| VA | SB517 | 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 | SB515 | Veto | Weapons; possession or transportation; hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly possess in or transport into the building of any hospital that provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB238 | Veto | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB212 | Veto | Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB237 | 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 | SB2 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB15 | Veto | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB514 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB654 | Veto | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB12 | Pass | Children's advocacy centers; definitions; investigations by local departments of social services. Replaces the term "child advocacy center" with "children's advocacy center" and defines such term. The bill provides that if it is determined during a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| VA | SB327 | Veto | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB696 | Veto | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1 | Veto | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB273 | Veto | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB373 | Veto | 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] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB719 | Veto | Restorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB274 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB39 | Pass | Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| VA | SB48 | Pass | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| VA | SB391 | Pass | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| VA | SB389 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | SB547 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| VA | SB660 | Pass | Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; reporting requirements; civil penalty. Provides that a person that violates the existing requirement to obtain a license prior to providing pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise acting as a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| VA | SB513 | Pass | Funeral services; transportation protection agreements. Defines "transportation protection agreement" as an agreement that provides for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to transportation of human remains or cremated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| VA | SB51 | Pass | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; dissemination and availability of online transition resources. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, in partnership with relevant entities, to ensure that online resources are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| VA | SB241 | Pass | Workers' compensation; notice of right to dispute claim. Requires that when an employee's workers' compensation claim is denied, an employer or insurer shall include in its letter denying benefits a notice that the employee has a right to dispute the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| VA | SB174 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| VA | SB701 | Pass | Vested rights; building permits. Provides that if a locality has issued a building permit, despite nonconformance with the zoning ordinance, and a property owner, relying in good faith on the issuance of the building permit, incurs extensive obligati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| VA | SB516 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| VA | SB556 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit; maximum amount of tax credit. Increases from $5 million to $7.5 million, beginning in taxable year 2025, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| VA | SB526 | Pass | Resale Disclosure Act; delivery of resale certificate; remedies. Provides that failure to deliver a resale certificate within 14 days, as required by the Resale Disclosure Act, deems the resale certificate unavailable. The bill grants a purchaser thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| VA | SB521 | Pass | Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeral contract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| VA | SB13 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| VA | SB676 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistances Services; financial eligibility standards for certain waivers providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the financial eligibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| VA | SB704 | 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 (CHAP0133) |
| VA | SB522 | Fail | Purchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of a firearms safety or training course; penalty. Requires that a prospective purchaser of a firearm present proof that such prospective purchaser has demonstrated competence ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB695 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Crime Commission; surveillance technology; report. Adds to the powers and duties of the Virginia Crime Commission (the Commission) the power to conduct an annual study on surveillance technology, defined in the bill, utilized by local and st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (18-Y 4-N) |
| VA | SB43 | Engross
Sine Die | Persons with disabilities; disAbility Law Center of Virginia; helpline program. Establishes a helpline program within the disAbility Law Center of Virginia for persons with disabilities. The bill provides that such program may receive and respond to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
Sine Die | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
Prefile | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility to allow a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns an interest in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB518 | Intro
Prefile | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; adaptive repurposing of underutilized structures. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit in taxable years 2024 through 2028 for eligible expenses, defined in the bill, incurred in converting office buildings to residential uses....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; certain baby products. Creates a retail sales and use tax exemption for certain baby products, including (i) children's diapers, (ii) therapeutic or preventative creams and wipes marketed primarily for use on the skin of children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | First-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for individuals or married couples filing jointly who sell residential real property that is the taxpayer's primary residence and is located in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
