republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-159.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 HB 1044.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 159	Virginia SB 159 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jennifer B. Boysko	3	25	5	2024-01-05	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c9dbc92e-0f81-4d8e-b736-25d5975c1f76	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB159	95b216da60c44a1c77eaf7824fdb2aa4aeebde0d6c3447b9753f0a615f9b6ff8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 159 (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 HB 1044.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0003 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100442D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB159ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• 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 (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100442D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB159)
• 2024-01-22 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-19 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB159ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB159ER)
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 3 (effective 7/1/26) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9dbc92e-0f81-4d8e-b736-25d5975c1f76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).