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Educational and cultural institutions; Recognition and restoration of status of Hampton University as a land-grant university; requirements; task force. Recognizes and restores the status of Hampton University as an 1862 and 1890 land-grant university of the Commonwealth, in accordance with the provisions of applicable federal law, and (i) enumerates the funding and programs Hampton University shall be eligible for as a land-grant university and (ii) provides for the establishment of an evaluation task force by the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on appropriations upon federal recognition of Hampton University as an institution eligible to receive federal funding and participate in federal and state programs established under applicable law relating to land-grant universities for the purpose of evaluating the status of Hampton University and the feasibility of recognizing the institution as a land-grant university of the Commonwealth in accordance with the provisions of the bill.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Feb 25, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Continued to next session in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
Assigned HAPP sub: Higher Education
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB274)
Read second time
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 26107712D-S1
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB274)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB274)
Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104719D
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Continued to next session in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
Mamie E. Locke