republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1044.md

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Bill	Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.	State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to SB 159.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1044	Virginia HB 1044 (2024)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	3	26	6	2024-01-10	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/d54cdba7-3ee1-49e9-9add-d309fbfaa996	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1044	63f5f46ccfe0c970c947026b835e0daf0ccd31db03b0883a01508990eabb632a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1044 (2024) — Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to SB 159.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0059 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1044ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100438D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (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
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 4-N) — 7–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
• M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Will Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100438D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB1044)
• 2024-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 4-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate passage
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1044ER) passage
• 2024-02-22 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB1044ER)
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/26) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d54cdba7-3ee1-49e9-9add-d309fbfaa996. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).