| HB486 | Intro
25% | Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB961 | Intro
25% | Virginia local journalism sustainability tax credits. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for eligible local newspaper publishers, defined in the bill, for compensation paid to local news journalists. The credit is equal to (i) for the first ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| HB206 | Intro
25% | Pet shops; notice of deceased animals; report. Requires pet shops to annually submit a summary of records indicating any time a dog or cat in their possession dies or is euthanized to the State Veterinarian in a format prescribed by him.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB524 | Intro
25% | Permit applications for natural gas pipelines; State Water Control Law. Requires applicants for federal licenses or permits for natural gas transmission pipelines with an inside diameter of at least 24 inches to submit a separate application, erosion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources 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 |
| HB828 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membershi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Incorporated by Education |
| HB761 | Intro
25% | Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Incorporated by Education |
| 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) |
| HB372 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; Child Care Implementation and Substitute Employee Pool Grant Program established. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act, to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| HB847 | Intro
25% | Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. Provides that in any case in which an indigent defendant is charged with any felony punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB388 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; investments; diversity, equity, and inclusion investing restricted. Provides that unless the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System can demonstrate that a social investment, defined in the bill, would provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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 |
| HB500 | Intro
25% | Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments; development and administration of assessments; assessments in languages other than English; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to develop all Standards of Learning assessments using ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB573 | Intro
25% | Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to prepare in writing and provide to the principal or his designee and the division superinte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to develop, maintain, and post publicly on the financial aid page of such institution's web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education 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 |
| HB762 | Intro
25% | Organ donation leave tax credit. Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for a taxpayer that is a private employer, as defined by the bill, for certain costs incurred during a period of organ donation leave r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| HB408 | Intro
25% | Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House 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) |
| HB245 | 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] | 2024-01-31
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| 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) |
| HB1033 | Intro
25% | Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| HB564 | Intro
25% | Public schools; classified instructional support staff; competitive compensation; biennial review. Declares that it is a goal of the Commonwealth that its classified instructional support staff, defined in the bill as any individual who works more th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB1029 | Intro
25% | Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB563 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; procedure for adjusting grievances; definition of "classified instructional support staff." Requires the Board of Education, for the purpose of its regulations that establish the procedure for adjusting grievances, to define "clas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education 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) |
| HB1038 | Intro
25% | Board of Pharmacy; use of automated dispensing systems and remote dispensing systems in certain facilities. Defines "remote dispensing system" as a profile-driven automated drug dispensing system that performs operations or activities relative to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Incorporated by Health and Human Services |
| 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 |
| HB922 | Intro
25% | Common interest communities; pesticides; prohibition on use. Clarifies that common interest community associations may ban the use of pesticides in or upon any common area or common element, as defined in relevant law. The bill also allows such assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House General Laws 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 |
| HB780 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by public employees; public transportation providers. Permits the governing body of a public transportation provider, as defined in the bill, to adopt a resolution authorizing such public transportation provider to (i) recognize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce |
| HB469 | 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] | 2024-01-30
Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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) |
| HB480 | Intro
25% | Simon's Law; health care; life-sustaining treatment for minors; exceptions. Requires a physician to obtain the written permission from at least one parent or legal guardian of a minor, defined in the bill as an unemancipated individual who is younger...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Tabled in Health and Human Services (12-Y 10-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) |
