Virginia Senator Louise Lucas [D] | Bills

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VASB1VetoMinimum 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB116Enroll
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB105Enroll
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB628Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB627Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB585Enroll
75%
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB2VetoPurchase, 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB15Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB104Enroll
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB115Enroll
75%
Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB119Enroll
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB212Enroll
75%
Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill g...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB599Enroll
75%
Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $124,285,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at James Madison University, Virginia State University, and The College of William and Ma...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB588Enroll
75%
Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB373Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB699FailRevenue reserves and budgetary amendments. Provides that if the Governor in the Budget Bill recommends a transfer of funds in the Revenue Reserve Fund in excess of the statutory 15 percent combined balance limit, then the corresponding purpose and pr...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
VASB29Intro
25%
Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 769 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, as further amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I.
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB30Intro
25%
Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of ยง 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB703Intro
25%
General appropriations and revenue of the Commonwealth. Includes digital personal property, defined in the bill, in the definition of tangible personal property for the purposes of the retail sales and use tax. Amendments are made throughout the chap...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB704Engross
50%
Center 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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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
VASB601Intro
25%
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VASB624Engross
50%
Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying t...
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2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
VASB623Intro
25%
Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB106Engross
50%
Charter; City of Portsmouth; emergency. Amends the charter for the City of Portsmouth by aligning dates for nomination of candidates and the filling of city council vacancies with state law. The bill also updates a Code of Virginia reference and cont...
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2024-01-18
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
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