republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-566.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	SCHEV; membership to include representative of a historically black college or university.	State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. 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 one of the Commonwealth's historically black colleges or universities. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 566	Virginia HB 566 (2024)	bill		enacted	Alex Q. Askew	4	31	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/cf35d5eb-d670-4a14-82f3-13f6fbe2a23e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB566	94bc7b41528fb9221165235b05346e216d0b87d423f22795f6fe82e2496a9044	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 566 (2024) — SCHEV; membership to include representative of a historically black college or university.

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. 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 one of the Commonwealth's historically black colleges or universities. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0195 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB566ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103116D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24103116D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103116D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB566)
• 2024-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (11-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House as amended HB566E
• 2024-02-05 Printed as engrossed 24103116D-E
• 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 Impact statement from DPB (HB566E)
• 2024-02-16 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB566ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB566ER)
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/26) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf35d5eb-d670-4a14-82f3-13f6fbe2a23e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).