| VA | SB23 | Veto | Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB115 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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 | SB460 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 594 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 606 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB502 | Fail | Petitions in juvenile and domestic relations district court; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor residing in the same home as such parent from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB443 | Pass | Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | SB444 | Engross
50% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB575 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB643 | Engross
50% | Penalties for failure to appear; contempt. Provides that any person (i) charged with a felony offense or misdemeanor offense or (ii) convicted of a felony offense or misdemeanor offense and execution of sentence is suspended who willfully fails to ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Chair votes No |
| VA | SB619 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB481 | Intro
25% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB438 | Intro
25% | Juvenile detention home, group home, and residential care facility commissions; membership. Requires that members and alternate members of juvenile detention home, group home, or other residential care facility commissions have a background in law en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB482 | Intro
25% | Expungement and sealing of juvenile court records. Provides for the sealing of juvenile court records in those instances where a juvenile was found guilty of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult and such juvenile has attai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB700 | Intro
25% | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB653 | Intro
25% | State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders; delayed admission to determine medical needs. Allows state psychiatric hospitals to delay admission of an individual under a temporary detention order until the state psychiatric hospital has d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB208 | Intro
25% | Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB686 | Intro
25% | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from five to six the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Thirty-first Judicial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
