| VA | SB256 | Pass | Motor vehicle insurance claims; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company licensed in the Commonwealth to write motor vehicle insurance (i) denies, refuses, fails to pay, or fails to make a timely and reasonable settlement offer to its insured... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 781 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB254 | Pass | Optometrists; expert witness testimony. Allows an optometrist to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his practice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 764 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB255 | Pass | Shared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purcha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 765 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB253 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 763 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB340 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifies that the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appears on a purchase card statement or other payment record and the descript... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 582 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB508 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard; geothermal heating and cooling systems; report. Provides that geothermal heating and cooling systems, as defined in the bill, located in the Commonwealth are eligible for compliance with renewable energy portfolio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 597 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB174 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 578 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB737 | Pass | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act, energy efficiency programs include electrification, including measures that electrify space heating, water heating, cooli... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 607 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB509 | Pass | Court of Appeals; appeal of interlocutory orders. Provides that certain interlocutory orders shall not be appealable to the Court of Appeals unless the circuit court grants a party's motion to certify such order for interlocutory appeal. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| VA | SB556 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit; maximum amount of tax credit. Increases from $5 million to $7.5 million, beginning in taxable year 2025, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 512 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB257 | Pass | Insurance; dental carriers; annual report. Requires each dental carrier, beginning in 2025, to annually, on or before April 30, file with the State Corporation Commission a report that includes the actual loss ratio, defined in the bill, for the prec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| VA | SB341 | Pass | Common interest communities; foreclosure remedy. Prohibits certain bills to enforce a lien from being entertained if the real estate is the judgment debtor's primary residence and the judgment is for assessments levied by certain common interest comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| 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 | SB372 | Pass | Combined sewer overflow outfalls; compliance with regulations; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which certain combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls that discharge into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed mus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |