| HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government employees; expression of certain opinions protected. Provides that an employee of a locality shall not be penalized by his employer for expressing his opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; recruitment and development of volunteer firefighters; work group. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study the recruitment and development of vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1426 | Intro
Sine Die | Social services; Dynamic Benefit Adjustment System. Establishes a Dynamic Benefit Adjustment System that gradually reduces public assistance benefits in response to beneficiaries' earned income. The bill requires the Department of Social Services to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Central State Hospital; psychiatric bed allocation. Directs Central State Hospital to designate additional beds as forensic and psychiatric beds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligible educator income tax deduction; home school instruction income tax credit. Increases from $500 to $1,500 for tax years 2024 through 2026 the amount of income tax deduction certain eligible educators may deduct for qualifying expenses. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; proof of citizenship. Requires any person applying to register to vote to provide proof of his United States citizenship. The bill provides that the general registrars shall reject any voter registration application not accompanie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; certification and regulation of charitable bail organizations. Provides for certification and regulation by the Department of Criminal Justice Services of charitable bail organizations, defined in the bill as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit; maximum amount increase. Increases from $75 million to $100 million, beginning in 2024, the maximum amount of land preservation tax credits that may be issued in a calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority of Attorney General; criminal cases; human and sex trafficking. Authorizes the Attorney General to prosecute violations of criminal law relating to human and sex trafficking offenses in connection with racketeering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Child abuse; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect employees of the Department of Labor and Industry whose duties include ensuring compliance with child labor laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Transportation; bridge from Surry County to James City County; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the need and options for constructing a bridge from Hog Island in Surry County to James City County and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure in land use proceedings; statewide application. Alters certain land use disclosure requirements applicable to officials in any county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) by replacing "relationship of employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fire and EMS Safety Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Fire and EMS Safety Loan Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Under the bill, money in the Fund would be used exclusively for the financing of purchases by local fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; pole-mounted speed display sign. Requires a pole-mounted speed display sign, defined in the bill, to be placed between 250 and 1,000 feet from any photo speed monitoring device that is in use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; Department of Juvenile Justice; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Huma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy policy of the Commonwealth; state authority; legislative declaration. Declares that affordable, reliable, and secure energy resources are important to the health, safety, and welfare of the Commonwealth's citizens and provides that the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; health workforce development program. Directs the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to establish a program to strengthen the health and health sciences workforce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; union dues. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2024 for the amount paid by an individual for union dues for participation in a labor organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel. Lowers the rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel on July 1, 2024, from 26.2 cents per gallon to 21.2 cents per gallon on gasoline and from 27 cents per gallon to 20.2 cents per gallon on diesel fuel, which a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; use of a photo monitoring system; Dandy Point Landing. Allows the Marine Resources Commission to place and operate a photo monitoring device, as defined in the bill, at Dandy Point Landing facility in the City of Hampton ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, malicious activation of fire alarm, or false emergency communication to emergency personnel. Allows a locality ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; pharmacies; freedom of choice; delivery of prescription drugs or devices. Prohibits an insurer, health maintenance organization, corporation providing preferred provider subscription contracts, or pharmacy benefits manager from impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to adopt a uniform schedule of civil penalties for the violation of provisions of the zoning ordinance related to short-term rentals. The schedule of civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Permits localities to regulate by ordinance the location of retail sale locations established after July 1, 2024, that sell tobacco, nicotine, and hemp ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting purchase or possession of tobacco products, etc.; persons under 21 years of age; civil penalties. Increases the civil penalty from $100 to $500 for a first violation, $200 to $1,000 for a second violation, and $500 to $2,500 for a third o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage and overtime wages; civil actions. Provides that an employer that violates minimum wage or overtime provisions is liable to the employee for the applicable remedies, damages, or other relief available in an action brought pursuant to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary detention; certified evaluators; report. Authorizes hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department to employ certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking with a minor under the age of 15 present; penalty. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who smokes, as defined in the bill, in the presence of a minor under the age of 15 and directly exposes such minor to secondhand smoke. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; City of Newport News. Adds the City of Newport News to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit; eligible education expenses; home instruction and private education. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 that may be claimed by any parent of a child who receives home instruction or attends a private elementary or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax; classification; sunset date. Removes the sunset date from the provision of law that authorizes localities to classify most motor vehicles as a class of property subject to a different rate of tax or rate of assessment from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; adult hearing screenings; audiological examinations; hearing aids. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats to members of the General Assembly; obstruction of justice; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony to knowingly and willfully send, deliver or convey, or cause to be sent, delivered, or conveyed, to a current member of the General Assembly or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Israel; support. Expresses support for the State of Israel and condemns the actions of Hamas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents to allow a mobile food unit to conduct up to 20 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Transient occupancy taxes; administration. Makes changes to the administration of transient occupancy taxes by requiring the Department of Taxation, instead of the locality, to collect such taxes. The bill directs accommodations intermediaries to fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB600 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1517 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 that may be claimed by an individual or married couple filing jointly for qualified adoption expenses, as defined in the bill. The bill imposes certain limitations on who m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR53 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on teacher recruitment and retention; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana presumption; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; penalty. Establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.003 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia-Ireland Advisory Board established; report. Creates the Virginia-Ireland Advisory Board to advise the Governor and General Assembly on ways to improve economic and cultural links between Virginia and Ireland, with a focus on the areas of com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
