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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date."
description: "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 SB 159."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1044"
citation: "Virginia HB 1044 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d54cdba7-3ee1-49e9-9add-d309fbfaa996"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1044"
source_hash: "63f5f46ccfe0c970c947026b835e0daf0ccd31db03b0883a01508990eabb632a"
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 1044 (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 SB 159.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0059** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0059)
2. **HB1044ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1044ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100438D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1044)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 4-N) — **74** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
- Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
- Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Will Davis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100438D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1044)
- **2024-01-25** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 4-N)
- **2024-01-31** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-22** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1044ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1044ER)
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/26) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d54cdba7-3ee1-49e9-9add-d309fbfaa996`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).