| VA | HB746 | Pass | Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 818 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB285 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 806 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 628 (effective 7/1/25) |
| VA | HB1335 | Pass | Motor vehicle value; J.D. Power Official Used Car Guide. Adds the J.D. Power Official Used Car Guide to the list of publications from which the retail value of an automobile is admissible as evidence of fair market value of such automobile in any civ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1427 | Pass | Fixing period of suspension of sentence; sexual battery; sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age. Allows the court to fix the period of suspension of sentence for a period not to exceed three years for the offenses of sexual battery and sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1460 | Pass | Virginia Verified Meat certification. Prohibits any person from labeling any product as Virginia Verified Meat if it does not meet the definition of that term in the bill and allows any person not employed by the Department of Agriculture and Consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| VA | HB848 | Pass | Veterinary medicine; traineeships. Allows any veterinary medicine licensure applicant enrolled in a traineeship program to engage in the limited practice of veterinary medicine, as that term is defined by the Board of Veterinary Medicine, under the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| VA | HB1513 | Pass | Active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty. Provides that the Adjutant General may maintain state active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty during the course of a state active-duty mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB1377 | Pass | Soybean Board; assessment from sale of soybeans. Changes the amount of the assessment for research, education, publicity, and the promotion of the sale and use of soybeans, currently at $0.02 per bushel, to a rate of one half of one percent of the ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| VA | HB1381 | 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 (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB892 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| VA | HB159 | Pass | Use 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| VA | HB688 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; sale and delivery of mixed beverages and pre-mixed wine for off-premises consumption; third-party delivery license; sunset; repeal. Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset on provisions that allow (i) distillers that have been ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105) |
| VA | HB723 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; meetings of the board of directors; inconsistent provisions. Provides that the provisions of the Property Owners' Association Act govern the conduct of meetings of the board of directors without regard to whether the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| VA | HB714 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; pilot program for underground transmission lines; additional project. Adds one project to the existing pilot program for underground transmission lines. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to approve one additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HJR179 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable Kathy J. Byron.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR280 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HR281 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
VOTE: (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR281 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Diane Gay Flanagan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ281ER) |
| VA | HJR267 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Colonel William Joseph Flanagan, Jr., USA, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ267ER) |
| VA | HJR365 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ365ER) |
| VA | HR375 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR169 | Pass | Commending Columbia Gas of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ169ER) |
| VA | HJR364 | Pass | Commending the Warrenton Horse Show.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ364ER) |
| VA | HJR392 | Pass | Commending Joshua Grainer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ392ER) |
| VA | HJR199 | Pass | Commending Jennifer DeBruhl.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ199ER) |
| VA | HJR256 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Richard Thomas Cornwell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ256ER) |
| VA | HJR307 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Carroll Lane Phillippe, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ307ER) |
| VA | HJR302 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University women's basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ302ER) |
| VA | HJR226 | Pass | Commending Lucy Addison High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ226ER) |
| VA | HJR225 | Pass | Commemorating the life and legacy of Secretariat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ225ER) |
| VA | HJR43 | Pass | Study; Board of Veterinary Medicine; shortage of large animal veterinarians; report. Directs the Board of Veterinary Medicine, in consultation with the State Veterinarian, to complete a two-year study of the shortage of large animal veterinarians, wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ43ER) |
| VA | HR301 | Pass | Commending the Warrenton Volunteer Fire Company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Bill text as passed House (HR301ER) |
| VA | HR260 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Dr. Dwight Clinton Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Bill text as passed House (HR260ER) |
| VA | HR186 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Roxann Robinson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Bill text as passed House (HR186ER) |
| VA | HR198 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Salvatore Torelli.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR197 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Kraig Kirk Kelican.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR223 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Thomas K. Norment, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR257 | Pass | Commending Christopher Anthony Lunsford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR101 | Pass | Commending Peter A. Blake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ101ER) |
| VA | HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HJR13 | Pass | Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ13ER) |
| VA | HB725 | Engross
50% | Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HR177 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Michael P. Mullin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR167 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathy J. Byron.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR180 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ180ER) |
| VA | HR119 | Pass | Commending Blake Corum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR120 | Pass | Commending the Next Generation Choices Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR120 | Pass | Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ120ER) |
| VA | HJR145 | Pass | Commending the Old Dominion Hounds hunting club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ145ER) |
