| VA | HB6004 | Pass | General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $90 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-18
VOTE: Passage (82-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB6003 | Engross
50% | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR783 | Pass | Commending Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR733 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Donald R. Craig.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR705 | Pass | Commending the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB568 | Veto | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB187 | Veto | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB224 | Veto | Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB173 | Veto | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB609 | Veto | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB624 | Veto | Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HR667 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Golden Bethune-Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR667ER) |
| VA | HR664 | Pass | Commending Eunice E. Y. Haigler. Commending Eunice E. Y. Haigler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR664ER) |
| VA | HR643 | Pass | Commending the Virginia First Cities Coalition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR643ER) |
| VA | HR656 | Pass | Commending Diamond Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR656ER) |
| VA | HR638 | Pass | Commending Dawn Michelle Staley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR638ER) |
| VA | HR658 | Pass | Commending Christian Ings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR658ER) |
| VA | HR659 | Pass | Commending Larry Vickers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR659ER) |
| VA | HR657 | Pass | Commending Jamarii Thomas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR657ER) |
| VA | HR655 | Pass | Commending Robert Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR655ER) |
| VA | HR660 | Pass | Commending Kierra Wheeler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR660ER) |
| VA | HB157 | Veto | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB45 | Veto | Earned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB47 | Veto | Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB385 | Veto | Railroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB454 | Veto | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB405 | Veto | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB673 | Pass | Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| VA | HB25 | Pass | Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| VA | HB1452 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires each state agency to submit its annual report assessing the impact of its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans on the populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| VA | HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| VA | HB1269 | Pass | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| VA | HB736 | Pass | Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| VA | HB1458 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Interagency Resilience Management Team; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Amends certain provisions relating to the functions and du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| VA | HB572 | Pass | Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| VA | HB1345 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| VA | HB327 | Pass | Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| VA | HB1361 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| VA | HB35 | Pass | Firearm safety device tax credit; definition of firearm safety device. Expands the definition of "firearm safety device" as it relates to the firearm safety device tax credit to include any device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| VA | HB374 | Pass | Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| VA | HB561 | Pass | Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety; school safety audits; list of items required to be reviewed. Requires the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to include specific technology systems in the list of items to be reviewed and evalua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| VA | HB415 | Pass | Charter; City of Virginia Beach; board of equalization. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach by expanding the board of equalization from four members to five members and an alternate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| VA | HB893 | Pass | Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| VA | HB168 | Pass | Department of Education; resource document on supports and services for homeless students. Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board a resource document containing guidance and best practices for providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| VA | HB100 | Pass | Child labor offenses; civil penalties. Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty for each violation of child labor laws that results in the employment of a child who is seriously injured or dies in the course of employment. The bill also in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB18 | Pass | Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB626 | Pass | Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| VA | HB1085 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
