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SB1178PassGenetic counseling; conscience clause. Repeals the conscience clause for genetic counselors who forgo participating in counseling that conflicts with their deeply held moral or religious beliefs, provided that they inform the patient and offer to dir...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240)
HB1907PassElectric utilities; advanced renewable energy buyers. Provides that certain accelerated renewable energy buyers that are customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and had subscribed to, as of March 1, 2020, a voluntary companion experimental tariff offer...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140)
SB1234PassAttorneys; applicants for Virginia Bar examination. Allows persons who have completed all degree requirements from a law school not approved by the American Bar Association, including a foreign law school, obtained an LL.M. from a law school approved...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296)
SB1461PassBribery in correctional facilities; penalty. Provides that any person who receives any pecuniary benefit or other consideration to act in the unlawful delivery of items or contraband to prisoners is guilty of bribery, punishable as a Class 4 felony. ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289)
HB2212PassChildren's Services Act; effective monitoring and implementation. Requires the director of the Office of Children's Services to provide for the effective implementation of the Children's Services Act (§ 2.2-5200 et seq.) in all localities by (i)...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226)
SB1136PassSpecial license plates; removal. Repeals the authorizations for issuance of special license plates no longer issued due to low plate sales, expired authorizations, or inability to issue. In addition, the bill directs the revenue shared for previous i...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269)
HB2169PassSolicitation of prostitution; reorganization. Reorganizes the statute penalizing prostitution into two distinct sections. The penalties for all offenses remain unchanged. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0188)
HB1747PassClinical nurse specialist; licensure; practice. Changes for clinical nurse specialists the requirement to register with the Board of Nursing as a clinical nurse specialist to licensure by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to practice as a nurse prac...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157)
SB1325PassVisitation; petition of grandparent. Allows a grandparent who has petitioned the court for visitation of a minor grandchild, in cases where the parent of the minor grandchild is deceased or incapacitated, to introduce evidence of such deceased or inc...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253)
SB1411PassExcise tax on peanuts. Extends from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2026, the sunset date of the excise tax on all peanuts grown in Virginia and reduces from $0.30 per 100 pounds to $0.25 per 100 pounds the excise tax rate. The proceeds from this tax are us...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121)
HB2170PassVirginia Small Business Financing Authority; risk-based review of outstanding loans; report. Requires the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to conduct a risk-based review of all outstanding loans at least annually and report the results of ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147)
SB1458PassSecretary of Commerce and Trade; Identity Management Standards Advisory Council. Transfers the management of the Identity Management Standards Advisory Council from the Secretary of Administration to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The bill also...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
HB2058PassVirginia STEM Education Advisory Board; established; report. Creates the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Advisory Board to create a unified vision regarding STEM education initiatives, language, and measures of succe...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291)
SB1397PassParole and conditional release of geriatric or terminally ill inmates; notice to attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall set the release date for an inmate granted discretionary parole or conditional release n...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287)
SB1473PassHealth Insurance Reform Commission; mandated health insurance benefit or provider. Provides that, for the purposes of the requirement that the Chair of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce or Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor refer certain ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259)
HB1993PassDuties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires state agencies to establish and maintain a comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan in coordination with the Governor...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168)
HB2065PassProduce Rx Program established; report. Directs the Department of Social Services, in cooperation with the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to convene a work group to develop a plan for a three-year pilot Produce Rx Program to incentivize c...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212)
HB2012PassViolations of protective orders; preliminary child protective order. Changes the punishment and sentencing requirements for a violation of a preliminary child protective order so that the maximum penalty is a Class 1 misdemeanor and the court is no l...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184)
SB1428PassAlcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores; sale of low alcohol beverage coolers. Prohibits the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from selling in government stores low alcohol beverage...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)
SB1147PassNurse Loan Repayment Program; certified nurse aide. Expands eligibility for the Nurse Loan Repayment Program to include certified nurse aides who meet criteria determined by the State Board of Health. Under current law, only licensed practical nurses...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238)
HB2068PassLocal Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program. Establishes the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program and authorizes the Governor to award grants to political subdivisions from the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Dev...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185)
SB1270PassEminent domain; notice of intent to file certificate. Provides that the notice required to be sent to a landowner prior to an authorized condemnor recording a certificate of take or certificate of deposit shall state that (i) the certificate of take ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278)
HB1950PassDepartment of Health and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; plan for the establishment of a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; report. Directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the Department of Health to convene a work group to...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164)
HB1854PassNaming U.S. Route 29; county manager plan of government. Authorizes the board of any locality that has adopted the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to name any section of U.S. Route 29 located within the boundaries of the locality...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)
SB1182PassMotor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the motor vehicle liability insurance coverage amounts from $25,000 to $30,000 in cases of bodily injury to or death of one person and from $50,000 to $60,000 in cases of bodily injury to o...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)
SB1414PassHenrietta Lacks Commission; sunset. Extends the expiration of the Henrietta Lacks Commission from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2026.
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256)
HB2233PassOrders 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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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)
SB1097PassAbsentee voting; witness signature not required during declared state of emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat. Provides that a voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope for any election held du...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235)
HB1813PassHighway construction by state or local employees; limit. Increases from $600,000 to $700,000 the value of highway maintenance and construction projects eligible to be performed by state or local employees. Highway construction by state or local empl...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260)
HB2035PassVirginia Initiative for Education and Work; Full Employment Program. Modifies the Full Employment Program (FEP) for Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants by (i) allowing FEP participants to continue receiving Temporary Assistance fo...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209)
HB2300PassState Board of Health; hospitals; emergency treatment for substance use-related emergencies; services. Requires each hospital with an emergency department that is currently regulated by the State Board of Health (the Board) to establish a protocol fo...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233)
SB1216PassCharter; Town of Crewe; town council; elections and powers. Makes various changes to the charter for the Town of Crewe in Nottoway County, including (i) staggering town council elections; (ii) changing from three to two the number of town council mem...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123)
HB1764PassCharter; Town of Crewe; town council; elections and powers. Makes various changes to the charter for the Town of Crewe in Nottoway County, including (i) staggering town council elections; (ii) changing from three to two the number of town council mem...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)
SB1227PassState plan for medical assistance; payment of medical assistance; 12-month supply of hormonal contraceptives. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance a provision for the payment of medical ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245)
SB1343PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily provided by...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298)
SB1120PassCounty executive form of government; local budgets. Provides that a county that has adopted the county executive form of government (Albemarle and Prince William Counties) may carry over unspent funds from year to year for multiyear capital projects ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155)
HB2111PassTask Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes to...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215)
HB1921PassAssistance for certain voters; curbside voting. Clarifies that any voter with a permanent physical disability, temporary physical disability, or injury is entitled to vote outside of the polling place. The bill further provides that during a declared...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)
HB1778PassRemoval of clutter from property; civil penalty. Provides that a locality may by ordinance require the removal of clutter from property, except on land zoned for or in active farming operation, or may, whenever the governing body deems it necessary, ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125)
HB1902PassExpanded polystyrene food service containers; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the dispensing by a food vendor of prepared food to a customer in a single-use expanded polystyrene food service container, as defined in the bill. The bill requires ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)
HB1884PassFacilitated enrollment program. Directs the Department of Taxation to include space on the appropriate individual income tax forms for voluntary inclusion of personal and contact information. Such information may be shared with the Department of Medi...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162)
HB1912PassChild support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice is no longer required to apply for child support from, and the parent of a juvenile is no longer respo...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283)
HB1965PassState Air Pollution Control Board; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board to implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later....
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263)
HB2131PassAlcoholic beverage control; license application; corrective action. Adds the chief administrative officer of a locality to the list of persons who may be sent notice of certain license applications by the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic ...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186)
HB2182PassBoard of Education; definition of "traumatic brain injury." Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulatory definition of "traumatic brain injury," for the purpose of the provision of special education for children with disabilities, to inclu...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170)
HB1823PassPublic schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requires each building that was built before 2015 and that houses any public school classroom for students, licensed child day program, or other progr...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0165)
SB1421PassBrain injury; definition. Eliminates the requirement that an injury occur before the age of 65 to constitute a brain injury as that term is used in the context of licensure of private providers of behavioral health services.
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257)
HB1874PassBehavioral health services in local correctional facilities. Requires the Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to include in its minimum standards for behavioral health services in local correction facilities requirements for (i) referral of...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179)
HB2302PassFarmers markets treated as grocery stores during state of emergency. Provides that farmers markets shall be treated the same as grocery stores if such stores are allowed to remain open as essential businesses during a state of emergency declared by t...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198)
HB1806PassSuspension or modification of sentence; transfer to the Department of Corrections. Provides that if a person has been sentenced for a felony to the Department of Corrections (the Department), the court that heard the case, if it appears compatible wi...
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2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176)
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