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This law was first created in 2013. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 696<\/a> and 701<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2016, chapter 588<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":184851,"object_type":"law","relational_id":75802,"identifier":"23.1-400","token":"23.1\/II\/4\/23.1-400","url":"\/23.1-400\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-400\/","token":"23.1\/II\/4\/23.1-400","dublin_core":{"Title":"Student organizations; rights and recognition","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-400","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> To the extent allowed by state and federal law<\/span>, a religious or political student organization may determine that ordering the organization’s internal affairs, selecting the organization’s leaders and members, defining the organization’s doctrines, and resolving the organization’s disputes are in furtherance of the organization’s religious or political mission and that only persons committed to that mission should conduct such activities. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> No public institution of higher education<\/span> that has granted recognition of and access to any student organization or group shall discriminate against any such student organization or group that exercises its rights pursuant to subsection A. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSTUDENT ORGANIZATIONS; RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION (\u00a7 23.1-400)\n\nA. To the extent allowed by state and federal law, a religious or political\nstudent organization may determine that ordering the organization’s\ninternal affairs, selecting the organization’s leaders and members,\ndefining the organization’s doctrines, and resolving the\norganization’s disputes are in furtherance of the organization’s\nreligious or political mission and that only persons committed to that mission\nshould conduct such activities.\n\nB. No public institution of higher education that has granted recognition of and\naccess to any student organization or group shall discriminate against any such\nstudent organization or group that exercises its rights pursuant to subsection\nA.\n\nHISTORY: 2013, cc. 696, 701, \u00a7 23-9.2:12; 2016, c. 588.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}