File Code: Higher Education
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 360  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Heller, King, Krysiak, Anderson, Bozman, Bromwell,
C. Davis, Elmore, Goodwin, Haddaway, Impallaria, Jennings, Kach,
Kaiser, McDonough, McIntosh, Malone, Menes, Nathan-Pulliam,
Trueschler, F. Turner, Weir, Gutierrez, and Hixson
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Higher Education Institutions - Blind Individuals - Access to
Technology
 
Requiring governing boards of public institutions of higher education
to develop, by a specified date, a specified clause relating to
nonvisual access for use in the procurement of specified technology;
requiring a specified clause adopted by the governing bodies of
specified institutions to be consistent with specified standards
developed by the Department of Budget and Management; defining
specified terms; etc.
House Action
- 2/11
 - First Reading Appropriations
 - 3/8
 - Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/17
 - Hearing cancelled
 - 3/21
 - Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/28
 
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/27
 - Third Reading Passed (131-0)
 - 4/6
 - Returned Passed
 
Senate Action
- 3/30
 - First Reading Senate Rules
 - 4/6
 - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/8
 - Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/5
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/7
 - Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/26
 - Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
 - Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
 - Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38B
 - Delegate Eric M. Bromwell, District 8
 - Delegate Clarence Davis, District 45
 - Delegate D. Page Elmore, District 38A
 - Delegate Marshall T. Goodwin, District 40
 - Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
 - Delegate Jeannie Haddaway, District 37B
 - Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
 - Delegate Rick Impallaria, District 7
 - Delegate J. B. Jennings, District 7
 - Delegate Wade Kach, District 5B
 - Delegate Anne R. Kaiser, District 14
 - Delegate Nancy J. King, District 39
 - Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
 - Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
 - Delegate Pat McDonough, District 7
 - Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 43
 - Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
 - Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
 - Delegate John G. Trueschler, District 42
 - Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13
 - Delegate Michael H. Weir, Jr., District 6
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BLIND PERSONS
 - COMMUNITY COLLEGES
 - COMPUTERS -see also- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC GOVMNT.
 - CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
 - DISABILITIES, DEPARTMENT OF
 - DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND; DEAF; DEVELOPMENTAL
 - HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
 - HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION
 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES
 - PROCUREMENT
 - STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
 - STUDENTS
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Education
 - (
 12-101 ,
 12-112 ,
 14-409 ,
 14-409 ,
 16-318 
)
 -   State Finance and Procurement
 - (
 3-412 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
 House 
- Number: 184561/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 28, 2005      at:
2:21 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 27, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (131-0)
 
Senate
- April 7, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)