| SB578 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR42 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Patricia Paige.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ42ER) |
| SB416 | Intro
25% | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Allows a manufacturer, bottler, broker, importer, or wholesaler to sponsor or provide support, including equipment, staff, financial, and other support, for a special event for which a nonprofit organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB476 | Intro
25% | Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB317 | Intro
25% | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery licenses; requirements and privileges. Exempts from certain requirements imposed on farm winery licensees by prior legislation persons that hold a farm winery license that was granted on or before July 1, 2020,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB423 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-26
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SJR24 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; barrier crimes for employees of and persons regulated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study barrier crimes for employees of and pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR9 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-26
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (Voice Vote) |
| SR14 | Pass | Commending Master Sergeant Jack Dixon Peed, Jr., VA VNG.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR14ER) |
| SB161 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathway to advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seal; career and technical education. Directs the Board of Education to establish an alternative pathway to the advanced studies high s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB322 | Intro
25% | Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Adds maintenance of primary evacuation routes to the list of factors that must be considered by the Commonwealth Transportation Board as part of the statewide prioritization process for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SR22 | Pass | Commemorating the life and legacy of Susan G. Gibson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR22ER) |
| SB139 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathways to the advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seals. Directs the Board of Education to establish two pathways to the advanced studies high school diploma, and associated diplom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) |
| SR12 | Pass | Commending Rick and Cheryl Rowlands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR12ER) |
| SR10 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Alan Earl Casteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR10ER) |
| SB380 | Intro
25% | School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SR13 | Pass | Commending the Smithfield Packers Youth Sports 06U Blue team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR13ER) |
| SR5 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jack William Nurney, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR5ER) |
| SR9 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jon Robert Tabb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR9ER) |
| SB421 | Intro
25% | Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| SR8 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Tyler C. Millner, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR8ER) |
| SR11 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Richard Edward Railey, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR11ER) |
| SR7 | Pass | Commending the Freedom High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR7ER) |
| SB558 | Intro
25% | School choice educational School choice educational savings accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the Department of Education for a renewable school choice education savings account, consisting of a monetary amount that is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB170 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB533 | Intro
25% | Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB279 | Intro
25% | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; board of directors membership; powers and duties; capital projects; issuance of bonds. Provides for a number of reforms related to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB287 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. Authorizes the State Board for Community Colleges, subject to approval and certification by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia of a proposa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR19 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR19ER) |
| SB348 | Intro
25% | Gaming; posting of illegal gaming tip line information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a conspi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB686 | Intro
25% | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from five to six the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Thirty-first Judicial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB525 | Intro
25% | Stillbirth Support Grant Program. Establishes the Stillbirth Support Grant Program for the purpose of providing grants to individuals who delivered a stillborn child, as defined by the bill, to assist with out-of-pocket costs associated with such del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) |
| SR16 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR16ER) |
| SB559 | Intro
25% | Commercial sex trafficking, prostitution, etc.; penalties. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is not involved: (i) human trafficking; (ii) receiving money or other valuable thing for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB295 | Intro
25% | Foreign adversaries; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any foreign adversary or foreign business, as those terms are defined in the bill, from acquiring any interest in land in the Commonwealth and requires registration with the Secretary of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) |
| SR18 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR18ER) |
| SB120 | Intro
25% | Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SR20 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected as members of the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR20ER) |
| SB694 | Intro
25% | Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SR15 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR15ER) |
| SR21 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR21ER) |
| SB528 | Intro
25% | Crimes; offenses against the sovereignty of the Commonwealth; unfaithful delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States; penalties. Provides that a delegate or interim delegate to a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB666 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB587 | Intro
25% | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB208 | Intro
25% | Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SR17 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR17ER) |
| SB429 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Reduces from five to four the number of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by removing Richmond from the list of eligible host cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB193 | Intro
25% | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest for the crime of fleeing from a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB233 | Intro
25% | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB527 | Intro
25% | General Assembly; intergovernmental affairs; delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States. Provides for the selection by the General Assembly of delegates to attend a convention for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
