SB961
Va. Military Survivors & Dependents Ed. Prog.; number of qualified survivors and dependents, etc.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384)
Chief Patron:
Danica Roem (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; Department of Veterans Services; Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; enrollment and eligibility data; report.
Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in coordination with the Department of Veterans Services, to submit to the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 1 of each year a report on (i) the number of individuals who are qualified ... (More) survivors and dependents, as that term is defined in applicable law, and have been certified as eligible to participate in the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program but are not yet admitted to a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and (ii) the best available estimate of the total number of qualified survivors and dependents who are participating in the Program and enrolled in the fall semester at each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100824D
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB961)
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106560D-S1
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute-SB961S1
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/07/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: Higher Education
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/10/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/12/2025 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106946D-H1
- 02/14/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/17/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/17/2025 - House: Education Substitute agreed to
- 02/17/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/17/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/17/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB961)
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB961ER)
- 02/22/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2025
- 02/22/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 02/24/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB961)
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 384 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384)
