republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2156.md

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Bill	Students from foreign countries; student exchange programs, tuition and fee waivers.	Public institutions of higher education; student exchange programs; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; conditions. Clarifies that tuition and mandatory fees may be waived for a student from a foreign country enrolled in a public institution of higher education through a formalized student exchange program between such institution and another institution of higher education, provided that the number of full-time equivalent inbound students from a foreign country for whom tuition and mandatory fees has been waived does not exceed during any three-year period the number of full-time equivalent outbound students who are enrolled through such student exchange program and who pay full tuition and mandatory fees to the institution. Current law permits tuition and mandatory fees to be waived for a student from a foreign country enrolled in a public institution of higher education through a student exchange program approved by such institution, provided that the number of students from a foreign country for whom tuition and mandatory fees has been waived does not exceed during any three-year period the number of students from a foreign country who are enrolled through such student exchange program and who pay full tuition and mandatory fees to the institution. This bill is identical to SB 1229.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2156	Virginia HB 2156 (2025)	bill		enacted	Betsy B. Carr	5	38	8	2025-01-07	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/3f8897b6-9efd-4faa-bfa9-c9c5bfee9567	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2156	4b219e20505e2883f109a3e175eac02f155bfc40acdbe58fed03ec5430395630	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2156 (2025) — Students from foreign countries; student exchange programs, tuition and fee waivers.

Public institutions of higher education; student exchange programs; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; conditions. Clarifies that tuition and mandatory fees may be waived for a student from a foreign country enrolled in a public institution of higher education through a formalized student exchange program between such institution and another institution of higher education, provided that the number of full-time equivalent inbound students from a foreign country for whom tuition and mandatory fees has been waived does not exceed during any three-year period the number of full-time equivalent outbound students who are enrolled through such student exchange program and who pay full tuition and mandatory fees to the institution. Current law permits tuition and mandatory fees to be waived for a student from a foreign country enrolled in a public institution of higher education through a student exchange program approved by such institution, provided that the number of students from a foreign country for whom tuition and mandatory fees has been waived does not exceed during any three-year period the number of students from a foreign country who are enrolled through such student exchange program and who pay full tuition and mandatory fees to the institution. This bill is identical to SB 1229.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) — 98–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101816D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Assigned Educ sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-22 Committee substitute printed 25105233D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-27 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2156)
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Committee substitute printed 25107567D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2156)
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2156ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2156)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 248 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f8897b6-9efd-4faa-bfa9-c9c5bfee9567. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).