2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25101870D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2463

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 8, 2025

A BILL to provide flexibility in the qualifications for certain dual enrollment instructors.

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Patron—Scott, P.A.

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Referred to Committee on Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The requirement for an individual to have completed 18 credit hours of course work in the relevant career and technical education (CTE) content area in order to qualify as an instructor of CTE dual enrollment courses that are transferrable to a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth may be waived in any case in which the employing comprehensive community college determines that such individual has sufficient and specific occupational experience in such content area.

2. That each comprehensive community college in the Virginia Community College System shall work with its institutional accreditor to remove any barriers to the full implementation of the provisions of this act.