| SB1472 | Pass | DMAS; work group to study options for the permanent use of virtual supports and increasing access to virtual supports and services; individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) |
| HB1976 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; mission; membership. Adds to the mission of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority (i) developing strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce by examining demographic data on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| SB1152 | Pass | Charter; Town of Appomattox. Shifts local elections for the Town of Appomattox from May to November and staggers the election of members of the town council. The bill makes organizational changes to provisions related to the election and appointment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| HB2018 | Pass | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| SB1321 | Pass | Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparent adoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparent but has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petition for adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| HB1820 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; food stamp program; eligibility; postsecondary education. Adds participation in educational activities that lead to a post-secondary credential from an accredited institution of higher education or other posts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| HB1801 | Pass | Disposing of litter; penalty. Increases the minimum fine for dumping or disposing of litter, trash, or other unsightly matter on public or private property from $250 to $500. Disposing of litter; penalty. Increases the minimum fine for dumping or dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| SB1402 | Pass | Trout fishing in stocked waters. Equalizes for residents and nonresidents requirements to fish in designated stocked trout waters. The bill requires either such person to possess (i) a regular season state or county fishing license or a trip fishing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| HB2236 | Pass | Behavioral health docket; transfer of supervision. Provides that if an offender determined to be eligible to participate in a behavioral health docket resides in a locality other than that in which the behavioral health docket is located, or such off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| HB1926 | Pass | Central Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Adds the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, or his designee, as a nonvoting ex officio member of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) |
| SB1255 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; issuance or renewal of insurance licenses or registrations during an emergency. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to temporarily suspend, authorize extensions of time for, or waive requirements for the issuance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| HB1894 | Pass | Certain employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice; naloxone or other opioid antagonist. Authorizes employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice designated as probation and parole officers or as juvenile correctional officers to possess and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| HB1901 | Pass | Online Virginia Driver's Manual course; training school. Removes the requirement that a driver training school providing the Virginia Driver's Manual course online be a computer-based driver education provider, as defined in the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| HB2216 | Pass | Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program. Renames the Virginia Missing Child with Autism Alert Program to the Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program and expands it to apply to any missing person with autism, regardless of age. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) |
| SB1132 | Pass | Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations; unscheduled remote learning days. Provides that when severe weather conditions or other emergency situations have resulted in the closing of any school in a school division for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB1749 | Pass | Charter; Town of Nassawadox. Updates the charter for the Town of Nassawadox to reflect the town's shift of municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119) |
| SB1130 | Pass | Personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle of a disabled veteran. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability shall be exempt from local taxes. This bill is the enabling le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156) |
| HB1892 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance form approval. Permits an insurer that receives approval of an insurance policy form or endorsement from the State Corporation Commission to use the form as soon as it is approved rather than waiting 30 days after the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| HB2135 | Pass | Certain school boards; student meals; participation in the Afterschool Meal Program. Requires each school board that governs a local school division that has a student population that qualifies for free and reduced-price meals at a minimum percentage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| SB1328 | Pass | State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| HB1988 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; pharmaceutical processors; processing and dispensing cannabis oil. Effects numerous changes to the processing and dispensing of cannabis oil by pharmaceutical processors in the Commonwealth. The bill defines the term "designated ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205) |
| SB1320 | Pass | Licensed certified midwives; licensure; practice. Defines "practice of licensed certified midwifery," directs the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to establish criteria for the licensure and renewal of a license as a certified midwife, and requires lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) |
| SB1265 | Pass | Natural gas pipelines; stop work instructions. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct inspections of the land-disturbing activities related to construction of any natural gas transmission pipeline equal to or greater than 24 in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) |
| SB1210 | Pass | Environmental permit fees; working groups. Directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to convene working groups for the purpose of developing annual fee schedules for nonhazardous solid waste management facilities and annual main...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| HB1968 | Pass | Absentee voting; early in person; availability on Sundays. Permits the electoral board or general registrar of a county or city to provide absentee voting in person in the office of the general registrar or voter satellite office on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| HB1751 | Pass | Excise 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| HB2282 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; transportation electrification; utility recovery of certain costs; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to report on policy proposals to accelerate transportation electrification in the Commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Absentee voting; accessibility for voters with a visual impairment or print disability. Requires the Department of Elections to make available to all localities a tool to allow voters with a visual impairment or print disability to electronically and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| HB1887 | Pass | Titling and registration of foreign market vehicles. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a negotiable title for a foreign market vehicle manufactured 25 or more years ago that does not comply with current federal safety requirements....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| HB2070 | Pass | Community services boards; contracts with private providers. Clarifies that community services boards may enter into contracts with private providers for delivery of mental health, developmental, and substance abuse services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| HB1973 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of banquet licensees. Provides that banquet licensees that are nonprofit corporations or associations conducting fundraisers and that are authorized to sell wine, as part of any fundraising activity, in closed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| SB1205 | Pass | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity; emergency. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, eval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| SB1229 | Pass | Special license plates; DUCKS UNLIMITED. Authorizes the existing special license plates for supporters of Ducks Unlimited to become revenue-sharing special license plates. From each fee collected from registrations over 1,000, $15 shall be deposited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276) |
| HB2323 | Pass | Library aid; former regional library system. Provides that former regional library systems that receive state aid, notwithstanding a loss of regional library status due to a city reversion, shall receive such aid regardless of when a former city reve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174) |
| HB2101 | Pass | GO Virginia Grants; matching funds; sunset. Delays from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, the sunset of the provision of the Code of Virginia allowing a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| HB2222 | Pass | Military medical personnel program. Adds any facility that offers medical services to the public and that is supervised by one or more physicians or podiatrists to the list of entities that may participate in the military medical personnel program es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) |
| SB1220 | Pass | State facilities; admission of certain aliens. Repeals the requirements that (i) the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services determine the nationality of each person admitted to a state facility and, if the person is an alien, no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| HB1991 | Pass | Juveniles; release and review hearing for serious offender; plea agreement. Clarifies that the Department of Juvenile Justice (the Department) may petition the court that committed a juvenile for a hearing for an earlier release of a juvenile when go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| SB1146 | Pass | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2019, to December 31, 2020. The bill deconforms from the suspension of the overal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| HB1935 | Pass | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2019, to December 31, 2020. The bill deconforms from the suspension of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117) |
| SB1155 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094) |
| SB1280 | Pass | Dams; negotiated settlement agreements. Authorizes the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to enter into a negotiated settlement with the owners of certain impounding structures who have allegedly violated or failed, neglected, or refused to o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| HB2178 | Pass | Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $34,136,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0095) |
| SB1387 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; certain students; financial assistance programs. Provides that students who meet the criteria to be deemed eligible for in-state tuition regardless of their citizenship or immigration status shall be afforded ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) |
| HB1940 | Pass | Department of Education; guidelines on excused student absences; civic engagement. Provides that, subject to guidelines established by the Department of Education, each school board (i) shall permit one school day-long excused absence per school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| SB1282 | Pass | Greenhouse gas emissions inventory; regulations. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct a statewide baseline and projection inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions and to update such inventory every four years. The bill requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) |
| SB1456 | Pass | Juveniles; eligibility for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice; eligibility for predispositional confinement in a secure facility. Provides that a juvenile may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice (the Department) only if h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| HB2314 | Pass | Board of Education; regulations; special education; amendment. Requires the Board of Education to amend a certain regulation relating to special education to remove the word "component" following the word "evaluation," thereby ensuring compliance wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| SB1393 | Pass | Replacement and conservation of trees during development; work group. Gives a locality the ability to exceed general requirements in its tree replacement and conservation ordinances in specific circumstances, including development that impacts stormw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090) |
| SB1291 | Pass | Virginia Water Protection Permit; withdrawal of surface water or ground water; plans for water auditing and leak detection and repair. Requires that any application for a permit to withdraw surface water or ground water include a water auditing plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
