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HB2076Intro

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Motor vehicle sales and use tax; definition of sale price. Excludes from the sale price for determining motor vehicle sales and use tax the amount of any credit given by the seller for any motor vehicle taken as a trade-in.
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2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HB2265Intro

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Regulation of electric utilities; development of renewable energy facilities; powers of Air Pollution Control Board; powers of State Corporation Commission. Repeals provisions (i) requiring the Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations to redu...
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2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HB2021Intro

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Health insurance; provider contracts; report. Prohibits Health insurance; provider contracts; report. Prohibits a carrier from unilaterally amending any material provision of a provider contract or adding any new material provision to any provider co...
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2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HB2243Intro

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Home instruction and private school tax credit. Creates an individual, nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, but before January 1, 2026, for amounts paid by the parent or legal guardian of a child fo...
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2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HB1883Intro

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Elections; preclearance of certain covered practices Elections; preclearance of certain covered practices required. Requires the governing body of a covered jurisdiction, prior to enacting or seeking to administer any voting qualification or prerequi...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HJR551Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; 16-year-olds permitted to vote. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be 18 years of age, any person who is 16 years of age or older and is otherwise qu...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB2303Intro

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Possession of controlled substances; penalties. Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II Possession of controlled substances; penalties. Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance from a Class 5 felo...
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2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1955Intro

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Income tax deduction; multigenerational households. Creates a $1,000 deduction from Virginia adjusted gross income for taxable years on and after January 1, 2021, for the head of household taxpayer or married taxpayers filing jointly of a multigenera...
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2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HB2296Intro

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Worker classification; independent contractors. Provides that in a proceeding involving allegations of worker misclassification an individual or business is not considered an employee with respect to a hiring party if the person qualifies as an indep...
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2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HJR607Intro

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Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Virginia.
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HJR530Intro

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Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; alternative approaches to the Commonwealth's enforcement scheme for the possession of controlled substances, including decriminalization; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the proprie...
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HB1753Intro

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Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission Accreditation Grant Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission Accreditation Grant Fund (the Fund) and the Virginia Law Enforcement Professio...
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2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
HB2205Intro

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Same-day voter registration; repeal. Repeals Chapter 1153 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, which provided that any person who is qualified to register to vote would be permitted to do so up to and including on the day of the election, regardless of t...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB2286Intro

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Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
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2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
HB2251Intro

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Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations; civil penalty. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor...
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2021-02-05
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB1922Intro

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Medical assistance; coverage for reproductive health services. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary rep...
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2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HB2052Intro

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Land banks; right of first refusal for tax delinquent parcels. Requires localities that have established a land bank to establish a procedure whereby the land bank shall have a right of first refusal for tax delinquent parcels prior to such property ...
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2021-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB2274Intro

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Health insurance; provider contracts. Requires that Health insurance; provider contracts. Requires that each provider contract include provisions (i) requiring providers to provide health care services to enrollees in a manner similar to and within t...
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2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HB1863Intro

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Charter; Town of Blacksburg. Provides that the Blacksburg Town Council is authorized to accept, as part of residential re-zonings, voluntary proffered conditions that would limit or prohibit occupancy by undergraduate students or persons under the ag...
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2021-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HJR516Intro

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United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, ...
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HB1777Intro

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Serious or Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program; definition of serious or habitual juvenile offender. Changes the definition of a serious or habitual juvenile offender for the purposes of the Serious or Habitual Offender Comprehensive Actio...
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2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB2188Intro

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Department of Health; Department of Environmental Quality; pilot program; engineered septic systems. Requires the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Quality, in partnership with the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, to ...
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2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
HB2334Intro

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Damage to motor vehicles; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to commit larceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle, regardless of the converter's value. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to willfully break,...
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2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1880Intro

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Illegal gambling; skill games; temporary exemption for Illegal gambling; skill games; temporary exemption for truck stops and alcoholic beverage control retail licensees. Delays by one additional year, from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, the prohibit...
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2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee
HB1886Intro

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Electronic titling; fleet. Defines a "fleet" as 25 or more vehicles for the purpose of any electronic titling program established by the Department of Motor Vehicles for the registration or titling of fleet vehicles.
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2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee
HB2199Intro

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Tax credit for parents of stillborn child. Establishes a refundable income tax credit for individual filers or married persons filing jointly for taxable years on and after January 1, 2021, in an amount equal to $2,000 for each birth for which a Virg...
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2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HB1745Intro

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General Assembly; legislative process; required expiration provision. Requires any bill passed by the General Assembly when one or both houses meet and vote virtually to pass the bill to contain a provision requiring the expiration of such bill one y...
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HJR528Intro

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Uyghur American Friendship Day. Designates November 12, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Uyghur American Friendship Day in Virginia.
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HB1938Intro

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Destroying or tampering with firefighting or emergency medical services equipment or law-enforcement equipment and vehicles; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for injuring, destroying, removing, or tamperin...
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2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HJR531Intro

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Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; advisability of the Commonwealth's joining the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the advisability of the Commonwealth's joining the Interstate Me...
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HB1840Intro

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Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Authorizes law-enforcement officers to lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or ...
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2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee
HB2209Intro

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Absentee voting; signature match; provisional ballot status. Requires the signature on the voter affirmation statement on an absentee ballot return envelope to match the signature of the voter on the application for the absentee ballot or the signatu...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB1746Intro

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Conduct of elections; vote counting; required live video recording. Requires the general registrar of each county and city to provide for a live video recording of each polling place while absentee ballots are cast, votes are counted, and returns are...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB1802Intro

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Local government attorneys; prohibiting the handling of matters related to certain wills. Prohibits local government attorneys from handling matters related to a will on behalf of the local government if the attorney was privately retained by an indi...
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2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB2115Intro

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Absentee voting; definition of postmark; legibility requirement. Requires an absentee ballot returned to the general registrar after the closing of the polls on election day to be legibly postmarked on or before the date of the election in order to b...
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2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HJR573Intro

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COVID-19 vaccination; voluntary. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that any vaccination for the COVID-19 virus shall be voluntary within the Commonwealth of Virginia and that it fully supports the practice of medical informed consent.
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2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee
HB1744Intro

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Animal care; zoos and petting zoos; seizure of animals. Raises from reasonable cause to probable cause the standard for a belief that animal cruelty laws are being violated for purposes of an application for a search warrant. The bill adds animals lo...
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2021-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
HB1784Intro

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Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; report. Establishes the Small Business Procurement Enhancement Program (the Program) with a statewide goal of 42 percent of small busines...
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2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee
SB1200Intro

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Waste disposal; local approval. Requires any application (i) to store, provide treatment for, or dispose of hazardous waste or (ii) for a new solid waste management facility permit, except for a noncaptive industrial landfill, to include certificatio...
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
SB1186Intro

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Landfill siting; historic preservation. Prohibits the construction of any new municipal solid waste landfill within three miles of any designated historic district, building, structure, object, or site.
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 2-N)
SB1467Intro

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Menhaden fishing in territorial waters prohibited. Prohibits catching menhaden with purse nets in the territorial waters of the Commonwealth lying west or within three miles of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB1460Intro

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Deer hunting; rifle caliber. Authorizes the use of a .223 caliber centerfire rifle for hunting deer.
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB1377Intro

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Campaign finance; special report for large pre-legislative session contributions; contributions in aggregate. Requires a special report for certain pre-legislative session contributions from a single person in excess of $1,000 or with an aggregate va...
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2021-02-04
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB1432Intro

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Electoral college; allocation of electoral votes. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that a voter will vote for two electors for the Commonwealth ...
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
SJR274Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first reference); immunity of legislators. Limits the immunity of legislators by allowing the arrest of a member of the General Assembly during the sessions of the respective houses upon issuance of process for arrest by a j...
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2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
SB1222Intro

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Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment. Requires a state agency, whenever purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for public use, to purchase such PPE from a Virginia-based company or manufacturer or a manuf...
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2021-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (5-Y 10-N)
SB1133Intro

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Children's Services Act; eligibility for state pool of Children's Services Act; eligibility for state pool of funds; pilot program related to educational placement transition for certain students with disabilities. Expands eligibility for use of the ...
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2021-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
HB2158Intro

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Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals; Destination Marketing Fund created. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals shall be computed on the basis of the total charges or the total price paid for the u...
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2021-02-03
Stricken from docket by Finance (22-Y 0-N)
SB1394Intro

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Income tax exclusion for Paycheck Protection Plan loan forgiveness; deductibility. Establishes an income tax exclusion for forgiveness of indebtedness on a loan received under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act through the...
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2021-02-03
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
HJR546Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first reference); franchise and officers; felon disenfranchisement; automatic restoration of political rights. Provides that no person who has been convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote until the completion of his...
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2021-02-03
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
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