| VA | HB1693 | Engross
50% | Real estate appraisers; educational requirements for licensure; anti-discrimination training. Requires, in addition to successfully completing an examination, applicants for licensure as a certified residential real estate appraiser or a certified ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| VA | HB1653 | Engross
50% | Real Estate Board; regulations related to fees charged to a licensee. Prohibits the Real Estate Board from charging a fee to a real estate licensee for the transfer of such licensee between offices within a licensed real estate firm, including from s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1578 | Engross
50% | Office of the State Inspector General; behavioral health and developmental services; required reports. Adds the Behavioral Health Commission to the list of entities to whom the Office of the State Inspector General is required to report on certain is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1632 | Engross
50% | Office of Data Governance and Analytics; oversight; Chief Data Officer; duties. Changes oversight of the Office of Data Governance and Analytics from the Office of the Secretary of Administration to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1704 | Engross
50% | Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; responsibility for payment of insurance deductible. Requires the resale certificate form, developed by the Common Interest Community Board, to include a statement indicating that the governing documents of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1706 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures for buyer to beware; aircraft noise. Requires that the owner of a residential real property include in the residential property disclosure statement provided to a potential purchaser ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1640 | Engross
50% | Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act; administrator to exercise due diligence to locate owner. Requires the State Treasurer or his designee to exercise due diligence to locate the owner of unclaimed funds or abandoned property previously pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1800 | Engross
50% | Rights of persons with disabilities; public places; playgrounds. Clarifies that persons with disabilities have the same rights as other persons to the full and free use of public playgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1567 | Engross
50% | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; operational plan submission. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to include in the annual report on its operational plan the most recent available audit report from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1667 | Engross
50% | Board for Barbers and Cosmetology; employment prohibition exceptions; children 16 years of age or older. Allows children 16 years of age or older to serve in a licensed barbershop or cosmetology salon, provided that (i) the child is an apprentice; (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1606 | Engross
50% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a natural perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1623 | Engross
50% | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; name change; general application; expiration repealed. Renames the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program as the Eviction Diversion Program, removes the July 1, 2025, expiration date from the Program, and provides that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | HB1707 | Engross
50% | Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Increases from $20,000 to $30,000 per claim the individual limit of claims against the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund based upon an unpaid judgment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| VA | SB1440 | Intro
25% | Consumer data privacy; automakers; civil penalty. Prohibits automakers operating in the Commonwealth from collecting or processing the personal data of a consumer without such consumer's express consent and from engaging in the sale of personal data....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| VA | HB1602 | Engross
50% | Military leaves of absence for employees of the Commonwealth or political subdivisions; law-enforcement officers. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| VA | HB2054 | Engross
50% | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to negotiate that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| VA | HB1799 | Engross
50% | Virginia Lottery; disclosure of identity of winners. Prohibits the Virginia Lottery (the Department) from disclosing information about any individual winner whose prize is $1 million or greater and exempts such information from disclosure under the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| VA | HB1718 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| VA | HB1638 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| VA | SB1399 | Intro
25% | Lobbyist registration; definition of "lobbyist"; representatives of public institutions of higher education. Amends the definition of "lobbyist" to include individuals who represent public institutions of higher education for the purpose of lobbying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| VA | SB769 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| VA | HB1355 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB252 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB233 | Intro
25% | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB492 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of electric vehicles; forced and child labor prohibition. Prohibits public bodies from awarding contracts to acquire an electric vehicle or electric vehicle component from a business unless such business p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB284 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB432 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | HB878 | Engross
50% | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB596 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; emergency eviction process. Reduces from 15 to seven the number of days, after the date upon which a tenant is served a landlord's intent to terminate the tenancy due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB684 | Intro
25% | Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB285 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB164 | Intro
25% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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| VA | SB694 | Intro
25% | Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
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