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HB1919PassLocal green banks. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to establish a green bank to promote the investment in clean energy technologies in its locality and provide financing for clean energy technologies, defined in the bill. The bill establishes ce...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405)
HB2014PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation; tenant's right of redemption. Prohibits a landlord from accepting full payment of rent, as well as any damages, money judgment, award of ...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410)
HB1969PassAdministration of blighted and derelict properties in certain localities. Modifies the definition of "qualifying locality" to include any locality with a score of 100 or higher on the fiscal stress index, as published by the Department of Housing and...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408)
HB2137PassPaid sick leave. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide personal care, respite, or companion services to an individual who receives consumer-directed services under the state plan for medical assistance servi...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449)
HB2072PassVirginia Housing Development Authority; recommendations for creation of Virginia Good Neighbor Next Door program. Requires the Virginia Housing Development Authority to report to the Governor, the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and t...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415)
HB1909PassCertain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Permits any school board to deem any non-school zone building or property that it owns or leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for the purpose of pe...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
HB2249PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance; filing of information regarding resident agent appointed by nonresident prop...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427)
HB2118PassElectric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program; creation; work group report. Establishes the Electric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program for the purpose of (i) awarding grants on a competitive basis to public school divisions for (a) assisting with costs of rep...
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2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)
SB1405PassGet Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial ass...
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2021-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398)
HB2204PassGet Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial ass...
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2021-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397)
HB2304PassProvision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369)
HB1804PassState parks; Department of Conservation and Recreation; recommendations for funding. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to develop recommendations for dedicated sources of funding for state parks that will be relatively stable from...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348)
HB1852PassUniform Collaborative Law Act. Creates the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, which provides a framework for the practice of collaborative law, a process entered into voluntarily by clients for the express purpose of reaching a settlement in a family or ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346)
HB1982PassNutrient credits; use by facility with certain stormwater discharge permit. Authorizes a facility that has been issued a Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit regulating stormwater discharges to acquire, use, and transfer nut...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360)
HB1862PassEmployee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a prac...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)
HB1893PassNew River Valley Passenger Rail Station Authority; creation. Authorizes the creation of a regional passenger rail station authority in Planning District 4 to assist in the creation and maintenance of passenger rail in the region. The authority would ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353)
SB1254PassSports betting. Directs the Virginia Lottery (the Lottery) in issuing permits to operate sports betting platforms to give substantial and preferred consideration to any applicant that provides any of the following: (i) a description of any equity int...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352)
SB1404PassStormwater Local Assistance Fund; grant requirements. Authorizes grants from the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund awarded for projects related to Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load (TMDL) requirements to take into account total phosphorus reduct...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385)
SB1259PassVirginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350)
HB1923PassElectric utilities; broadband capacity pilot program. Expands an existing pilot program under which Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power are authorized to provide or make available broadband capacity to Internet service providers in areas of the Com...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356)
SB1418PassGrants from the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund; waiver or reduction of capital investment and local match requirement. Provides that, for grants from the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund, capital investment and local match req...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386)
HB1776PassBoard of Education; temporary extension of certain licenses. Requires the Board of Education to grant a two-year extension of the license of any individual licensed by the Board whose license expires on June 30, 2021, in order to provide the individu...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394)
HB2010PassEarned sentence credits. Contains a technical amendment. This bill is declarative of existing law. Earned sentence credits. Contains a technical amendment. This bill is declarative of existing law.
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)
SB1354PassChesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Pr...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364)
SB1309PassLocal stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adop...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)
SB1300PassBoard of Local and Regional Jails; review services provided to inmates during pregnancy, pregnancy termination, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery; report. Directs the Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), in consultation with a sta...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392)
HB1960PassVehicle registration; special communication needs indicator. Expands eligibility for a special communication needs indicator on a vehicle registration to vehicle owners whose vehicle is regularly occupied by an individual who has a disability that ca...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
HB1898PassBoard of zoning appeals; appointments. Provides an exception to the general rule that an elected official cannot be appointed to a board of zoning appeals by allowing an elected official from a town to serve on the board of zoning appeals of the coun...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355)
HB1832PassVirginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349)
SB1277PassRepeal of reporting requirement; Department of Motor Vehicles and Supreme Court of Virginia. Repeals an enactment clause that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Supreme Court of Virginia to submit an annual report regarding the impleme...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379)
HB1895PassFines and costs; accrual of interest; deferral or installment payment agreements. Provides that no interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction (i) for a period of 180 days followin...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388)
SB1144PassAircraft; registration and licensing. Clarifies that if a civil aircraft is required to be registered with the Department of Aviation, current law allows the owner a credit against the tax paid for such registration for similar taxes paid in another ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372)
SB1470PassVehicle registration; special communication needs indicator. Expands eligibility for a special communication needs indicator on a vehicle registration to vehicle owners whose vehicle is regularly occupied by an individual who has a disability that ca...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359)
SB1426PassOrders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393)
SB1213PassDriver's license suspensions; restricted licenses; drug offenses. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue restricted driving credentials to individuals with driver's license suspensions resulting from drug-related offenses.
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376)
SB1400PassBoard of Wildlife Resources; quitclaim and conveyance of easement; Tazewell County. Authorizes the Board of Wildlife Resources to quitclaim any interest in a parcel of land and convey a right-of-way easement to the Valerie H. MacDowell Trust. The qui...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366)
SB1413PassProvision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370)
HB2266PassAlcoholic beverage control; designated outdoor refreshment area license. Renames the "local special events" license as the "designated outdoor refreshment area" license. The bill allows the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Contro...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
HB2252PassBoard of Wildlife Resources; quitclaim and conveyance of easement; Tazewell County. Authorizes the Board of Wildlife Resources to quitclaim any interest in a parcel of land and convey a right-of-way easement to the Valerie H. MacDowell Trust. The qui...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365)
HB2034PassElectric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers; third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilot programs under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generation facility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator th...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361)
SB1214PassMetropolitan Washington Airports Authority; effective date. Repeals the contingent effective date for the creation of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Such contingency has been met. The bill is a recommendation of the Code Commission. ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)
SB1158PassPort of Virginia tax credits; sunset. Extends the sunset for the international trade facility tax credit, the barge and rail usage tax credit, and the port volume increase tax credit from taxable years before January 1, 2022, to taxable years before ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373)
HB1817PassPractice of certified nurse midwives. Expands the categories of practitioners with whom a certified nurse midwife may enter into a practice agreement to include other certified nurse midwives who have practiced for at least two years and allows a cer...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396)
HB2129PassChesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Pr...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363)
HB1774PassTangible personal property taxes; classification of certain motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. Provides that the separate class of property for rate purposes that includes motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers with a gross vehicle weigh...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347)
SB1253PassFunds for access roads to economic development sites; criteria for use of funds. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board, in consultation with the Secretaries of Transportation and Commerce and Trade, to develop criteria to be used in the award...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378)
SB1396PassSewage; Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund; Wastewater Infrastructure Policy Working Group; report. Authorizes the State Board of Health to use the Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund to provide grants and loans to property owners with income at or be...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382)
SB1399PassTourism Development Authority; name change. Renames the Tourism Development Authority, also known as the Virginia Coalfield Regional Tourism Development Authority, as the Heart of Appalachia Tourism Authority. The bill contains technical amendments. ...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384)
SB1164PassAdvanced recycling; definition. Defines, for purposes of the Virginia Waste Management Act, "advanced recycling" as a manufacturing process for the conversion of post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic hydrocarbon raw materials and othe...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375)
SB1420PassElectric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers; third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilot programs under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generation facility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator th...
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2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362)
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