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VAHB374PassVirginia 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
VAHB355PassSchool boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another schoo...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442)
VAHB426PassBoard of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Vir...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
VAHB252PassSickle cell disease; statewide registry; collection of sickle cell disease case information; penalties; notification; annual report. Creates a statewide registry of sickle cell disease patients to be maintained by the State Health Commissioner. The b...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437)
VAHB98PassPublic 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433)
VAHB1423PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; publication of information related to home care services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to annually publish on its website the average hourly payment rates for home care services for ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484)
VAHB893PassStandards 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428)
VAHB699PassBoard of Medicine; Board of Dentistry; Board of Optometry; Boards of Medicine and Nursing; patient counseling; treatment with opioids. Directs the Board of Medicine, the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Optometry, and the Boards of Medicine and Nursi...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0448)
VAHB928PassInterference 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403)
VAHB1392PassLocal government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be cove...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)
VAHB801PassElectronic 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 ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)
VAHB100PassChild 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...
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2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369)
VAHB581PassHuman trafficking response teams. Requires attorneys for the Commonwealth to establish multidisciplinary human trafficking response teams. The bill provides that each team shall hold a meeting, at least annually, to (i) discuss implementation of prot...
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2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366)
VAHB407PassChild 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)
VAHB163PassPublic institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers. Requires each public institution of higher education to maintain and annually update as necessary to ensure accuracy and cur...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176)
VAHB583PassPublic school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the shar...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)
VAHB255PassAdult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182)
VAHB1135PassDepartment of Agriculture and Consumer Services; blue catfish work group; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders in order to support and encourage coordination regarding e...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218)
VAHB131PassDepartment of Education; learning needs dashboard. Requires the Department of Education to continue to maintain until July 1, 2029, a learning needs dashboard that includes an interactive bar chart feature to compare annual pass rates and an interact...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173)
VAHB281PassEarly childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185)
VAHB730PassCampaign finance; independent expenditure reports; electronic filing required. Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing. The bill has a delaye...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206)
VAHB719PassPublic high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or hea...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144)
VAHB1381PassCenter for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132)
VAHB159PassUse 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099)
VAHB174PassMarriage 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 ...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
VAHB1317PassPublic schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061)
VAHB48PassPublic institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015)
VAHB894PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the me...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)
VAHR281PassCommending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR281ER)
VAHJR406PassCommending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ406ER)
VAHJR365PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ365ER)
VAHR341PassCommending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR341ER)
VAHR375PassCommending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR375ER)
VAHR396PassCommending Faith Works Fellowship Cathedral.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR396ER)
VAHR420PassCommending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR420ER)
VAHR405PassCommending JoAnn McCoy.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR405ER)
VAHR421PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR421ER)
VAHJR287PassCelebrating the life of Emily Beer.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ287ER)
VAHJR346PassCommending Julian C. Deck.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ346ER)
VAHJR233PassCommending the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ233ER)
VAHR340PassCommending the Loudoun County Public Schools Mobile Health Clinic.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR340ER)
VAHR339PassCommending student-guitarists of Loudoun County Public Schools.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR339ER)
VAHR338PassCommending Megan Tucker.
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2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR338ER)
VAHJR199PassCommending Jennifer DeBruhl.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ199ER)
VAHJR303PassCelebrating the life of Nancy Soaper Hayden.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ303ER)
VAHJR217PassCelebrating the life of Peter Easter.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ217ER)
VAHJR226PassCommending Lucy Addison High School.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ226ER)
VAHJR324PassCommending Brodie Farm.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ324ER)
VAHJR250PassCommending the Norfolk Tides.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ250ER)
VAHR296PassCommending Rustic Love.
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2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House (HR296ER)
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