| HB1992 | Pass | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery of a family or household member, as defined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| HB2174 | Pass | State-facilitated IRA savings program; establishment. Directs the governing board of the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Board) to establish a state-facilitated individual retirement account (IRA) savings program (the Program). The Board shall adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB1899 | Pass | Sunset of coal tax credits. Sunsets the Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit and Coalfield Employment Enhancement Tax Credit after tax year 2021 and prohibits the allocation of such credits on and after January 1, 2022. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB2138 | Pass | Identification privilege cards; fee; confidentiality; penalties. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue identification privilege cards to applicants who hold a citizenship or legal presence status that is eligible for a special identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| HB2295 | Pass | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to carry any firearm or explosive material within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB2055 | Pass | Child support obligations; party's incarceration not deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment. Provides that a party's incarceration alone for 180 or more consecutive days shall not ordinarily be deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| HB2327 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirement to pay prevailing wage; transportation infrastructure projects. Clarifies, for purposes of the requirement under certain circumstances to pay the prevailing wage rate for work performed on public works con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB2038 | Pass | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; limitations. Limits the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation. The bill provides that if the court finds the basis of a viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| HB2167 | Pass | Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports; discretionary early consideration. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall set the release date for an inmate granted discretionary parole or conditional release no sooner than 30 business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| HB2113 | Pass | Sealing of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| HB2207 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, correctional officers, and reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1999 | Pass | Tax Commissioner; waiver of accrual of interest in the event that the Governor declares a state of emergency; emergency. Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to waive interest for any class of taxpayers when he finds that imposing interest has caused, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB1800 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I. Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| HB1936 | Pass | Robbery; penalties. Creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of another person is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any person who co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB2047 | Pass | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| HB2133 | Pass | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking. Establishes a procedure for victims of sex trafficking to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and court records expunged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| HB1962 | Pass | Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive ki...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| HB2312 | Pass | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and imposes lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| HB2040 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; failure to respond; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Provides that when a claimant has had a determination of initial eligibility for unemployment benefits, as determined by the issuance of compensation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB1855 | Pass | Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Renames the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy as the Department of Energy. Within the Department, the bill renames the Division of Mined Land Reclamation as the Division of Mined Land Repurposing and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| HB1890 | Pass | Elections; prohibited discrimination in voting and elections administration; required process for enacting certain covered practices; civil causes of action. Prohibits any voting qualification or any standard, practice, or procedure related to voting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| HB2031 | Pass | Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB2168 | Pass | Illegal gambling; skill games; civil penalty; enforcement by localities and Attorney General. Provides that any person who conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB2332 | Pass | Commonwealth Health Reinsurance Program. Requires the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to establish, upon approval of a state innovation waiver request pursuant to § 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, a reinsurance program, known as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB2081 | Pass | Polling places; prohibited activities; unlawful possession of a firearm; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly possessing a firearm within 40 feet of any building, or part thereof, used as a polling place, including one hour before and one hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB1811 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for energy-efficient and water-efficient goods. Provides that in the course of procuring goods, if a state agency receives two or more bids for products that are Energy Star certified, meet Federal Energy M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB2121 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; business entities filings; Virginia Stock Corporation Act. Aligns provisions governing the filings by nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, and partnerships related to cancellations, abando...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HJR582 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage; 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 well as the related pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB1831 | Pass | Home care organizations; personal care services; supervision; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to include in regulations governing home care organizations a provision for supervision of home care attendants providing personal care services by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| HB2099 | Pass | Limitations on enforcement of judgments; judgment liens; settlement agents. Reduces from 20 years to 10 years from the date of a judgment the period of time within which an execution may be issued or action may be taken on such judgment. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB1979 | Pass | Electric vehicle rebate program; creation and funding; report. Creates a rebate program for the purchase or lease of new and used electric vehicles, to be administered by the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. A purchaser or lessee of a new or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB1888 | Pass | Absentee voting; procedural and process reforms; availability and accessibility reforms; penalty. Makes various reforms to absentee voting processes and procedures, including those related to availability and accessibility. The bill requires certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0471) |
| HB2161 | Pass | Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's military status, defined as a member of the uniformed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB2032 | Pass | Employment; domestic service. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service are not excluded from employee protection laws. Employment; domestic service. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB2326 | Pass | Regulation of child-care services in localities. Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulation of child-care services that is currently available to certain Northern Virginia localities. This will have the effect of granting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB1889 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan; extend sunset. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, of certain provisions enacted during the 2020 Special Sessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB2092 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; background checks; persons providing contractual services. Requires background checks for contract staff providing direct care services for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB2030 | Pass | Neonicotinoid pesticides; study. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the Beekeeper Pollinator Protection Plan and voluntary best management practices for the purpose of proposing improvements to communication between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HB2020 | Pass | Nomination of candidates for elected offices; restrictions on nomination method selected by political party. Provides that a method of nomination for elected office may not be selected if such method will have the practical effect of excluding partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB1985 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HJR555 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1864 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of employer; person employing one or more domestic workers. Expands the definition of "employer" for all purposes of the Virginia Human Rights Act to include a person employing one or more domestic workers, as de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB2086 | Pass | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB2262 | Pass | Traffic regulation; bicycles; report. Requires the driver of a motor vehicle to change lanes when overtaking a bicycle or certain other vehicles when the lane of travel is not wide enough for the overtaking motor vehicle to pass at least three feet t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB2132 | Pass | Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB2004 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, relating to a criminal investigation or proceeding that is not ongoing, also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB2017 | Pass | Juvenile offenders; youth justice diversion programs. Authorizes any jurisdiction to establish a youth justice diversion program, defined in the bill as a diversionary program that (i) is monitored by a local youth justice diversion program advisory ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB2190 | Pass | Wrongful death beneficiaries. Provides that an award in a wrongful death action, where there is no surviving spouse of the decedent, children of the decedent, or children of a deceased child of the decedent, shall be distributed to the parents, broth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB2019 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers. Requires each local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB2025 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for personal contact information provided to a public body. Provides that personal contact information provided to a public body or any of its members for the purpose of receiving electronic commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
