| VA | SB738 | Intro
Prefile | Public elementary and secondary schools; student Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public element... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-18 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB119 | Veto | Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB105 | Veto | Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa... [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 | 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 | SB14 | Veto | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB235 | Veto | Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB276 | Veto | Energy upgrade programs; Phase I and Phase II Utilities; State Corporation Commission to study feasibility; work group; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to study the feasibility of the implementation of an ener... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | SB713 | Pass | Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |
| 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 | 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 | SB239 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| VA | SB232 | Pass | Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| VA | SB272 | Pass | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| 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 | SB250 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote ultrasound procedures; remote fetal non-stress tests. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to modify the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision allowing for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| VA | SB277 | Pass | State Health Services Plan Task Force; certificate of public need; recommendations. Directs the Board of Health to convene the State Health Services Plan Task Force to make recommendations on expedited review of projects subject to certificate of pub... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| 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 | SB483 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm mach... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| VA | SB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB280 | Engross
Prefile | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB332 | Engross
Sine Die | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB332 | Engross
Prefile | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program; report. Establishes the Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in Chesterfie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB234 | Engross
Prefile | Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program; report. Establishes the Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in Chesterfie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Health Commissioner; work group; recommendations on Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish a work group to examine the feasibility of and make recommendations for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB229 | Engross
Prefile | Health Commissioner; work group; recommendations on Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish a work group to examine the feasibility of and make recommendations for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities. Requires, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover (i) the actual a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services; Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman, with the purpose of receiving, recording, and responding to conce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB312 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services; Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman, with the purpose of receiving, recording, and responding to conce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; duty to implement the Energy Policy of the Commonwealth; RPS program requirements; competitive procurement. Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB230 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; duty to implement the Energy Policy of the Commonwealth; RPS program requirements; competitive procurement. Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB278 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB233 | Intro
Prefile | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |