2025 SESSION

SENATE SUBSTITUTE

25107567D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2156

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations

on February 14, 2025)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Carr)

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-611 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public institutions of higher education; student exchange programs; tuition and mandatory fee waivers.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 23.1-611 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23.1-611. Students from foreign countries; student exchange programs; tuition and fee waivers.

Tuition and mandatory fees may be waived for a student from a foreign country enrolled in a public institution of higher education through a formalized student exchange program approved by between such institution and another institution of higher education, provided that the number of full-time equivalent inbound students from a foreign country for whom tuition and mandatory fees has been waived does not exceed during any three-year period the number of full-time equivalent outbound students from a foreign country who are enrolled through such student exchange program and who pay full tuition and mandatory fees to the institution.