| SB369 | Engross 50% | Maiming, killing, or poisoning companion animals; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously shoot, stab, or wound, or otherwise cause bodily injury to, or administer poison to or expose poison with intent that it be taken by, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB168 | Engross 50% | Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio. Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for certain mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires that a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee meet or excee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB444 | Engross 50% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Education Committee |
| SB28 | Engross 50% | School boards; powers and duties; policies regarding cell phones and other handheld communication devices. Permits each school board to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the possession or use of cell phones and other handheld communication d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Education Committee |
| SB442 | Engross 50% | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB466 | Engross 50% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB384 | Engross 50% | Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB573 | Engross 50% | Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Emergency Management and financially man... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB549 | Engross 50% | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $ 5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB280 | Engross 50% | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB641 | Engross 50% | Certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators by localities. Repeals an existing statute that allows localities by ordinance to require certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB673 | Engross 50% | Department of Environmental Quality; State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board to prioritize the preservation of wat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB181 | Engross 50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB73 | Engross 50% | Photo-monitoring system for traffic signals; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a locality to employ a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, as defined in the bill, to review photographs, microphotographs, videotape, or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB535 | Engross 50% | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB575 | Engross 50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Education Committee |
| SB347 | Engross 50% | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate and make recommendations on improving long-term viability; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB231 | Engross 50% | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB40 | Engross 50% | Department of Social Services; task force; application for and use of foster care benefits; report. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a task force with relevant stakeholders to assess the feasibility of (i) requiring local depart... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 1-N) |
| SB594 | Engross 50% | Department of Health; Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board; emergency medical personnel; career fatigue and wellness program. Directs the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board (the Board) to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB311 | Engross 50% | Board of Medical Assistance Services; investigate violence prevention services benefit programs. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to (i) investigate violence prevention services benefits in other states, including evidenc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB697 | Engross 50% | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB499 | Engross 50% | Donor human milk banks, health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty; emergency. Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB377 | Engross 50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB226 | Engross 50% | Department of Motor Vehicles; highway use fee; tiered flat rate system; work group; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB427 | Engross 50% | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB316 | Engross 50% | Conservation of trees; Town of Vienna. Allows the Town of Vienna, by ordinance, to require that a subdivision or development provide for the preservation or replacement of trees on the development site such that the minimum tree canopy 10 years after... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 VOTE: DEFEATED (52-Y 48-N) |
| SB695 | Engross 50% | Virginia Crime Commission; surveillance technology; report. Adds to the powers and duties of the Virginia Crime Commission (the Commission) the power to conduct an annual study on surveillance technology, defined in the bill, utilized by local and st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (18-Y 4-N) |
| SB615 | Engross 50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; community health worker services benefit; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of stakeholders to design a community health worker services benefi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (19-Y 2-N) |
| SB302 | Engross 50% | Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB70 | Engross 50% | SNAP; employment and training. Requires all local departments of social services to offer a voluntary employment and training program for SNAP benefits program participants from funds so appropriated. SNAP; employment and training. Requires all loca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB636 | Engross 50% | Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation tre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB320 | Engross 50% | Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) applica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB593 | Engross 50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB79 | Engross 50% | Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB234 | Engross 50% | Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program; report. Establishes the Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in Chesterfie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB590 | Engross 50% | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and substanc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB406 | Engross 50% | Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB315 | Engross 50% | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB270 | Engross 50% | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause. Electio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB304 | Engross 50% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB563 | Engross 50% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee |
| SB229 | Engross 50% | Health Commissioner; workgroup; recommendations on Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish a work group to examine the feasibility of and make recommendations for t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee |
| SB218 | Engross 50% | Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB396 | Engross 50% | Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Provides that judges appointed or elected to an initial term on or after July 1, 2024, and who are at least age 55 at the time of appointment will be placed in Plan 1 with... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB146 | Engross 50% | Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Prince Edward County. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 Incorporated by Finance |
| SB33 | Engross 50% | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20 To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB359 | Engross 50% | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19 To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SB171 | Engross 50% | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB498 | Engross 50% | School-connected overdoses; policies relating to parental notification and response; requirements. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to notify the parent of each student in the local school division of any school-connected overdos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Education: K-12 Committee |