Virginia Delegate Laura Jane Cohen [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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	HB498	Enroll 75%	School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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	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	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	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	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	HB224	Enroll 75%	Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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	HB161	Veto	Arrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB187	Enroll 75%	Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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	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	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]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB536	Enroll 75%	Student bullying; definition; characteristics of victim. Adjusts the definition of "bullying" in the context of public education to specify that the real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim that is involved in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB1462	Veto	Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB609	Enroll 75%	Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	HB1028	Veto	Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
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	HB1174	Veto	Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB812	Enroll 75%	Special license plates; Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee. Repeals authorization for the issuance of Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee special license plates and provides that such special license plates already in circulati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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	HB318	Veto	Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB673	Pass	Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816)
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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730)
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	HB149	Pass	Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632)
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	HB926	Pass	Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697)
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	HB327	Pass	Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721)
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	HB35	Pass	Firearm safety device tax credit; definition of firearm safety device. Expands the definition of "firearm safety device" as it relates to the firearm safety device tax credit to include any device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)
VA	HB361	Pass	Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Social Services. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening individuals as a condition of licensure, empl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
VA	HB509	Pass	State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444)
VA	HB511	Pass	Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or regist... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
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	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	HB699	Pass	Board of Medicine; Board of Dentistry; Board of Optometry; Boards of Medicine and Nursing; patient counseling; treatment with opioids. Directs the Board of Medicine, the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Optometry, and the Boards of Medicine and Nursi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0448)
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	HB1163	Pass	Department of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414)
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	HB503	Pass	Department of Medical Assistance Services; credentialed addiction treatment professionals; licensed behavior analysts; definition. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend in its regulations the definition of "credentialed addic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)
VA	HB508	Pass	Department of Education; background checks for child day program employees and volunteers; dissemination of information in certain circumstances. Requires the Department of Education, upon receiving a written request for a written certification from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289)
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	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)