SCHEV; uniform bachelor's degree credit hours and lower division curriculum. (HB229)

Introduced By

Del. Dickie Bell (R-Staunton)

Progress

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

Description

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; uniform bachelor's degree credit hours and lower division curriculum. Requires the State Council of Higher Education (the Council) to set a uniform number of credit hours required to earn any bachelor's degree at any public institution of higher education. The bill also requires the Council to develop a uniform lower division curriculum consisting of no more than 60 credit hours that is uniform across all public institutions of higher education and that specifies the lower division courses and the number of such courses that satisfy the requirements, prerequisites, and electives for each program major, including the lower division courses that satisfy general education requirements. The bill requires the Council to determine specific criteria for courses in the lower division curriculum and ensure that courses that meet such criteria are easily identifiable to students. The bill specifies that any student who completes the uniform lower division curriculum at a two-year public institution of higher education shall earn an associate degree and shall be permitted to transfer all such credit hours earned to any public institution of higher education to which the student has been admitted and apply such credit hours toward the degree requirements at such institution. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
12/29/2015Committee
12/29/2015Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102434D
12/29/2015Referred to Committee on Education
01/15/2016Assigned to sub: Subcommittee Higher Education
01/15/2016Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee Higher Education
01/15/2016Assigned Education sub:
02/02/2016Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
02/16/2016Left in Education