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type: "Bill"
title: "New College Institute; membership and composition of board of directors, report."
description: "New College Institute; name; membership and composition of board of directors. Renames New College Institute as the West Piedmont Higher Education Center (the Center) and makes several revisions to the membership requirements for the board of directors of the Center, including (i) increasing from 15 to 20 members the total membership of the board of directors; (ii) modifying the composition of the board of directors by adding as required members the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia or his designee, the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System or his designee, and the presidents of George Mason University, Longwood University, Radford University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Virginia State University or their designees; (iii) reducing from 10 to seven the total number of nonlegislative citizen members to be appointed by the Governor and requiring five of such nonlegislative citizen members to be representatives of West Piedmont public education and area business and industry, including one division superintendent, one public school teacher, and three business and industry leaders; and (iv) adding the president of Patrick & Henry Community College or his designee to serve as an ex officio nonvoting member. The bill also requires the board of directors of the Center, in collaboration with representatives of GO Virginia Region 3, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Patrick & Henry Community College, local school boards, and major regional employers, to develop a sustainability plan, including a comprehensive strategic plan and customer recruitment and expansion strategy, to provide higher education degree and certification programs in accordance with its mission, to review options to achieve the goals stated in such plan, and to report on such options to the Governor, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, and the Chair of the House Committee on Appropriations no later than August 1, 2027. This bill is identical to SB 299."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 430"
citation: "Virginia HB 430 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Destiny LeVere Bolling"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 45
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2026-01-12"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d58594-10d0-48e9-ba76-a23716e91400"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB430"
source_hash: "f9fdc0e235936442e62e546a810a4f1a5678d1b270487116476e463b20152359"
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 430 (2026) — New College Institute; membership and composition of board of directors, report.
New College Institute; name; membership and composition of board of directors. Renames New College Institute as the West Piedmont Higher Education Center (the Center) and makes several revisions to the membership requirements for the board of directors of the Center, including (i) increasing from 15 to 20 members the total membership of the board of directors; (ii) modifying the composition of the board of directors by adding as required members the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia or his designee, the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System or his designee, and the presidents of George Mason University, Longwood University, Radford University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Virginia State University or their designees; (iii) reducing from 10 to seven the total number of nonlegislative citizen members to be appointed by the Governor and requiring five of such nonlegislative citizen members to be representatives of West Piedmont public education and area business and industry, including one division superintendent, one public school teacher, and three business and industry leaders; and (iv) adding the president of Patrick & Henry Community College or his designee to serve as an ex officio nonvoting member. The bill also requires the board of directors of the Center, in collaboration with representatives of GO Virginia Region 3, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Patrick & Henry Community College, local school boards, and major regional employers, to develop a sustainability plan, including a comprehensive strategic plan and customer recruitment and expansion strategy, to provide higher education degree and certification programs in accordance with its mission, to review options to achieve the goals stated in such plan, and to report on such options to the Governor, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, and the Chair of the House Committee on Appropriations no later than August 1, 2027. This bill is identical to SB 299.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1084409.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1218834.PDF)
3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1139806.PDF)
4. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186368.PDF)
5. **Higher Education Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1134499.PDF)
6. **Senate Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1203341.HTML)
7. **Senator Srinivasan Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1202902.HTML)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1212281.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with substitute — **18–3** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **91–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **93–6** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102709D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB430)
- **2026-02-05** Assigned HED sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Reported from Education with substitute and referred to Appropriations (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Committee substitute printed 26107537D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Assigned HAPP sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-13** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-16** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-17** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 5-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-18** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB430)
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-27** Senate committee offered
- **2026-02-27** Education and Health Substitute
- **2026-03-02** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB430)
- **2026-03-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-05** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-06** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed by for the day
- **2026-03-10** Education and Health Substitute rejected
- **2026-03-10** Floor offered Senator Srinivasan Amendment
- **2026-03-10** Reading of amendment waived (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-10** Senator Srinivasan Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2026-03-10** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Senate amendment agreed to by House (93-Y 6-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB430ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB430)
- **2026-03-31** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-13** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3d58594-10d0-48e9-ba76-a23716e91400`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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