republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-715.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; increases in undergraduate tuition.	Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; increases in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees;certain disclosures. Prohibits the governing board of any publicinstitution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduatetuition or mandatory fees without providing students and the publican explanation of the factors that contribute to the need for theplanned increase, an explanation of the planned use of the revenuegenerated by the planned increase, and notice of the date, time,and location of the meeting at which public comment on such plannedincrease is permitted at least 10 days prior to such meeting.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 715	Virginia HB 715 (2020)	bill		enacted	David A. Reid	4	38	7	2020-01-06	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2877785c-0ea3-4412-90f7-ee61e35d5e62	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB715	f6201cb668cc5fa5ad0c8108597e7051a93471b24b6bf8b06ad6ca899c2c806d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 715 (2020) — Higher educational institutions, public; increases in undergraduate tuition.

Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; increases in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees;certain disclosures. Prohibits the governing board of any publicinstitution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduatetuition or mandatory fees without providing students and the publican explanation of the factors that contribute to the need for theplanned increase, an explanation of the planned use of the revenuegenerated by the planned increase, and notice of the date, time,and location of the meeting at which public comment on such plannedincrease is permitted at least 10 days prior to such meeting.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB715ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB715E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB715) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendment (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David A. Reid — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104092D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB715)
• 2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Education with amendment (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-07 Engrossed by House as amended HB715E
• 2020-02-07 Printed as engrossed 20104092D-E
• 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-10 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-11 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB715E)
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-02-24 Committee amendment #1 agreed to
• 2020-02-24 Committee amendment reconsidered
• 2020-02-24 Committee amendment #2 rejected
• 2020-02-24 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-02-24 Amendment by Senator Hashmi agreed to amendment-passage
• 2020-02-24 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-26 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-26 Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Enrolled
• 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-03 Signed by President
• 2020-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB715ER)
• 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 435 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2877785c-0ea3-4412-90f7-ee61e35d5e62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).