| SB29 | Intro
25% | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 769 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, as further amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
25% | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB326 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB523 | Intro
25% | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility to allow a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns an interest in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB307 | Intro
25% | Regulation of electronic gaming devices; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, servicing, hosting, and play of electronic gaming devices, as defined in the bill. The bill provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB703 | Intro
25% | General appropriations and revenue of the Commonwealth. Includes digital personal property, defined in the bill, in the definition of tangible personal property for the purposes of the retail sales and use tax. Amendments are made throughout the chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
25% | Dulles Greenway; powers and responsibilities of State Corporation Commission to regulate toll road operators. Amends the powers and responsibilities of the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to regulate toll road operators under the Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB374 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB539 | Intro
25% | License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owners or other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
25% | Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB687 | Intro
25% | Careless driving and infliction of injury or death on vulnerable road users; penalty. Defines driving in a careless manner and distracted manner for purposes of the Class 1 misdemeanor of operating a motor vehicle in a careless or distracted manner s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB113 | Intro
25% | Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
25% | Spoliation of evidence. Clarifies that, where evidence that should have been preserved in anticipation of litigation is lost, disposed of, altered, concealed, destroyed, or not preserved, and cannot be restored or replaced, no finding of intent that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB532 | Intro
25% | Commercial entity offering social media accounts; restricted hours for minors; civil liability. Provides that no commercial entity that offers social media accounts, as defined in the bill, shall knowingly or intentionally allow a minor to access his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB531 | Intro
25% | Application for and issuance of order authorizing interception of communications; Superintendent of State Police. Allows the Superintendent of State Police or his designee, if the Superintendent so designates in writing, to apply to a judge of compet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB249 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Limits the use of construction management or design-build contracts by state public bodies and covered institutions for complex projects. The bill requires state p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB457 | Intro
25% | Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund created. Creates the Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
25% | Surplus line broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB501 | Intro
25% | Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund. Directs the board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to deposit $250 million per year of surplus moneys from the Plan's fund into the Virginia College Opportunity Fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; required criteria in invitations to bid. Requires all public bodies to include in any Invitation to Bid criteria that will be used in determining whether a bidder who is not prequalified by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
25% | Department of General Services; Office of Pharmaceutical Services; report. Establishes in the Department of General Services an Office of Pharmaceutical Services to develop and execute a plan to consolidate state agency prescription drug purchasing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB571 | Intro
25% | Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
25% | Issuing citations; vehicle equipment. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating with defective and unsafe equipment and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB247 | Intro
25% | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
25% | Motor vehicles; improper tinting films, signs, decals, and stickers; issuing citations. Removes the provisions that prohibit a law-enforcement officer from lawfully stopping a motor vehicle for violations related to improper tinting films, signs, dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB251 | Intro
25% | Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB346 | Intro
25% | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB567 | Intro
25% | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB591 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; customer energy choice; notice required for customer return to service. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
25% | Intercollegiate athletics, student-athletes; compensation and representation for name, image, or likeness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB128 | Intro
25% | Public school funding; certain calculations. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB671 | Intro
25% | Youth Health Protection Act established; civil penalty. Creates the Youth Health Protection Act, which makes it unlawful for any individual to provide gender transition procedures, defined in the bill, for minors and prohibits the use of public funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB493 | Intro
25% | Medical malpractice; limitations on recovery; certain actions. Eliminates the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred on or after July 1, 2024, and occurred ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB552 | Intro
25% | Public schools; open school enrollment policies and guidance. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board by August 1, 2024, model policies and guidance relating to open school enrollment detailing certain condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB187 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; plan to revise special education staffing requirements; report. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and any other individuals with expertis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB518 | Intro
25% | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB335 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; health insurance; coverage for fertility preservation treatments. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB227 | 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] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB407 | Intro
25% | Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB395 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation mental health assessment required. Provides that no public elementary or secondary school student is permitted to be a participant on or try out for any school athletic team...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB723 | Intro
25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB619 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
25% | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
25% | Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities. Requires, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover (i) the actual a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB282 | Intro
25% | Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; surplus funds. Provides that beginning in fiscal year 2025, in any fiscal year in which there is a surplus of general fund revenues, as that term is defined in the bill, the Governor shall include in his p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB445 | Intro
25% | Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary; approval of a nonpreferred drug. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to eliminate the requirement that a patient try and fail a drug from the Pref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
25% | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
