| HB714 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; pilot program for underground transmission lines; additional project. Adds one project to the existing pilot program for underground transmission lines. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to approve one additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB979 | Engross
50% | School board duties; appointment and employment of division superintendents; oversight. Requires each school board to appoint, employ, and provide oversight for a division superintendent and provides that nothing in the Code of Virginia or the regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB942 | Engross
50% | Polling places and voter satellite offices; prohibited locations. Prohibits the placement of a polling place or a voter satellite office within a police station or sheriff's office, but permits the placement in a public building that houses multiple ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1216 | Engross
50% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1514 | Engross
50% | Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB825 | Engross
50% | Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1436 | Engross
50% | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility to allow a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns an interest in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB126 | Engross
50% | Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot, required reports. Provides that a person who fails to file at least one of the campaign finance reports required by law to be filed in an election year by July 20 is not entitled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1303 | Engross
50% | General Assembly members; administrative and legislative assistants. Removes the obsolete title of secretary and replaces it with administrative assistant for the purposes of employment of staff for officers and members of the General Assembly. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1171 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting; processing absentee ballots returned before election day; processing upon receipt. Requires the general registrars to complete the initial processing of absentee ballots that are returned before election day within three business day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| HB1545 | Engross
50% | Requisite training and education achievements of physician assistants. Permits the Board of Medicine to grant provisional licensure as a physician assistant to applicants pending the results of an examination, as defined in the bill. Such provisional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| HB109 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB696 | Engross
50% | Establishment of recovery high schools; authorization in certain Superintendent's regions. Authorizes any school board that governs a school division located in Superintendent's Region 2, 4, or 7 to establish a recovery high school in the relevant sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1101 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; professional services; definition. Adds to the definition of "professional services," for use throughout the Virginia Public Procurement Act, services of an investment and financial advisor procured by the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1185 | Engross
50% | Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer, and Discharge data elements on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1445 | Engross
50% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB675 | Engross
50% | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB677 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB550 | Engross
50% | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB606 | Engross
50% | Board of Social Work; licensure of clinical social workers; examination alternative; regulation amendments. Directs the Board of Social Work to amend the regulations for the licensure of clinical social workers to allow applicants to utilize an exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB1284 | Engross
50% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1322 | Engross
50% | Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination of supervision requirement. Eliminates the requirement that certified registered nurse anesthetists practice under the supervision of a doctor of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB141 | Engross
50% | Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB842 | Engross
50% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB657 | Engross
50% | Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter to, while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB1403 | Engross
50% | Dam Safety, Flood Prevention, and Protection Assistance Fund; percentage of funds available; owner match requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1077 | Engross
50% | Exception to stopping requirement; bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter. Authorizes the person operating a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (5-Y 9-N) |
| HB166 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; guidance and resources; Department of Education; guidance and resources; composting programs in local school divisions. Requires the Department of Education to develop, post in a publicly accessible format and location on its...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB489 | Engross
50% | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes. Provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities may be used for the additional purposes of (i) constructing, improving, or expanding fire station facilities, (ii) providing mental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB951 | Engross
50% | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1266 | Engross
50% | Traffic; bicycles and certain other vehicles. Clarifies that the roadways on which bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, motorized skateboards or scooters, or mopeds are exempt from the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB420 | Engross
50% | Temporary funding of federal park operations. Authorizes the Governor to provide funding and execute necessary agreements to allow the temporary operation of any Virginia property controlled by the National Park Service in the event of a federal gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1355 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1052 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; local government; alternative and conventional onsite sewage systems. Requires localities to review the Department of Health's database prior to notifying the owners of an alternative or conventional onsite sewage system about t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N) |
| HB775 | Engross
50% | License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB878 | Engross
50% | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1405 | Engross
50% | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
50% | Charitable Sports Raffle Act established; penalties. Establishes the Charitable Sports Raffles Act for the purpose of authorizing athletic event drawings, defined in the bill, to be conducted by affiliated nonprofit organizations that conduct such dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB787 | Engross
50% | Administrative Process Act; exemptions; limitations; appeals of case decisions regarding benefits sought. Provides that in appeals of case decisions regarding the grant or denial of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Supplementa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1535 | Engross
50% | Food and beverage tax; meals tax; discount. Allows a county, city, or town to provide a commission to a business for collecting and remitting to the locality a meals tax or a food and beverage tax regardless of whether the business is delinquent on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1490 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB742 | Engross
50% | State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB360 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB414 | Engross
50% | Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, including a recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB366 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB884 | Engross
50% | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1483 | Engross
50% | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment or according to instructions sent with such payment. The bill also states that a city's director of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB210 | Engross
50% | Electronic execution of estate planning documents; Uniform Electronic Wills Act. Permits trusts, advance medical directives, and refusals to make anatomical gifts to be signed and notarized, as appropriate, by electronic means. The bill also codifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
