| SB183 | Intro
25% | Earned income tax credit. Allows eligible low-income taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year by the taxpayer for the same taxable year. The bill also states that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB662 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
25% | Chief Resilience Officer of the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Office of Commonwealth Resilience; Interagency Resilience Working Group; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB294 | Intro
25% | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment. The bill provides that no interest will accrue on any unpaid balances 90 days after the date on whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB312 | Intro
25% | Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services; Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman, with the purpose of receiving, recording, and responding to conce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB601 | Intro
25% | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB345 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; limits on required local referendums. Provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum on the question of whether casino gaming should be permitted in such city that subsequently fails shall be p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB632 | Intro
25% | Taxation. Decreases, beginning in taxable year 2025, the income tax imposed (i) on income less than $3,000, from two percent to 1.75 percent; (ii) on income in excess of $3,000 but less than $5,000, from three percent to 2.65 percent; (iii) on income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance; hazardous duty. Provides that members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System, political subdivision employees eligible for enhanced hazardous duty coverage, and members of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB124 | Intro
25% | Sports betting; Virginia college sports. Permits betting, with the exception of proposition betting, on Virginia college sports. Under current law, betting other than proposition betting is allowed on all college sports except Virginia college sports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB561 | Intro
25% | Department of Environmental Quality; nuclear energy electrical generation facilities; permitting. Adds an electrical generation facility with a rated capacity not exceeding 300 megawatts that generates electricity only from nuclear energy located in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB10 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; military retirement benefits; uniformed services. Expands the definition of "military benefits" to include an income tax subtraction of retirement income received for service in the uniformed services of the United States, whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
25% | Virginia taxable income; standard deduction. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that was scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB408 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB414 | Intro
25% | Tire stewardship program established; report. Requires producers of tires sold in the Commonwealth to join a tire stewardship organization on or before January 1, 2026, which must submit a plan to the Department of Environmental Quality for the estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB651 | Intro
25% | Military benefits income tax subtraction; age requirement; emergency. Eliminates the age requirement to claim the individual income tax subtraction for military benefits beginning in taxable year 2023. Under current law, only taxpayers 55 years of ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB675 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; eligible host localities. Adds Fairfax County to the list of localities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth and provides that any proposed site for a casino gaming establishment considered by Fairfax County shall be (i) locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB689 | Intro
25% | Exemptions to article; cruise ship gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
25% | License plates; collector motor vehicles; penalty. Creates license plates for collector motor vehicles, defined in the bill, which the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue to any applicant who owns or has regular use of anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit. Allows an individual who serves concurrently as a full-time primary or secondary school teacher and as a full-time school bus driver to receive additional service credit in the Virginia Retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB328 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
25% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
25% | Personal property tax relief; qualifying vehicles; reimbursement and appropriation. Provides for a portion of the general fund surplus at the close of the immediately preceding fiscal year to be appropriated for increased car tax relief. Personal pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
25% | Voter registration; cancellation of registration by voter convicted of a felony; notice prior to cancellation. Requires the general registrar to mail a notice to all persons known by him to have been convicted of a felony prior to canceling any such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB61 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; firefighter benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year thereafter. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB451 | Intro
25% | Corporate income tax; distribution of revenues; state parks. Requires five percent beginning July 1, 2024, of all corporate income tax revenues to be distributed to the State Park Conservation Resources Fund to provide (i) free entry to Virginia stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
25% | Guardianship and conservatorship; duties and powers of guardian and conservator; self-dealing prohibited. Provides that a guardian and conservator shall avoid all conflicts of interest and self-dealing, including all appearances of conflicts of inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB482 | Intro
25% | Expungement and sealing of juvenile court records. Provides for the sealing of juvenile court records in those instances where a juvenile was found guilty of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult and such juvenile has attai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB690 | Intro
25% | Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program; fee. Raises from $300 to $350 the maximum fee that may be charged to a person required by the court to enter the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program upon conviction of certain offenses related to driving a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB688 | Intro
25% | Development of offshore wind capacity; prohibited cost recovery. Development of offshore wind capacity; prohibited cost recovery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB409 | Intro
25% | Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements. Allows a locality by ordinance to adopt and require compliance with stretch codes, as defined in the bill, for the construction or rehabilitation of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB500 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans; grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors. Requires an electric utility to include in an integrated resource plan a comprehensive assessment of the application of grid-enhancing technologies an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB148 | Intro
25% | Securities Act; digital tokens; exemption. Provides that an issuer or seller of a digital token, as defined in the bill, shall be exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act if (i) the digital token cannot be considered an investm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB305 | Intro
25% | 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 bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB485 | Intro
25% | Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB685 | Intro
25% | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
25% | Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; duty to implement the Energy Policy of the Commonwealth; RPS program requirements; competitive procurement. Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB715 | Intro
25% | Local review of zoning decisions. Clarifies that a locality may schedule regular reviews of previous zoning decisions in order to determine whether provisions of the zoning ordinance (i) continue to meet the general purpose of promoting the health, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB659 | Intro
25% | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) |
| SB191 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB735 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; denial of referral by direct primary care provider prohibited. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from (i) denying payment for any health care service covered under an enrollee's health benefit plan based solely on the basis that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR18 | Intro
25% | Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB417 | Intro
25% | Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
25% | Election administration; deputy general registrars; recommended number. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt guidance for determining the recommended number of deputy registrars to serve in a county or city based on the size of the county's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (7-Y 7-N) |
| SJR49 | Intro
25% | Recognizing rights of women; affirming biological differences between the sexes for purposes of laws of the Commonwealth. Recognizes the rights of women by affirming that for purposes of the laws of the Commonwealth, a person's sex is defined as his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB149 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Education and Health |
