2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB2455: High school students; postsecondary opportunities, transferable meta-major associate degrees.

Legislative Summary

Public high school students; opportunity to earn transferable meta-major associate degree during high school to reduce college debt. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in cooperation with the Virginia Community College System and each associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, to establish a program by which qualified high school students earn an associate degree in a meta-major through dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, or a combination thereof, that (i) is fully transferable to any baccalaureate public institution of higher education that offers a program of study in such meta-major and (ii) to the extent possible, satisfies discipline-specific degree requirements in the student's preferred program of study.

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Bill History

1/8/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104270D
House of Delegates
1/8/2025
Referred to Committee on Education
House of Delegates
1/24/2025
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
House of Delegates
1/28/2025
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
1/29/2025
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
1/29/2025
Committee substitute printed 25106318D-H1
House of Delegates
1/31/2025
Read first time
House of Delegates
1/31/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2455)
House of Delegates
2/3/2025
Read second time
House of Delegates
2/3/2025
Education Substitute agreed to
House of Delegates
2/3/2025
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
House of Delegates
2/4/2025
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
2/4/2025
Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
2/5/2025
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Senate
2/5/2025
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Senate
2/10/2025
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Senate
2/13/2025
Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
Senate
2/13/2025
Committee substitute printed 25107391D-S1
Senate
2/17/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2455)
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
2/17/2025
13
Yea
0
Nay
1
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
2/13/2025
14
Yea
0
Nay
1
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
2/4/2025
99
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
2/4/2025
97
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
1/29/2025
22
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
1/28/2025
8
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Engrossed(2/3/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Democrat: 1
Republican: 1

Primary Sponsor

Sam Rasoul
Sam Rasoul
Democrat

Documents

Comm Sub
Bill Text2/13/202591.4 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text2/13/202591.2 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text2/10/202590.2 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text1/29/202577.7 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text1/28/202578.0 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text1/28/202577.4 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/8/202581.6 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis2/17/2025119.1 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/31/2025120.2 KB