| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB350 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, regardless of wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| VA | SB642 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a... [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 | SB716 | Veto | Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB274 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB498 | Enroll
Sine Die | Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. Requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | SB491 | Veto | Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal... [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 | SB356 | 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 (CHAP0770) |
| VA | SB129 | Pass | Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| 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 | SB547 | 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 (CHAP0773) |
| VA | SB389 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | SB215 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| VA | SB394 | Pass | Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| VA | SB398 | Pass | Protective orders; respondent to notify court of change of address. Requires the respondent against whom a protective order has been issued to notify the court in writing within seven days of any change of residence while such order is in effect, pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| VA | SB283 | Pass | Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| VA | SB710 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| VA | SB574 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; behavioral health and crisis response services; civil admissions laws and processes; work group; report. Directs the Behavioral Health Commission to convene a work group to study how to effectively align current civil ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| VA | SB456 | Pass | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector Ge... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| VA | SB692 | Pass | Campaign 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| VA | SB298 | Pass | Tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural application equipment; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individual and corporate tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural applicat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| VA | SB401 | Pass | Military leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions; professional firefighters. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a professional firefighter s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| VA | SB731 | Pass | Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; penalty. Amends the definition of "child pornography" to include sexually explicit visual material that depicts a minor in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct where such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| VA | SB213 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a lo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| VA | SB210 | 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 (CHAP0164) |
| VA | SB644 | Pass | Unpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| 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 | SB211 | Pass | Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| VA | SB209 | Pass | Adoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| VA | SJR243 | Pass | Commending the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ243ER) |
| VA | SR121 | Pass | Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw; portrait. Establishes a committee to contract for a portrait of Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw to be painted, framed, and installed in the Capitol. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed Senate (SR121ER) |
| VA | SJR170 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James "Jim" Horace Hinshaw. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ170ER) |
| VA | SJR175 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Samuel Reynolds III. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ175ER) |
| VA | SJR183 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Julie Clemente. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ183ER) |
| VA | SJR245 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Avelina S. Jacob. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ245ER) |
| VA | SJR210 | Pass | Commending William A. Pruitt. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ210ER) |
| VA | SJR227 | Pass | Commending Daniel G. "Bud" Oakey. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ227ER) |
| VA | SJR237 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ237ER) |
| VA | SJR244 | Pass | Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ244ER) |
| VA | SJR212 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Harold A. Deane, Sr. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ212ER) |
| VA | SR139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of David Wiett Reed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate (SR139ER) |
| VA | SR141 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Marvin Joseph Weniger. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate (SR141ER) |
| VA | SR125 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State University marching band. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate (SR125ER) |
| VA | SJR28 | Pass | Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain transit systems; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study long-term, sustainable, dedicated funding and cost-containment controls and str... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ28ER) |
| VA | SB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SJR149 | Pass | Celebrating the life of William Thomas Greer, Jr. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ149ER) |