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SB 231 VA
Introduced

Community Colleges and Virginia Community College System, State Board for; funding model, report.

VA · session 2027 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 12, 2026

Latest action (Jul 21, 2026) Continued from last session

Summary

This bill would direct the State Board for Community Colleges and the Virginia Community College System to develop a new funding model for the state's community colleges. The funding model would balance base adequacy support, which ensures stable baseline funding, with outcomes-based funding that ties resources to performance and results achieved by the colleges. The bill would require the board and system to create an implementation plan for deploying this new funding approach. A report documenting the funding model and implementation plan would be required.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill (from the OpenStates abstract — no full text available yet) — neutral, and may be imperfect.

Official abstract

A BILL to direct the State Board for Community Colleges and the Virginia Community College System to develop a community college funding model for the Commonwealth, and an implementation plan for such model, that balances base adequacy support and performance with outcomes-based funding; report.

Sponsor (1)

Action history (7)
  1. Jan 12, 2026 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100802D · upper
  2. Jan 12, 2026 Referred to Committee on Education and Health · upper
  3. Jan 19, 2026 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education · upper
  4. Jan 22, 2026 Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) · upper
  5. Jan 29, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB231) · upper
  6. Feb 3, 2026 Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) · upper
  7. Jul 21, 2026 Continued from last session · upper

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