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Bill Comprehensive community colleges; academic credit. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to require each comprehensive community college to develop policies and procedures for awarding academic credit to enrolled students who have successfully completed a state-approved registered apprenticeship credential. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 999 Virginia SB 999 (2017)
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Virginia SB 999 (2017) — Comprehensive community colleges; academic credit.

Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to require each comprehensive community college to develop policies and procedures for awarding academic credit to enrolled students who have successfully completed a state-approved registered apprenticeship credential. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB999ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101495D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Education and Health — 130 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 950 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Education — 210 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
  • George Washington — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
  • Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
  • Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101495D introduction
  • 2017-01-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2017-01-16 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-30 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2017-02-09 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-10 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-10 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2017-02-13 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-13 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-13 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-14 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
  • 2017-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
  • 2017-02-17 Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20a148d2-21a2-4056-96df-eb2275b4ad11. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).