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| Bill | High school students; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities. | Department of Education; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities for high school students. Requires the Department of Education to collect and distribute to public schools and publicly post on its website information that assists high school students in making more informed decisions about their futures after graduating from high school and in doing so ensure that such students are aware of the costs and benefits of different educational and certificate programs. The bill directs the Department to annually collect and compile such information in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and any other entity that can assist the Department with collecting and compiling such information and to update its distribution materials accordingly each year. The bill requires the Department to post and distribute the information to school boards, with any relevant updates, no later than October 1 each year and requires each school board to ensure that the information is readily available to each high school student and distributed to each high school student who expresses an interest in attending an institution of higher education or completing another training program as described in the bill. This bill is identical to HB 1299. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 738 | Virginia SB 738 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 738 (2022) — High school students; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities.
Department of Education; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities for high school students. Requires the Department of Education to collect and distribute to public schools and publicly post on its website information that assists high school students in making more informed decisions about their futures after graduating from high school and in doing so ensure that such students are aware of the costs and benefits of different educational and certificate programs. The bill directs the Department to annually collect and compile such information in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and any other entity that can assist the Department with collecting and compiling such information and to update its distribution materials accordingly each year. The bill requires the Department to post and distribute the information to school boards, with any relevant updates, no later than October 1 each year and requires each school board to ensure that the information is readily available to each high school student and distributed to each high school student who expresses an interest in attending an institution of higher education or completing another training program as described in the bill. This bill is identical to HB 1299.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0344 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105744D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 22104832D (committee substitute) — source
- SB738ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Joseph D. Morrissey — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22104832D
introduction - 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2022-02-03 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB738)
- 2022-02-10 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-10 Committee substitute printed 22105744D-S1
substitution - 2022-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB738S1)
- 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 22105744D-S1
- 2022-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB738S1
- 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-21 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2022-02-23 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-25 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-28 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-02 Enrolled
- 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB738ER)
- 2022-03-03 Signed by President
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 344 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f885e9e-7142-468d-b42d-7ef8fa1fef94. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).