| 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 | SB6007 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB6006 | 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] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6004 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor 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 | SR105 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Janet Muldoon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Application for and issuance of order authorizing interception of communications; Superintendent of State Police. Allows the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, if the Superintendent so designates in writing, to apply to a judge of compet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB251 | Intro
Prefile | Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB661 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit; nonfamily adoptions. Creates a $4,000 nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for an individual or married couple who, during the taxable year, finalize a legal nonfamily adoption as defined in the bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB197 | Intro
Prefile | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; firefighter benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year thereafter. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax relief; qualifying vehicles; reimbursement and appropriation. Provides for a portion of the general fund surplus at the close of the immediately preceding fiscal year to be appropriated for increased car tax relief. Personal pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance; hazardous duty. Provides that members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System, political subdivision employees eligible for enhanced hazardous duty coverage, and members of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and 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 | SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions to article; cruise ship gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB328 | 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] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB472 | 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] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB548 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB662 | Intro
Prefile | Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB61 | Intro
Prefile | Income tax subtraction; firefighter benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year thereafter. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB689 | Intro
Prefile | Exemptions to article; cruise ship gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB328 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB126 | Intro
Prefile | Personal property tax relief; qualifying vehicles; reimbursement and appropriation. Provides for a portion of the general fund surplus at the close of the immediately preceding fiscal year to be appropriated for increased car tax relief. Personal pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB172 | 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] | 2024-01-31
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 | 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 | 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 | SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| 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 | SB170 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole, the Board must notify the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-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 | SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 in 2025. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| 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 | 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 | 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) |
