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VA SB 1286

Title: Virginia Community College System; duties of State Board for Community Colleges.
Author: Siobhan Stolle Dunnavant

Summary
Virginia Community College System; duties of State Board for Community Colleges; standardization of health care-related programs. Directs the State Board for Community Colleges to develop and implement a plan to standardize across all comprehensive community colleges the courses offered for health care-related degree, credential, or licensure programs. The bill requires such plan to include procedures and criteria for (i) standardizing the curriculum, quality, academic rigor, and standard of evaluation of such courses, (ii) awarding credit toward the completion of any such health care-related program for any student enrolled in a comprehensive community college who was previously employed in a field aligned with such program, and (iii) standardizing the manner in which academic credit is awarded for such health care-related courses and the manner in which clinical hour credits are awarded to ensure all academic credits and clinical hour credits are stackable and transferrable across all comprehensive community colleges.

Status
Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105758D-S1

Bill Documents
VA SB 1286 - Committee substitute printed 23105758D-S1
2023-01-10 - VA SB 1286 (Committee substitute printed 23105758D-S1)


VA SB 1286 - Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101501D
2023-01-10 - VA SB 1286 (Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101501D)

VA SB 1286 - Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
2023-01-10 - VA SB 1286 (Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered)