VA Legislation | 2024 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB416	Intro 25%	Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Allows a manufacturer, bottler, broker, importer, or wholesaler to sponsor or provide support, including equipment, staff, financial, and other support, for a special event for which a nonprofit organ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N)
SB476	Intro 25%	Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
SB317	Intro 25%	Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery licenses; requirements and privileges. Exempts from certain requirements imposed on farm winery licensees by prior legislation persons that hold a farm winery license that was granted on or before July 1, 2020,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N)
SB423	Intro 25%	Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB161	Intro 25%	Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathway to advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seal; career and technical education. Directs the Board of Education to establish an alternative pathway to the advanced studies high s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
SB322	Intro 25%	Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Adds maintenance of primary evacuation routes to the list of factors that must be considered by the Commonwealth Transportation Board as part of the statewide prioritization process for pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB139	Intro 25%	Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathways to the advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seals. Directs the Board of Education to establish two pathways to the advanced studies high school diploma, and associated diplom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
SB380	Intro 25%	School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB421	Intro 25%	Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
SB558	Intro 25%	School choice educational School choice educational savings accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the Department of Education for a renewable school choice education savings account, consisting of a monetary amount that is e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB170	Intro 25%	Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB533	Intro 25%	Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB279	Intro 25%	Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; board of directors membership; powers and duties; capital projects; issuance of bonds. Provides for a number of reforms related to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB287	Intro 25%	Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. Authorizes the State Board for Community Colleges, subject to approval and certification by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia of a proposa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB348	Intro 25%	Gaming; posting of illegal gaming tip line information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a conspi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB686	Intro 25%	Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from five to six the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Thirty-first Judicial District. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB525	Intro 25%	Stillbirth Support Grant Program. Establishes the Stillbirth Support Grant Program for the purpose of providing grants to individuals who delivered a stillborn child, as defined by the bill, to assist with out-of-pocket costs associated with such del... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
SB559	Intro 25%	Commercial sex trafficking, prostitution, etc.; penalties. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is not involved: (i) human trafficking; (ii) receiving money or other valuable thing for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N)
SB295	Intro 25%	Foreign adversaries; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any foreign adversary or foreign business, as those terms are defined in the bill, from acquiring any interest in land in the Commonwealth and requires registration with the Secretary of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
SB120	Intro 25%	Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB694	Intro 25%	Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB528	Intro 25%	Crimes; offenses against the sovereignty of the Commonwealth; unfaithful delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States; penalties. Provides that a delegate or interim delegate to a co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB666	Intro 25%	Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB587	Intro 25%	Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB208	Intro 25%	Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB429	Intro 25%	Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Reduces from five to four the number of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by removing Richmond from the list of eligible host cities. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB193	Intro 25%	Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest for the crime of fleeing from a law-enforcement officer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N)
SB233	Intro 25%	Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB527	Intro 25%	General Assembly; intergovernmental affairs; delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States. Provides for the selection by the General Assembly of delegates to attend a convention for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB114	Intro 25%	Local tax credits; emergency services providers. Enables localities to by ordinance provide a credit against taxes and fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approved emergency services in the locality. As defined in the bill, "ap... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (7-Y 7-N)
SB303	Intro 25%	Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SB562	Intro 25%	Pilot program for captured coal mine methane; renewable energy portfolio standard. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program for American Electric Power (Phase I Utility) and Dominion Energy (Phase II Utility) to submit pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB446	Intro 25%	State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB557	Intro 25%	Renewable energy portfolio standard; eligibility of hydrogen and nuclear resources. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include (i) hydrogen resources that are produced from zero-carbon generat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB266	Intro 25%	Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 9-N)
SB268	Intro 25%	Marine Resources Commission; permits; public notice. Requires the Commissioner of Marine Resources to ensure that for any project under consideration for a Commission-issued permit the Commission sends public notice electronically to any business, re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 9-N)
SB289	Intro 25%	Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require certain stormwater management techniques for land disturbances related to the construction, expansion, or op... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB200	Intro 25%	Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB639	Intro 25%	Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB376	Intro 25%	Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans. Requires each carrier that offers a health plan in either the individual or small group market to ensure that at least 50 percent of all health plans offered... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB82	Intro 25%	Concealed handgun permit; concealed weapons permit. Changes the concealed handgun permit to a concealed weapons permit. The bill provides that a person who obtains a concealed weapons permit may carry such concealed weapons in any place where a perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB551	Intro 25%	Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least two days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal his... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB524	Intro 25%	Local government; installation of water-based fire protection systems in new townhouse construction. Permits a locality to allow the installation of automatic water-based fire protection systems in new townhouse construction. The bill provides that s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 9-N 1-A)
SB136	Intro 25%	Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB55	Intro 25%	Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least three days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB652	Intro 25%	Zoning ordinances; adequate public facilities. Allows a locality to determine the timing of development by considering the adequacy of public facilities when making zoning decisions. The bill provides that a locality that makes a determination of ina... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 2-N)
SB202	Intro 25%	Health insurance; disclosure of summary health information. Requires, to the extent permitted by various protected health information privacy laws, a group health plan that has 50 or more participants to disclose information that summarizes the claim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 8-N)
SB319	Intro 25%	Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm following an assault and battery against a person in a dating relationship with the alleged offender, penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally purchases, possesses, or transp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB467	Intro 25%	Foster care; diversionary placements; alternative living arrangements. Allows a birth parent to identify an ALA caregiver, defined in the bill, with whom the birth parent would like to place his child in an alternative living arrangement, defined in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-19 Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB263	Intro 25%	Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole, the Board must notify the attorney for t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-19 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)