| VA | SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 771 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB6 | Pass | Issuance of restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 568 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB9 | Pass | Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 570 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB397 | Pass | Gaming; posting of illegal gaming tip line information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a conspi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 593 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB628 | Enroll 75% | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Amends the list of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by replacing Richmond with Petersburg. The bill also provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| VA | SB165 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; petition of qualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which valid signatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected for persons seeking to become candidates in certain elections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 498 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB166 | Pass | Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund transfer as payment for the sale to a consumer of a security issued by such financial institution to make available... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB344 | Pass | Charitable gaming. Amends charitable gaming law to allow, as a condition of receiving a charitable gaming permit or authorization to conduct electronic gaming, certain organizations to use a predetermined percentage of its receipts for expenses relat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 504 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 371 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB7 | Pass | Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB658 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; summary suspension; timeline. Provides that when special agents of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority are conducting an initial investigation for purposes of summary suspension and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| VA | SB657 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| VA | SB169 | Pass | Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117) |
| VA | SB168 | Engross 50% | Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio. Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for certain mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires that a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee meet or excee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB347 | Engross 50% | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate and make recommendations on improving long-term viability; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB704 | Engross 50% | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | SB164 | Intro 25% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB10 | Intro 25% | Income tax subtraction; military retirement benefits; uniformed services. Expands the definition of "military benefits" to include an income tax subtraction of retirement income received for service in the uniformed services of the United States, whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB345 | Intro 25% | Casino gaming; limits on required local referendums. Provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum on the question of whether casino gaming should be permitted in such city that subsequently fails shall be p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB659 | Intro 25% | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB349 | Intro 25% | Vehicle inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends the timeframe following the first inspection of a new motor vehicle in which such vehicle must be inspected from 12 months after the first inspection to either 36 months after the first inspection or w... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB348 | Intro 25% | Gaming; posting of illegal gaming tip line information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a conspi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| VA | SB8 | Engross 50% | Notary public or electronic notary public; application for recommission. Removes the requirement that a person applying for recommission as a notary public or electronic notary public include in his application an applicant oath, provided that such p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB52 | Intro 25% | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB3 | Intro 25% | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB167 | Intro 25% | Elections; candidates; declaration of candidacy for primary and write-in votes. 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 be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |