2026 SESSION
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
26106175D
HOUSE BILL NO. 56
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Education
on ________________)
(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Feggans)
A BILL to direct the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the fiscal and administrative impact of expanding eligibility for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to include line of duty deaths; report.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The Department of Veterans Services (DVS) , in coordination with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia ( SCHEV) and each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth , shall conduct a study to evaluate the fiscal and administrative impact of expanding eligibility for tuition and mandatory fee waiver s under the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program (the Program) established pursuant to § 23.1-608 of the Code of Virginia to survivors and dependents of military service members who died in the line of duty. In conducting such study, DVS and SCHEV shall: