| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB175 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB46 | Veto | 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
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB81 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB77 | Veto | Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting to the three higher degrees of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB161 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB183 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB173 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB452 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 811 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB267 | Veto | Assault 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB362 | Veto | Purchase, 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB653 | Enroll
75% | Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; violent felony offenses. Removes certain felony offenses from the list of violent felony offenses for the adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB351 | Veto | Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB454 | Veto | Carrying 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB466 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB1195 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB797 | Veto | Demonstrated competence for a concealed handgun permit; firearms instructors and safety programs. Requires that any course, class, or training to demonstrate competence with a handgun as required to obtain a concealed handgun permit must include a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB799 | Veto | Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints required by local governments. Requires an applicant for a concealed handgun permit or a renewal of such permit to submit fingerprints as part of the application. The bill provides that any demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB798 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm following an assault and battery or stalking violation; prohibition period; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery, assault and battery of a family or household mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB790 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 821 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1174 | Veto | 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 |
| VA | HB1420 | 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
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB698 | 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
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB861 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB926 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still image that depicts another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttock...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1324 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| VA | HB1443 | Pass | Trial by jury; contact with jurors after trial prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any defendant who knowingly and intentionally contacts, with the intent to harass, intimidate, or threaten, a juror regarding such juror's service a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| VA | HB523 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| VA | HB928 | Pass | Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally interferes with or impedes the operation or commercial fishing activity, defined in the bill, of a commerc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| VA | HB1256 | Pass | Larceny offenses; venue. Allows grand larceny and embezzlement offenses to be prosecuted in any county or city where the victim of the larceny or embezzlement resides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| VA | HB633 | Pass | Forced labor or service; penalties. Expands the offense of abduction to penalize any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, obtains the labor or services of another, or seizes, takes, transports, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| VA | HB18 | 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 (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB991 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| VA | HB22 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| VA | HB36 | Pass | Abuse 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0161) |
| VA | HB895 | Pass | Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) |
| VA | HB1114 | Pass | Penalties for failure to appear; exclusion. Excludes any person who is (i) incarcerated in any correctional facility or (ii) (a) detained in any state or federal facility or (b) in the custody of a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| VA | HB590 | Fail | Regulation of electronic gaming devices; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, hosting, and playing of electronic gaming devices, as defined in the bill, under the regulatory auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB292 | Pass | Drug 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB195 | Engross
50% | Gaming in the Commonwealth; prohibition on use Gaming in the Commonwealth; prohibition on use of term "casino" by non-casino gaming operators; civil penalties. Prohibits any applicant for licensure or any person licensed or permitted to conduct chari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB697 | Engross
50% | 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 use any synthetic media for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB774 | Engross
50% | Alcohol safety action program; local administrative fee. Provides that any county, city, or town, or any combination thereof, that has established and operates an alcohol safety action program and supplements fees collected for the program pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB39 | Intro
25% | Contributing to the delinquency of a minor; sex offenders; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person 18 years of age or older who engages in consensual sexual intercourse or anal intercourse with or performs cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB51 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB179 | Fail | Consecutive terms of imprisonment. Eliminates the required imposition of mandatory consecutive sentences of imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB209 | Intro
25% | Organized retail theft; repeal. Repeals the crime of organized retail theft and the Organized Retail Crime Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB289 | Intro
25% | Carrying a concealed handgun with a permit; public parking lots. Provides that a concealed handgun permit holder may store his firearms or other weapons in a motor vehicle in a publicly or privately owned parking lot, traffic circle, or other means o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB553 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
