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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs, presentations."
+description: "Requires educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to include presentations relating to student debt trends."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2620"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2620 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason S. Miyares"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 11
+first_action: "2019-01-09"
+last_action: "2019-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e08334e-be6a-407d-9559-8cf62893858b"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2620"
+source_hash: "3981a7060e73b28f7f07e9a898857defa9c8f505735a62aa722d85bf45d6c87e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2620 (2019) — Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs, presentations.
+
+Requires educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to include presentations relating to student debt trends.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0643)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2620ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620ER)
+3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103949D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620)
+4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106562D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate substitute rejected by House 19106562D-S1 — **0–98** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate with substitute — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Conference report agreed to by House — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate insisted on substitute — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-09** Presented and ordered printed 19103949D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-15** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2019-02-15** Committee substitute agreed to 19106562D-S1
+- **2019-02-15** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2620S1
+- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-19** Senate substitute rejected by House 19106562D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
+- **2019-02-20** Senate requested conference committee
+- **2019-02-21** House acceded to request
+- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
+- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by Senate
+- **2019-02-22** Amended by conference committee
+- **2019-02-22** Passed by temporarily
+- **2019-02-22** Conference report agreed to by House (89-Y 0-N)
+- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
+- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
+- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 643 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e08334e-be6a-407d-9559-8cf62893858b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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