republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2337.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, tuition and mandatory fee rates.	Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education, prior to a vote on an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees, to permit public comment on the proposed increase at a meeting of the governing board. The bill requires each such governing board to establish policies for such public comment, which may include reasonable time limitations. The bill requires each such governing board to provide, at any meeting at which it approves an increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, an explanation of any deviation from the project range of the planned increase in such tuition and fees that it previously provided to students and the public. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to provide to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance an annual report on any increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at a public institution of higher education, the public comment relating to such increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, and any deviation in the increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees from the increase projected in the institutional six-year plan.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2337	Virginia HB 2337 (2019)	bill	Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	R. Steven Landes	8	34	12	2019-01-08	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/51859048-f7f9-4a12-a61f-7f80b1510dcc	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2337	126729072e6eac3843d71938b5716402e64da0389ba0d8f7d5032fbf0e5298bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2337 (2019) — Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, tuition and mandatory fee rates.

Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education, prior to a vote on an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees, to permit public comment on the proposed increase at a meeting of the governing board. The bill requires each such governing board to establish policies for such public comment, which may include reasonable time limitations. The bill requires each such governing board to provide, at any meeting at which it approves an increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, an explanation of any deviation from the project range of the planned increase in such tuition and fees that it previously provided to students and the public. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to provide to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance an annual report on any increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at a public institution of higher education, the public comment relating to such increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees, and any deviation in the increase in undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees from the increase projected in the institutional six-year plan.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2337ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19105554D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Conference substitute printed 19107663D-H2 (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100762D (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106561D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106934D-S2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House 19106934D-S2 — 0–96 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by House — 98–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100762D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 19105554D-H1
• 2019-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2337H1
• 2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-15 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-15 Committee substitute rejected 19106561D-S1
• 2019-02-15 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-15 Committee substitute agreed to 19106934D-S2
• 2019-02-15 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2337S2
• 2019-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-19 Senate substitute rejected by House 19106934D-S2 (0-Y 96-N 1-A)
• 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
• 2019-02-23 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-23 Conference substitute printed 19107663D-H2
• 2019-02-23 Conference report agreed to by House (98-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 588 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51859048-f7f9-4a12-a61f-7f80b1510dcc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).