| VA | SB2 | 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
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB15 | Veto | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB494 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; live-in domestic workers. Adds individuals who are employed in domestic service in a household and reside in such household to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB480 | Pass | Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 790 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB595 | Veto | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB628 | Pass | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Amends the list of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by replacing Richmond with Petersburg. The bill also provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 798 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB338 | Veto | Study; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects of gun violence on communities across the Commonwealth. Study; JLA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB479 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB608 | Pass | Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education; Community School Development and Implementation Planning Grant; state goal. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 797 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB35 | 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 | SB477 | Veto | Blighted and derelict properties in certain localities; rate of tax. Allows the governing body of a locality with a score of 100 or higher on the fiscal stress index to levy a real property tax on blighted and derelict properties at a rate exceeding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB119 | Enroll
75% | Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB370 | Veto | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB105 | 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
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB373 | Veto | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB488 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 679 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB487 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; analysis of the use of artificial intelligence by public bodies; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB626 | 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 683 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB48 | Pass | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 616 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB546 | Pass | Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; evaluations; presence of others. Requires (i) the evaluator conducting the evaluation of an individual to determine whether such individual meets the criteria for temporary detention or (ii) the hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 682 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB627 | 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 684 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB253 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 763 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB403 | Pass | Behavioral health technicians; behavioral health technician assistants; qualified mental health professionals; qualified mental health professional-trainees; scope of practice, supervision, and qualifications. Adds behavioral health technicians and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 595 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB564 | Pass | Individual income tax subtraction; income earned in certain localities. Directs the Department of Taxation and the Commission on Local Government to assess the need for income tax relief in double distressed localities in the Commonwealth that have e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 599 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB645 | Pass | Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts; state intervention. Sets out a procedure for determining when localities are in fiscal distress, as defined in the bill, and when state intervention may be necessary. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| VA | SB220 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| VA | SB484 | 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 (CHAP0357) |
| VA | SB704 | 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 (CHAP0133) |
| VA | SB483 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| VA | SR121 | Pass | Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw; portrait. Establishes a committee to contract for a portrait of Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw to be painted, framed, and installed in the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR121ER) |
| VA | SJR175 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Samuel Reynolds III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ175ER) |
| VA | SJR183 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Julie Clemente.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ183ER) |
| VA | SJR187 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Richard Robert Paradis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ187ER) |
| VA | SJR182 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Arthur Stuart Nachman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ182ER) |
| VA | SJR212 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Harold A. Deane, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ212ER) |
| VA | SJR218 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ218ER) |
| VA | SJR213 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Richard A. Stewart.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ213ER) |
| VA | SJR185 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Harris Nathan Miller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ185ER) |
| VA | SJR210 | Pass | Commending William A. Pruitt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ210ER) |
| VA | SJR227 | Pass | Commending Daniel G. "Bud" Oakey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ227ER) |
| VA | SJR222 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Dr. Angelo V. Chatmon. Commending the Reverend Dr. Angelo V. Chatmon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ222ER) |
| VA | SJR237 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ237ER) |
| VA | SJR244 | Pass | Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ244ER) |
| VA | SJR236 | Pass | Commending John C. Lee, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ236ER) |
| VA | SR126 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Roy Britton Scherer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed Senate (SR126ER) |
| VA | SR125 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State University marching band.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed Senate (SR125ER) |
| VA | SR124 | Pass | Commending Ann Cannon Taylor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed Senate (SR124ER) |
| VA | SJR157 | Pass | Commending Gilbert A. Smith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ157ER) |
| VA | SJR156 | Pass | Commending William G. Coada.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ156ER) |
