Virginia Delegate Shelly Simonds [D] | Bills

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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)
VAHB6003Engross

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General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Progr...
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2024-07-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB819VetoHealth 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...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB187VetoAverage teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB824VetoRate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB812VetoSpecial license plates; Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee. Repeals authorization for the issuance of Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee special license plates and provides that such special license plates already in circulati...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB624VetoPublic school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB208VetoComprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's s...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB161VetoArrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB45VetoEarned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB34PassContract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
VAHB385VetoRailroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight.
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB47VetoInvasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB805VetoAdditional 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...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB967PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, a description of any rent and fees to b...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826)
VAHB351VetoFirearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB972VetoProhibiting inquiry into the immigration status of defendant; notification of consequences. Requires that at the initial court hearing for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal proce...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB974VetoWorkers' compensation; presumption that certain injuries arose out of employment. Provides that in any claim for workers' compensation, where the employee suffers an unexplained fall in the course of employment, such employee may satisfy the burden o...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB570VetoPrescription 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...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1100VetoConservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB990VetoProhibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1454VetoLimited-duration licenses and driver privilege cards and permits; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials and commercial dri...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1252VetoLimitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior t...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1098VetoUnpaid family bereavement leave; required; remedies. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with up to 10 days of unpaid family bereavement leave in any 12-month period to (i) atte...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB571VetoPolicies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB953VetoLocal Environmental Impact Fund. Allows localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Local Environmental Impact Fund. The bill provides that the Fund shall consist exclusively of appropriated local moneys and any gifts, dona...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1415PassCivil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)
VAHB603PassPublic elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
VAHB1157PassConsultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830)
VAHB454VetoCarrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB949VetoHazardous Substance Facility Response Plans; civil penalties. Requires any person that is required to submit a facility response plan under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Worst Case Discharge Plan...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB258PassNonjudicial sale of tax delinquent real properties; unimproved properties within urban redevelopment or revitalization zone. Allows the nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent property when such property is (i) unimproved, (ii) one-half acre or less in si...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636)
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)
VAHB580PassTask Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities, consisting of legislat...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)
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)
VAHB827PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
VAHB1268PassEligibility for participation in community corrections alternative program; evaluation and diagnosis; referral to the Department of Corrections. Provides that a probation and parole officer may refer a defendant on probation to the Department of Corr...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)
VAHB855PassState Department of Social Services; Home Energy Assistance Program. Authorizes the State Department of Social Services to allow applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program to be submitted over an application period that provides adequate tim...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
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)
VAHB1247PassPublic school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743)
VAHB1458PassChief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Interagency Resilience Management Team; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Amends certain provisions relating to the functions and du...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753)
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)
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)
VAHB1369PassCriminal justice training academies; curriculum. Provides that an approved criminal justice training academy may utilize an alternative curriculum and lesson plans that meet or exceed the compulsory minimum training standards without seeking a waiver...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)
VAHB814PassVirginia Tourism Authority; powers; historically accurate advertising. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority, in consultation with The Library of Virginia, the Virginia African American Advisory Board, and other subject matter experts, to create gu...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
VAHB947PassLocal government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products in...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)
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)
VAHB204PassMaternal Mortality Review Team; membership. Adds a representative of the Department of Corrections and a representative of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, both appointed by the Governor, to the membership of the Maternal Mortality Review...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376)
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)
VAHB321PassLine of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths th...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)
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