---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, certain public; provision of university housing at no cost, etc."
description: "Higher educational institutions, certain public; provision of university housing at no cost, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1403"
citation: "Virginia HB 1403 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tata"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-11-30"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/648f1d5b-5a50-48cb-a56d-e6e4e6951835"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1403"
source_hash: "05ad1b814caea8162689a317406ff482dbf55e37d76612d452fbfa4bfa3e16dc"
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 1403 (2023) — Higher educational institutions, certain public; provision of university housing at no cost, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0033** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0033)
2. **HB1403ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1403ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100853D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1403)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tata — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-11-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100853D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-11-30** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-18** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB1403)
- **2023-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1403ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1403ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 33 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-17** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/648f1d5b-5a50-48cb-a56d-e6e4e6951835`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).