| HB131 | Pass | Department of Education; learning needs dashboard. Requires the Department of Education to continue to maintain until July 1, 2029, a learning needs dashboard that includes an interactive bar chart feature to compare annual pass rates and an interact... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB713 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1466 | Pass | Mineral mines; farm pond construction or expansion. Provides that, for laws relating to mineral mines, the definition of mining shall not be construed to limit a one-time construction or expansion of a farm pond for agricultural irrigation or provisi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 224 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB545 | Pass | Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 250 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB279 | Pass | Military leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions; professional firefighters. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a professional firefighter s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 184 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB464 | Pass | Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund established. Establishes the Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund for the purposes of supporting and promoting the economic growth and development of Virginia's seafood economy. The Fund ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 246 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB220 | Pass | Water facilities; staffing; licensed operators. Requires sewage treatment works, classified waterworks, and classified water treatment facilities to employ a licensed operator. The bill establishes a protocol for responding to an unexpected vacancy o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 178 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB281 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 185 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1067 | Pass | Pharmacy technicians; expansion of allowable duties. Allows pharmacy technicians to clarify quantity or refills for a prescription issued for a Schedule VI drug. Current law only allows pharmacy technicians to accept refill authorizations. The bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 214 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB121 | Pass | Board of Education; health education Standards of Learning; severe allergic reaction awareness training. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for health education for grade nine and grade 10 an in-person or online s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 171 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB133 | Pass | Department of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 174 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB425 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; release of privileged information. Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles to release to a party that is subject to an administrative proceeding conducted by the Department nonmedical privileged information necessary to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 189 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB299 | Pass | License tax; retired police or military dogs; exemption. Allows a locality by ordinance to exempt any dog that served as a police or law-enforcement dog or military working dog from the license tax on the ownership of dogs. Such ordinance must includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB870 | Pass | Sewage sludge regulations; relief from administrative requirements; adverse and unusual weather events. Requires the State Water Control Board, with the assistance of the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Health, to adop... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 209 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB730 | Pass | Campaign 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB109 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; conduct of primaries; declaration of candidacy. 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 b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 264 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB412 | Pass | Rabies clinics; animal vaccination and microchip services. Allows rabies clinics approved by local health departments and governing bodies to offer microchipping and additional animal health vaccines at the discretion of the licensed veterinarian or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 241 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB435 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealth in the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petition ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB679 | Pass | Quarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB155 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a bar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 175 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB269 | Pass | Board of Education; Provisional (Career Switcher) License; special education. Requires the Board of Education to amend its relevant regulation to permit any career switcher who seeks a teaching endorsement preK through grade 12, including any career ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 183 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB676 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistances Services; financial eligibility standards for certain waivers providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to amend the fin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 257 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB69 | Pass | Vacancies in elected local offices; interim appointments; notice requirement. Requires the local governing body or elected school board making an interim appointment to fill a vacancy in the membership of such body or board to hold a public meeting a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 168 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1058 | Pass | Department of Wildlife Resources; singular license for waterfowl blinds in Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authorities. Requires the Department of Wildlife Resources to develop a singular license for all riparian stationary blinds issued to the Middle P... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 213 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB583 | Pass | Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the shar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB501 | Pass | School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires any divisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific school building evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisions that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB630 | Pass | Public safety officer; Commonwealth Public Safety Medal of Valor; dispatcher. Adds a dispatcher, including a dispatcher employed by the Department of State Police, to the definition of a public safety officer for purposes of possible selection by the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 253 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB380 | Pass | Special license plates; United States Air Force. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for active duty members with, honorably discharged veterans with six months of active duty service in, and retirees from the United States Air Force an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 188 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB255 | Pass | Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 182 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB763 | Pass | Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB413 | Pass | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 242 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB441 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of "person with a disability"; training. Amends the definition of "person with a disability" for purposes of the Elections title to mean any person who has a physical or mental im... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 191 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB59 | Pass | Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; Planning Districts 13 and 14. Adds Planning Districts 13 (Southside) and 14 (Commonwealth Regional Council) to the list of areas where localities may create a regional industrial facility authority that co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 167 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB479 | Pass | Physical examination of prisoner; licensed nurse practitioner; licensed physician assistant. Provides that each person received by the Department of Corrections shall be examined by a licensed physician, licensed nurse practitioner, or licensed physi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 193 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1513 | Pass | Active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty. Provides that the Adjutant General may maintain state active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty during the course of a state active-duty mi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 226 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1362 | Pass | School bus video-monitoring system; citations. Prohibits a contract between a private vendor and a school division for the operation of school bus video-monitoring systems to capture passing stopped school bus violations from requiring a minimum quot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 221 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1526 | Pass | Motor vehicles; overweight permits for certain trucks operated by electric utilities. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits for an electric utility's operation of vehicles used for the construction, operation, or maint... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 227 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB601 | Pass | Health insurance; emergency services; mobile crisis response services. Provides that emergency services, with respect to an emergency medical condition, include, as it relates to any mental health services or substance abuse services rendered at a be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB297 | Pass | Agricultural best management practices tax credit; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individual and corporate agricultural best management practices tax credit from January 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 233 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB111 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 228 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB537 | Pass | Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB728 | Pass | Cumberlands Airport Commission. Establishes a new charter for the Cumberlands Airport Commission and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1958. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the Commission and contains powers and duti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB898 | Pass | Department of Forensic Science; laboratory procedures; requirements regarding DNA profiles. Provides that when an accused person or his attorney files a motion for a scientific investigation, he must certify that the Department of Forensic Science or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB90 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; conduct of primaries; declaration of candidacy. 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 b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB596 | Pass | Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund established. Establishes the Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund for the purposes of supporting and promoting the economic growth and development of Virginia's seafood economy. The Fund ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB14 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; employer failure to respond to requests for information; claim determination; notice requirements. Provides that an employer's account shall not be relieved of charges relating to an erroneous payment if the Virginia Employ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 165 (effective 7/1/25) |
| SB581 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; data; groundwater and surface water withdrawal permits. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to utilize and incorporate comprehensive groundwater, surface water, and aquifer data in its decision-maki... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB566 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership; representative of a historically black college or university. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen mem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/26) |
| HB832 | Pass | Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law require... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 208 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1112 | Pass | Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 216 (effective 7/1/25) |