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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs, presentations."
description: "Requires educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to include presentations relating to student debt trends."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2620"
citation: "Virginia HB 2620 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason S. Miyares"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e08334e-be6a-407d-9559-8cf62893858b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2620"
source_hash: "3981a7060e73b28f7f07e9a898857defa9c8f505735a62aa722d85bf45d6c87e"
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 2620 (2019) — Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs, presentations.
Requires educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to include presentations relating to student debt trends.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0643)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2620ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103949D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620)
4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106562D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2620S1)
## Votes
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · lower
- Senate substitute rejected by House 19106562D-S1 — **098** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **890** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-09** Presented and ordered printed 19103949D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-15** Committee substitute agreed to 19106562D-S1
- **2019-02-15** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2620S1
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Senate substitute rejected by House 19106562D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
- **2019-02-20** 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
- **2019-02-22** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2019-02-22** Conference report agreed to by House (89-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
- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 643 (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/4e08334e-be6a-407d-9559-8cf62893858b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).