republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1512.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; academic credit for American Sign Language courses.	Requires each public institution of higher education to develop policies for counting credit received for successful completion of foreign language courses, including American Sign Language courses, either in a secondary school or another institution of higher education toward satisfaction of the foreign language entrance, placement, and course credit requirements of the public institution of higher education. The bill requires each public institution of higher education to count credit received for successful completion of American Sign Language courses at the institution toward satisfaction of its foreign language course credit requirements.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1512	Virginia HB 1512 (2017)	bill		enacted	Richard P. Bell	4	22	7	2016-12-20	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/e857d695-c06b-48b7-b9dd-066dfa21f24b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1512	d5a3cfd852617d5f9210b8c0fb7e51e0e1773ee2f3b7d712e61fcf2bafb9a417	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1512 (2017) — Higher educational institutions, public; academic credit for American Sign Language courses.

Requires each public institution of higher education to develop policies for counting credit received for successful completion of foreign language courses, including American Sign Language courses, either in a secondary school or another institution of higher education toward satisfaction of the foreign language entrance, placement, and course credit requirements of the public institution of higher education. The bill requires each public institution of higher education to count credit received for successful completion of American Sign Language courses at the institution toward satisfaction of its foreign language course credit requirements.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1512ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104315D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102772D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate amendments agreed to by House — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 4–3 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Richard P. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-20 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102772D introduction
• 2016-12-20 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 17104315D-H1
• 2017-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1512H1
• 2017-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Reading of amendments waived
• 2017-02-13 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-13 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-15 Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
• 2017-02-17 Enrolled
• 2017-02-17 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-20 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 292 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e857d695-c06b-48b7-b9dd-066dfa21f24b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).