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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date."
+description: "State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to HB 1044."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 159"
+citation: "Virginia SB 159 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-05"
+last_action: "2024-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9dbc92e-0f81-4d8e-b736-25d5975c1f76"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB159"
+source_hash: "95b216da60c44a1c77eaf7824fdb2aa4aeebde0d6c3447b9753f0a615f9b6ff8"
+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 SB 159 (2024) — Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.
+
+State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to HB 1044.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0003** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0003)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100442D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB159)
+3. **SB159ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB159ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100442D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-12** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB159)
+- **2024-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-14** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-19** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB159ER) `passage`
+- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB159ER)
+- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 3 (effective 7/1/26) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9dbc92e-0f81-4d8e-b736-25d5975c1f76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+