Virginia Delegate Betsy Carr [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB1071	Enroll 75%	Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB1100	Veto	Conservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB157	Veto	Minimum 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1088	Veto	Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1	Veto	Minimum 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB805	Veto	Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB819	Enroll 75%	Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB698	Veto	Cannabis 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1098	Veto	Unpaid family bereavement leave; required; remedies. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with up to 10 days of unpaid family bereavement leave in any 12-month period to (i) atte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB46	Veto	Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1069	Pass	Liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products; certification and directory; penalties. Requires every manufacturer of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products that are sold for retail sale in the Commonwealth to certify to the Attorney General that (... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 828 (effective 7/1/25)
VA	HB609	Enroll 75%	Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB175	Veto	Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB466	Veto	Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1177	Veto	Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the El... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1195	Veto	Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB776	Veto	Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB173	Enroll 75%	Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB603	Pass	Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB2	Veto	Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1174	Veto	Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1157	Pass	Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 830 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB536	Enroll 75%	Student bullying; definition; characteristics of victim. Adjusts the definition of "bullying" in the context of public education to specify that the real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim that is involved in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB624	Enroll 75%	Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB673	Pass	Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 816 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB351	Veto	Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB212	Veto	MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosur... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB398	Veto	Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB187	Enroll 75%	Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB362	Veto	Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB25	Pass	Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 628 (effective 7/1/25)
VA	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)
VA	HB1269	Pass	Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 651 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB27	Pass	Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective - see bill)
VA	HB985	Pass	High polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pavement sealants; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale or distribution of any pavement sealant that contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations greater than one percent by weight on or after... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 736 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	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)
VA	HB1116	Pass	Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement; certain construction projects. Allows a public body to establish purchase procedures, if adopted in writing, not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 544 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1080	Pass	License suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation; period of suspension. Prohibits any license suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation from extending beyond 10 years from the date of convict... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB937	Pass	Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from sch... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1457	Pass	Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Requires, for any Virginia investment performance grant award determination that includes a job creation requirement, an eligible manufacturer or research and dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 563 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill)
VA	HB78	Pass	Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1073	Pass	Tow truck drivers; prohibited acts. Prohibits tow truck drivers from driving by the scene of a wrecked or disabled vehicle for which a law-enforcement tow has been initiated by a law-enforcement agency, initiating contact with the owner or operator o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409)
VA	HB1084	Pass	Disabled parking placards; validity; fees. Extends from six months to 12 months the maximum duration for which the DMV may issue a temporary removable windshield placard to a person with a disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk or that... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)
VA	HB1126	Pass	Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; current Virginia members of Congress. Adds current Virginia members of the United States Senate or United States House of Representatives to the list of persons who may celebrate the rit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412)
VA	HB1125	Pass	Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471)
VA	HB1082	Pass	Enforcement of certain judgments; restricted license. Authorizes the court to order a restricted license to operate a motor vehicle to a judgment debtor who has had his driver's license suspended for failure to satisfy certain judgments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467)
VA	HB1108	Pass	Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469)
VA	HB234	Pass	All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)
VA	HB368	Pass	Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384)
VA	HB893	Pass	Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428)