| HB1548 | Intro
Prefile | High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school student whose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-12
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB677 | Engross
Prefile | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1185 | Engross
Prefile | Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer, and Discharge data elements on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB696 | Engross
Prefile | Establishment of recovery high schools; authorization in certain Superintendent's regions. Authorizes any school board that governs a school division located in Superintendent's Region 2, 4, or 7 to establish a recovery high school in the relevant sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1101 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Public Procurement Act; professional services; definition. Adds to the definition of "professional services," for use throughout the Virginia Public Procurement Act, services of an investment and financial advisor procured by the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1445 | Engross
Prefile | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HJR67 | Engross
Prefile | Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB675 | Engross
Prefile | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB109 | Engross
Prefile | Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB550 | Engross
Prefile | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB141 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1284 | Engross
Prefile | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB842 | Engross
Prefile | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1403 | Engross
Prefile | Dam Safety, Flood Prevention, and Protection Assistance Fund; percentage of funds available; owner match requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB420 | Engross
Prefile | Temporary funding of federal park operations. Authorizes the Governor to provide funding and execute necessary agreements to allow the temporary operation of any Virginia property controlled by the National Park Service in the event of a federal gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB489 | Engross
Prefile | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes. Provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities may be used for the additional purposes of (i) constructing, improving, or expanding fire station facilities, (ii) providing mental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB951 | Engross
Prefile | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1322 | Engross
Prefile | Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination of supervision requirement. Eliminates the requirement that certified registered nurse anesthetists practice under the supervision of a doctor of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB158 | Engross
Prefile | 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 |
| HB1355 | Engross
Prefile | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB878 | Engross
Prefile | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB338 | Engross
Prefile | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB775 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1405 | Engross
Prefile | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1490 | Engross
Prefile | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB360 | Engross
Prefile | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1495 | Engross
Prefile | Apprenticeship program; film and television industry. Requires the Director of Workforce Development and Advancement to establish a program to promote apprenticeships in the film and television industry. The Director may provide financial incentives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Prefile | Charitable Sports Raffle Act established; penalties. Establishes the Charitable Sports Raffles Act for the purpose of authorizing athletic event drawings, defined in the bill, to be conducted by affiliated nonprofit organizations that conduct such dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1373 | Engross
Prefile | Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB884 | Engross
Prefile | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1273 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB261 | Engross
Prefile | Income tax; rolling conformity. Provides that when Virginia does not conform on a rolling basis to federal tax laws due to any changes in a single act of Congress with an impact of more than $15 million on revenues in the year in which the amendment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1375 | Engross
Prefile | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB787 | Engross
Prefile | Administrative Process Act; exemptions; limitations; appeals of case decisions regarding benefits sought. Provides that in appeals of case decisions regarding the grant or denial of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Supplementa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB366 | Engross
Prefile | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1263 | Engross
Prefile | 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 |
| HB742 | Engross
Prefile | State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1070 | Engross
Prefile | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB725 | Engross
Prefile | Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1054 | Engross
Prefile | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Provides that a locality may require the owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1434 | Engross
Prefile | Land grant; Sandy Point; Mattaponi Indian Tribe. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to grant and convey tracts of land within Sandy Point State Forest in King William County south of and including Brooks Creek to the Mattaponi Indian Tribe. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB510 | Engross
Prefile | Surplus line broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB697 | Engross
Prefile | 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 |
| HB774 | Engross
Prefile | 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 |
| HB565 | Intro
Prefile | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who indicates that he is already registered to vote is to be automat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB920 | Intro
Prefile | 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 owner or other re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1347 | Intro
Prefile | Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder; cost-sharing requirements prohibited for certain individuals. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing any copayment, coinsurance, or deductible for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB363 | Intro
Prefile | Disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; affidavit of eligibility for candidates for elective office; removal from office for current officeholders. Provides that any person who is fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR1 | Intro
Prefile | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Prefile | Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
