republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-456.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; withdrawal of veteran student.	Public institutions of higher education; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester, as certified in writing to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine who treated the veteran student for such medical condition. Such refund shall not be issued when three-quarters of a course has been completed at the time that the veteran student withdraws from the course.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 456	Virginia HB 456 (2020)	bill		enacted	Kathleen Murphy	4	36	9	2020-01-03	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/a4bc1eb5-b8e9-4064-9132-137cfa68e1de	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB456	53ec2b2ba94d23cf1165349ac105f5d738787e30d760d77764c080bc17f55297	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 456 (2020) — Higher educational institutions, public; withdrawal of veteran student.

Public institutions of higher education; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester, as certified in writing to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine who treated the veteran student for such medical condition. Such refund shall not be issued when three-quarters of a course has been completed at the time that the veteran student withdraws from the course.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB456ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB456S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB456) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102187D introduction
• 2020-01-03 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB456)
• 2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Assigned App. sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-11 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Committee substitute printed 20108472D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-24 Committee substitute agreed to 20108472D-S1
• 2020-02-24 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB456S1
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-26 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-26 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108472D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Enrolled
• 2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB456ER)
• 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-03 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4bc1eb5-b8e9-4064-9132-137cfa68e1de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).