| VA | HB586 | Pass | Training standards for law-enforcement officers; drug use. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcement personnel on the use of naloxone or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| VA | HB22 | Pass | Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| VA | HB1381 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB719 | Pass | Public high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| VA | HB159 | Pass | Use of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a patrol or security can...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| VA | HB1216 | Engross
Sine Die | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB174 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| VA | HB894 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) |
| VA | HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1284 | Engross
Prefile | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
Prefile | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1273 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
Prefile | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1273 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1540 | Intro
Sine Die | The Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; establishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB513 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB841 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1253 | Intro
Prefile | Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1320 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB386 | Intro
Prefile | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; grace period prior to termination. Provides that if a landlord owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by General Laws |
| VA | HB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB440 | Intro
Prefile | Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Social Services; Department of Housing and Community Development; unaccompanied minor housing program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB587 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Social Services; Department of Housing and Community Development; unaccompanied minor housing program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membershi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Incorporated by Education |
