| SB387 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB617 | Intro
25% | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
25% | Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Authorizes the Department of State Police or the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB579 | Intro
25% | Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; professional liability insurance. Specifies that the required minimum amount of professional liability coverage for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities is the amount per occurrence. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB717 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; duties of governing boards; acceptance and use of donations. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education may receive, take, hold, and enjoy any donation or gift made to suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
25% | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
25% | Commission on Artificial Intelligence; report; sunset. Creates the Commission on Artificial Intelligence to advise the Governor on issues related to artificial intelligence and make advisory recommendations based on its findings. The bill has an expi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB432 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
25% | State correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB667 | Intro
25% | Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; performance agreement. Removes the authority to make commitments related to accelerated permitting, property tax classifications, and other such issues in an agreement between a qualified company and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (3-Y 12-N) |
| SB681 | Intro
25% | Virginia Housing Trust Fund; eligibility. Expands eligibility for loans from the Virginia Housing Trust Fund to include low, moderate, or middle income persons and families and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to (i) inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB684 | Intro
25% | Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB604 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB648 | Intro
25% | Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB623 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB631 | Intro
25% | Authorize the Adjutant General to facilitate and coordinate efforts to promote participation in the state-sponsored group term life insurance program offered to members of the Virginia National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB711 | Intro
25% | Taxation; secrecy of information; taxpayer waiver. Allows a taxpayer to waive confidentiality and secrecy of information provisions of Virginia law with respect to tax information upon executing a written acknowledgement waiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB473 | Intro
25% | Administrative Process Act; executive branch agencies. Requires executive branch agencies to ensure that certain regulations and guidance documents under the Virginia Register Act and Administrative Process Act, as appropriate, are posted on the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB56 | Intro
25% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB507 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB700 | Intro
25% | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB219 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
25% | Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Requires the Department of Corrections to compensate local jails for the actual cost, based on the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual Jail Cost Report, of incarcerating felons who s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB172 | Intro
25% | Militia state active duty; cyber-related support. Provides that the Governor or his designee may call forth the militia or any part thereof to state active duty for service when the Governor determines that cyber-related support is needed to assist s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB275 | Intro
25% | Marine Resources Commission; certain permits in the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries prohibited. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for any floating oyster cage in a water column, rack-and-bag, or other similar appar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB668 | Intro
25% | Department of Environmental Quality; groundwater and surface water withdrawal permits; five-year moratorium. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to enforce a five-year moratorium on the issuance of any new groundwater or surface water wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB465 | Intro
25% | Virginia Land Conservation Foundation. Allows land trusts that have been accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission or a similar set of standards and practices adopted by the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees (the Board) to hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
25% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
25% | Reports relating to PFAS; Department of Environmental Quality; one-time report. Requires all facilities that have engaged since January 1, 2021, in the manufacture of or knowing use in the production process of one or more chemicals listed as PFAS ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB267 | Intro
25% | Local wetlands boards; permit application approval. Changes the standard for approval of a wetlands permit application from three members of a five-member wetlands board or four members of a seven-member wetlands board to a simple majority of those b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB486 | Intro
25% | Certain natural gas pipeline expansion unlawful; Planning District 19. Prohibits the increase or expansion of any natural gas pipeline capacity in Planning District 19 (Crater Region), whether in new or existing pipelines, that uses existing compress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB349 | Intro
25% | Vehicle inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends the timeframe following the first inspection of a new motor vehicle in which such vehicle must be inspected from 12 months after the first inspection to either 36 months after the first inspection or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
25% | Nonliving shoreline stabilization structures; regulations; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to promulgate regulations regarding the types of repairs or maintenance to nonliving shoreline stabilization structures in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB31 | Intro
25% | Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund established. Establishes the Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
25% | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB656 | Intro
25% | Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, malicious activation of fire alarm, or false emergency communication to emergency personnel. Allows a locality that has an ordinance requiring any person over 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB653 | Intro
25% | State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders; delayed admission to determine medical needs. Allows state psychiatric hospitals to delay admission of an individual under a temporary detention order until the state psychiatric hospital has d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB137 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB371 | Intro
25% | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
25% | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB203 | Intro
25% | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB430 | Intro
25% | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB722 | Intro
25% | Enterprise zones; renewal periods. Authorizes the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to renew enterprise zones for up to four five-year renewal periods for zones designated on or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Incorporated by Local Government |
