| VA | HR632 | Intro
25% | Commending the Loudoun Times-Mirror.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Prefiled and laid on Speaker's table; offered 05/13/24 24200079D |
| VA | HB4 | Veto | Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Provides that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax shall receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution formula fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB45 | Veto | Earned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB47 | Veto | Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB34 | Pass | Contract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| VA | HB161 | Veto | Arrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB157 | Veto | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB243 | Veto | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; availability of complaint forms in courthouses. Requires that paper copies of any standardized form developed and utilized by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission or by the Department of Magistrate Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB285 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| VA | HB398 | Veto | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB585 | Veto | Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB351 | Veto | Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB519 | Veto | Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB385 | Veto | Railroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB570 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB571 | Veto | Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB187 | Enroll
75% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB362 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB990 | Veto | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1098 | Veto | Unpaid family bereavement leave; required; remedies. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with up to 10 days of unpaid family bereavement leave in any 12-month period to (i) atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB405 | Veto | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB967 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| VA | HB224 | Enroll
75% | Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB335 | Veto | Department of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1251 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB645 | Veto | Parking spaces reserved for charging electric vehicles; signs. Removes the requirement that signs noting that a parking space is reserved for charging plug-in electric motor vehicles include the civil penalty for parking in violation of such sign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB817 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited. Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB740 | Enroll
75% | Unlawful detainer; bifurcation of case; contested rent and damages. Provides that, at an initial hearing on an unlawful detainer, if the defendant contests the amount of rent and damages alleged to be due and owing to the plaintiff, the court shall n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB246 | Enroll
75% | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB609 | Enroll
75% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB1408 | Veto | Voter satellite offices; standards and guidelines for determining number and location. Directs the Department of Elections to develop standards and guidelines for local governing bodies to utilize when determining the number of voter satellite office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB569 | Veto | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations. Requires an employer that employs 10 or more employees and that receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB861 | Enroll
75% | Weapons; possession or transportation; hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly possess in or transport into the building of any hospital that provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB1415 | Pass | Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| VA | HB466 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB972 | Veto | Prohibiting inquiry into the immigration status of defendant; notification of consequences. Requires that at the initial court hearing for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB800 | Pass | Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| VA | HB957 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit due to condemnation. Provides that the landlord shall be liable to the tenant for actual damages and reasonable attorney fees if the tenant gave notice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| VA | HB955 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Department of Housing and Community Development; summary of rental agreement provisions. Requires landlords to include, upon request, a summary page with any written rental agreement offered to a prospect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB958 | Veto | Commission on Civic Education; model guidance on student participation in the work of local school boards. Requires the Commission on Civic Education, in conjunction with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to create and provide to each local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB953 | Veto | Local Environmental Impact Fund. Allows localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Local Environmental Impact Fund. The bill provides that the Fund shall consist exclusively of appropriated local moneys and any gifts, dona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1028 | Veto | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB454 | Veto | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB624 | Enroll
75% | Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB673 | Pass | Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| VA | HB578 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
