| VA | SB39 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 771 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB600 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; partial termination of certain time-shares. Allows for the partial termination of a time-share project by a developer or an association and provides the procedures for any such partial termination. The bill also s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 602 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB474 | Pass | School Construction Program and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Clarifies that, for the purposes of eligibility to receive grants through the School Construction Fund and Program, "local school division" includes any joint or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| VA | SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| VA | SB572 | Pass | Maximum width of vehicles; school buses. Increases from 100 inches to 102 inches the maximum total outside width permitted for school buses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| VA | SB471 | Pass | Certain powers of attorney; transfer on death deeds. Provides that an agent under a power of attorney shall not have the authority to create, change, or revoke a transfer on death deed unless specifically granted the power to create or change a benef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| VA | SB157 | Pass | Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| VA | SB7 | 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 (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB691 | Pass | Conveyance of certain property from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville; Augusta Correctional Center. Provides for the transfer of certain property in Augusta County from the Department of Corrections to the Town of Craigsville. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127) |
| VA | SB577 | Pass | Elections; campaign finance; exemptions for candidates for certain offices; directors of soil and water conservation districts. Provides that a candidate for director of a soil and water conservation district may also seek an exemption from the requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) |
| VA | SB470 | Pass | Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts; certain nonvested property interests or powers of appointment over property or property interests. Extends from 90 years to 1,000 years the period for which a nonvested property interest held in tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| VA | SB709 | Pass | Assessment of omitted taxes; erroneous payments. Provides that any retail sales tax payment erroneously remitted by a taxpayer to the Department of Taxation shall be applied to the taxpayer's delinquent use tax accounts. The taxpayer must provide evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128) |
| VA | SB573 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Emergency Management and financially man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB466 | Engross
50% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB575 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB704 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB468 | Intro
25% | Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB472 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB690 | Intro
25% | Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program; fee. Raises from $300 to $350 the maximum fee that may be charged to a person required by the court to enter the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program upon conviction of certain offenses related to driving a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB579 | Intro
25% | Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; professional liability insurance. Specifies that the required minimum amount of professional liability coverage for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities is the amount per occurrence. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB617 | Intro
25% | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB467 | Intro
25% | Foster care; diversionary placements; alternative living arrangements. Allows a birth parent to identify an ALA caregiver, defined in the bill, with whom the birth parent would like to place his child in an alternative living arrangement, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| VA | SB52 | Intro
25% | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB3 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) |
