SB 1063 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

College and Career Ready Virginia Program; changes to Program and duties of certain entities.

Summary
Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program. Makes the following changes to the College and Career Ready Virginia Program (the Program) and the duties of certain entities relating to the Program: (i) modifies the provisions requiring both the Virginia Community College System (the System) and the Online Virginia Network Authority to offer each school board access to certain courses, including virtual courses, at each high school by eliminating all references to the Online Virginia Network Authority, thereby requiring only the System to offer each school board such courses pursuant to the Program; (ii) provides that the provisions of the Program requiring the System to offer each school board access to certain programs at no cost to the school board do not apply to any advance college academy or early college academy; (iii) removes from the membership of the advisory committee that the Department of Education and the System are directed to establish pursuant to applicable law representatives of Richard Bland College and representatives of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; and (iv) delays from course registration for the fall term of the 2025 academic year to course registration for the fall term of the 2026 academic year the effective date of provisions of applicable law requiring the System to offer each school board access to certain courses.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2025
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What changed between versions

Education and Health Substitute Finance and Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute · 4 edits
MODERATE
The bill was transferred from the Senate Committee on Education and Health to the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, indicating a procedural change in committee assignment rather than substantive policy changes. The legislative text itself appears unchanged, with the only modifications being formatting adjustments and committee designation updates in the header section.
Scope change
No substantive changes to scope or applicability; only procedural committee assignment changed from Education and Health to Finance and Appropriations
TECHNICAL

Committee assignment changed from Senate Committee on Education and Health to Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations in the header

Formatting adjustments including page number placement and spacing changes in the document header

Removed the original effective date condition regarding 2025 appropriation that was present in the Education and Health version

Added draft status and date stamps (OFFERED FOR CONSIDERATION 2/05/2025) to the Finance and Appropriations version

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Actions timeline

Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 20, 2025
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
upper
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Photo of Ghazala Hashmi
Ghazala Hashmi
DDemocratic
VA
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