HOUSE BILL NO. 2463

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Education

on ________________)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Scott, P.A.)

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

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The requirement for an individual to have a master's degree with 18 graduate-level 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 and has received approval from its accrediting body to modify institutional qualifications.