| HB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacancies in elected local offices; timeliness of special election to fill vacancy. Provides that when a vacancy occurs in an elected local office that is subject to a ward-based or district-based residency requirement, the election to fill such vaca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N) |
| HB1459 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning ordinance and amendments thereto; special exceptions; appeal. Clarifies that a claim (i) challenging the procedures employed or (ii) stating a decision is void ab initio for any reason relating to a local governing body's final decision on a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 10-N) |
| HB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for diabetes. Requires that each insurer providing coverage for diabetes shall include benefits for FDA-approved insulin, continuous blood glucose monitoring, and regular foot care and eye care exams in addition to equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; certified recovery residence. Requires that a locality's zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which individuals with substance use disorder reside as residential occupancy by a single family. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; form of ballot; party identification of candidates; constitutional offices. Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who is nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the nam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates for office; challenges to qualifications or eligibility; timeliness. Requires challenges to a person's eligibility to appear on the ballot on the basis that such person did not meet all qualifications or fulfill all requirements for candid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N) |
| HB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; form of ballot; party identification of candidates; constitutional offices. Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who is nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the nam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 13-N) |
| HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of elected and certain appointed local officers by courts; Governor. Allows the Governor to petition the circuit court to remove from office any local elected officer or local officer who has been appointed to fill a local elective office due...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N) |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Removes the provision in the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act requiring that benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers' compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "price...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Intercollegiate athletics, student-athletes; compensation and representation for name, image, or likeness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB703 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services and Department of Transportation; regulations and requirements; transit and school bus shelters; concrete pad construction. Directs the Department of General Services and the Department of Transportation to amend and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; application review timelines. Requires each regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to adopt a timeline of each stage that a completed application for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; certain calculations. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Massage Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact. The Compact allows massage therapists who (i) possess an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state in which they reside; (ii) have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Youth Health Protection Act established; civil penalty. Creates the Youth Health Protection Act, which makes it unlawful for any individual to provide gender transition procedures, defined in the bill, for minors and prohibits the use of public funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB567 | Intro
Sine Die | Requirement for electric vehicle charging stations for certain developments. Provides that any locality may by ordinance require electric vehicle charging stations as part of subdivision or site plan approval for a development containing commercial, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by General Laws |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice; limitations on recovery; certain actions. Eliminates the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred on or after July 1, 2024, and occurred ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; prohibits discrimination on the basis of citizenship or immigration status. Adds citizenship or immigration status to the classes protected from unlawful discrimination in the Virginia Human Rights Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Health professions; universal licensure; requirements. Requires health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions to recognize licenses or certifications issued by other United States jurisdictions, as defined in the bill, as fulfi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; open school enrollment policies and guidance. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board by August 1, 2024, model policies and guidance relating to open school enrollment detailing certain condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; plan to revise special education staffing requirements; report. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and any other individuals with expertis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Installation of crosswalks; waiving certain requirement. Authorizes the Department of Transportation, when determining the need for a crosswalk within a community subject to the Property Owners' Association Act, to waive any requirement that a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB335 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; health insurance; coverage for fertility preservation treatments. 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] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB1390 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; disclosure of certain information. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to provide any recognized public employee association, upon the request of such association, a list containing the name a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation mental health assessment required. Provides that no public elementary or secondary school student is permitted to be a participant on or try out for any school athletic team...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Health and Human Services |
| HB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; duty to implement the Energy Policy of the Commonwealth; RPS program requirements; competitive procurement. Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Tabled in Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities. Requires, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover (i) the actual a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; surplus funds. Provides that beginning in fiscal year 2025, in any fiscal year in which there is a surplus of general fund revenues, as that term is defined in the bill, the Governor shall include in his p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary; approval of a nonpreferred drug. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to eliminate the requirement that a patient try and fail a drug from the Pref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
