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SB657Enroll
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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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB272Enroll
75%
Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB454Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB300Enroll
75%
Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
SB44PassAbuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (effective 7/1/24)
SB273VetoPurchase 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB290PassGuardians and conservators; order of appointment and certificate of qualification; annual report. Requires a petitioner to file with a petition for the appointment of a guardian, a conservator, or both a cover sheet on a form prepared by the Office o...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 156 (effective 7/1/24)
SB5PassSTEM+C Competition Team Grant Program established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Program to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas and support STEM+C-related e...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (effective 7/1/24)
SB635PassAlcoholic beverage control; sale and delivery of mixed beverages and pre-mixed wine for off-premises consumption; third-party delivery license; sunset; repeal. Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset on provisions that allow (i) distillers that have been ap...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 159 (effective - see bill)
SB2VetoPurchase, 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB179PassState hospitals; discharge planning; report. Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after ad...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 153 (effective 1/1/25)
SB99VetoCarrying 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB447VetoFirearm 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB642VetoPurchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB338VetoStudy; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects of gun violence on communities across the Commonwealth. Study; JLA...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB210PassManufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 164 (effective 7/1/24)
SB363Enroll
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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...
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2024-03-26
Governor's recommendation received by Senate
SB589PassRental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. T...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 158 (effective 7/1/24)
SB383VetoCarrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB491VetoFirearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB24PassLong-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by crea...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 152 (effective 3/26/24)
SB368VetoStorage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB216PassSpecial license plates; 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. The bill provides that the prepaid application requireme...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 155 (effective 7/1/24)
SB644PassUnpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 160 (effective 7/1/24)
SB362Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-22
Governor's substitute printed 24109199D-S1
SB334VetoPlea 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB629PassCivil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 126 (effective 7/1/24)
SB353PassCommercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits; definitions; commercial driver training; drug and alcohol violations. Conforms the definition of commercial motor vehicle to federal regulations, codifies the entry-level driver training ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 121 (effective 7/1/24)
SB577PassElections; campaign finance; exemptions for candidates for certain offices; directors of soil and water conservation districts. Provides that a candidate for director of a soil and water conservation district may also seek an exemption from the requi...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/24)
SB144VetoNolle 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB725PassDrug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 130 (effective 7/1/24)
SB470PassUniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts; certain nonvested property interests or powers of appointment over property or property interests. Extends from 90 years to 1,000 years the period for which a nonvested property interest held in tr...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (effective 7/1/24)
SB169PassVirginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no l...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 117 (effective 7/1/24)
SB709PassAssessment of omitted taxes; erroneous payments. Provides that any retail sales tax payment erroneously remitted by a taxpayer to the Department of Taxation shall be applied to the taxpayer's delinquent use tax accounts. The taxpayer must provide evi...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 128 (effective 7/1/24)
SB133PassPhysician assistants; practice agreement exemption. Allows physician assistants employed by a hospital or employed in certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in federally qualified health cente...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 116 (effective 7/1/24)
SB449VetoJuvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB435PassBoard of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the throug...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/24)
SB505VetoLimitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that, when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB23VetoJuveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB69VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police, po...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB330PassDepartment of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate board; continuing education requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons. Increases from eight to 11 the number of hours of continuing education an applicant for relicensure...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 120 (effective 7/1/24)
SB691PassConveyance of certain property from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville; Augusta Correctional Center. Provides for the transfer of certain property in Augusta County from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville. ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 127 (effective 7/1/24)
SB638PassExemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 72 (effective 7/1/24)
SB732PassCrash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 80 (effective 7/1/24)
SB542VetoUnemployment 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...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB205PassToll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to u...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 68 (effective 7/1/24)
SB209PassAdoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 70 (effective 7/1/24)
SB156PassFinancial Services Expansion Grant Fund. Creates the Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible financial services company that makes a capital investment of at least $87 million at a facility in Roanoke County and ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 92 (effective 7/1/24)
SB510PassInvestment of public funds. Allows any qualified public entity of the Commonwealth to invest in asset-backed securities that are guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 66 (effective 7/1/24)
SB259VetoCivil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil action or may be proceeded against in a civil action, provided that ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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