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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals."
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description: "Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1848"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1848 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Daun S. Hester"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2017-01-10"
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last_action: "2017-03-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509b2448-eb1b-4b68-8c46-2d13eeba0112"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1848"
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source_hash: "0c99efc35bf10b69b40f428227f2586e80380778ad101941356420705004ce6c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1848 (2017) — Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants and fees for certain individuals.
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Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce credential training program in a comprehensive community college may qualify for a grant for the payment of tuition and fees. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0318)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1848ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1848ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101497D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1848)
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## Votes
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Appropriations — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Daun S. Hester — primary (person)
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- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
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- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101497D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-24** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
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- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-25** Assigned App. sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
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- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 318 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/509b2448-eb1b-4b68-8c46-2d13eeba0112`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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