---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; tuition grants, Virginia National Guard."
description: "Higher educational institutions, public; tuition grants, Virginia National Guard."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 955"
citation: "Virginia SB 955 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/871189ea-21e1-49f6-9f60-7efaac80b111"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB955"
source_hash: "1b0904a4bda7db5e9d7f52b11851bbbe138ddc7a0815fdc37600f1f6585a0bce"
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 955 (2023) — Higher educational institutions, public; tuition grants, Virginia National Guard.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0638)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23107248D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB955H1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102958D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB955)
4. **SB955ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB955ER)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Tabled in Appropriations (18-Y 3-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ruff — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102958D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB955)
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** Tabled in Appropriations (18-Y 3-N) `deferral`
- **2023-02-20** Reconsidered by Appropriations
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Committee substitute printed 23107248D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB955H1)
- **2023-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Committee substitute agreed to 23107248D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB955H1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** Title replaced 23107248D-H1
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB955ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB955ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 638 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/871189ea-21e1-49f6-9f60-7efaac80b111`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).