| SB391 | Pass | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 674 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB39 | Pass | Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (effective - see bill) |
| HB648 | Pass | Contracts assigning rights to inheritance funds; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2024, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 728 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB108 | Pass | Shared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 716 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB494 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; live-in domestic workers. Adds individuals who are employed in domestic service in a household and reside in such household to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB433 | Pass | Board of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 623 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB106 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 715 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1345 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 657 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1165 | Pass | Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions. Adds definitions related to the rights of persons with disabilities to relevant law. The bill defines "path of travel," "place of public accommodation,"" "public entity," "private entity," and "readil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 648 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB660 | Pass | Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; reporting requirements; civil penalty. Provides that a person that violates the existing requirement to obtain a license prior to providing pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise acting as a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 626 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HJR45 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Assigned Chapter 777 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB266 | Pass | Custodial interrogation of a child; failure to comply with section; inadmissibility of statement. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer knowingly fails to comply with existing law regarding parental notification and contact prior to a custodial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 719 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB578 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 669 (effective - see bill) |
| HB327 | Pass | Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; inclusive housing plan; individuals with disabilities. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to work with stakeholders to develop a pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 721 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 624 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| HB1351 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; ignition interlock system. Provides that advertising for any ignition interlock system by a vendor not approved by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program to operate in Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 747 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB202 | Pass | Optometrists; expert witness testimony. Allows an optometrist to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 718 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB354 | Veto | Public pools; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated for public use, including swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated in conjunc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB731 | Pass | Teachers; renewable licenses; requirements; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to eliminate the requirement for any individual to take and receive a passing score on the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment as a condition of the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 729 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB121 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 702 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB617 | Pass | High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1249 | Pass | Security for costs; suit or action by nonresident. Provides that in any plaintiff's suit or action by a nonresident of the Commonwealth, including a counterclaim plaintiff, cross-claim plaintiff, or third-party plaintiff, the court may order upon a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 745 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1354 | Pass | Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 748 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB627 | Pass | Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB815 | Pass | Medical cannabis program; product expiration; confidentiality; penalty. Increases from six months to 12 months the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing. The bill allows pharmaceutical pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1040 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 610 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB459 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 691 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1518 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credits. Creates a step-rate reimbursement structure for the major research and development expenses tax credit in an amount equal to (i) 10 percent, up to the first $1 million, of the difference between (a) Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 661 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB151 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 687 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB994 | Pass | Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry. Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 737 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SJR3 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Assigned Chapter 778 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1452 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires each state agency to submit its annual report assessing the impact of its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans on the populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 659 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1099 | Pass | Cigarettes intended to be heated; heated tobacco products; taxation. Redefines "cigarette" for state cigarette tax purposes to include "cigarettes intended to be heated" as defined in the bill and distinguished from "heated tobacco products." The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 611 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1365 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 750 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB707 | Pass | Public middle schools and high schools; student organizations; career and technical education organizations permitted. Permits each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB239 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 704 (effective - see bill) |
| SB358 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; definition of a real estate broker. Adds to the definition of "real estate broker" any individual or business entity who sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, negotiates, or otherwise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 621 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB679 | Pass | Enterprise zones; extension. Provides that any enterprise zone in existence as of June 30, 2024, shall be extended for a period of four years in addition to any renewal periods currently authorized by law and authorizes the Governor, upon the recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB431 | Pass | Pro tempore judicial appointments; criminal background checks; financial disclosure. Requires that prior to an appointment as a pro tempore judge, a person submit his fingerprints for a national and Virginia criminal history record search, submit to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB336 | Pass | Photo speed monitoring devices; high-risk intersection segments. Permits a state or local law-enforcement agency to place and operate a photo speed monitoring device at a high-risk intersection segment, defined in the bill, located within the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 670 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB598 | Pass | Property and conveyances; recordation of documents; name changes. Provides that any name change made in relation to a person's marriage or divorce is entitled to be recorded in the clerk's office in which deeds are recorded of the county or city in w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 711 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB255 | Pass | Shared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 765 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB992 | Enroll
75% | Local departments of social services; agreements with local workforce development boards; coordinated workforce development services. Directs each local department of social services (local department) to develop and enter into a written agreement wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB467 | Pass | Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 724 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB823 | Pass | Temporary detention order; alternative transportation. Provides that when a magistrate is determining whether an alternative transportation provider is available for the purposes of designating a transportation provider for the transportation of a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 643 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB755 | Pass | Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 731 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB896 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 735 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB95 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/24) |
