Higher educational institutions, public; loans to students, collection.
Summary
Requires each public institution that makes a loan to a student to (i) include in loan documents for each such loan an individual plan for the repayment of principal and interest and the payment of any late fees and clear and detailed information about the collection process for such loan pursuant to the Virginia Debt Collection Act, including information about the agency or entity that is responsible for collection, and (ii) establish a process for notifying each student or, in the case of an undergraduate student and as appropriate, the student's parent of any loan payment that is past due no later than (a) 30 days after such payment becomes past due and (b) if necessary, the end of the academic term during which such payment becomes past due. The bill permits each such institution, with the consent of the borrower, to modify the terms of any loan for which payments are past due to provide for repayment forbearance on such loan and repayment to commence on a mutually agreed-upon date in the future.
Bill status
passed
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2017
Committee Review
Mar 2018
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2018
Senate Passage
Feb 2018
Governor
Introduced Dec 21, 2017
Last action Mar 12, 2018
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
6
Committee
5
Amendments
5
Mar 8, 2018
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (62-Y 33-N)
legislature
Mar 8, 2018
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
legislature
Mar 8, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Amendments by Senator Wexton agreed to
legislature
Mar 8, 2018
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
legislature
Mar 7, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Passed by for the day
legislature
Mar 6, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Passed by for the day
legislature
Mar 6, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
legislature
Mar 6, 2018
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
legislature
Mar 5, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Passed by for the day
legislature
Feb 21, 2018
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
legislature
Feb 14, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
legislature
Feb 13, 2018
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
legislature
Jan 19, 2018
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3
legislature
Dec 21, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
legislature
Dec 21, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101457D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David E. Yancey
RRepublican
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