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type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive community colleges; academic credit."
description: "Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to require each comprehensive community college to develop policies and procedures for awarding academic credit to enrolled students who have successfully completed a state-approved registered apprenticeship credential. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1592"
citation: "Virginia HB 1592 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew James"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-02"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e500168-59ce-423b-8cad-1bd2593c58d7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1592"
source_hash: "e7ae5ffe8e8090eb92316f9248ceb8fe5352a7f25c9fa84cd592533e90a1f3b6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1592 (2017) — Comprehensive community colleges; academic credit.
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to require each comprehensive community college to develop policies and procedures for awarding academic credit to enrolled students who have successfully completed a state-approved registered apprenticeship credential. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0130)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1592ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1592ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101280D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1592)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Matthew James — primary (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101280D `introduction`
- **2017-01-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 130 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e500168-59ce-423b-8cad-1bd2593c58d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).