| SB48 | Pass | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 616 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB356 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 770 (effective 1/1/25) |
| SB180 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 619 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| SB536 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Reinstates provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 772 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB463 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 677 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB272 | Pass | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 766 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB129 | Pass | Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 703 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB603 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; priority treatment for incarcerated women who are pregnant and in need of substance abuse treatment; work group; report. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in collaboration with the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 625 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB460 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB564 | Pass | Individual income tax subtraction; income earned in certain localities. Directs the Department of Taxation and the Commission on Local Government to assess the need for income tax relief in double distressed localities in the Commonwealth that have e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 599 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB17 | Pass | Motor sports facilities; local incentives. Allows a locality that is home to a motor sports facility, as defined in relevant law, in the Commonwealth to propose local incentives that address the economic conditions within such locality and will help ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 572 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB207 | Pass | Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 581 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB6 | Pass | Issuance of restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 568 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB102 | Pass | Wills and trusts; tangible personal property; nonexoneration. Provides that if a trust instrument that was revocable, as defined in relevant law, immediately before the settlor's death refers to a written statement or list of items of tangible person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 576 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB566 | Pass | Trustees; settlement of accounts; notice and statements to beneficiaries; requirements. Provides that the beneficiary of a trust shall be deemed to have released a trustee and ratified all actions of a trustee for the administration of a trust if, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 600 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB600 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; partial termination of certain time-shares. Allows for the partial termination of a time-share project by a developer or an association and provides the procedures for any such partial termination. The bill also s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 602 (effective - see bill) |
| SB250 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote ultrasound procedures; remote fetal non-stress tests. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to modify the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision allowing for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 585 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB508 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard; geothermal heating and cooling systems; report. Provides that geothermal heating and cooling systems, as defined in the bill, located in the Commonwealth are eligible for compliance with renewable energy portfolio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 597 (effective - see bill) |
| SB574 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; behavioral health and crisis response services; civil admissions laws and processes; work group; report. Directs the Behavioral Health Commission to convene a work group to study how to effectively align current civil ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 601 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB87 | Pass | Health insurance provider panels; incentives for mental health services. Allows a provider panel contract between a carrier and a primary care provider to include provisions that promote comprehensive screening using evidence-based tools for mental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB176 | Pass | Civil commitments and temporary detention orders; definition of mental illness; neurocognitive disorders and neurodevelopmental disabilities; Secretary of Health and Human Resources to evaluate placements for certain individuals; report. Specifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 579 (effective - see bill) |
| SB382 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; collection of overpayments; limitations. Provides that collection activities for an overpayment, provided that such overpayment was not caused by fraud on the part of the claimant, shall be suspended and that the Virginia E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 591 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB204 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 580 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB701 | Pass | Vested rights; building permits. Provides that if a locality has issued a building permit, despite nonconformance with the zoning ordinance, and a property owner, relying in good faith on the issuance of the building permit, incurs extensive obligati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 605 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB394 | Pass | Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 592 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB174 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 578 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB145 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; armed security officer registration. Provides that a special conservator of the peace may possess simultaneous registration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services as an armed security officer and shall mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 577 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB513 | Pass | Funeral services; transportation protection agreements. Defines "transportation protection agreement" as an agreement that provides for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to transportation of human remains or cremated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB292 | Pass | Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem. Adds to the considerations regarding the suitability and propriety of a prospective guardian or conservator that a guardian ad litem is required to address in his report to the court foll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 588 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB710 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 606 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB283 | Pass | Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 586 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB737 | Pass | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act, energy efficiency programs include electrification, including measures that electrify space heating, water heating, cooli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 607 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB215 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 582 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB321 | Pass | Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB397 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 593 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB9 | Pass | Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 570 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB51 | Pass | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; dissemination and availability of online transition resources. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, in partnership with relevant entities, to ensure that online resources are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 573 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB291 | Pass | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians; information required. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to develop and provide training for court-appoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB241 | Pass | Workers' compensation; notice of right to dispute claim. Requires that when an employee's workers' compensation claim is denied, an employer or insurer shall include in its letter denying benefits a notice that the employee has a right to dispute the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 584 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB398 | Pass | Protective orders; respondent to notify court of change of address. Requires the respondent against whom a protective order has been issued to notify the court in writing within seven days of any change of residence while such order is in effect, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 594 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB66 | Pass | Towing without consent of vehicle owner; fee. Prohibits towing and recovery operators from requiring an individual who appears to retrieve a vehicle towed to provide to the towing and recovery operator, in addition to payment of fees, any document no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 574 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB655 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regard to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemploym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 603 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB556 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit; maximum amount of tax credit. Increases from $5 million to $7.5 million, beginning in taxable year 2025, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 512 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB220 | Pass | Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 502 (effective - see bill) |
| SB18 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 490 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB526 | Pass | Resale Disclosure Act; delivery of resale certificate; remedies. Provides that failure to deliver a resale certificate within 14 days, as required by the Resale Disclosure Act, deems the resale certificate unavailable. The bill grants a purchaser thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 511 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB217 | Pass | Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 501 (effective 1/1/25) |
| SB165 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; petition of qualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which valid signatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected for persons seeking to become candidates in certain elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 498 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB456 | Pass | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
