| VA | SB350 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as requested afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| VA | SB356 | 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 (CHAP0770) |
| VA | SB129 | Pass | Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| VA | SB239 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| VA | SB547 | Pass | Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| VA | SB389 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | SB215 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| VA | SB394 | Pass | Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| VA | SB398 | Pass | Protective orders; respondent to notify court of change of address. Requires the respondent against whom a protective order has been issued to notify the court in writing within seven days of any change of residence while such order is in effect, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| VA | SB283 | Pass | Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| VA | SB574 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; behavioral health and crisis response services; civil admissions laws and processes; work group; report. Directs the Behavioral Health Commission to convene a work group to study how to effectively align current civil ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| VA | SB710 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| VA | SB456 | Pass | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| VA | SB692 | Pass | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports, electronic filing required. Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing. The bill has a delaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| VA | SB298 | Pass | Tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural application equipment; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individual and corporate tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural applicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| VA | SB401 | Pass | Military leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions; professional firefighters. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a professional firefighter s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| VA | SB731 | Pass | Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; penalty. Amends the definition of "child pornography" to include sexually explicit visual material that depicts a minor in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct where such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| VA | SB213 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| VA | SB210 | Pass | Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164) |
| VA | SB644 | Pass | Unpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| 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 | SB211 | Pass | Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| VA | SB209 | Pass | Adoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| VA | SJR243 | Pass | Commending the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ243ER) |
| 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 | SJR170 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James "Jim" Horace Hinshaw.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ170ER) |
| 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 | SJR245 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Avelina S. Jacob.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ245ER) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SR139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of David Wiett Reed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate (SR139ER) |
| VA | SR141 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Marvin Joseph Weniger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate (SR141ER) |
| VA | SR125 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State University marching band.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Bill text as passed Senate (SR125ER) |
| VA | SJR28 | Pass | Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain transit systems; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study long-term, sustainable, dedicated funding and cost-containment controls and str...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ28ER) |
| VA | SJR149 | Pass | Celebrating the life of William Thomas Greer, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ149ER) |
| VA | SJR150 | Pass | Commending the Tidewater EMS Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ150ER) |
| VA | SJR168 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Clarence A. Holland, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ168ER) |
| VA | SJR15 | 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] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ15ER) |
| VA | SJR165 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kenneth William Stolle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ165ER) |
| VA | SJR131 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Captain Anderson Keating King, USAR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ131ER) |
| VA | SJR151 | Pass | Commending Mark E. Smith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ151ER) |
| VA | SR119 | Pass | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
Bill text as passed Senate (SR119ER) |
| VA | SJR148 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Trevor Bryan Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ148ER) |
| VA | SJR61 | Pass | Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ61ER) |
| VA | SJR16 | Pass | Acknowledging with profound regret the unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions. Expresses the sentiment of the General Assembly in acknowledging with profound regret the unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions in the Commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ16ER) |
| VA | SJR123 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ123ER) |
