Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2455: High school students; postsecondary opportunities, transferable meta-major associate degrees.
Passed one chamber Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
HB 2455 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: High school students; postsecondary opportunities, transferable meta-major associate degrees. Primary sponsor: Sam Rasoul (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Public high school students; opportunity to earn transferable meta-major associate degree during high school to reduce college debt. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in cooperation with the Virginia Community College System and each associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, to establish a program by which qualified high school students earn an associate degree in a meta-major through dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, or a combination thereof, that (i) is fully transferable to any baccalaureate public institution of higher education that offers a program of study in such meta-major and (ii) to the extent possible, satisfies discipline-specific degree requirements in the student's preferred program of study.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Rasoul | Primary sponsor | Democratic | House | 38 |
| Phil Scott | Co-sponsor | Republican | House | 63 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2455)
- Committee substitute printed 25107391D-S1
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- Education Substitute agreed to
- Read second time
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