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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB516 | Passed | Prescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessibl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| #2 | HB1028 | Vetoed | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #3 | HB29 | Enrolled | 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, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Failed to pass |
| #4 | HB47 | Vetoed | Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #5 | HB1452 | Passed | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires each state agency to submit its annual report assessing the impact of its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans on the populati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| #6 | HB34 | Passed | Contract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| #7 | HB183 | Vetoed | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #8 | SB570 | Vetoed | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of "employer." Waives the Commonwealth's sovereign immunity to a civil action under the definition of "person" in relevant law. The bill also expands the definition of "employer" as it relates to the requirement ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Passed by for the day |
| #9 | HB1195 | Vetoed | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #10 | HB157 | Vetoed | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #11 | SB504 | Vetoed | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that, for the purposes of expungement of police and court records, the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Passed by for the day |
| #12 | HB576 | Enrolled | Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subcontractors to the contracting parties and those who engage in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #13 | HB161 | Vetoed | Arrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #14 | HB215 | Passed | Department of Education; development of Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules for students in the ninth and tenth grades. Requires the Department of Education to develop culturally appropriate, age-appropriate, and trauma-informe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| #15 | HB110 | Vetoed | Surrogacy brokers; repeal of prohibition against. Repeals the statute prohibiting any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity from accepting compensation for recruiting or procuring surrogates or accepting compensation for otherwise a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #16 | HB1130 | Enrolled | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #17 | HB442 | Vetoed | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #18 | SB212 | Enrolled | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #19 | HB819 | Enrolled | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #20 | SB628 | Passed | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| #21 | HB173 | Enrolled | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #22 | SB256 | Passed | 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| #23 | SB324 | Passed | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; charges for production of public records; report. Prohibits a public body from charging a requester for any costs incurred during the first hour spent accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for records re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| #24 | HB569 | Vetoed | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations. Requires an employer that employs 10 or more employees and that receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #25 | HB1287 | Passed | Towing companies; local authority. Clarifies that the provisions of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8 to require towing companies that tow from the county, city, or town to a storage or release location outside of the localit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| #26 | SB246 | Vetoed | Limited-duration licenses and driver privilege cards and permits; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials and commercial dri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Passed by for the day |
| #27 | SB47 | Vetoed | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Requires 2/3 members present |
| #28 | HB354 | Vetoed | Public pools; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated for public use, including swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated in conjunc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #29 | HB187 | Enrolled | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #30 | SB188 | Enrolled | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #31 | HB335 | Vetoed | Department of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #32 | HB1505 | Passed | Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| #33 | HB1370 | Passed | Reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies by certain health care providers; prohibited. Prohibits certain medical care facilities, certain health care professionals, and emergency medical services agencies from reporting any portion of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| #34 | SB105 | Enrolled | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #35 | HB61 | Passed | Enterprise zones; renewal periods. Authorizes the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to renew enterprise zones for up to four five-year renewal periods for zones designated on or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| #36 | HB612 | Vetoed | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #37 | HB746 | Passed | 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| #38 | HB81 | Vetoed | Common-law crime of suicide. Abolishes the common-law crime of suicide. Suicide is currently a common-law crime in Virginia, although there is no statutorily prescribed punishment. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and also requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #39 | HB175 | Vetoed | Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #40 | HB466 | Vetoed | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #41 | SB660 | Passed | Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; reporting requirements; civil penalty. Provides that a person that violates the existing requirement to obtain a license prior to providing pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise acting as a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| #42 | HB257 | Passed | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| #43 | HB285 | Passed | 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| #44 | HB405 | Vetoed | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #45 | HB624 | Enrolled | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| #46 | HB1247 | Passed | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| #47 | SB276 | Vetoed | Energy upgrade programs; Phase I and Phase II Utilities; State Corporation Commission to study feasibility; work group; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to study the feasibility of the implementation of an ener... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Passed by for the day |
| #48 | HB838 | Vetoed | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that for the purposes of expungement of police and court records the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #49 | HB1174 | Vetoed | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| #50 | HB1178 | Vetoed | Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Amends the membership of the board of directors of the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority by adding four nonlegislative citizen members ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
