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SB551Intro
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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...
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2024-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB524Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 9-N 1-A)
SB136Intro
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 ...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee
SB55Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB652Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 2-N)
SB202Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 8-N)
SB319Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB467Intro
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 ...
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2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB263Intro
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...
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2024-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)
SB162Intro
25%
Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill p...
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2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB529Intro
25%
Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practiti...
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2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB84Intro
25%
Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i...
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2024-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB83Intro
25%
Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria--holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be de...
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2024-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
SB71Intro
25%
Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis...
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2024-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health
SB602Intro
25%
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalties. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ...
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2024-01-17
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB52Intro
25%
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
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2024-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB92Intro
25%
Voter registration; registering in person up to the day of the election. Provides that any person who is qualified to register to vote is only entitled to register in person up to the day of the election at the office of the general registrar in the ...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SB42Intro
25%
Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the three-week period immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the fo...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SJR11Intro
25%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
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2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB160Intro
25%
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
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2024-01-16
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
SB167Intro
25%
Elections; candidates; declaration of candidacy for primary and write-in votes. Provides that the declaration of candidacy include a statement that if the signer's name appears on the primary ballot and he is not nominated then his name is not to be ...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SJR1Intro
25%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
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2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB299Intro
25%
Board of Conservation and Recreation; Cave Board; repeal. Repeals provisions relating to the establishment of the Cave Board and transfers the duties of the Cave Board to the Board of Conservation and Recreation. The bill also changes from 12 members...
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2024-01-16
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
SB32Intro
25%
Voter registration; verification of social security Voter registration; verification of social security numbers; provisional registration status. Requires the general registrar to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provid...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SB53Intro
25%
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat...
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2024-01-16
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
SB58Intro
25%
Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning in 2025. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) ...
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2024-01-16
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB269Intro
25%
General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to not issue or renew any private leases for general oyster-planting grounds in the Commonwealth on or after July 1, 202...
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2024-01-16
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
SJR2Intro
25%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
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2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB64Intro
25%
Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning in 2025. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) ...
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2024-01-16
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB45Intro
25%
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
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2024-01-16
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB81Intro
25%
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SJR10Intro
25%
Constitutional amendments (first reference);executive branch of government; Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General; term limits. Prohibits any person from being eligible to be elected to more than two terms as Lieutenant Governor or Attorney Genera...
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2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB3Intro
25%
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
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2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N)
SB123Intro
25%
Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property; petition for entry. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property to petition the circuit court for a license to enter...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB265Intro
25%
Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refus...
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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB77Intro
25%
Punishment for conviction of fourth or subsequent misdemeanor larceny; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of a fourth or subsequent larceny offense, regardless of whether the prior convictions were misdemeanors or felonies, or any combinatio...
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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB478Intro
25%
Vacant building registration; Town of Waverly; civil penalty. Adds the Town of Waverly to the list of localities with the authority to require the owner of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more and that meet the...
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2024-01-15
Incorporated by Local Government
SB67Intro
25%
Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that a court may impose a sentence of a term of active incarceration upon a first or second technical violation of the terms and conditions of a suspende...
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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
SB38Intro
25%
Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the p...
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2024-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB190Intro
25%
Recovery residences; certification requirements; death and serious injury reports; work group; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to promulgate regulations that require recovery residences to (i) comply wi...
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2024-01-12
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
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