| SB422 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB237 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB105 | Veto | Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB212 | Veto | Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB238 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB313 | Veto | Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB100 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB479 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB188 | Veto | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB119 | Veto | Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB517 | Veto | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB729 | Veto | Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established; report. Creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank to finance clean energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects, and other qualified projects through the strategic deployment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB35 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB189 | Veto | Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach to reflect the City's transition to a city council consisting solely of single-member districts and the mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB196 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance data standards; challenges to a voter's registration. Prohibits the use of voter data received from another state or jurisdiction or through a list comparison for list maintenance purposes when the data file does ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB515 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB104 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB300 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB570 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of "employer." Waives the Commonwealth's sovereign immunity to a civil action under the definition of "person" in relevant law. The bill also expands the definition of "employer" as it relates to the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB334 | Veto | Plea agreements; prohibited provisions. Prohibits plea agreements and court orders executed or entered on or after July 1, 2024, from containing any provision that purports to waive, release, or extinguish a defendant's (i) rights under the Fourth Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB246 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB494 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; live-in domestic workers. Adds individuals who are employed in domestic service in a household and reside in such household to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB542 | Veto | Unemployment insurance; benefit eligibility conditions; lockout exception to labor dispute disqualification. Amends the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act's labor dispute disqualification to provide that a lockout by an employer shall not constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB276 | Veto | Energy upgrade programs; Phase I and Phase II Utilities; State Corporation Commission to study feasibility; work group; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to study the feasibility of the implementation of an ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB654 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB586 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB327 | Veto | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB514 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB273 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB595 | Veto | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB1 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB329 | Veto | Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB274 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB634 | Veto | State Corporation Commission; powers and duties. Provides that in proceedings before the State Corporation Commission relating to the regulation and oversight of utilities, the Commission shall consider public health and safety, the economy of the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB357 | Veto | Assault and battery; affirmative defense; penalty. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery of certain specified individuals for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six month mandatory minim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB393 | Veto | MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB144 | Veto | Nolle prosequi or dismissal prior to preliminary hearing; subsequent indictment. Provides that no person who was arrested on a warrant charging him with a felony offense shall be denied a preliminary hearing upon the question of whether there is prob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB115 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB606 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the El...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB258 | Veto | Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate must consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issuing an emergency substantial risk order or a substantia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| SB506 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; powers and duties; legal counsel; scope of employment. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall have authority over the employment of all legal c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB2 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB588 | Veto | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| SB428 | Veto | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Clarifies the requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires the results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB99 | 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
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB597 | Veto | Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB447 | Veto | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
