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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1217: Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; intercollegiate athletics programs.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1217 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; intercollegiate athletics programs. Primary sponsor: Creigh Deeds (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; intercollegiate athletics programs; athletics revenue and subsidy requirements; report. Amends provisions relating to intercollegiate athletics programs and athletics revenue requirements by expanding the allocations of athletics revenues that may be excluded from the subsidy for the purposes of calculating the subsidy percentage, as defined by applicable law, to include athletics revenues allocated to medical expenses and insurance. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to (a) study the impact of the provisions of the bill on intercollegiate athletics in the Commonwealth and make recommendations on any further legislative action or policy considerations that should be made based on the impact of the provisions of the bill on intercollegiate athletics in the Commonwealth and (b) submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 15, 2025. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Creigh DeedsPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate11

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N)
  2. Referred to Committee on Rules
  3. Read first time
  4. Placed on Calendar
  5. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1217)
  6. Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  7. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  8. Rules suspended
  9. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
  10. Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  11. Reading of substitute waived
  12. Education and Health Amendment rejected

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source