| VA | SB891 | Intro
25% | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Impact statement from VCSC (SB891) |
| VA | SB1011 | Intro
25% | Affordable dwelling unit program; City of Falls Church. Adds the City of Falls Church to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB919 | Intro
25% | Private companies providing public transportation services; employee protections. Requires the governing body or transportation district commission of any county or city that contracts with a private company to provide transportation services to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB919) |
| VA | HB2204 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | SB1009 | Intro
25% | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1002 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB939 | Intro
25% | Mail theft; penalty. Creates the offense of mail theft, punishable as a Class 6 felony, for any person who (i) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to deprive, injure, damage, or defraud another (a) takes, destroys, hides, or embezzles mail or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB932 | Intro
25% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB954 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB920 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; throat cancer. Provides that for the purposes of the workers' compensation presumption as to death or disability from certain types of cancer, throat cancer includes cancer that forms in the tissues of the pharynx, larynx, aden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB916 | Intro
25% | Local ordinances; regulation of pet shops. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to regulate or restrict by ordinance the acquisition, marketing, and sale of animals in a pet shop, provided that such ordinance is consistent with state law. Su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-05
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | SB848 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB305 | Intro
25% | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SJR1 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB519 | Intro
25% | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB333 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments; genetic material misuse; penalty. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB592 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary; approval of a nonpreferred drug. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to eliminate the requirement that a patient try and fail a drug from the Pref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB312 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB623 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SJR11 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB270 | Engross
50% | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
50% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB315 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB332 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB191 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
25% | Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB348 | Intro
25% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB38 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB721 | Intro
25% | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB406 | Intro
25% | Department of Environmental Quality; enforcement of regulations; Clean Water Act; cooling water intakes at power plants. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to promptly enforce federal regulations implementing a provision of the federal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1031 | Intro
25% | Commission on Legislature Modernization; report. Establishes the Commission on Legislature Modernization in the legislative branch for the purpose of studying the operation and functionality of the General Assembly and identifying ways to make the le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR51 | Intro
25% | Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, poten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB33 | Intro
25% | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
