HB2455
High school students; postsecondary opportunities, transferable meta-major associate degrees.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104270D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/24/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106318D-H1
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/31/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2455)
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Education Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107391D-S1
- 02/17/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2455)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
