| HB1451 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; expedited retakes; eligibility. Directs the Board of Education to revise its regulations relating to student eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning assessment, with the exception of the wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 612 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB326 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 690 (effective - see bill) |
| HB1199 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; staff; authority to appoint, employ, and remove. Authorizes the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 739 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB257 | Pass | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 635 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1388 | Pass | Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 658 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB998 | Pass | Local electoral boards; certification and abstract of results; deadline. Extends the deadline for local electoral boards to meet after an election for the purpose of certifying the election results and submitting the abstract of results to the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 738 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB772 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 695 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1268 | Pass | Eligibility for participation in community corrections alternative program; evaluation and diagnosis; referral to the Department of Corrections. Provides that a probation and parole officer may refer a defendant on probation to the Department of Corr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1542 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 615 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB985 | Pass | High polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pavement sealants; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale or distribution of any pavement sealant that contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations greater than one percent by weight on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 736 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1246 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 742 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB632 | Pass | Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 642 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1499 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 754 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB456 | Pass | City council salaries. Increases the statutory salary caps for members of city councils and requires a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance to set city council salaries. The bill also provides that the maximum salaries may be adjusted in any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 608 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1286 | Pass | Uniform Commercial Code; amendments. Makes a number of amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as adopted in Virginia. The bill amends the definitions of "money" and "conspicuous" for purposes of the UCC and makes extensive amendments through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 652 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB1370 | Pass | Reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies by certain health care providers; prohibited. Prohibits certain medical care facilities, certain health care professionals, and emergency medical services agencies from reporting any portion of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 751 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1461 | Pass | Short-term rental property; locality's ability to prohibit lessee or sublessee operator. Prohibits a locality from barring an operator, as defined in existing law, from offering such property as a short-term rental solely on the basis that the operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 700 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB736 | Pass | Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 730 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB213 | Pass | Emissions inspections; agreement for services; fees. Increases from $3,500 to $5,000 the amount the emissions inspection program coordinator may be paid per year from each motor vehicle emissions inspection station for the provision and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 634 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1395 | Pass | Historic preservation. Provides that the filing of a building permit or demolition application shall stay a locality from issuing any permit to raze or demolish a historic landmark, building, or structure until 30 days after the rendering of the fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 752 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB122 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; review and authorization of projects; hearing and appeal. Allows any person aggrieved by the final decision of the Department of Environmental Quality regarding the authorization of a project and who has participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 717 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1330 | Pass | Absentee voting; persons confined awaiting trial or for conviction of a misdemeanor. Provides that any registered voter who is confined while awaiting trial or for having been convicted of a misdemeanor may vote by absentee ballot and requires the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB692 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 530 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1511 | Pass | Charter; City of Martinsville; town status; referendum. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville to require the circuit court for the City of Martinsville, prior to notifying the Supreme Court of the City's adoption of an ordinance and petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 565 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1241 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; partial termination of certain time-shares. Allows for the partial termination of a time-share project by a developer or an association and provides the procedures for any such partial termination. The bill also s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 546 (effective - see bill) |
| HB919 | Pass | School boards; model memorandum of understanding; partnerships with certain mental health services providers; provision and expansion of virtual mental health services. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 534 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1318 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department 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 ru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 551 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1473 | Pass | Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 564 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1080 | Pass | License suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation; period of suspension. Prohibits any license suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation from extending beyond 10 years from the date of convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB361 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1538 | Pass | Conversion of manufactured home to real property. Establishes a process whereby a manufactured home owner who is not listed as the owner of such manufactured home on its title may detitle such manufactured home in order to convert the home to real pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 567 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB947 | Pass | Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 536 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1433 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; eligible dependent. Provides that for purposes of continued health insurance pursuant to the Line of Duty Act, an eligible dependent means the natural or adopted child or children of a deceased person or disabled person or of a dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 560 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB814 | Pass | Virginia Tourism Authority; powers; historically accurate advertising. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority, in consultation with The Library of Virginia, the Virginia African American Advisory Board, and other subject matter experts, to create gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 531 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1018 | Pass | Powers of investigators; enforcement of certain tobacco laws. Authorizes investigators with the Office of the Attorney General to seize cigarettes that are unlawfully sold, possessed, distributed, transported, imported, or otherwise held and to accom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 540 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1257 | Pass | Insurance; coverage for the diminished value of personal property. Requires any insurer who issues or delivers a new or renewal homeowner's insurance policy or a stand-alone policy that covers scheduled personal property in the Commonwealth to offer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 547 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB453 | Pass | Kinship foster care; barrier crimes. Allows local boards of social services or child-placing agencies to approve kinship foster care parent applicants who have been convicted of certain felony drug offenses if five years have elapsed since the date o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 529 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1418 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Exempts certain rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act, provided that the Commission provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 559 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1443 | Pass | Trial by jury; contact with jurors after trial prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any defendant who knowingly and intentionally contacts, with the intent to harass, intimidate, or threaten, a juror regarding such juror's service a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 561 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB374 | Pass | Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 527 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB78 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB376 | Pass | Charter; Town of New Market. Establishes a new charter for the Town of New Market in Shenandoah County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1972. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 528 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1366 | Pass | Local departments of social services; employee criminal background checks. Establishes a process for local departments of social services to conduct background checks for current or prospective employees and prohibits local departments from employing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 555 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB937 | Pass | Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1342 | Pass | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; provision of physical evidence recovery kits. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to either (i) staff its on-campus student health center with at least one on-campu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 554 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1376 | Pass | Submetering or energy allocation equipment; billing requirements; unit owners. Provides that for the purposes of rules promulgated by the State Corporation Commission related to billing requirements and all other rules related to submetering or energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 557 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1002 | Pass | Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency; powers and duties. Requires the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to identify and monitor any federal grant programs, loan programs, or other opportunities fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 539 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB310 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 525 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1453 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regard to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemploym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 562 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB959 | Pass | Towing violations; enforcement; fuel surcharge fee. Authorizes localities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to require written authorization of the owner of the property from which the vehicle is towed at the time the vehicle is being towed and regulate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/24) |
