| VA | HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meeting exemption; home instruction of children. Creates an exemption from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for discussion, consideration, or decisions relating to ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any elementary or secondary school or school board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual extortion; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously threaten eviction, loss of housing, property damage, or any financial loss with the intent to cause the complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB549 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposed increase. Requires localities, after conducting a reassessment of real estate, to provide notice to property owners by mail of certain information prior to adopting a tax rate that would increase the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Social Media Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Social Media Regulation Act for the purpose of prohibiting minors in Virginia from possessing an account on any social media platform, defined in the bill, without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax; classification; sunset date. Removes the sunset date from the provision of law that authorizes localities to classify most motor vehicles as a class of property subject to a different rate of tax or rate of assessment from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana presumption; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; penalty. Establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.003 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Disorderly conduct; penalty. Removes the prohibition on the applicability of the offense of disorderly conduct in public place to any elementary or secondary school student if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any elementary or secon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Israel; support. Expresses support for the State of Israel and condemns the actions of Hamas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government employees; expression of certain opinions protected. Provides that an employee of a locality shall not be penalized by his employer for expressing his opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily injury to persons on school property; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to orally make a threat to kill or do serious bodily injury to any person, regarding that person, while that person is (i) on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates for office; electronic petitions. Allows for the collection of signatures by electronic means, requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe candidate petitions forms in both paper and electronic formats, and provides formal requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB966 | Intro
Sine Die | Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Office of Commonwealth Resilience; Interagency Resilience Working Group; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Moves the position of Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; notice of summary budget. Directs the governing body of every locality to send by mail, along with the annual property tax bill, a summary of the locality's budget for each of the two previous fiscal years. If the property tax bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1367 | Intro
Sine Die | State parks; First Responder and Veteran Passport; discounted entry and parking. Establishes a First Responder and Veteran Passport that entitles a first responder or a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States or other military service to rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill directs the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 50-N) |
| VA | HB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel. Lowers the rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel on July 1, 2024, from 26.2 cents per gallon to 21.2 cents per gallon on gasoline and from 27 cents per gallon to 20.2 cents per gallon on diesel fuel, which a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; financial value transparency information and acknowledgement; requirements. Requires each public institution of higher education to require each student enrolled at such institution to sign, at the time such s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1406 | Engross
Sine Die | Fishing license requirements; exemptions; free fishing days. Increases from three to six the maximum number of days that the Board of Wildlife Resources may designate as free fishing days for a person to fish in any inland waters of the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (46-Y 52-N) |
| VA | HB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Property rights in parking areas owned or controlled by the Commonwealth; firearms and ammunition. Provides that with certain exceptions the Commonwealth shall not adopt or enforce any statute or regulation that prevents an employee, visitor, or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligible educator income tax deduction; home school instruction income tax credit. Increases from $500 to $1,500 for tax years 2024 through 2026 the amount of income tax deduction certain eligible educators may deduct for qualifying expenses. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Smithsonian; return of human bodily remains to Virginia descendants; review; compensation. Requests the Smithsonian to complete a full review of all human bodily remains within its care, to return the bodily remains of all ancestors of Virginia citiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1525 | Intro
Sine Die | Unauthorized creation of image of another; AI-generated image; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally creates any videographic or still image using artificial intelligence of any nonconsenting person i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; recruitment policy; direct work experience. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a statewide recruitment policy designed to provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; military retirement benefits; uniformed services. Expands the definition of "military benefits" to include an income tax subtraction of retirement income received for service in the uniformed services of the United States, whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas. Requires that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in the bill, be approved only for areas that are one-quarter mile or more from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1517 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 that may be claimed by an individual or married couple filing jointly for qualified adoption expenses, as defined in the bill. The bill imposes certain limitations on who m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Militia state active duty; cyber-related support. Provides that the Governor or his designee may call forth the militia or any part thereof to state active duty for service when the Governor determines that cyber-related support is needed to assist s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HR77 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR77ER) |
| VA | HR98 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR98ER) |
| VA | HR105 | Pass | Commending Karen Tefelski.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR105ER) |
| VA | HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | General registrars; term of office and exception from general early retirement provisions. Extends the term of office of general registrars from four years to eight years beginning on July 1, 2029, and extends the term of any general registrar servin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1530 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; administration; chief deputy and other deputy registrars. Requires that each locality have one chief deputy registrar. The bill requires any chief deputy registrar serving on a full-time basis to be paid not less than 60 percent of the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (18-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HJR103 | Pass | Commending the Honorable M.B. Clark.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ103ER) |
| VA | HJR102 | Pass | Commending John Henry Printing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ102ER) |
| VA | HJR106 | Pass | Commending James E. Barnett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ106ER) |
| VA | HJR105 | Pass | Commending the York County Little League 9-11 All-Stars baseball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ105ER) |
| VA | HJR107 | Pass | Commending the Yorktown ReStore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ107ER) |
| VA | HJR108 | Pass | Commending Hunt Smile Design.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ108ER) |
| VA | HJR110 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Gloria Randolph-King.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ110ER) |
| VA | HB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum number of judges in each judicial circuit. Increases from four to five the maximum number of authorized circuit court judges in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| VA | HB9 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1009 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education |
| VA | HB9 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protections; discipline for political activity or affiliations prohibited. Prohibits an employer from (i) directing the political activity or affiliations of an employee; (ii) discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Tabled in Labor and Commerce (11-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB882 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and second...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Incorporated by Education |
