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VASB100Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 24109224D-S2
VASB582Enroll
75%
Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB327VetoPurchase 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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB357VetoAssault and battery; affirmative defense; penalty. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery of certain specified individuals for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six month mandatory minim...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB642VetoPurchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB515Enroll
75%
Weapons; possession or transportation; hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly possess in or transport into the building of any hospital that provide...
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2024-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 24109218D-S2
VASB2VetoPurchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB44PassAbuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB99VetoCarrying 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB273VetoPurchase 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB383VetoCarrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB368VetoStorage 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 ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB363Enroll
75%
Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly poss...
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2024-03-26
Governor's recommendation received by Senate
VASB362Enroll
75%
First-time drug offenders. Provides that any person who has not previously been convicted of any felony drug offense under relevant law or under any substantially similar statute of the United States or of any state may be eligible for first-time dru...
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2024-03-22
Governor's substitute printed 24109199D-S1
VASB23VetoJuveniles; 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB725PassDrug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 130 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB6Enroll
75%
Issuance of restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may f...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB7Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB210Enroll
75%
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger a...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB397Enroll
75%
Gaming; posting of illegal gaming tip line information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a conspi...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB95Enroll
75%
Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breat...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB212Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB344Enroll
75%
Charitable gaming. Amends charitable gaming law to allow, as a condition of receiving a charitable gaming permit or authorization to conduct electronic gaming, certain organizations to use a predetermined percentage of its receipts for expenses relat...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB469Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB540Enroll
75%
Illegal gambling; exemptions. Exempts from the provisions of Code prohibiting illegal gambling the placement or operation of or communication to and from data center equipment in the Commonwealth associated with the hosting of lottery games duly auth...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB448Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB394Enroll
75%
Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer, confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving a...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB706Enroll
75%
Drug Treatment Court Act; eligibility. Replaces the restriction that renders persons convicted of certain violent felonies or acts of violence within the preceding 10 years ineligible to participate in a drug treatment court with a restriction on par...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB47VetoFirearm 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...
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2024-03-09
Passed by for the day
VASB369Engross
50%
Maiming, killing, or poisoning companion animals; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously shoot, stab, or wound, or otherwise cause bodily injury to, or administer poison to or expose poison with intent that it be taken by, a...
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2024-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB442Engross
50%
Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any ...
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2024-03-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB384Engross
50%
Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or o...
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2024-03-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB307Intro
25%
Regulation of electronic gaming devices; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, servicing, hosting, and play of electronic gaming devices, as defined in the bill. The bill provides...
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2024-02-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB643Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
Chair votes No
VASB712Engross
50%
Release of hunting dogs; state highway or right-of-way. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for the intentional release of hunting dogs on a Department of Transportation right-of-way or on a highway owned or maintained by the Department of Transportation t...
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2024-02-12
Chair votes No
VASB571Intro
25%
Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause t...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VASB333Intro
25%
State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments; genetic material misuse; penalty. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payme...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee
VASB223Intro
25%
Unlawful picketing or parading to obstruct or influence justice; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing or intimidating in ...
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2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB481Intro
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...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB57Engross
50%
Carrying a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant; penalty. Makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person, except for active and qualified retired law-enforcement officers, to carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaura...
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2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
VASB689Intro
25%
Exemptions to article; cruise ship gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB690Intro
25%
Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program; fee. Raises from $300 to $350 the maximum fee that may be charged to a person required by the court to enter the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program upon conviction of certain offenses related to driving a m...
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2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
VASB56Intro
25%
Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to th...
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2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB700Intro
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...
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2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
VASB203Intro
25%
Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
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2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB583Intro
25%
Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwea...
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2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB120Intro
25%
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...
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2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
VASB193Intro
25%
Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest for the crime of fleeing from a law-enforcement officer.
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2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N)
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