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VAHB6004PassGeneral 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...
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2024-07-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)
VAHR733PassCelebrating the life of Donald R. Craig.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR733ER)
VAHR783PassCommending Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR783ER)
VAHR772PassCelebrating the life of Christine L. Marrow.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR772ER)
VAHR768PassCommending Volunteer Fairfax.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR768ER)
VAHR769PassCommending Brynn Van Brunt.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR769ER)
VAHR738PassCelebrating the life of Gregory Maurice Beckwith, Sr.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR738ER)
VAHR713PassCommending Eddie L. Radden, Jr.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR713ER)
VAHR773PassCelebrating the life of Lois D. McClellan.
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2024-06-28
Bill text as passed House (HR773ER)
VAHR613PassCommending Maureen Boland.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR613ER)
VAHR667PassCelebrating the life of Golden Bethune-Hill.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR667ER)
VAHR635PassCommending Linda Choe.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR635ER)
VAHR638PassCommending Dawn Michelle Staley.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR638ER)
VAHB673PassResilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816)
VAHB25PassAnnual 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 ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628)
VAHB736PassDepartment of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving c...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730)
VAHB102PassCompensation 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
VAHB149PassEmployee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632)
VAHB1269PassBarrier 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651)
VAHB926PassUnlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697)
VAHB1345PassHigh school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657)
VAHB327PassCommissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721)
VAHB1361PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)
VAHB35PassFirearm 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)
VAHB361PassDissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, empl...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
VAHB509PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444)
VAHB511PassOut-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or regist...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
VAHB558PassConstitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394)
VAHB732PassPublic schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
VAHB160PassDepartment 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430)
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)
VAHB1163PassDepartment of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and req...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414)
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)
VAHB503PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; credentialed addiction treatment professionals; licensed behavior analysts; definition. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend in its regulations the definition of "credentialed addic...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)
VAHB508PassDepartment of Education; background checks for child day program employees and volunteers; dissemination of information in certain circumstances. Requires the Department of Education, upon receiving a written request for a written certification from ...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289)
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)
VAHB626PassPublic 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299)
VAHB358PassVoluntarily registered family day homes; safe sleep practices; checklist. Requires the Department of Education to update its Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist for any voluntarily registered family day home to include safe sleep pract...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285)
VAHB18PassHate 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)
VAHB501PassSchool building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires any divisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific school building evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisions that...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194)
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)
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)
VAHB908PassDepartment of Medical Assistances Services; financial eligibility standards for certain waivers providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the financial eligibilit...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211)
VAHB22PassManufacture, 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)
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)
VAHB282PassMoving 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 ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138)
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)
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