"Really? We’re going to do this again?" wrote local blogger Waldo Jaquith weeks ago on RichmondSunlight.com, a website that tracks bills through Virginia’s General Assembly. Jaquith’s comment was in response to Centreville Delegate Tim Hugo’s proposed bill to require a 75 percent in-state student population at Virginia colleges. The answer, it turns out, is "no," as the bill met its demise yesterday at the hands of a house subcommittee.
Today’s Virginian-Pilot notes that the University of Virginia (62 percent in-state) is one of four schools that would’ve been affected by Hugo’s bill had it passed, alongside the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech and James Madison University. The bill would’ve exempted Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University and Virginia State University from the 75 percentage requirement.
