Virginia Delegate Karen Keys-Gamarra [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB34	Pass	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]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
VA	HB974	Veto	Workers' compensation; presumption that certain injuries arose out of employment. Provides that in any claim for workers' compensation, where the employee suffers an unexplained fall in the course of employment, such employee may satisfy the burden o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB45	Veto	Earned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho... [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	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	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	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	HB568	Enroll 75%	Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th... [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	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]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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	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	HB1475	Veto	Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; building owners and operators to supply cooling by April 1 and heating by October 1. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to evaluate revisions to the Unif... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB569	Veto	Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations. Requires an employer that employs 10 or more employees and that receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
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	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	HB625	Pass	Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
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	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	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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
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	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	HB803	Veto	Expungement of juvenile court records. Provides that if a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult, other than certain felony offenses specified in the bill committed when such juvenile w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
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	HB570	Veto	Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB994	Pass	Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry. Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
VA	HB1221	Pass	Health education; menstrual education instruction permitted. Permits each school board to provide a program of instruction on menstrual education as a part of any health education instruction offered at such grade level in grades four through eight a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741)
VA	HB578	Pass	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]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)
VA	HB102	Pass	Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651)
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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
VA	HB855	Pass	State Department of Social Services; Home Energy Assistance Program. Authorizes the State Department of Social Services to allow applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program to be submitted over an application period that provides adequate tim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
VA	HB253	Pass	School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)
VA	HB572	Pass	Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726)
VA	HB1345	Pass	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]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657)
VA	HB1388	Pass	Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658)
VA	HB1361	Pass	Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)
VA	HB827	Pass	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]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
VA	HB692	Pass	Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)
VA	HB558	Pass	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394)
VA	HB831	Pass	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]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)
VA	HB1392	Pass	Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be cove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)
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	HB801	Pass	Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services; lowest available rates. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)
VA	HB168	Pass	Department of Education; resource document on supports and services for homeless students. Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board a resource document containing guidance and best practices for providin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370)
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	HB1085	Pass	Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316)
VA	HB407	Pass	Child Care Subsidy Program; categorical eligibility for certain families. Provides that any family that receives public assistance through Medicaid or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children shall be deemed to cate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)
VA	HB626	Pass	Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299)
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)