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HB596PassFisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund established. Establishes the Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund for the purposes of supporting and promoting the economic growth and development of Virginia's seafood economy. The Fund ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/24)
HB14PassUnemployment compensation; employer failure to respond to requests for information; claim determination; notice requirements. Provides that an employer's account shall not be relieved of charges relating to an erroneous payment if the Virginia Employ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 165 (effective 7/1/25)
SB581PassDepartment of Environmental Quality; data; groundwater and surface water withdrawal permits. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to utilize and incorporate comprehensive groundwater, surface water, and aquifer data in its decision-maki...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 7/1/24)
HB566PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen mem...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/26)
HB832PassVirginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law require...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 208 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1112PassAuto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 216 (effective 7/1/25)
HB1389PassPractice of athletic training; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of athletic training" to allow the practice of athletic training to be conducted in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 222 (effective 7/1/24)
SB154PassAdvance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/24)
HB238PassHealth insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. Requires health insurers to provide coverage for examinations and laboratory tests related to colorectal cancer screening in accordance with the most recently published recommendations estab...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 181 (effective 7/1/24)
SB425PassHealth insurance; ethics and fairness in carrier business practices. Makes various changes to requirements governing the business practices of health carriers in the processing and payment of claims. The bill prescribes criteria for what constitutes ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 244 (effective 7/1/24)
SB402PassDepartment of Agriculture and Consumer Services; blue catfish work group; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders in order to support and encourage coordination regarding e...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 240 (effective 7/1/24)
HB595PassInsurance; conducting business by electronic means. Authorizes a plan sponsor of a health benefit plan, including a dental or vision benefit plan, to agree on behalf of a party enrolled in the sponsored health benefit plan to conduct business by elec...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 197 (effective 7/1/24)
HB205PassWorkers' compensation; prompt payment; limitation on claims. Prohibits an employer or workers' compensation carrier from seeking recovery of a payment made to a health care provider for health care services rendered to a claimant unless such recovery...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (effective 7/1/24)
HB690PassInstitutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Ph...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 202 (effective 7/1/24)
HB227PassCharter; City of Colonial Heights. Amends the charter of the City of Colonial Heights by updating language related to the duties of the City Manager and City Attorney, including elimination of the City Attorney's duties to the school board and school...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 180 (effective 7/1/24)
SB386PassQuarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 237 (effective 7/1/24)
HB223PassCruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (effective 7/1/24)
SB585PassCapital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 252 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1488PassLocal government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 225 (effective 7/1/24)
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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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB1103PassVirginia Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to the Virginia Port Authority. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide certain employment information to the Virginia Port Authority as may be necessary to ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 215 (effective 7/1/24)
HB105PassResale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; fees. Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; fees. Adds condominium associations and real estate cooperative associations to the types of associations under the Resale Disclosure Act that are prohibited ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 105 (effective 7/1/24)
HB128PassLocal regulation of door-to-door vendors; political parties exempted. Provides that local ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any person participating in certain specified political activities.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 172 (effective 7/1/24)
SB424PassAdmission to bail; act of violence. Provides that a judicial officer who admits a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence shall notify the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which such person's case is filed contempor...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 243 (effective 7/1/24)
HB908PassDepartment of Medical Assistances Services; financial eligibility standards for certain waivers providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to amend the fin...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 211 (effective 7/1/24)
SB692PassCampaign finance; independent expenditure reports, electronic filing required. Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing. The bill has a delaye...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 7/1/25)
HB460PassCumberlands Airport Commission. Establishes a new charter for the Cumberlands Airport Commission and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1958. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the Commission and contains powers and duti...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 192 (effective 7/1/24)
HB700Enroll
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Certain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance. Expands to include each public institut...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB556Enroll
75%
Historic rehabilitation tax credit; maximum amount of tax credit. Increases from $5 million to $7.5 million, beginning in taxable year 2025, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxab...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1475Enroll
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Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; building owners and operators to supply cooling by April 1 and heating by October 1. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to evaluate revisions to the Unif...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB256Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1519Enroll
75%
Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virg...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB207Enroll
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Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB712Enroll
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Six-year financial plan. Modifies the requirements for the six-year financial plan submitted by the Governor to the General Assembly by (i) requiring that such plan be submitted on or before the first day of each regular session of the General Assemb...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB419Enroll
75%
Early 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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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB611Enroll
75%
Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional correctional facility to report to the State Bo...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB125Enroll
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Special justices and independent evaluator fees; emergency custody and voluntary and involuntary civil admissions. Increases the fee that a special justice receives for presiding over emergency custody and voluntary and involuntary civil admissions f...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1312Enroll
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Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective d...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB18Enroll
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Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1345Enroll
75%
High 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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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB217Enroll
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Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1165Enroll
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Rights 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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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB426Enroll
75%
Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Vir...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1088Enroll
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Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate cha...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB399Enroll
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Six-year financial plan. Modifies the requirements for the six-year financial plan submitted by the Governor to the General Assembly by (i) requiring that such plan be submitted on or before the first day of each regular session of the General Assemb...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB266Enroll
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Custodial 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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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB105Enroll
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB1083Enroll
75%
Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the V...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB496Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
HB173Enroll
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 24109222D-H2
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