| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| SB544 | Pass | Short-term rental property; special exceptions. Prohibits a locality from barring the use of or requiring that a special exception, special use, or conditional use permit be obtained for the use of a residential dwelling as a short-term rental where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 792 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB608 | Pass | Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education; Community School Development and Implementation Planning Grant; state goal. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 797 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB405 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB550 | Pass | Liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products; certification and directory; penalties. Requires every manufacturer of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products that are sold for retail sale in the Commonwealth to certify to the Attorney General that (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 793 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB713 | Pass | Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 799 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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
Enacted, Chapter 787 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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
Enacted, Chapter 786 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB34 | Pass | Temporary detention; certified evaluators; report. Authorizes hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department located in the City of Hampton to employ certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 780 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB271 | Pass | Net 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 783 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB454 | Pass | Electric 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 789 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB248 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 668 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB242 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 705 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB340 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB497 | Pass | Temporary 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 680 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB411 | Pass | Task 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 675 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB391 | Pass | Employee 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 674 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB487 | Pass | Joint 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB39 | Pass | Kinship 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (effective - see bill) |
| SB433 | Pass | Board 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 623 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB660 | Pass | Health 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 626 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB324 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 669 (effective - see bill) |
| SB496 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 624 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| SB121 | Pass | Conservation 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 702 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB627 | Pass | Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SJR3 | Pass | Constitutional 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Assigned Chapter 778 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB707 | Pass | Public middle schools and high schools; student organizations; career and technical education organizations permitted. Permits each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB239 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 704 (effective - see bill) |
| SB358 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; definition of a real estate broker. Adds to the definition of "real estate broker" any individual or business entity who sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, negotiates, or otherwise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 621 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB679 | Pass | Enterprise zones; extension. Provides that any enterprise zone in existence as of June 30, 2024, shall be extended for a period of four years in addition to any renewal periods currently authorized by law and authorizes the Governor, upon the recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB336 | Pass | Photo speed monitoring devices; high-risk intersection segments. Permits a state or local law-enforcement agency to place and operate a photo speed monitoring device at a high-risk intersection segment, defined in the bill, located within the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 670 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB598 | Pass | Property and conveyances; recordation of documents; name changes. Provides that any name change made in relation to a person's marriage or divorce is entitled to be recorded in the clerk's office in which deeds are recorded of the county or city in w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 711 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB255 | Pass | Shared 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 765 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB95 | Pass | Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB116 | Pass | Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 663 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB546 | Pass | Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; evaluations; presence of others. Requires (i) the evaluator conducting the evaluation of an individual to determine whether such individual meets the criteria for temporary detention or (ii) the hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 682 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB400 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 622 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB547 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 773 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB281 | Pass | Family cemeteries; interment rights; proof of kinship. Allows a family member or descendant, as defined in the bill, of a deceased person buried in a family cemetery, also defined in the bill, that is located on private property to petition the circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 767 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB488 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 679 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 771 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB672 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; Virginia Condominium Act; assessments for legal obligations of associations. Clarifies that neither the Property Owners' Association Act or the Virginia Condominium Act (the Acts) shall be construed to prevent any as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 685 (effective 7/1/24) |
