| VA | HB585 | Veto | Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB442 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling...
[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 | HB157 | Veto | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB939 | Veto | Elections administration; certain activities or conduct prohibited at polling places applicable to locations for absentee voting in person; prohibited possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations. Clarifies that the provisions of law pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB45 | Veto | Earned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB906 | Pass | Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 824 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1264 | Veto | Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB34 | Pass | Contract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 800 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB47 | Veto | Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB571 | Veto | Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB570 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB819 | Enroll
75% | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB800 | Pass | Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 822 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB224 | Enroll
75% | Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB805 | Veto | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB187 | Enroll
75% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB519 | Veto | Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle...
[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 | HB335 | Veto | Department of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft...
[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 | 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 | HB398 | Veto | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB569 | Veto | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations. Requires an employer that employs 10 or more employees and that receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB285 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 806 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB405 | Veto | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1 | Veto | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1130 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB588 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage; termination by landlord. Requires a landlord, prior to giving a tenant 21 days' notice of his intention to terminate the rental agreement for a dwelling unit that has been damaged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB967 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 826 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB993 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited fees. Prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from requiring a tenant to (i) pay any fee for the maintenance or repair of any unit subject to such rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| 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 | HB857 | Veto | Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB609 | Enroll
75% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1098 | Veto | Unpaid family bereavement leave; required; remedies. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with up to 10 days of unpaid family bereavement leave in any 12-month period to (i) atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1408 | Veto | Voter satellite offices; standards and guidelines for determining number and location. Directs the Department of Elections to develop standards and guidelines for local governing bodies to utilize when determining the number of voter satellite office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1454 | Veto | Limited-duration licenses and driver privilege cards and permits; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials and commercial dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB603 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB953 | Veto | Local Environmental Impact Fund. Allows localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Local Environmental Impact Fund. The bill provides that the Fund shall consist exclusively of appropriated local moneys and any gifts, dona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB746 | Pass | Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 818 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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 | 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 | HB990 | Veto | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB612 | Veto | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an...
[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 |
