| 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 | HB603 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| VA | HB790 | Pass | Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| VA | HB611 | Pass | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional adult correctional facility to report to the St... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| VA | HB1069 | Pass | Liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products; certification and directory; penalties. Requires every manufacturer of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products that are sold for retail sale in the Commonwealth to certify to the Attorney General that (... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| VA | HB1221 | Pass | Health education; menstrual education instruction permitted. Permits each school board to provide a program of instruction on menstrual education as a part of any health education instruction offered at such grade level in grades four through eight a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| 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 | HB1269 | Pass | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| VA | HB1354 | Pass | Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| VA | HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| VA | HB1246 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| VA | HB827 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| VA | HB516 | Pass | Prescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessibl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| VA | HB78 | 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 (CHAP0523) |
| VA | HB35 | Pass | Firearm safety device tax credit; definition of firearm safety device. Expands the definition of "firearm safety device" as it relates to the firearm safety device tax credit to include any device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| VA | HB1369 | Pass | Criminal justice training academies; curriculum. Provides that an approved criminal justice training academy may utilize an alternative curriculum and lesson plans that meet or exceed the compulsory minimum training standards without seeking a waiver... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| VA | HB374 | Pass | Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned busi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| VA | HB160 | Pass | Department of Labor and Industry; workplace poster for veterans benefits and services. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Services, to create a poster describing benefits and services availab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| VA | HB893 | Pass | Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| VA | HB368 | Pass | Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| VA | HB801 | Pass | Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services; lowest available rates. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| VA | HB100 | Pass | Child labor offenses; civil penalties. Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty for each violation of child labor laws that results in the employment of a child who is seriously injured or dies in the course of employment. The bill also in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB407 | Pass | Child Care Subsidy Program; categorical eligibility for certain families. Provides that any family that receives public assistance through Medicaid or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children shall be deemed to cate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| VA | HB607 | Pass | Virginia Commission to End Hunger established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission to End Hunger. The bill states that the purpose of the Commission is to develop an action plan every two years for ending hunger in the Commonwealth, review th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| VA | HB317 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| VA | HB18 | 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 (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB626 | Pass | Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| VA | HB282 | Pass | Moving violations; highway work zones. Creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a highway work zone punishable by a fine of not less than $300 for the first offense and not less than $500 for any subsequent offense. The bill provides ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| VA | HB22 | Pass | Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| 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 | HB586 | Pass | Training standards for law-enforcement officers; drug use. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcement personnel on the use of naloxone or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| VA | HB159 | Pass | Use of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a patrol or security can... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| VA | HB472 | Pass | TANF; child care services; reporting; repeal. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Social Services (i) identify strategies for Virginia to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available for child care services for Temporary Assistance... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0102) |
| VA | HB174 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| VA | HB312 | Pass | Rental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |