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HB759PassFood inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower a...
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2024-03-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective 7/1/24)
HB452Enroll
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First-time drug offenders. Provides that any person who has not previously been convicted of any felony drug offense under relevant law or under any substantially similar statute of the United States or of any state may be eligible for first-time dru...
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2024-03-22
Governor's substitute printed 24109197D-H1
SB362Enroll
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First-time drug offenders. Provides that any person who has not previously been convicted of any felony drug offense under relevant law or under any substantially similar statute of the United States or of any state may be eligible for first-time dru...
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2024-03-22
Governor's substitute printed 24109199D-S1
SB334VetoPlea agreements; prohibited provisions. Prohibits plea agreements and court orders executed or entered on or after July 1, 2024, from containing any provision that purports to waive, release, or extinguish a defendant's (i) rights under the Fourth Am...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 126 (effective 7/1/24)
HB114PassHealth Insurance Reform Commission; membership. Adds two legislative members to the Health Insurance Reform Commission. The bill requires one such member to be a member of the House Committee on Appropriations who is appointed by the Speaker of the H...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 98 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 121 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/24)
HB844PassCommercial 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 107 (effective 7/1/24)
HB63VetoCriminal cases; request for a jury to ascertain punishment. Provides that an accused may withdraw a request for a jury to ascertain punishment up until the commencement of the sentencing proceeding. The bill also provides that counsel for either part...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB472PassTANF; child care services; reporting; repeal. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Social Services (i) identify strategies for Virginia to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available for child care services for Temporary Assistance...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1349PassAlcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 111 (effective 7/1/24)
HB614VetoCommunity service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs b...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB71PassCombined sewer overflow outfalls; compliance with regulations; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which certain combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls that discharge into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed mus...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 97 (effective 7/1/24)
SB144VetoNolle prosequi or dismissal prior to preliminary hearing; subsequent indictment. Provides that no person who was arrested on a warrant charging him with a felony offense shall be denied a preliminary hearing upon the question of whether there is prob...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 130 (effective 7/1/24)
HB42PassCivil 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 96 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1346PassElections; 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 110 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1114PassPenalties for failure to appear; exclusion. Excludes any person who is (i) incarcerated in any correctional facility or (ii) (a) detained in any state or federal facility or (b) in the custody of a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is r...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (effective 7/1/24)
HB77VetoRobbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting to the three higher degrees of ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (effective 7/1/24)
HB577PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; slot-retention requests; Developmental Disability waivers; sunset. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Beha...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 103 (effective 7/1/24)
HB161VetoArrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB895PassViolation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 108 (effective 7/1/24)
HB840PassSpecial 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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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 106 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1139PassFort Monroe Authority; land and utility ownership. Removes the number of acres and the instrument number of the quitclaim deed recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Hampton on June 14, 2013, in reference to the area that ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 115 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 117 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1252VetoLimitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior t...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 128 (effective 7/1/24)
HB225PassDentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 101 (effective 7/1/24)
HB250VetoDepartment of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officers; interrogation practices. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall have the power and duty to establish a comprehensive framework for the custodial and noncustod...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB688PassAlcoholic 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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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 105 (effective - see bill)
HB1508PassAssessment 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 113 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 116 (effective 7/1/24)
SB449VetoJuvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/24)
HB199PassVirginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Energy Grant Fund and Program; allocation of funds. Removes the prohibition on the allocation of funds to the Virginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Energy Grant Fund and Program unless federal funds a...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 100 (effective 7/1/24)
SB505VetoLimitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that, when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB23VetoJuveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB159PassUse of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a patrol or security can...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 99 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1138PassFort Monroe Authority; powers and duties. Renames the executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority as the chief executive officer of the Authority.
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 114 (effective 7/1/24)
HB24PassAmber warning lights; certain hunting vehicles. Authorizes road whips, defined in the bill, who are operating vehicles during certain fox hunts to display flashing amber warning lights when such vehicles are not in motion for the purpose of warning o...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 95 (effective 7/1/24)
SB69VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police, po...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 120 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 127 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1379PassDepartment of Environmental Quality reports; consolidation. Consolidates varying due dates for certain reports relating to the Department of Environmental Quality to the Governor and the General Assembly to October 1 and requires such reports be subm...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (effective 1/1/25)
HB656PassRegulated land-disturbing activities; submission and approval of erosion and sediment control plan. Prohibits a person from engaging in any land-disturbing activity until, where Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit coverage ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 104 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1420VetoJuveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB1469PassVenue; obtaining documents from the Department of Motor Vehicles when not entitled thereto; penalty. Provides that the venue for a violation of the offense of obtaining documents from the Department of Motor Vehicles (the Department) when not entitle...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 89 (effective 7/1/24)
HB938VetoUnemployment insurance; benefit eligibility conditions; lockout exception to labor dispute disqualification. Amends the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act's labor dispute disqualification to provide that a lockout by an employer shall not constit...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
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