| HB580 | Pass | Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities, consisting of legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1337 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 654 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB320 | Pass | Pesticide control exemptions; herbicide applications by unpaid volunteers. Exempts from the provisions of state pesticide laws and regulations any unpaid volunteer who uses any nonrestricted herbicide with the express authorization of a local politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 720 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB313 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 638 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB419 | Pass | Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 722 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB648 | Pass | Contracts assigning rights to inheritance funds; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2024, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 728 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB108 | Pass | Shared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 716 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB106 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 715 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1345 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 657 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1165 | Pass | Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions. Adds definitions related to the rights of persons with disabilities to relevant law. The bill defines "path of travel," "place of public accommodation,"" "public entity," "private entity," and "readil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 648 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HJR45 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Assigned Chapter 777 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB266 | Pass | Custodial interrogation of a child; failure to comply with section; inadmissibility of statement. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer knowingly fails to comply with existing law regarding parental notification and contact prior to a custodial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 719 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB578 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB327 | Pass | Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 721 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1351 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; ignition interlock system. Provides that advertising for any ignition interlock system by a vendor not approved by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program to operate in Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 747 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB202 | Pass | Optometrists; expert witness testimony. Allows an optometrist to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 718 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB731 | Pass | Teachers; renewable licenses; requirements; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to eliminate the requirement for any individual to take and receive a passing score on the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment as a condition of the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 729 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB617 | Pass | High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1249 | Pass | Security for costs; suit or action by nonresident. Provides that in any plaintiff's suit or action by a nonresident of the Commonwealth, including a counterclaim plaintiff, cross-claim plaintiff, or third-party plaintiff, the court may order upon a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 745 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1354 | Pass | Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 748 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB815 | Pass | Medical cannabis program; product expiration; confidentiality; penalty. Increases from six months to 12 months the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing. The bill allows pharmaceutical pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1040 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 610 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB459 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 691 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1518 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credits. Creates a step-rate reimbursement structure for the major research and development expenses tax credit in an amount equal to (i) 10 percent, up to the first $1 million, of the difference between (a) Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 661 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB151 | Pass | Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 687 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB994 | Pass | Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry. Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 737 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1452 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires each state agency to submit its annual report assessing the impact of its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans on the populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 659 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1099 | Pass | Cigarettes intended to be heated; heated tobacco products; taxation. Redefines "cigarette" for state cigarette tax purposes to include "cigarettes intended to be heated" as defined in the bill and distinguished from "heated tobacco products." The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 611 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1365 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 750 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB431 | Pass | Pro tempore judicial appointments; criminal background checks; financial disclosure. Requires that prior to an appointment as a pro tempore judge, a person submit his fingerprints for a national and Virginia criminal history record search, submit to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB467 | Pass | Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 724 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB823 | Pass | Temporary detention order; alternative transportation. Provides that when a magistrate is determining whether an alternative transportation provider is available for the purposes of designating a transportation provider for the transportation of a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 643 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB755 | Pass | Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 731 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB896 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 735 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1211 | Pass | Tax assessment districts; petition by parcel owners. Changes the threshold for petitioning a city or town for establishment of a tax assessment district from not less than three-fourths of the landowners affected to the owners of not less than three-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 740 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB926 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB944 | Pass | Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 699 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1338 | Pass | Courthouse and website posting of notices. Provides that if any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type is required to be posted pursuant to a provision of the Code on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulleti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 655 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1361 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 749 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1458 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Interagency Resilience Management Team; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Amends certain provisions relating to the functions and du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 753 (effective - see bill) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 647 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB572 | Pass | Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 726 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB149 | Pass | 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 medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 632 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB827 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 644 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB242 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1242 | Pass | Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; evaluations; presence of others. Requires (i) the evaluator conducting the evaluation of an individual to determine whether such individual meets the criteria for temporary detention or (ii) the hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 649 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB62 | Pass | Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB855 | Pass | State Department of Social Services; Home Energy Assistance Program. Authorizes the State Department of Social Services to allow applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program to be submitted over an application period that provides adequate tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 734 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1261 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Reinstates provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/24) |
