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VAHJR9Intro

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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...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB859Intro

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Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traff...
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2024-02-09
To House Public Safety Committee
VAHJR2Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB375Intro

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Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1320Intro

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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1320Intro

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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB359Intro

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Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs ass...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB582Intro

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Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB386Intro

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Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB284Intro

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Board of Education; criteria for initial renewable teacher licensure for certain individuals. Requires the Board of Education to issue an initial renewable license as a teacher to any applicant who (i) is enrolled in an accredited education preparati...
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2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education
VAHB948Intro

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Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committees. Requires the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convene an Advisory Review Committee to assist in the distribution of...
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2024-02-07
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
VAHB386Intro

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Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB582Intro

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Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB359Intro

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Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs ass...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB230Intro

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Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB38Intro

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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...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHR51PassCommending the John J. Wright Educational and Cultural Center.
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2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR51ER)
VAHB535Intro

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Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ...
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2024-02-05
To House Education Committee
VAHB230Intro

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Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB535Intro

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Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ...
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2024-02-05
To House Education Committee
VAHB38Intro

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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...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB23Intro

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Weapons; possession or transportation; facility that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to possess in or transport into any facility that provides mental health services o...
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2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety
VAHB170Intro

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Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di...
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2024-02-02
Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns
VAHB33Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB357Intro

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Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB286Intro

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Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR29Intro

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Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacy of the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs; work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to study the current funding model for noncredit workforce cred...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR39Intro

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Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR51Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR21Intro

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Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR25Intro

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Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and univ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1494Intro

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Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of S...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1537Intro

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JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB988Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1537Intro

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JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR39Intro

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Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR51Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB988Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB33Intro

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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB286Intro

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Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR21Intro

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Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR29Intro

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Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacy of the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs; work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to study the current funding model for noncredit workforce cred...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1494Intro

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Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of S...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB357Intro

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Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR25Intro

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Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and univ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB206Intro

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Pet shops; notice of deceased animals; report. Requires pet shops to annually submit a summary of records indicating any time a dog or cat in their possession dies or is euthanized to the State Veterinarian in a format prescribed by him.
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2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
VAHB408Intro

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Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm...
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2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB961Intro

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Virginia local journalism sustainability tax credits. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for eligible local newspaper publishers, defined in the bill, for compensation paid to local news journalists. The credit is equal to (i) for the first ta...
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2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee
VAHB408Intro

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Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm...
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2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB206Intro

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Pet shops; notice of deceased animals; report. Requires pet shops to annually submit a summary of records indicating any time a dog or cat in their possession dies or is euthanized to the State Veterinarian in a format prescribed by him.
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2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
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