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VAHR667PassCelebrating the life of Golden Bethune-Hill.
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2024-05-13
Agreed to by House
VAHR643PassCommending the Virginia First Cities Coalition.
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2024-05-13
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR638PassCommending Dawn Michelle Staley.
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2024-05-13
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR606PassCommending the Reverend Dr. Vernon C. Walton.
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2024-05-13
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHB34PassContract 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...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
VAHB603PassPublic 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...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
VAHB625PassPublic 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...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
VAHB994PassLegal 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
VAHB1221PassHealth 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741)
VAHB578PassUniform 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 ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)
VAHB102PassCompensation 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
VAHB855PassState 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
VAHB253PassSchool 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)
VAHB1269PassBarrier 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651)
VAHB27PassKinship 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 ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
VAHB572PassManufactured 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726)
VAHB1345PassHigh 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657)
VAHB1388PassAlert 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658)
VAHB1361PassVirginia 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)
VAHB827PassState 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 ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
VAHB692PassFinancial 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)
VAHB831PassChief 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)
VAHB558PassConstitutional 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394)
VAHB893PassStandards 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428)
VAHB1392PassLocal 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)
VAHB801PassElectronic 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 ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)
VAHB168PassDepartment 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...
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2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370)
VAHB100PassChild 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...
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2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369)
VAHB1085PassDepartment 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316)
VAHB407PassChild 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)
VAHB626PassPublic 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299)
VAHB18PassHate 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)
VAHB238PassHealth 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)
VAHB583PassPublic school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the shar...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)
VAHB22PassManufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)
VAHB719PassPublic high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or hea...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144)
VAHB1381PassCenter for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132)
VAHB159PassUse of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a patrol or security can...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099)
VAHB171PassSigning of pleadings, motions, and other papers; electronic signatures. Clarifies that an electronic signature or a digital image of a signature shall satisfy the requirement in current law that every pleading, motion, or other paper of a party be si...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)
VAHB174PassMarriage 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 ...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
VAHB292PassDrug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)
VAHR281PassCommending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR281ER)
VAHJR365PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ365ER)
VAHJR406PassCommending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ406ER)
VAHR341PassCommending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR341ER)
VAHR386PassCommending ChildSavers-Memorial Child Guidance Clinic.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR386ER)
VAHR375PassCommending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR375ER)
VAHR420PassCommending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR420ER)
VAHR405PassCommending JoAnn McCoy.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR405ER)
VAHR408PassCommending New Light Full Gospel Baptist Church.
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2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR408ER)
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