| VA | HB321 | Enroll 75% | Line of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB398 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1270 | Enroll 75% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation. Makes it a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to sell or offer for sale services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwelling without holding a mold... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB831 | Enroll 75% | Chief Medical Examiner; Maternal Mortality Review Team; work group; expansion plan; report. Directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Maternal Mortality Review Team to convene a work group to expand the work of the Maternal Mortality R... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB34 | Enroll 75% | Contract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-03-27 Governor's substitute printed 24109222D-H2 |
| 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] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB830 | Enroll 75% | Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1345 | Enroll 75% | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB611 | Enroll 75% | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional correctional facility to report to the State Bo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB827 | Enroll 75% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 132 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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] | 2024-03-14 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB238 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB578 | Enroll 75% | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB257 | Enroll 75% | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB269 | Enroll 75% | Board of Education; Provisional (Career Switcher) License; special education. Requires the Board of Education to amend its relevant regulation to permit any career switcher who seeks a teaching endorsement preK through grade 12, including any career ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB832 | Enroll 75% | Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law require... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB255 | Enroll 75% | Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB519 | Enroll 75% | Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB25 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB805 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1415 | Enroll 75% | Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB781 | Enroll 75% | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB459 | Enroll 75% | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB100 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB456 | Enroll 75% | City council salaries. Increases the statutory salary caps for members of city councils and requires a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance to set city council salaries. The bill also provides that the maximum salaries may be adjusted in any... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB131 | Enroll 75% | Department of Education; learning needs dashboard. Requires the Department of Education to continue to maintain until July 1, 2029, a learning needs dashboard that includes an interactive bar chart feature to compare annual pass rates and an interact... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1287 | Enroll 75% | Towing companies; local authority. Clarifies that the provisions of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8 to require towing companies that tow from the county, city, or town to a storage or release location outside of the localit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB603 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB18 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll 75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 |
| VA | HB1436 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB825 | Engross 50% | Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR280 | Engross 50% | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB174 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB48 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 15 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HJR365 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Agreed to by Senate |
| 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 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR397 | Pass | Commending Janet V. Green. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HR341 | Pass | Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR382 | Pass | Commending the Highland Springs High School football team. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR383 | Pass | Commending the Varina High School boys' basketball team. [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 | HR375 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Agreed to by House by voice vote |