| SB422 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited fees. Prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from requiring a tenant to (i) pay any fee for the maintenance or repair of any unit subject to such rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB256 | Pass | Motor vehicle insurance claims; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company licensed in the Commonwealth to write motor vehicle insurance (i) denies, refuses, fails to pay, or fails to make a timely and reasonable settlement offer to its insured...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 781 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB570 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of "employer." Waives the Commonwealth's sovereign immunity to a civil action under the definition of "person" in relevant law. The bill also expands the definition of "employer" as it relates to the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB334 | Veto | Plea agreements; prohibited provisions. Prohibits plea agreements and court orders executed or entered on or after July 1, 2024, from containing any provision that purports to waive, release, or extinguish a defendant's (i) rights under the Fourth Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB246 | Veto | Limited-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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB480 | Pass | Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 790 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB494 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; live-in domestic workers. Adds individuals who are employed in domestic service in a household and reside in such household to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB542 | Veto | Unemployment insurance; benefit eligibility conditions; lockout exception to labor dispute disqualification. Amends the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act's labor dispute disqualification to provide that a lockout by an employer shall not constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB237 | Enroll
75% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB142 | Enroll
75% | Public school teachers; licensure requirements; one-year local eligibility license; alternate routes and flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to include in its teacher licensure regulations provisions authorizing each school board, upon recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB276 | Veto | Energy upgrade programs; Phase I and Phase II Utilities; State Corporation Commission to study feasibility; work group; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to study the feasibility of the implementation of an ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB105 | Enroll
75% | Public 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB654 | Veto | Fines, 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB586 | Veto | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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
Passed by for the day |
| SB514 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB595 | Veto | Comprehensive 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB1 | Veto | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB212 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB329 | Veto | Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB350 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as requested afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 784 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB238 | Enroll
75% | Health 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB628 | Pass | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Amends the list of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by replacing Richmond with Petersburg. The bill also provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 798 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB260 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia preference. Provides first preference for goods produced in Virginia and then provides for preference to goods produced in the United States before a tie bid is decided by lot in determining the award for any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 782 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB274 | Veto | Prescription 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB582 | Pass | Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 796 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB634 | Veto | State Corporation Commission; powers and duties. Provides that in proceedings before the State Corporation Commission relating to the regulation and oversight of utilities, the Commission shall consider public health and safety, the economy of the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB313 | Enroll
75% | Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB565 | Pass | Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 794 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB357 | Veto | Assault and battery; affirmative defense; penalty. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery of certain specified individuals for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six month mandatory minim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB534 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; sale of franchise. Changes the deadline for a vehicle manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch to reject the sale or transfer of a dealership from 30 days prior to the effective date of the sale or trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 791 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB393 | Veto | MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB144 | Veto | Nolle prosequi or dismissal prior to preliminary hearing; subsequent indictment. Provides that no person who was arrested on a warrant charging him with a felony offense shall be denied a preliminary hearing upon the question of whether there is prob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB115 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB606 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the El...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB362 | Pass | First-time drug offenders. Provides that any person who has not previously been convicted of any felony drug offense under relevant law or under any substantially similar statute of the United States or of any state may be eligible for first-time dru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 785 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB100 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB479 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| SB506 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; powers and duties; legal counsel; scope of employment. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall have authority over the employment of all legal c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB588 | Veto | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB569 | Pass | State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; regulations; crisis receiving centers; appropriate and safe use of seclusion; work group; report. Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend its regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 795 (effective 4/17/24) |
| SB428 | Veto | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Clarifies the requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires the results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB597 | Veto | Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB447 | Veto | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB188 | Enroll
75% | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
