| VA | SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB119 | Enroll
75% | Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB274 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 704 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB358 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; definition of a real estate broker. Adds to the definition of "real estate broker" any individual or business entity who sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, negotiates, or otherwise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 621 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB463 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 677 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB513 | Pass | Funeral services; transportation protection agreements. Defines "transportation protection agreement" as an agreement that provides for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to transportation of human remains or cremated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB614 | Pass | Xylazine; manufacturing; selling; giving; distributing; possessing; veterinary use exemption; penalties. Provides that any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with the intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 516 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB568 | Pass | Crisis stabilization services; facilities licensed by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; nursing homes; dispensing and administration of drugs; emergency. Permits facilities licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (effective 4/4/24) |
| 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 | SB607 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| VA | SB111 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | SB154 | Pass | Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) |
| VA | SB521 | Pass | Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeral contract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| VA | SB133 | Pass | Physician assistants; practice agreement exemption. Allows physician assistants employed by a hospital or employed in certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in federally qualified health cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116) |
| VA | SB330 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate board; continuing education requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons. Increases from eight to 11 the number of hours of continuing education an applicant for relicensure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| VA | SB629 | Pass | Civil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126) |
| VA | SB22 | Pass | Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) |
| VA | SB74 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; release of records to drug court administrators and behavioral health docket administrators. Requires the Director of the Department of Health Professions to release otherwise confidential information from the Prescri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033) |
| VA | SB184 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; practice of geology; definitions. Expands the definition of the practice of geology to include the performance of any professional service or work wherein the principles and methods of geology a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | SB280 | Engross
50% | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB33 | Engross
50% | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB554 | Engross
50% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; reciprocal licensing for certain professionals from neighboring states. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board, the Real Estate Board, the Board for Waste Management Facility Operators, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee |
| VA | SB331 | Engross
50% | Department of Health Professions; informed consent requirements for hysterectomies and oophorectomies; review; report. Directs the Department of Health Professions to review and make recommendations regarding informed consent requirements for hyster...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB560 | Engross
50% | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; dust sampling technicians, renovators, and accredited renovation training programs. Removes the responsibility of the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors to promulgate regulations conc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB663 | Engross
50% | Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties; veterinary satellite offices. Requires the Board of Veterinary Medicine to regulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinary medicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB437 | Engross
50% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers; places of business. Defines "place of business" for real estate brokers. The bill requires firm licenses and licenses of branch offices, defined in the bill, to be maintaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB726 | Engross
50% | Public schools; opioid antagonist Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB682 | Engross
50% | Health professions; universal licensure; requirements. Requires health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions to recognize licenses or certifications issued by other United States jurisdictions, as defined in the bill, as fulfi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB351 | Intro
25% | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB403 | Engross
50% | Behavioral health technicians; behavioral health technician assistants; qualified mental health professionals; qualified mental health professional-trainees; scope of practice, supervision, and qualifications. Adds behavioral health technicians and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB716 | Engross
50% | Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB387 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB446 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB173 | Engross
50% | Adult day care centers; name change. Renames "adult day care centers" as "adult day centers" throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
