| SB590 | Engross
Prefile | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB658 | Intro
Prefile | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB348 | Intro
Prefile | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB567 | Intro
Prefile | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
Prefile | Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB406 | Engross
Prefile | Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB897 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; guidance to small businesses; identification of enforcement actions; work group; report. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to develop and provide guidance to business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB610 | Intro
Prefile | Health insurance; coverage for diabetes. Requires that each insurer providing coverage for diabetes shall include benefits for FDA-approved insulin, continuous blood glucose monitoring, and regular foot care and eye care exams in addition to equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB540 | Intro
Prefile | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1226 | Intro
Prefile | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Removes the provision in the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act requiring that benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB485 | Intro
Prefile | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| HB9 | Intro
Prefile | Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB211 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Education; audit of education preparation programs at public institutions of higher education; science-based reading research and evidence-based literacy instruction; frequency. Changes from once every seven years to biennially the freq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| HB1013 | Intro
Prefile | Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB636 | Intro
Prefile | Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1481 | Intro
Prefile | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes the provision providing that, in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, and a natural or adoptive parent of the minor grandchild is d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1393 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
Prefile | Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| HB556 | Intro
Prefile | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; membership; training requirements; Commission staff; JLARC study; report. Increases the membership of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (the Commission) from seven to nine members and reduces from 15 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1078 | Intro
Prefile | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1288 | Intro
Prefile | Public utilities; classification of customers. Requires that a public electric utility or a public utility authorized to furnish water or water and sewer service include a separate classification for data centers when satisfying the existing requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers; establishment of minimum employment qualifications prohibited. Prohibits the Department of Criminal Justice Services from establishing minimum qualifications for the employment of sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| HB742 | Engross
Prefile | State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB927 | Intro
Prefile | Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB859 | Intro
Prefile | Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
Prefile | Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Prefile | Elections; absentee voting; counting ballots prior to the close of polls. Allows officers of election at a central absentee precinct to begin ascertaining and recording the number of votes cast by absentee ballots at any time after noon on the day of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR82 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Conservation and Recreation; state park in Washington County; report. Requests the Department of Conservation and Recreation to study the feasibility of establishing a state park in Washington County at the Mendota Trail and Abra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Energy; work group on critical infrastructure sectors; report. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to convene a work group to evaluate the Commonwealth's critical infrastructure sectors' usage of fuel for energy and feedsto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR26 | Pass
Prefile | Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession of drugs as a felony. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the scope and cost of the current laws in the Commonwealth penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| SB636 | Engross
Prefile | Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Prefile | Housing opportunity tax credit. Increases, for calendar years 2023 through 2025, the amount of housing opportunity tax credits that may be claimed from $60 million per calendar year to $100 million per calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1348 | Intro
Prefile | Department of General Services; Office of Pharmaceutical Services; report. Establishes in the Department of General Services an Office of Pharmaceutical Services to develop and execute a plan to consolidate state agency prescription drug purchasing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB446 | Intro
Prefile | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB346 | Intro
Prefile | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR40 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; tax implications of implementing a land value tax; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study tax implications of local governing bodies implementing a land val...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB273 | Intro
Prefile | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB80 | Intro
Prefile | Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention to advise the State Health Commissioner on the regulations and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| SB359 | Engross
Prefile | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| HB721 | Intro
Prefile | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1259 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Health; emergency medical services personnel; career fatigue and wellness program; report. Directs the Department of Health to convene a work group to study the viability of establishing or contracting for a professional program for eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| HB886 | Intro
Prefile | Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1295 | Intro
Prefile | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB594 | Engross
Prefile | Department of Health; Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board; emergency medical personnel; career fatigue and wellness program. Directs the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board to examine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR36 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Prefile | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB813 | Intro
Prefile | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
