| HB276 | Intro
Prefile | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB658 | Intro
Prefile | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB273 | Intro
Prefile | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB322 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| HB899 | Intro
Prefile | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; deadline for annual filing of disclosure statements; deadline for public disclosure. Changes the filing deadline for statements of economic inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| HB41 | Intro
Prefile | Standards of Learning; programs of instruction; civics education; instruction on local government. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for Virginia and United States Government for grade 12 and requires each school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Environmental Quality; enforcement Department of Environmental Quality; enforcement of regulations; Clean Water Act; cooling water intakes at power plants. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to promptly enforce federal reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| SB694 | Intro
Prefile | 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 |
| SB562 | Intro
Prefile | Pilot program for captured coal mine methane; renewable energy portfolio standard. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program for American Electric Power (Phase I Utility) and Dominion Energy (Phase II Utility) to submit pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB557 | Intro
Prefile | Renewable energy portfolio standard; eligibility of hydrogen and nuclear resources. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include (i) hydrogen resources that are produced from zero-carbon generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Prefile | Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require certain stormwater management techniques for land disturbances related to the construction, expansion, or op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1063 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing homes; application requirements. Requires all applicants for a nursing home license to complete and submit an application on a form approved by the Department of Health. Under the bill, the applicant is required to provide certain information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB446 | Intro
Prefile | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
Prefile | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Prefile | Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB376 | Intro
Prefile | Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans. Requires each carrier that offers a health plan in either the individual or small group market to ensure that at least 50 percent of all health plans offered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB343 | Intro
Prefile | Financial institutions; regulation of money transmitters; penalty. Replaces existing state law regulating money transmitters with comprehensive provisions aimed at standardizing the regulation of money transmitters across the 50 states. The bill incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Prefile | Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property; petition for entry. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property to petition the circuit court for a license to enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
