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Bill	Higher educational institutions; financial aid award notification.	Requires any comprehensive financial aid award notification provided to a student by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education to meet the requirements and best practices established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in its Financial Aid Award Letters Policies and Guidance. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1704	Virginia HB 1704 (2019)	bill		enacted	David A. Reid	8	33	12	2018-12-12	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/6c1b0410-7f04-49c6-8506-c791b046c3d6	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1704	069674314beaf89a08b2af3c756995b8b512e4dfc666a4ddbd6bfd883521b6c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1704 (2019) — Higher educational institutions; financial aid award notification.

Requires any comprehensive financial aid award notification provided to a student by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education to meet the requirements and best practices established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in its Financial Aid Award Letters Policies and Guidance. 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 (CHAP0571) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1704ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Committee substitute printed 19104754D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100317D (committee substitute) — source
7. House: Printed as engrossed 19104754D-EH1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendment rejected by House — 0–96 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House — 96–1 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David A. Reid — primary (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100317D introduction
• 2018-12-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2019-01-11 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2019-01-21 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-21 Assigned App. sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute from Education agreed to 19104754D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Committee amendment from Appropriations agreed to
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1704EH1
• 2019-02-04 Printed as engrossed 19104754D-EH1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2019-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
• 2019-02-18 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2019-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-19 Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 2019-02-20 Senate requested conference committee
• 2019-02-21 House acceded to request
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by House
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2019-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N)
• 2019-03-07 Enrolled
• 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-03-09 Signed by President
• 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
• 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c1b0410-7f04-49c6-8506-c791b046c3d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).