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SB692PassCampaign finance; independent expenditure reports, electronic filing required. Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing. The bill has a delaye...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
SB44PassAbuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162)
SB290PassGuardians and conservators; order of appointment and certificate of qualification; annual report. Requires a petitioner to file with a petition for the appointment of a guardian, a conservator, or both a cover sheet on a form prepared by the Office o...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156)
SB5PassSTEM+C Competition Team Grant Program established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Program to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas and support STEM+C-related e...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151)
SB635PassAlcoholic beverage control; sale and delivery of mixed beverages and pre-mixed wine for off-premises consumption; third-party delivery license; sunset; repeal. Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset on provisions that allow (i) distillers that have been ap...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159)
SB179PassState hospitals; discharge planning; report. Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after ad...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0153)
SB210PassManufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164)
SB589PassRental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. T...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158)
SB24PassLong-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by crea...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152)
SB216PassSpecial license plates; 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. The bill provides that the prepaid application requireme...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155)
SB644PassUnpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160)
SB629PassCivil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126)
SB353PassCommercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits; definitions; commercial driver training; drug and alcohol violations. Conforms the definition of commercial motor vehicle to federal regulations, codifies the entry-level driver training ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121)
SB577PassElections; campaign finance; exemptions for candidates for certain offices; directors of soil and water conservation districts. Provides that a candidate for director of a soil and water conservation district may also seek an exemption from the requi...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124)
SB725PassDrug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130)
SB470PassUniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts; certain nonvested property interests or powers of appointment over property or property interests. Extends from 90 years to 1,000 years the period for which a nonvested property interest held in tr...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123)
SB169PassVirginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no l...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117)
SB709PassAssessment of omitted taxes; erroneous payments. Provides that any retail sales tax payment erroneously remitted by a taxpayer to the Department of Taxation shall be applied to the taxpayer's delinquent use tax accounts. The taxpayer must provide evi...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128)
SB133PassPhysician assistants; practice agreement exemption. Allows physician assistants employed by a hospital or employed in certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in federally qualified health cente...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116)
SB435PassBoard of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the throug...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)
SB330PassDepartment of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate board; continuing education requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons. Increases from eight to 11 the number of hours of continuing education an applicant for relicensure...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120)
SB691PassConveyance of certain property from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville; Augusta Correctional Center. Provides for the transfer of certain property in Augusta County from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville. ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127)
SB638PassExemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072)
SB732PassCrash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080)
SB205PassToll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to u...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068)
SB209PassAdoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070)
SB156PassFinancial Services Expansion Grant Fund. Creates the Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible financial services company that makes a capital investment of at least $87 million at a facility in Roanoke County and ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092)
SB510PassInvestment of public funds. Allows any qualified public entity of the Commonwealth to invest in asset-backed securities that are guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066)
SB483PassTangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm mach...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088)
SB134PassEconomic development authorities; Craig County. Allows the board of supervisors of Craig County to appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Craig.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075)
SB150PassCertain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical ser...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077)
SB452PassMotor vehicle dealers; independent dealer-operator recertification; exam. Permits the recertification of independent dealer-operators by passing an examination administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law provides that such recertifi...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085)
SJR127Engross
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Encouraging the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth. Encourages the Commonwealth of Virginia to take all practical steps to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth, regionally, and nationally.
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2024-03-09
To House Rules Committee
SB522FailPurchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of a firearms safety or training course; penalty. Requires that a prospective purchaser of a firearm present proof that such prospective purchaser has demonstrated competence ...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SB502FailPetitions in juvenile and domestic relations district court; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor residing in the same home as such parent from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the mi...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SR105Intro
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Commending Janet Muldoon.
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2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR231FailCommending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in House
SB301FailCampaign finance; appeal of penalties. Provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. Upon petition, the State Board of Elections may provide relief to the petiti...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SR60FailCelebrating the life of Albert Earl Brooks, Sr.
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SR1Intro
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Israel; support. Expresses support for the State of Israel and condemns the actions of Hamas.
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2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR186FailCommending Buta Biberaj.
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SJR88Intro
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Commending the Iranian American community in Virginia.
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2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee
SB699FailRevenue reserves and budgetary amendments. Provides that if the Governor in the Budget Bill recommends a transfer of funds in the Revenue Reserve Fund in excess of the statutory 15 percent combined balance limit, then the corresponding purpose and pr...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SB415FailVirginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "meeting." Amends the definition of "meeting" as it relates to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to add an exception for local political party meetings. The bill is a recommendation of the FOIA...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
SB677PassReal property tax; notice of assessment changes. Provides that in certain localities, in the event that the total assessed value of real property would result in an increase of one percent or more in the total real property tax levied, the notice of ...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014)
SR156PassCelebrating the life of Ben V. Mullins.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR156ER)
SB159PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredit...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
SB132PassHealth Insurance Reform Commission; assessment of certain legislation. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission, whenever the Chairman of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce or the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor requests that the...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036)
SR142PassCelebrating the life of Phyllis Ann Strouth.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR142ER)
SB19PassRecovery residences; death and serious injury reports. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to promulgate regulations that require recovery residences to report to the Department any death or serious injury that occ...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030)
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