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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; public notice of proposed undergraduate tuition increase."
description: "Prohibits the governing board of a public institution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees without first providing students and the public a projected range of the planned increase, an explanation of the need for the increase, and notice of the date and location of any vote on the increase at least 30 days prior to such vote."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1376"
citation: "Virginia SB 1376 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f517c9f-e642-44e3-80d2-71cc15d980bd"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1376"
source_hash: "070de961518c615e84f3151606f731b9ad9b82a297148bc5fc4f9cf68df04cee"
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 SB 1376 (2017) — Higher educational institutions, public; public notice of proposed undergraduate tuition increase.
Prohibits the governing board of a public institution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees without first providing students and the public a projected range of the planned increase, an explanation of the need for the increase, and notice of the date and location of any vote on the increase at least 30 days prior to such vote.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0523)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1376ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1376ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104778D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1376S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102953D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1376)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with amendments — **211** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- House amendments agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **71** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendments — **990** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
- Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Surovell (incorporated chief co-patron) — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102953D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Incorporates SB1405 (Surovell)
- **2017-01-30** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 17104778D-S1
- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1376S1
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2017-02-22** Passed House with amendments (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f517c9f-e642-44e3-80d2-71cc15d980bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).