| VA | HB26 | Veto | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification; private entities licensed or certified by certain state agencies. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting a valid identification card that contains a photogra...
[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 | HB4 | Veto | Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Provides that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax shall receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution formula fo...
[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 | HB47 | Veto | Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB385 | Veto | Railroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | HB454 | Veto | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | 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 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| VA | HB736 | Pass | Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 730 (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 | HB1376 | Pass | Submetering or energy allocation equipment; billing requirements; unit owners. Provides that for the purposes of rules promulgated by the State Corporation Commission related to billing requirements and all other rules related to submetering or energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| VA | HB374 | Pass | Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| VA | HB93 | Pass | Alpha-gal syndrome; Board of Health; reportable disease list. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations to include alpha-gal syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required to be reported in accordance with the Code of Virginia. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| VA | HB98 | Pass | Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| VA | HB732 | Pass | Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| VA | HB160 | Pass | Department of Labor and Industry; workplace poster for veterans benefits and services. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Services, to create a poster describing benefits and services availab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| 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) |
| VA | HB100 | Pass | Child labor offenses; civil penalties. Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty for each violation of child labor laws that results in the employment of a child who is seriously injured or dies in the course of employment. The bill also in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB144 | Pass | Change in speed limits; notification. Requires Change in speed limits; notification. Requires the Department of Transportation, if the Commissioner of Highways increases or decreases a speed limit, to notify the primary liaison with the Department in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| VA | HB143 | Pass | Utility work database. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and maintain a publicly accessible database and map of all utility work that has been approved by the Department and will occur within a highway right-of-way in a residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| VA | HB5 | Pass | Town of Leesburg Parking Authority. Authorizes the creation of the Town of Leesburg Parking Authority. The bill grants to the Authority various powers, including the authority to construct, operate, and lease parking facilities, contract with outside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| VA | HB18 | 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 (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB358 | Pass | Voluntarily registered family day homes; safe sleep practices; checklist. Requires the Department of Education to update its Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist for any voluntarily registered family day home to include safe sleep pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Motor 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| 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 | HB74 | Pass | Unpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134) |
| 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 | HB85 | Pass | Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited. Prohibits any miner or other person from using cyanide or a cyanide compound in any mineral mining or processing operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| VA | HB24 | Pass | Amber warning lights; certain hunting vehicles. Authorizes road whips, defined in the bill, who are operating vehicles during certain fox hunts to display flashing amber warning lights when such vehicles are not in motion for the purpose of warning o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095) |
| VA | HB140 | Pass | Adoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069) |
| VA | HB1409 | Pass | Crash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079) |
| VA | HR61 | Fail | Encouraging the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth. Encourages the Commonwealth of Virginia to take all practical steps to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth, regionally, and nationally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HJR280 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1044 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| VA | HR281 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
VOTE: (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR406 | Pass | Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ406ER) |
| 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 | HR341 | Pass | Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR375 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR420 | Pass | Commending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR420ER) |
| VA | HR412 | Pass | Commending the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR287 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ287ER) |
| VA | HJR346 | Pass | Commending Julian C. Deck.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ346ER) |
| 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 | HJR329 | Pass | Commending the Woodgrove High School wrestling team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ329ER) |
| VA | HR338 | Pass | Commending Megan Tucker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR338ER) |
