| VA | HB653 | Enroll
75% | Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; violent felony offenses. Removes certain felony offenses from the list of violent felony offenses for the adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB1130 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB285 | Enroll
75% | Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB478 | Pass | Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB474 | Pass | Restroom Access Act. Requires a retail establishment that does not have a public restroom but has an employee toilet facility to allow any customer with an eligible medical condition, as defined in the bill, to use such employee toilet facility durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 640 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | 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) |
| 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 | HB1089 | Pass | Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 468 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB1083 | Pass | Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| VA | HB134 | Pass | Department of Education; development of education materials relating to risks of opioids. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with such stakeholders and experts as it deems necessary or appropriate, to develop and submit to the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1277 | Pass | Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1477 | Pass | Public schools; instructional time; competency-based education. Requires the Board of Education to provide local school boards maximum flexibility to waive existing instructional clock hour requirements by developing alternative instructional time mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 421 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB650 | Pass | Zoning; residential and electrical generation projects; period of validity. Provides that the conditions of a special exception or special use permit may include a period of validity; however, in the case of a special exception or special use permit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| VA | HB652 | Pass | Funeral arrangements; disputes between next of kin; proof of next of kin status. Establishes a dispute resolution process for disagreements about what persons are responsible for a decedent's funeral and the disposition for such decedent's remains. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| VA | HB479 | Pass | Physical 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193) |
| VA | HB238 | Pass | Health 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB1513 | Pass | Active-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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB574 | Pass | Recordation tax; value of interest conveyed. Provides that for purposes of recordation taxes, the value of a property interest conveyed shall be the most recent property tax assessment for such property at the time the property is conveyed. Recordat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| VA | HB1075 | Pass | Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program established. Establishes Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program for the purpose of promoting a comprehensive statewide initiative for encouraging preschool-age children to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147) |
| VA | HB1381 | Pass | 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] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB36 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0161) |
| VA | HB1216 | Engross
50% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR179 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable Kathy J. Byron.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR280 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB477 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; expiration. Extends the expiration of the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program to July 1, 2025. Currently, the Program is set to expire on July 1, 2024. This bill is a recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042) |
| VA | HB649 | Pass | Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military. Directs the State Registrar to expedite issuance of a new birth certificate upon receipt of certain documentation for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| VA | HB647 | Pass | Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| VA | HJR267 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Colonel William Joseph Flanagan, Jr., USA, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ267ER) |
| VA | HJR281 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Diane Gay Flanagan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ281ER) |
| VA | HR281 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
VOTE: (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR341 | Pass | Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR365 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ365ER) |
| VA | HR375 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR378 | Pass | Commending Shamari Earls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR386 | Pass | Commending ChildSavers-Memorial Child Guidance Clinic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR169 | Pass | Commending Columbia Gas of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ169ER) |
| VA | HJR339 | Pass | Commending the 2022 and 2023 seaplane flybys in honor of the 1619 Thanksgiving Prayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ339ER) |
| VA | HJR342 | Pass | Commending Fort Gregg-Adams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ342ER) |
| VA | HJR337 | Pass | Commending the Capitol Region Military Alliance of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ337ER) |
| VA | HJR338 | Pass | Commending the Hopewell Rotary Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ338ER) |
| VA | HJR233 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ233ER) |
| VA | HR340 | Pass | Commending the Loudoun County Public Schools Mobile Health Clinic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR340ER) |
| VA | HR339 | Pass | Commending student-guitarists of Loudoun County Public Schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR339ER) |
| VA | HR338 | Pass | Commending Megan Tucker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR338ER) |
| VA | HR350 | Pass | Commending the Maggie L. Walker Governor's School Mech Tech Dragons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR350ER) |
| VA | HJR199 | Pass | Commending Jennifer DeBruhl.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ199ER) |
| VA | HJR217 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peter Easter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ217ER) |
| VA | HJR302 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University women's basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ302ER) |
