| 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 |
| SB455 | Engross
50% | Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund established; report. Establishes the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund to provide grants for projects that conserve or enhance wildlife corridors prioritized by the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan and associated wildlife crossin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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 |
| SB27 | Engross
50% | Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund (the Fund) and the Public School Trades Incentive Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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 |
| SB590 | Engross
50% | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the 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 subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB43 | Engross
50% | Persons with disabilities; disAbility Law Center of Virginia; helpline program. Establishes a helpline program within the disAbility Law Center of Virginia for persons with disabilities. The bill provides that such program may receive and respond to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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; work group; 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| HB963 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; survey; excess food donation; best practices. Requires the Department of Education to survey each school board to determine (i) whether it has an existing policy or practice relating to the donation of excess food, as that te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB659 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| 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 |
| HB1434 | Engross
50% | Land grant; Sandy Point; Mattaponi Indian Tribe. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to grant and convey tracts of land within Sandy Point State Forest in King William County south of and including Brooks Creek to the Mattaponi Indian Tribe. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB510 | Engross
50% | Surplus line broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB195 | Engross
50% | Gaming in the Commonwealth; prohibition on use Gaming in the Commonwealth; prohibition on use of term "casino" by non-casino gaming operators; civil penalties. Prohibits any applicant for licensure or any person licensed or permitted to conduct chari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| HB84 | Engross
50% | Mineral mining and exploration; public notification. Requires an explorer conducting any mineral exploration activities, as those terms are defined in the bill, prior to the start of such activities, to (i) publish a notice in a newspaper having a ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N) |
| 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 |
| HB697 | Engross
50% | Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to use any synthetic media for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Courts of Justice 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 |
| HB52 | Engross
50% | Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Defeated by Senate (6-Y 32-N) |
| 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 |
| HB774 | Engross
50% | Alcohol safety action program; local administrative fee. Provides that any county, city, or town, or any combination thereof, that has established and operates an alcohol safety action program and supplements fees collected for the program pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB107 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising by a member of the General Assembly or statewide official on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
50% | State Department of Health; regulation of certain organizations; sale of food. Expands a current exemption to allow churches, fraternal or school organizations, organizations that are exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1406 | Engross
50% | Fishing license requirements; exemptions; free fishing days. Increases from three to six the maximum number of days that the Board of Wildlife Resources may designate as free fishing days for a person to fish in any inland waters of the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (46-Y 52-N) |
| HB217 | Engross
50% | Physicians; informed consent; disclosure of certain information prior to hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Requires physicians to obtain informed consent from a patient prior to performing a hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Prior to obtaining informed conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1153 | Engross
50% | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| HB1306 | Engross
50% | Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties; satellite offices. Permits the Board of Veterinary Medicine to regulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinary medicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE:Defeated #2 (48-Y 50-N) |
| HB544 | Engross
50% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill directs the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 50-N) |
| HB1449 | Engross
50% | Virginia Coastal Resilience Collaborative at The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Changes references relating to coastal resilience policy from the Coastal Policy Center at William and Mary School of Law to the Virginia Coastal Resilience Col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| HB547 | Engross
50% | Internet Safety Advisory Council; school boards; Internet safety education program. Extends from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for the Internet Safety Advisory Council. The bill requires each school board, after considering the model...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 51-N) |
| HB1017 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that prior to the discharge of any minor or individual who has been admitted to inpatient treatment and is a student at a public elementary or secondary school, a copy of su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (42-Y 55-N) |
| HB378 | Engross
50% | Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 52-N) |
| HB520 | Engross
50% | Promise to appear after the issuance of a summons; issuance of summons instead of warrant in certain cases; nonviolent felonies. Provides that if any person refuses to give a written promise to appear after the issuance of a summons, the arresting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB644 | Engross
50% | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The ordinance may include provisions for a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
