Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, criminal history of applicant. (HB1322)

Introduced By

Sen. Lashrecse D. Aird (D-Petersburg) with support from 7 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:

Those copatrons are Del. Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach), Del. Jeff Bourne (D-Richmond), Del. Cliff Hayes (D-Chesapeake), Del. Clinton Jenkins (D-Suffolk), Del. Delores McQuinn (D-Richmond), Del. Cia Price (D-Newport News), Sen. Lamont Bagby (D-Richmond)

Progress

✓	Introduced
✗	Passed Committee
✓	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; criminal history. Prohibits each public institution of higher education, with the exception of the Virginia Military Institute, from (i) utilizing an institution-specific admissions application that contains questions about the criminal history of the applicant or (ii) denying admission to any applicant on the basis of any criminal history information provided by the applicant on any third-party admissions application accepted by the institution. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

Date	Action
01/08/2020	Committee
01/08/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102455D
01/08/2020	Referred to Committee on Education
01/13/2020	Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
01/23/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB1322)
02/03/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
02/05/2020	Reported from Education with substitute (13-Y 8-N) (see vote tally)
02/05/2020	Committee substitute printed 20106918D-H1
02/06/2020	Read first time
02/07/2020	Read second time
02/07/2020	Committee substitute agreed to 20106918D-H1
02/07/2020	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1322H1
02/10/2020	Read third time and passed House (58-Y 40-N)
02/10/2020	VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N) (see vote tally)
02/11/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/11/2020	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
02/27/2020	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N 1-A) (see vote tally)

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 3 minutes.

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