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VAHR613Intro
25%
Federal workforce in Virginia; opposition to downsizing. Recognizes the significant contributions of Virginia's federal workforce and contractor sector to national security, defense, public health, scientific research, and economic stability.
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2025-02-18
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VASB932Engross
50%
Local comprehensive plan; tiny homes; accessory dwelling units. Clarifies that the comprehensive plan prepared by a local planning commission and adopted by a local governing body may include the use of tiny homes and accessory dwelling units, define...
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2025-02-11
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VAHJR445Intro
25%
Study; JLARC; transportation options in rural areas for persons with disabilities. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study transportation options in rural areas for persons with disabilities and identify ways to expand or e...
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2025-02-05
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VAHB2529Intro
25%
Public institutions of higher education; endowments; investment management; certain divestment practices prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education or any affiliated foundation, investment management company, or other entity tha...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR453Intro
25%
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2521Intro
25%
Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Marine Resources Commission; oyster stock assessment; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in collaboration with the Marine Resources Commission to conduct a stock assessment of the ...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2666Intro
25%
Attorney General; distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates; advisory work group. Directs the Attorney General to convene a work group for the purpose of advising on the distribution of 599 funding to dist...
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2025-02-04
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VAHR487Intro
25%
Reaffirming the Commonwealth's support and commitment to the State of Israel and its supporters. Reaffirms the Commonwealth's support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of the State of Israel and to Jewish Americans and ...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2569Intro
25%
Virginia State Crime Commission; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; persons with mental illness; petty crimes; study; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Hea...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2285Intro
25%
Study; Autism Advisory Council; establishment of an autism data dashboard in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Autism Advisory Council to study and advise the General Assembly on the establishment of an autism data dashboard for the purpose of pr...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1739Intro
25%
General Assembly Military and Veterans Commission established. Establishes the General Assembly Military and Veterans Commission as a standing commission for the purpose of reviewing legislation related to veterans, military service members, and thei...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1847Intro
25%
Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the p...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2490Intro
25%
Study; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business set-asides; report. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study small business set-asides and their effectiveness in promoting the growth and econ...
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2025-02-04
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VAHR454Intro
25%
Directing the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the legal effects and consequences of a constitutional amendment enshrining a right to reproductive freedom. Directs the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the leg...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR444Intro
25%
Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, techni...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR462Intro
25%
Study; Department of Transportation; needs and capacity for expanded tractor-trailer parking near and along the I-66 and I-95 corridors; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the needs and capacity for expanded tractor-trailer pa...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR498Intro
25%
Kindness Day. Designates April 6, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Kindness Day in Virginia.
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR436Intro
25%
Study; Department of State Police; vehicle noise-monitoring devices; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the feasibility and impact of implementing vehicle noise-monitoring devices in the Commonwealth.
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR460Intro
25%
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...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2776Intro
25%
Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel.
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR458Intro
25%
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Designates April 24, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in Virginia.
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2207Intro
25%
Public institutions of higher education; presence of or material aid or support to terrorist activities, organizations, and states prohibited. Prohibits from accessing, occupying, or otherwise having a physical presence on any campus of a public inst...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2030Intro
25%
Environmental Justice Task Force; report. Establishes the Environmental Justice Task Force for the purpose of furthering environmental justice in the Commonwealth, consisting of appointees from the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Departmen...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR461Intro
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Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs in the Commonwealth.
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR442Intro
25%
Study; tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concerning affordable housing; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concern...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2571Intro
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State of emergency; spending authority during budgetary lapse. Authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency in the event of a budgetary lapse, defined as a state of affairs in which the general appropriation act has expired and no lawful a...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2624Intro
25%
Local officers; removal of officer appointed for a term certain; officers compensated by the appointing authority. Allows any officer appointed to an office for a term established by law and who receives compensation for his services by the appointin...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2001Intro
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Time zone of the Commonwealth. Provides that the Commonwealth shall observe Eastern Daylight Time (Eastern Standard Time, advanced one hour) year-round upon the enactment by Congress of a law allowing states to observe Eastern Daylight Time year-roun...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1691Intro
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Study; JLARC to study Virginia's campaign finance system; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Virginias's campaign finance system. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, t...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1843Intro
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Legal holidays; Indigenous Peoples' Day. Replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day as a state holiday.
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2192Intro
25%
Enhanced earned sentence credits; repeal. Repeals the four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of enhanced earned sentence credits, allowing only a maximum of 4.5 earned sentence credits for every 30 days served.
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1809Intro
25%
K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1565Intro
25%
Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Provides that no chief of staff appointed by the Governor and no Secretary appointed by the Governor shall be members of each other's immediate family when each is serving in his appointed capacity...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR451Intro
25%
Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; tax implications of allowing localities to implement a land value tax; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study the potential tax implications that may result...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR454Intro
25%
Study; JLARC; economic and workforce impacts of the automation of ports in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), in collaboration with the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Board, the College of E...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2564Intro
25%
Virginia State Police; Bureau of Homeland Security established; powers and duties; work group; report. Establishes the Bureau of Homeland Security within the Virginia State Police to coordinate efforts in the ongoing assessment of the Commonwealth's ...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR449Intro
25%
Study; Department of Transportation; taxation of hybrid and electric trucks; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study options for taxation of hybrid and electric trucks to account for the shortfall in gas and diesel tax revenues tha...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR464Intro
25%
Study; cardiovascular disease screening coverage; Health Insurance Reform Commission; report. Directs the Health Insurance Reform Commission to study requiring insurance carriers to provide coverage for certain tests for the early detection of cardio...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2713Intro
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Marine Resources Commission; Virginia Institute of Marine Science; study of ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of Atlantic menhaden; report. Directs the Marine Resources Commission in collaboration with the Virginia Institute of Marine...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2739Intro
25%
Time zone; permanent standard time in Virginia. Exempts Virginia from observing daylight saving time, thereby making Eastern Standard Time the standard time in Virginia year-round.
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2405Intro
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Prohibition of gender reassignment surgery on individuals younger than 18 years of age. Prohibits gender reassignment surgery, as defined in the bill, for individuals younger than 18 years of age. The bill establishes enforcement procedures for viola...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB2366Intro
25%
Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and Secretary of Health and Human Resources; combat the sale of illicit cannabis products; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health a...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB1618Intro
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Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
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2025-02-04
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VAHJR468Intro
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Study; JLARC; cost efficiency of public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the cost efficiency of public institutions of higher education in the Com...
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2025-02-04
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VAHB130Intro
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Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any pers...
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2024-11-18
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VAHB19Intro
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Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Marine Resources Commission; study of ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of Atlantic menhaden; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in collaboration with the Marine Resou...
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2024-11-18
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VAHB1463Intro
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Department of General Services; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; review of procurement process; employment services organizations. Directs the Department of General Services, in cooperation with the Department for Aging and Rehabilit...
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2024-11-18
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VAHB1307Intro
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State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; student application fees; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to survey each baccalaureate public instituti...
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2024-11-18
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VAHJR65Intro
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Study; JLARC; rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the rate of accidents that c...
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2024-11-18
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VAHJR35Intro
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Study; Department of Taxation; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Directs the Department of Taxation, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Quality, to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
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2024-11-18
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