| VA | SB6012 | 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) |
| VA | SB6010 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-28 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6003 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-14 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB260 | 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] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| VA | SB180 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| VA | SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| VA | SB655 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regard to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemploym... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| VA | SB175 | Pass | Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; former statewide legislators and officials; clerk of a circuit court. Adds any (i) former member of the General Assembly; (ii) former Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| VA | SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| VA | SB7 | 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 (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB261 | Pass | Towed vehicles; stolen or misused vehicle; police report. Requires the owner of a vehicle that was stolen, illegally used, or used without his permission and subsequently subject to a law-enforcement initiated tow to provide the report number and the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232) |
| 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 | SB301 | Fail | Campaign finance; appeal of penalties. Provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. Upon petition, the State Board of Elections may provide relief to the petiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB365 | Pass | Regulated land-disturbing activities; submission and approval of erosion and sediment control plan. Prohibits a person from engaging in any land-disturbing activity until, where Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit coverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) |
| VA | SB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB636 | Engross
Sine Die | Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB636 | Engross
Prefile | Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB302 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment. The bill provides that no interest will accrue on any unpaid balances 90 days after the date on whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation; secrecy of information; taxpayer waiver. Allows a taxpayer to waive confidentiality and secrecy of information provisions of Virginia law with respect to tax information upon executing a written acknowledgement waiver. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB711 | Intro
Prefile | Taxation; secrecy of information; taxpayer waiver. Allows a taxpayer to waive confidentiality and secrecy of information provisions of Virginia law with respect to tax information upon executing a written acknowledgement waiver. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; certain permits in the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries prohibited. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for any floating oyster cage in a water column, rack-and-bag, or other similar appar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Local wetlands boards; permit application approval. Changes the standard for approval of a wetlands permit application from three members of a five-member wetlands board or four members of a seven-member wetlands board to a simple majority of those b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB665 | Intro
Prefile | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Use, display, or concealment of firearm in committing certain felonies; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| VA | SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | School choice educational School choice educational savings accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the Department of Education for a renewable school choice education savings account, consisting of a monetary amount that is e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest for the crime of fleeing from a law-enforcement officer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 9-N) |
| VA | SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; permits; public notice. Requires the Commissioner of Marine Resources to ensure that for any project under consideration for a Commission-issued permit the Commission sends public notice electronically to any business, re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 9-N) |
| VA | SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| VA | SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to not issue or renew any private leases for general oyster-planting grounds in the Commonwealth on or after July 1, 202... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |