not receive state funds except that students enrolled in the University shall be eligible to receive any state scholarship, grant, or loan established by law. The University shall be governed by the board of trustees of Western Governors University. The bill requires the founding individuals and entities to appoint members to a board to act in an advisory capacity to the board of trustees and make recommendations to the board of trustees for (i) the appointment of a president of the University and (ii) the adoption of articulation agreements between the University and each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/22/2015Presented and ordered printed 15102534D
01/22/2015Referred to Committee on Education
01/26/2015Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
01/29/2015Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
02/02/2015Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2015Committee substitute printed 15104574D-H1
02/03/2015Read first time
02/03/2015Impact statement from DPB (HB2320H1)
02/04/2015Read second time
02/04/2015Committee substitute agreed to 15104574D-H1
02/04/2015Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2320H1
02/05/2015Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
02/05/2015VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2015Constitutional reading dispensed
02/06/2015Referred to Committee on Education and Health
02/13/2015Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
02/19/2015Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/19/2015Committee substitute printed 15105249D-S1
02/19/2015Rereferred to Finance
02/20/2015Impact statement from DPB (HB2320S1)
02/23/2015Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Passed by for the day
02/24/2015Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (37-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
02/25/2015Read third time
02/25/2015Reading of substitute waived
02/25/2015Committee substitute agreed to 15105249D-S1
02/25/2015Reading of amendment waived
02/25/2015Committee amendment agreed to
02/25/2015Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2320S1
02/25/2015Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/25/2015Placed on Calendar
02/26/2015Senate substitute with amendment agreed to by House 15105249D-S1 (99-Y 0-N)
02/26/2015VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/06/2015Enrolled
03/06/2015Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2320ER)
03/06/2015Impact statement from DPB (HB2320ER)
03/06/2015Signed by Speaker
03/07/2015Signed by President
03/10/2015Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/10/15
03/10/2015G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
03/26/2015G Approved by Governor-Chapter 664 (effective 7/1/15)
03/26/2015G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 1 minute.