| HB933 | Pass | Alzheimer's disease and dementia training for dispatchers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel. Requires certain agencies in the Commonwealth to develop curricula and provide training related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia to dispatche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 698 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB392 | Pass | Virginia Petroleum Products Franchise Act; agreements between jobber/distributors and dealers; market valuation study. Provides that a term of an initial agreement between a jobber/distributor and a dealer relating to specific marketing premises shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 639 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB478 | Pass | Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB538 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 681 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB516 | Pass | Prescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 725 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB155 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 761 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB354 | Pass | Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 769 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB54 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Repeals certain provisions in the City of Falls Church charter related to qualifications of persons appointed to boards ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 630 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB178 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 664 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB474 | Pass | Restroom Access Act. Requires a retail establishment that does not have a public restroom but has an employee toilet facility to allow any customer with an eligible medical condition, as defined in the bill, to use such employee toilet facility durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 640 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB258 | Pass | Nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent real properties; unimproved properties within urban redevelopment or revitalization zone. Allows the nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent property when such property is (i) unimproved, (ii) one-half acre or less in si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 636 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1248 | Pass | Debtor interrogatories; fieri facias; against whom a summons shall be issued. Requires the clerk of the court from which a fieri facias is issued to issue a summons against any person known or reasonably suspected to be a debtor to, or bailee of, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB245 | Pass | Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 706 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1496 | Pass | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Requires all state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments to provide to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 614 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB25 | Pass | Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 628 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB1221 | Pass | Health education; menstrual education instruction permitted. Permits each school board to provide a program of instruction on menstrual education as a part of any health education instruction offered at such grade level in grades four through eight a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 741 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB194 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax; classification; certain vehicles. Removes the sunset on authorization for localities to assign a rate of tax or assessment different from the general tangible personal property rate on certain automobiles, trucks, moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 665 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| SB389 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB355 | Pass | Virginia Self-Service Storage Act. Permits a rental agreement for a leased self-service storage space to be delivered and accepted electronically. The bill permits a rental agreement to contain statements that the rental agreement is deemed accepted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 673 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB232 | Pass | Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 762 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB724 | 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 627 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB592 | Pass | Department of Health; emergency regulations related to prescription drug price transparency; effective period; emergency. Directs that the emergency regulations 12VAC5-219, promulgated by the Department of Health pursuant to Chapter 304 of the Acts o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 727 (effective 4/8/24) |
| HB102 | 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 714 (effective 1/1/25) |
| HB1339 | Pass | Exemptions from garnishment and lien; householder; total value. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the amount that a householder may hold exempt from the creditor process for real or personal property that the householder or his dependent uses as a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 656 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB439 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; analysis of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to conduct an analysis of blockchain technology and cryptocur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 709 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB625 | Pass | Deferred or installment payment agreements; certain benefits. Provides that in any case in which a defendant owes fines and costs and where such defendant's sole financial resource is a Social Security benefit or Supplemental Security Income, such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB27 | Pass | Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective - see bill) |
| HB818 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions of meetings and public business. Exempts certain public meetings from the definition of "meeting" under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to clarify that three or more members of a public body ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 733 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB626 | Pass | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB85 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 617 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1486 | 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 613 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB101 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 760 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB201 | Pass | Certain transportation entities; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the four members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the two members of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, and the two members of the Nor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 633 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1024 | Pass | Department of Education; Virginia Preservice Training for Child Care Staff course; relevancy review. Requires the Department of Education to review its Virginia Preservice Training for Child Care Staff course for appropriateness based on the age rang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB580 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; review and authorization of projects; hearing and appeal. Allows any person aggrieved by the final decision of the Department of Environmental Quality regarding the authorization of a project and who has participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 774 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1269 | Pass | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 651 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB253 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 763 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1247 | 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 743 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB909 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 646 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB888 | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 696 (effective - see bill) |
| SB352 | Pass | Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 672 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB199 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 666 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB337 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area; continued residential withdrawals. Directs the State Water Control Board to waive the expiration of any ground water withdrawal permit for a well that serves exclusively residential users, is located in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 768 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1451 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; expedited retakes; eligibility. Directs the Board of Education to revise its regulations relating to student eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning assessment, with the exception of the wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 612 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB93 | Pass | Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 758 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB326 | Pass | Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 690 (effective - see bill) |
| SB158 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; technical advisory committee; appointments. Provides that six members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority's technical advisory committee are appointed by the Authority rather than appointed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 618 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1199 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; staff; authority to appoint, employ, and remove. Authorizes the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 739 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB54 | Pass | Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 757 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB257 | Pass | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 635 (effective 7/1/24) |
