| 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 | SB6011 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs and delayed effective date for academic progress requirement; JLARC review. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Suspend 48 Hours (20-Y 17-N) (2/3 voting required) |
| VA | SB6010 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6009 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; delayed effective date for modifications to certain waiver programs; JLARC review. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $45 million to offset the impact of finan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6005 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6007 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB6008 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; regulation of gaming commerce and development in the Commonwealth; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the registration and licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, hosting, and playing of electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6006 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6004 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB6003 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB100 | Veto | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB515 | Veto | Weapons; possession or transportation; hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly possess in or transport into the building of any hospital that provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB6002 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 769 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, as further amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6001 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB99 | Veto | Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB273 | Veto | 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] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB383 | Veto | Carrying 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB327 | Veto | 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] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB364 | Pass | Elections; protection of electors and election officials; penalties. Adds to the list of protected voters any current or former elector for President and Vice President of the United States and any person who is or has been a member of the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| VA | SB363 | Pass | Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| 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 | 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 | SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| VA | SB614 | Pass | Xylazine; manufacturing; selling; giving; distributing; possessing; veterinary use exemption; penalties. Provides that any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with the intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| VA | SB7 | Pass | Hate 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| 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 | SB44 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162) |
| 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 | SB522 | Fail | Purchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of a firearms safety or training course; penalty. Requires that a prospective purchaser of a firearm present proof that such prospective purchaser has demonstrated competence ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB369 | Engross
Sine Die | Maiming, killing, or poisoning companion animals; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously shoot, stab, or wound, or otherwise cause bodily injury to, or administer poison to or expose poison with intent that it be taken by, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 769 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, as further amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB280 | Engross
Prefile | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Donor human milk banks, health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty; emergency. Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of electronic gaming devices; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, servicing, hosting, and play of electronic gaming devices, as defined in the bill. The bill provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB333 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB278 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Use, display, or concealment of firearm in committing certain felonies; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| VA | SB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| VA | SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
