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SB590Engross
50%
Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of 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 substanc...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
SB406Engross
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB315Engross
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB270Engross
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB304Engross
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB563Engross
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee
SB229Engross
50%
Health Commissioner; workgroup; 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 t...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee
HB963Engross
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...
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2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N)
HB659Engross
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...
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2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
SB218Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee
SB396Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee
SB146Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
Incorporated by Finance
HB1434Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB510Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB195Engross
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...
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2024-02-21
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N 1-A)
HB84Engross
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...
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2024-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N)
SB33Engross
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...
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2024-02-20
To House Health and Human Services Committee
HB697Engross
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...
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2024-02-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB359Engross
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...
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2024-02-19
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
HB52Engross
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 ...
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2024-02-19
Defeated by Senate (6-Y 32-N)
HB906Engross
50%
Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a ...
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2024-02-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB171Engross
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...
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2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB498Engross
50%
School-connected overdoses; policies relating to parental notification and response; requirements. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to notify the parent of each student in the local school division of any school-connected overdos...
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2024-02-15
To House Education: K-12 Committee
SB610Engross
50%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; slot-retention requests; Developmental Disability waivers; sunset. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Beha...
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2024-02-15
Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N)
SB27Engross
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 ...
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2024-02-15
To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
HB774Engross
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...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB107Engross
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 ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB554Engross
50%
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; reciprocal licensing for certain professionals from neighboring states. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board, the Real Estate Board, the Board for Waste Management Facility Operators, and th...
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2024-02-14
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee
SB443Engross
50%
Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
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2024-02-14
Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
SB141Engross
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...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1406Engross
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 ...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (46-Y 52-N)
HB217Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
SB560Engross
50%
Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; dust sampling technicians, renovators, and accredited renovation training programs. Removes the responsibility of the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors to promulgate regulations conc...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
SB240Engross
50%
Property tax exemption; surviving spouses of armed forces members who died in the line of duty. Expands the real property tax exemption that is currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action to the surviving spouses of sold...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
HB1153Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N)
SB704Engross
50%
Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
HB1306Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE:Defeated #2 (48-Y 50-N)
SB325Engross
50%
Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military. Directs the State Registrar to expedite issuance of a new birth certificate upon receipt of certain documentation for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive par...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
HB544Engross
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 ...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 50-N)
HB1449Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N)
SB437Engross
50%
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers; places of business. Defines "place of business" for real estate brokers. The bill requires firm licenses and licenses of branch offices, defined in the bill, to be maintaine...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
HB547Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 51-N)
SB663Engross
50%
Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties; veterinary satellite offices. Requires the Board of Veterinary Medicine to regulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinary medicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to ad...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
HB1017Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (42-Y 55-N)
HB378Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 52-N)
HB520Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB553Engross
50%
Board of Nursing; certain nursing education programs; out-of-state clinical sites. Directs the Board of Nursing to amend its regulations to permit nursing education programs located within the designated area to contract for an unlimited number of re...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services: Health Professions Committee
SB538Engross
50%
Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
HB644Engross
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.
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2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB655Engross
50%
Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts; state intervention. Sets out a procedure for determining when localities are in fiscal distress, as defined in the bill, and...
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2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (43-Y 55-N)
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