Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 1063: College and Career Ready Virginia Program; changes to Program and duties of certain entities.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 1063 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: College and Career Ready Virginia Program; changes to Program and duties of certain entities. Primary sponsor: Ghazala F. Hashmi. Most recent recorded action (February 5, 2025): Left in Finance and Appropriations.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
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.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghazala F. Hashmi | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Finance and Appropriations
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1063)
- Committee substitute printed 25105792D-S1
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104468D