---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; withdrawal of veteran student."
description: "Public institutions of higher education; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester, as certified in writing to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine who treated the veteran student for such medical condition. Such refund shall not be issued when three-quarters of a course has been completed at the time that the veteran student withdraws from the course."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 456"
citation: "Virginia HB 456 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Murphy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4bc1eb5-b8e9-4064-9132-137cfa68e1de"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB456"
source_hash: "53ec2b2ba94d23cf1165349ac105f5d738787e30d760d77764c080bc17f55297"
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 456 (2020) — Higher educational institutions, public; withdrawal of veteran student.

Public institutions of higher education; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester, as certified in writing to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine who treated the veteran student for such medical condition. Such refund shall not be issued when three-quarters of a course has been completed at the time that the veteran student withdraws from the course.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0434)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB456ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB456ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB456S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB456S1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB456)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB456)

## Votes

- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- 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 (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102187D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB456)
- **2020-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Assigned App. sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-07** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Committee substitute printed 20108472D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute agreed to 20108472D-S1
- **2020-02-24** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB456S1
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108472D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-26** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB456ER)
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4bc1eb5-b8e9-4064-9132-137cfa68e1de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).