republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2350.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; tuition and fees, foster care youth."
description: "Provides that any associate degree-granting public institution of higher education other than a comprehensive community college and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education may provide a grant for the payment of tuition and certain fees for any Virginia student who (i) (a) has received a high school diploma or has passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and was in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or is considered a special needs adoption at the time such diploma or certificate was awarded or (b) was in foster care when he turned 18 and subsequently received a high school diploma or passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and (ii) meets certain other criteria. Current law requires comprehensive community colleges to provide such grants for such students who are enrolled at comprehensive community colleges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2350"
citation: "Virginia HB 2350 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason S. Miyares"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf33c180-17aa-4b0d-9171-c06ab3f5bdbb"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2350"
source_hash: "acc6d9530878e8a9fcc21acb6a22a8347a9537df3e5883922ae4fa8eda264afb"
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 2350 (2019) — Higher educational institutions, public; tuition and fees, foster care youth.

Provides that any associate degree-granting public institution of higher education other than a comprehensive community college and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education may provide a grant for the payment of tuition and certain fees for any Virginia student who (i) (a) has received a high school diploma or has passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and was in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or is considered a special needs adoption at the time such diploma or certificate was awarded or (b) was in foster care when he turned 18 and subsequently received a high school diploma or passed a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education and (ii) meets certain other criteria. Current law requires comprehensive community colleges to provide such grants for such students who are enrolled at comprehensive community colleges.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0589)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2350ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2350ER)
3. **House: Conference substitute printed 19107727D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2350H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101393D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2350)
5. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2350ASE)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance with amendments — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendments rejected by House — **2–96** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on amendments — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101393D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned App. sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Reading of amendments waived
- **2019-02-20** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-20** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-21** Senate amendments rejected by House (2-Y 96-N)
- **2019-02-21** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-21** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-23** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-23** Conference substitute printed 19107727D-H1
- **2019-02-23** Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf33c180-17aa-4b0d-9171-c06ab3f5bdbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).