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HB344

Higher educational institutions, public; constitutionally protected speech, etc.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Steve Landes (R)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed Both Chambers. Public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; campus free speech; policies, materials, and reports.

Requires each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to (i) establish and include in its student handbook, on its website, and in its student orientation programs policies regarding speech that is protected under the First Amendment and the process to report incidents of disruption of such speech; (ii) develop materials on such policies and notify any employee who is responsible for the discipline or education of enrolled students of such materials; and (iii) develop, post on its website in a searchable, publicly accessible, and conspicuous manner, and submit to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than December 1 of each year a report on the institution's compliance relating to free speech on campus. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/04/2018 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100379D
  • 01/04/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
  • 01/16/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB344)
  • 01/19/2018 - House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3
  • 01/22/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
  • 01/24/2018 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N)
  • 01/24/2018 - House: Committee substitute printed 18105668D-H1
  • 01/26/2018 - House: Read first time
  • 01/29/2018 - House: Floor substitute printed 18106245D-H2 (Toscano)
  • 01/29/2018 - House: Read second time
  • 01/29/2018 - House: Passed by for the day
  • 01/30/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB344H2)
  • 01/30/2018 - House: Passed by for the day
  • 01/31/2018 - House: Passed by for the day
  • 02/01/2018 - House: Read second time
  • 02/01/2018 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 18105668D-H1
  • 02/01/2018 - House: Substitute by Delegate Toscano withdrawn 18106245D-H2
  • 02/01/2018 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB344H1
  • 02/02/2018 - House: Read third time and passed House (89-Y 8-N)
  • 02/02/2018 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (89-Y 8-N)
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  • 02/22/2018 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
  • 02/22/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 18107473D-S1
  • 02/23/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/23/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB344S1)
  • 02/26/2018 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/26/2018 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/26/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 18107473D-S1
  • 02/26/2018 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB344S1
  • 02/26/2018 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/28/2018 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/28/2018 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 18107473D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
  • 02/28/2018 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
  • 03/02/2018 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/02/2018 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB344ER)
  • 03/02/2018 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/05/2018 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/06/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB344ER)
  • 03/07/2018 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 7, 2018
  • 03/07/2018 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
  • 04/04/2018 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 751 (effective 7/1/18)
  • 04/04/2018 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751)

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