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SB271PassNet energy metering; eligible customer-generators and eligible agricultural customer-generators. Provides that no contract, lease, or arrangement by which a third party owns, maintains, or operates an electrical generating facility on an eligible cus...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783)
HB1178VetoCommonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Amends the membership of the board of directors of the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority by adding four nonlegislative citizen members ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB585VetoHome-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 mil...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB803VetoExpungement of juvenile court records. Provides that if a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult, other than certain felony offenses specified in the bill committed when such juvenile w...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB1157PassConsultation 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)
SB696VetoModification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB455VetoPossession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the offense of possession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance. The bill provides that upon motion of the attorney for t...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB1098VetoUnpaid 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
HB30Enroll
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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...
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2024-04-17
Failed to pass
HB916VetoSubstantial Risk Order Reporting System established. Requires the Department of State Police to establish a Substantial Risk Order Reporting System for the purpose of tracking and reporting substantial risk orders by locality and to publish such repo...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB637VetoSubstantial risk orders; training program. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a Substantial Risk Order Training Program for the purposes of training law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions throughout the C...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB612VetoFines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB1491PassPhase I Utility; recovery of development costs associated with small modular nuclear facility. Permits American Electric Power, prior to the filing of an application for a certificate to construct a small modular nuclear facility, to request the Stat...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836)
HB625PassPublic education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
HB1420VetoJuveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB1397PassManufactured Home Lot Rental Act; manufactured home park; notice of sale and relocation expenses. Requires a manufactured home park owner to provide notice to the Department of Housing and Community Development and each manufactured home park tenant ...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833)
SB454PassElectric utilities; recovery of development costs associated with small modular reactor. Permits Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission at any time for the approval of a rate adjustment clause for the recovery of small ...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789)
HB953VetoLocal 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
HB110VetoSurrogacy brokers; repeal of prohibition against. Repeals the statute prohibiting any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity from accepting compensation for recruiting or procuring surrogates or accepting compensation for otherwise a...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB852PassLocal government ordinances related to fire departments; billing on behalf of volunteer fire departments. Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town in which a fire department or fire company is established may make such ordinances...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823)
SB248PassVirginia Petroleum Products Franchise Act; agreements between jobber/distributors and dealers; market valuation study. Provides that a term of an initial agreement between a jobber/distributor and a dealer relating to specific marketing premises shal...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668)
HB580PassTask 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)
HB1337PassBoard of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654)
SB242PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liabi...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705)
HB320PassPesticide control exemptions; herbicide applications by unpaid volunteers. Exempts from the provisions of state pesticide laws and regulations any unpaid volunteer who uses any nonrestricted herbicide with the express authorization of a local politic...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720)
SB340PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifies that the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appears on a purchase card statement or other payment record and the descript...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)
SB497PassTemporary detention order; alternative transportation. Provides that when a magistrate is determining whether an alternative transportation provider is available for the purposes of designating a transportation provider for the transportation of a pe...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680)
HB313PassOffice of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all com...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638)
SB411PassTask 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 (CHAP0675)
HB419PassEarly childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722)
SB391PassEmployee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674)
SB487PassJoint Commission on Technology and Science; analysis of the use of artificial intelligence by public bodies; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678)
SB39PassKinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)
HB648PassContracts assigning rights to inheritance funds; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2024, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728)
HB108PassShared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purcha...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716)
SB433PassBoard of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623)
HB106PassShared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715)
HB1345PassHigh school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657)
HB1165PassRights of persons with disabilities; definitions. Adds definitions related to the rights of persons with disabilities to relevant law. The bill defines "path of travel," "place of public accommodation,"" "public entity," "private entity," and "readil...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648)
SB660PassHealth insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; reporting requirements; civil penalty. Provides that a person that violates the existing requirement to obtain a license prior to providing pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise acting as a p...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626)
HJR45PassConstitutional amendment (second reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777)
HB266PassCustodial interrogation of a child; failure to comply with section; inadmissibility of statement. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer knowingly fails to comply with existing law regarding parental notification and contact prior to a custodial ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719)
HB578PassUniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)
SB324PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; charges for production of public records; report. Prohibits a public body from charging a requester for any costs incurred during the first hour spent accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for records re...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669)
HB327PassCommissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721)
SB496PassVirginia Growth and Opportunity Act; Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Reduces the local funding match requirement for GO Virginia grants from being equal to the grant amount to being at least equ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624)
HB1351PassVirginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; ignition interlock system. Provides that advertising for any ignition interlock system by a vendor not approved by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program to operate in Virg...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
HB202PassOptometrists; expert witness testimony. Allows an optometrist to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his practice.
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718)
HB731PassTeachers; renewable licenses; requirements; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to eliminate the requirement for any individual to take and receive a passing score on the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment as a condition of the i...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729)
SB121PassConservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702)
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