| 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 | SB260 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia preference. Provides first preference for goods produced in Virginia and then provides for preference to goods produced in the United States before a tie bid is decided by lot in determining the award for any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| 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 | SB584 | Veto | Department of General Services; General Services Board established; Chief Administrator. Establishes the General Services Board to oversee the Department of General Services and, among other duties, to appoint a Chief Administrator for the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB570 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | SB729 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established; report. Creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank to finance clean energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects, and other qualified projects through the strategic deployment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | SB36 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions of meetings and public business. Exempts certain public meetings from the definition of "meeting" under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to clarify that three or more members of a public body ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| VA | SB85 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| VA | SB242 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| VA | SB324 | Pass | 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) |
| VA | SB245 | Pass | Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| VA | SB487 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; analysis of the use of artificial intelligence by public bodies; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| VA | SB496 | Pass | Virginia Growth and Opportunity Act; Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Reduces the local funding match requirement for GO Virginia grants from being equal to the grant amount to being at least equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| VA | SB488 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| VA | SB155 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| 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 | SB204 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| VA | SB18 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| VA | SB135 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Provides that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may determine a site of at least 50 contiguous acres to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| VA | SB222 | Pass | Commonwealth information security requirements. Exempts cybersecurity information, defined in the bill, from the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act while in possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| VA | SB217 | Pass | Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| VA | SB436 | Pass | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill makes the Department, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| VA | SB7 | Pass | Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB399 | Pass | Six-year financial plan. Modifies the requirements for the six-year financial plan submitted by the Governor to the General Assembly by (i) requiring that such plan be submitted on or before the first day of each regular session of the General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| VA | SB585 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| 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 | SB734 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129) |
| VA | SB510 | Pass | Investment of public funds. Allows any qualified public entity of the Commonwealth to invest in asset-backed securities that are guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066) |
| VA | SB415 | Fail | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "meeting." Amends the definition of "meeting" as it relates to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to add an exception for local political party meetings. The bill is a recommendation of the FOIA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB699 | Fail | Revenue reserves and budgetary amendments. Provides that if the Governor in the Budget Bill recommends a transfer of funds in the Revenue Reserve Fund in excess of the statutory 15 percent combined balance limit, then the corresponding purpose and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB89 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties. Renames the executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority as the chief executive officer of the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| VA | SB90 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; land and utility ownership. Removes the number of acres and the instrument number of the quitclaim deed recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Hampton on June 14, 2013, in reference to the area that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| VA | SB29 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB30 | Intro
25% | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SJR21 | Engross
50% | Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB79 | Engross
50% | Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB539 | Intro
25% | License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owners or other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB503 | Engross
50% | License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB113 | Intro
25% | Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB122 | Intro
25% | Department of General Services; Office of Pharmaceutical Services; report. Establishes in the Department of General Services an Office of Pharmaceutical Services to develop and execute a plan to consolidate state agency prescription drug purchasing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB247 | Intro
25% | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB249 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Limits the use of construction management or design-build contracts by state public bodies and covered institutions for complex projects. The bill requires state p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB647 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; required criteria in invitations to bid. Requires all public bodies to include in any Invitation to Bid criteria that will be used in determining whether a bidder who is not prequalified by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB140 | Intro
25% | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB197 | Intro
25% | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB410 | Intro
25% | Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's Major Entertainment Opportunity Fund. Renames the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund under the Virginia Tourism Authority as the Governor's Major Entertainment Opportunity Fund and changes its purpose fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) |
