| 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
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | HB6003 | Engross
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] | 2024-07-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1415 | Pass | Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| 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 | HB1496 | Pass | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Requires all state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments to provide to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| VA | HB1257 | Pass | Insurance; coverage for the diminished value of personal property. Requires any insurer who issues or delivers a new or renewal homeowner's insurance policy or a stand-alone policy that covers scheduled personal property in the Commonwealth to offer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| VA | HB1324 | Pass | Issuance of restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| VA | HB947 | Pass | Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| VA | HB98 | Pass | Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| VA | HB928 | Pass | Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally interferes with or impedes the operation or commercial fishing activity, defined in the bill, of a commerc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| VA | HB155 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a bar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| VA | HB425 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; release of privileged information. Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles to release to a party that is subject to an administrative proceeding conducted by the Department nonmedical privileged information necessary to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) |
| VA | HB1103 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to the Virginia Port Authority. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide certain employment information to the Virginia Port Authority as may be necessary to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| VA | HB1513 | Pass | Active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty. Provides that the Adjutant General may maintain state active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty during the course of a state active-duty mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB85 | Pass | Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited. Prohibits any miner or other person from using cyanide or a cyanide compound in any mineral mining or processing operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| 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 | HB759 | Pass | Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| VA | HB156 | Pass | Exemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| VA | HB356 | Pass | Investment of public funds. Allows any qualified public entity of the Commonwealth to invest in asset-backed securities that are guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065) |
| VA | HB84 | Engross
Sine Die | Mineral mining and exploration; public notification. Requires an explorer conducting any mineral exploration activities, as those terms are defined in the bill, prior to the start of such activities, to (i) publish a notice in a newspaper having a ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB7 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB3 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; threat assessment teams; duties; annual meeting with chief law-enforcement officer of locality or a designee from the local law-enforcement agency. Requires the threat assessment team established by the division superintendent for eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Health; hospital regulations; patient drug testing. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require hospitals to test patients who are presenting with overdose symptoms for fentanyl and to test for fentanyl, marijuana, amphe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Provides that no chief of staff appointed by the Governor and no Secretary appointed by the Governor shall be members of each other's immediate family when each is serving in his appointed capacity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Timing of local elections. Allows a city or town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold its municipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commence July 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extended by si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Displacement of private waste companies. Reduces from five years to one year the period of time a locality must provide notice to a private waste company before the locality engages in the actual provision of the waste service that displaces the comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Premarital agreements; enforcement. Provides that a premarital agreement executed on or after July 1, 2024, shall not be enforceable against a person who proves that the other party to the agreement was convicted of criminal sexual assault of the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Free use of toll facilities; certain disabled veterans. Authorizes the free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth for drivers who have been rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as having a 100 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; maximum duration of benefits. Provides that the maximum duration for which a claimant may receive unemployment compensation benefits shall be calculated based on the average, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1308 | Intro
Sine Die | Tangible personal property tax relief; rate of taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personal property tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dual enrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges and school boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree, the Pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election; absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in person availability; return of absentee ballots. Requires prese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media; parental consent. Requires social media platforms, defined in the bill, that are subject to the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Window tint; emergency vehicles. Authorizes window tinting on all emergency medical services vehicles and vehicles used to fight fire, including publicly owned state forest warden vehicles. Current law authorizes tinting on the rear and rear side win...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and restricts any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; Internet publication of personal information; exemption. Prohibits publication of the personal information of active and retired law-enforcement officers on the statewide geographic information system (GIS) if a request to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB754 | Intro
Sine Die | Service Member Sentencing Act. Creates the Service Member Sentencing Act to provide service members, defined in the bill, a service member sentencing option, defined in the bill, if such service member satisfies the eligibility criteria. The bill exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; model policies on parental review of instructional material; local adoption. Requires the Board of Education to adopt and distribute to each school board model policies requiring any instructional material used in any public eleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Wrongful death; death of parent or guardian of child resulting from driving under the influence; child support. Provides that in any action for death by wrongful act where the defendant, as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill and includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Elected officials; Internet publication of personal information; definition of public official. Adds to the definition of "public official" any elected official for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| 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 |
