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HB131PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/24)
HB713PassInstitutions 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1466PassMineral 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 224 (effective 7/1/24)
HB698VetoCannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB279PassMilitary 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 184 (effective 7/1/24)
HB220PassWater 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 178 (effective 7/1/24)
HB281PassEarly 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 185 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1067PassPharmacy 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 214 (effective 7/1/24)
HB121PassBoard 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 171 (effective 7/1/24)
HB133PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 174 (effective 7/1/24)
HB425PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 189 (effective 7/1/24)
HB974VetoWorkers' compensation; presumption that certain injuries arose out of employment. Provides that in any claim for workers' compensation, where the employee suffers an unexplained fall in the course of employment, such employee may satisfy the burden o...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB299PassLicense 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 7/1/24)
HB870PassSewage 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 209 (effective 7/1/24)
HB730PassCampaign 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/25)
HB157VetoMinimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB435PassLaw-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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/24)
HB679PassQuarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (effective 7/1/24)
HB155PassCriminal 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 175 (effective 7/1/24)
HB269PassBoard 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 183 (effective 7/1/24)
HB69PassVacancies 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 168 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1058PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 213 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1VetoMinimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB583PassPublic 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/24)
HB501PassSchool 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/24)
HB380PassSpecial 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 188 (effective 7/1/24)
HB255PassAdult 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 182 (effective 7/1/24)
HB763PassBoard 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25)
HB441PassAssistance 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 191 (effective 7/1/24)
HB59PassVirginia 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 167 (effective 7/1/24)
HB479PassPhysical 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 193 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1513PassActive-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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 226 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1362PassSchool 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 221 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1526PassMotor 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 227 (effective 7/1/24)
HB601PassHealth 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/24)
HB898PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (effective 7/1/24)
HB90PassElections; 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective 7/1/24)
HB596PassFisheries 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/24)
HB14PassUnemployment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 165 (effective 7/1/25)
HB566PassState 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/26)
HB832PassVirginia 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 208 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1112PassAuto 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 216 (effective 7/1/25)
HB1389PassPractice of athletic training; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of athletic training" to allow the practice of athletic training to be conducted in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 222 (effective 7/1/24)
HB238PassHealth insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. Requires health insurers to provide coverage for examinations and laboratory tests related to colorectal cancer screening in accordance with the most recently published recommendations estab...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 181 (effective 7/1/24)
HB595PassInsurance; conducting business by electronic means. Authorizes a plan sponsor of a health benefit plan, including a dental or vision benefit plan, to agree on behalf of a party enrolled in the sponsored health benefit plan to conduct business by elec...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 197 (effective 7/1/24)
HB205PassWorkers' compensation; prompt payment; limitation on claims. Prohibits an employer or workers' compensation carrier from seeking recovery of a payment made to a health care provider for health care services rendered to a claimant unless such recovery...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (effective 7/1/24)
HB690PassInstitutions of higher education; campus safety; governing boards of certain educational institutions; employment of security services and personnel authorized. Authorizes the governing board of certain educational institutions, including the A.L. Ph...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 202 (effective 7/1/24)
HB227PassCharter; City of Colonial Heights. Amends the charter of the City of Colonial Heights by updating language related to the duties of the City Manager and City Attorney, including elimination of the City Attorney's duties to the school board and school...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 180 (effective 7/1/24)
HB223PassCruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (effective 7/1/24)
HB1488PassLocal 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 225 (effective 7/1/24)
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