| 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) |
| HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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 to examine the...
[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) |
| HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB377 | Engross
50% | 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 campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1355 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology 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) |
| HB1052 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; local government; alternative and conventional onsite sewage systems. Requires localities to review the Department of Health's database prior to notifying the owners of an alternative or conventional onsite sewage system about t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-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) |
| HB775 | Engross
50% | License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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 to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB878 | Engross
50% | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1405 | Engross
50% | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
50% | Charitable Sports Raffle Act established; penalties. Establishes the Charitable Sports Raffles Act for the purpose of authorizing athletic event drawings, defined in the bill, to be conducted by affiliated nonprofit organizations that conduct such dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB787 | Engross
50% | Administrative Process Act; exemptions; limitations; appeals of case decisions regarding benefits sought. Provides that in appeals of case decisions regarding the grant or denial of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Supplementa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1535 | Engross
50% | Food and beverage tax; meals tax; discount. Allows a county, city, or town to provide a commission to a business for collecting and remitting to the locality a meals tax or a food and beverage tax regardless of whether the business is delinquent on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1490 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB742 | Engross
50% | State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB360 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB414 | Engross
50% | Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, including a recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB366 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB884 | Engross
50% | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1483 | Engross
50% | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment or according to instructions sent with such payment. The bill also states that a city's director of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB210 | Engross
50% | Electronic execution of estate planning documents; Uniform Electronic Wills Act. Permits trusts, advance medical directives, and refusals to make anatomical gifts to be signed and notarized, as appropriate, by electronic means. The bill also codifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| HB496 | Engross
50% | Waste tire disposal by tire producers and haulers; fee; requirements. Requires a hauler, as defined in the bill, to (i) register with the Department of Environmental Quality and (ii) transfer all waste tires to a transfer station, material recovery f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1273 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1375 | Engross
50% | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB261 | Engross
50% | Income tax; rolling conformity. Provides that when Virginia does not conform on a rolling basis to federal tax laws due to any changes in a single act of Congress with an impact of more than $15 million on revenues in the year in which the amendment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB526 | Engross
50% | Solicitation of contributions; registration of charitable organization; fees. Reduces fees for the registration of charitable organizations that intend to solicit contributions within the Commonwealth. The bill also contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB680 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; recruitment policy; direct work experience. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a statewide recruitment policy designed to provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB339 | Engross
50% | Motor vehicle sales and use tax; exemptions; transfers; limited liability companies. Provides that no motor vehicle sales and use tax shall be imposed on vehicle transfers from (i) an individual, partnership, or limited liability company to a corpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB785 | Engross
50% | Tax exempt property; energy storage systems. Clarifies the tax treatment of energy storage systems. The bill strikes language that overrides the provision requiring the amount of tax exemption for energy storage systems to be 100 percent if the taxin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1263 | Engross
50% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1495 | Engross
50% | Apprenticeship program; film and television industry. Requires the Director of Workforce Development and Advancement to establish a program to promote apprenticeships in the film and television industry. The Director may provide financial incentives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1373 | Engross
50% | Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1070 | Engross
50% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB725 | Engross
50% | Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government 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 |
| HB1054 | Engross
50% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Provides that a locality may require the owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
