| SB700 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB219 | Intro
25% | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
25% | Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Requires the Department of Corrections to compensate local jails for the actual cost, based on the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual Jail Cost Report, of incarcerating felons who s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB172 | Intro
25% | Militia state active duty; cyber-related support. Provides that the Governor or his designee may call forth the militia or any part thereof to state active duty for service when the Governor determines that cyber-related support is needed to assist s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB275 | Intro
25% | Marine Resources Commission; certain permits in the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries prohibited. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for any floating oyster cage in a water column, rack-and-bag, or other similar appar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB668 | Intro
25% | Department of Environmental Quality; groundwater and surface water withdrawal permits; five-year moratorium. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to enforce a five-year moratorium on the issuance of any new groundwater or surface water wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB465 | Intro
25% | Virginia Land Conservation Foundation. Allows land trusts that have been accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission or a similar set of standards and practices adopted by the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees (the Board) to hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
25% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
25% | Reports relating to PFAS; Department of Environmental Quality; one-time report. Requires all facilities that have engaged since January 1, 2021, in the manufacture of or knowing use in the production process of one or more chemicals listed as PFAS ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB267 | Intro
25% | Local wetlands boards; permit application approval. Changes the standard for approval of a wetlands permit application from three members of a five-member wetlands board or four members of a seven-member wetlands board to a simple majority of those b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB486 | Intro
25% | Certain natural gas pipeline expansion unlawful; Planning District 19. Prohibits the increase or expansion of any natural gas pipeline capacity in Planning District 19 (Crater Region), whether in new or existing pipelines, that uses existing compress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB349 | Intro
25% | Vehicle inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends the timeframe following the first inspection of a new motor vehicle in which such vehicle must be inspected from 12 months after the first inspection to either 36 months after the first inspection or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
25% | Nonliving shoreline stabilization structures; regulations; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to promulgate regulations regarding the types of repairs or maintenance to nonliving shoreline stabilization structures in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
25% | Tax exempt property; energy storage systems. Clarifies the tax treatment of energy storage systems. The bill strikes language that overrides the provision requiring the amount of tax exemption for energy storage systems to be 100 percent if the taxin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB31 | Intro
25% | Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund established. Establishes the Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
25% | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SJR66 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Charles Cragg Hines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ66ER) |
| SB656 | Intro
25% | 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 that has an ordinance requiring any person over 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR60 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Annie Delilah Jones Doggett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ60ER) |
| SJR56 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Michael Anthony Harper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ56ER) |
| SJR57 | Pass | Commending Dementi Studio.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ57ER) |
| SJR58 | Pass | Commending LeadingAge Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ58ER) |
| SJR50 | Pass | Commending John T. Frey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ50ER) |
| SB653 | Intro
25% | State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders; delayed admission to determine medical needs. Allows state psychiatric hospitals to delay admission of an individual under a temporary detention order until the state psychiatric hospital has d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SJR53 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Helen Delores Bandy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ53ER) |
| SB137 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR55 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Zenobia Helen Miller Taylor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ55ER) |
| SJR54 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Salathiel J. Henderson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ54ER) |
| SB371 | Intro
25% | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SJR52 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jackie Duckette Hunter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ52ER) |
| SJR44 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Mark C. Simmons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ44ER) |
| SJR62 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Reverend Henry C. Lee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ62ER) |
| SB288 | Intro
25% | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| SJR51 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Marlin Patton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ51ER) |
| SJR59 | Pass | Commending Pohick Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ59ER) |
| SB203 | Intro
25% | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SJR45 | Pass | Commending Kathy Mack.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ45ER) |
| SB430 | Intro
25% | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SJR65 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Ivan Herman Tepper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ65ER) |
| SB152 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR13 | Pass | Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Honorable Yvonne Bond Miller's service in the Virginia General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ13ER) |
| SB722 | Intro
25% | Enterprise zones; renewal periods. Authorizes the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to renew enterprise zones for up to four five-year renewal periods for zones designated on or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Incorporated by Local Government |
| SB286 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; underground transmission lines. Provides that the construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts and less than 500 kilovolts along a highway right-of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 9-N 2-A) |
| SB721 | Intro
25% | Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB612 | Intro
25% | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
25% | E-Verify program. Requires every employer to enroll in the E-Verify program by January 1, 2025, and to use the program for each newly hired employee who is to perform work within the Commonwealth. Under current law, only state agencies and certain em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB221 | Intro
25% | Use, display, or concealment of firearm in committing certain felonies; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB583 | Intro
25% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
