| SB181 | Engross
Prefile | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB280 | Engross
Prefile | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB697 | Engross
Prefile | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB347 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate and make recommendations on improving long-term viability; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR22 | Engross
Prefile | Study; Department of Taxation; reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to study tax policy solutions for reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR21 | Engross
Prefile | Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB226 | Engross
Prefile | Department of Motor Vehicles; highway use fee; tiered flat rate system; work group; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB377 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB332 | Engross
Prefile | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB302 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB427 | Engross
Prefile | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR19 | Engross
Prefile | Study; Department of Transportation; roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of implementing certain roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville in Prince W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB575 | Engross
Prefile | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB636 | Engross
Prefile | Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB594 | Engross
Prefile | Department of Health; Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board; emergency medical personnel; career fatigue and wellness program. Directs the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board to examine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB234 | Engross
Prefile | Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program; report. Establishes the Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in Chesterfie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB593 | Engross
Prefile | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB590 | Engross
Prefile | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB563 | Engross
Prefile | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB304 | Engross
Prefile | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB315 | Engross
Prefile | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB229 | Engross
Prefile | Health Commissioner; work group; recommendations on Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish a work group to examine the feasibility of and make recommendations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB270 | Engross
Prefile | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause. Electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB406 | Engross
Prefile | Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR26 | Pass
Prefile | Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession of drugs as a felony. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the scope and cost of the current laws in the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB396 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Provides that judges appointed or elected to an initial term on or after July 1, 2024, and who are at least age 55 at the time of appointment will be placed in Plan 1 with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB218 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB33 | Engross
Prefile | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB359 | Engross
Prefile | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SB171 | Engross
Prefile | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB501 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund. Directs the board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to deposit $250 million per year of surplus moneys from the Plan's fund into the Virginia College Opportunity Fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Prefile | Surplus line broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Prefile | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Prefile | Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR20 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacy of the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs; work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to study the current funding model for noncredit workforce cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB390 | Intro
Prefile | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB571 | Intro
Prefile | Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; required criteria in invitations to bid. Requires all public bodies to include in any Invitation to Bid criteria that will be used in determining whether a bidder who is not prequalified by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB457 | Intro
Prefile | Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund created. Creates the Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB682 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB591 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; customer energy choice; notice required for customer return to service. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| SB567 | Intro
Prefile | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB346 | Intro
Prefile | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB518 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| SB661 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB404 | Intro
Prefile | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB619 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
