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HB19

Tuition, in-state; eligibility, certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency, etc.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Alfonso Lopez (D)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Eligibility for in-state tuition; certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency; certain individuals approved under deferred action programs.

Declares eligible for in-state tuition any individual who (i) attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education; (iii) registers as an entering student at or is enrolled in a public institution of higher education; (iv) provides an affidavit to the public institution of higher education at which he has registered as an entering student or is enrolled stating that he has filed an application to become a permanent resident of the United States and is actively pursuing such permanent residency or will do so as soon as he becomes eligible for such permanent residency; and (v) submits evidence to the institution at which he has registered as an entering student or is enrolled that he, or in the case of a dependent student, at least one parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, has filed, unless exempted by state law, Virginia income tax returns for at least three years prior to the date of registration as an entering student or enrollment. The bill provides that any such individual shall remain eligible for in-state tuition for as long as he maintains continuous enrollment in the public institution of higher education and his application for permanent residency has not been denied. The bill also prohibits any student who became eligible for in-state tuition as a result of his lawful presence in the United States pursuant to approval under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or any other federal deferred action program from being deemed ineligible for in-state tuition by virtue of the elimination or modification of any such program. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 11/20/2017 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100982D
  • 11/20/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Rules
  • 01/16/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB19)
  • 02/13/2018 - House: Left in Rules

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