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type: "Bill"
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title: "Postsecondary schools; enrollment agreement with each student."
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description: "Prohibits postsecondary schools that are required to be certified by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) from enrolling students without entering into an enrollment agreement with each student. The enrollment agreement is required to be signed by the student and an authorized representative of the school and to contain all disclosures prescribed by the Council."
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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 2040"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2040 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Murphy"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2017-01-10"
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last_action: "2017-03-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd11a455-c975-4686-ad8e-518ea1dd4355"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2040"
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source_hash: "a87dad20e8c602691c7901fd96d7f4ea1e35eafeebf6e3d546c30c65d17f38df"
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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 2040 (2017) — Postsecondary schools; enrollment agreement with each student.
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Prohibits postsecondary schools that are required to be certified by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) from enrolling students without entering into an enrollment agreement with each student. The enrollment agreement is required to be signed by the student and an authorized representative of the school and to contain all disclosures prescribed by the Council.
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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 (CHAP0298)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0298)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2040ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2040ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101292D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2040)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)
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- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
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- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
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- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
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- Marcus B. Simon — 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 17101292D `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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- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-13** Reading of amendment waived
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- **2017-02-13** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2017-02-15** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-15** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
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- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
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- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 298 (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/cd11a455-c975-4686-ad8e-518ea1dd4355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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