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HB1225Intro

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County manager plan of government; powers. Broadens several powers available to counties that have adopted the county manager plan of government by giving such counties the option of following general law rather than the provisions specified in this ...
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2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB331Intro

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Charter; City of Richmond. Makes extensive updates to the charter for the City of Richmond. Many changes in the bill have the effect of removing outdated or duplicative provisions and more closely aligning the city's powers with those set out in gene...
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2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB1122Intro

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Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
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2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB765Intro

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Termination of parental rights; sexual abuse; clear and convincing standard; petition filed by other parent. Allows a parent to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of the other parent if the circumstances giving rise to such a petition a...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB907Intro

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Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the ...
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB1121Intro

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Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means...
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2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee
HB837Intro

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Recording of proceedings in district courts; juvenile and domestic relations district court. Allows an audio recording of proceedings in a juvenile and domestic relations district court to be made by a party or his counsel. Recording of proceedings ...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1235Intro

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Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
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2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee
HB900Intro

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Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
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2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB440Intro

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Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notificati...
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB766Intro

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Custody and visitation arrangements; best interests of the child; expert testimony; history of abuse. Requires a court to consider any history of family abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, or an act of violence, force, or threat in determining best int...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1314Intro

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Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is...
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR18Intro

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Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Rules Committee
HB1013Intro

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Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1481Intro

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Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes the provision providing that, in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, and a natural or...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1424Intro

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Firearm purchases; permit to purchase a firearm required; penalties. Requires Firearm purchases; permit to purchase a firearm required; penalties. Requires any person purchasing a firearm from a firearms dealer to present a valid permit issued by the...
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2024-02-02
To House Public Safety Committee
HB1129Intro

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Grandparent; petition for visitation. Provides that in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, the court may consider whether (i) the marriage of the parents of such child has bee...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB417Intro

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Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investiga...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB890Intro

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Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
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2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB130Intro

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Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any pers...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB19Intro

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Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Marine Resources Commission; study of ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of Atlantic menhaden; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in collaboration with the Marine Resou...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1463Intro

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Department of General Services; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; review of procurement process; employment services organizations. Directs the Department of General Services, in cooperation with the Department for Aging and Rehabilit...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1307Intro

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State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; student application fees; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to survey each baccalaureate public instituti...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR65Intro

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Study; JLARC; rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the rate of accidents that c...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR35Intro

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Study; Department of Taxation; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Directs the Department of Taxation, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Quality, to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR14Intro

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Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB864Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bil...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
HB1494Intro

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Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of S...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR64Intro

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Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study creating a revenue sharing program for loc...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR63Intro

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Study; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; creation of a retail cannabis market; report. Requests the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study the creation of a retail cannabis market in the Commonwealth and draft regulations governing the indoo...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB910Intro

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Department of Energy; data center energy usage. Requires each data center located in the Commonwealth to make a quarterly energy source report to the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency that identifies the amount...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1316Intro

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Virginia State Crime Commission; benefits of violence interrupters; impact of barrier crime statutes; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission, in consultation with stakeholders, to assess (i) the benefits of violence interrupters and (ii)...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR32Intro

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Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs in the Commonwealth.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB178Intro

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Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annual...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1091Intro

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Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education; recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula; report. Requires the Virginia Advisory Commit...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB369Intro

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Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual violence for the purpose of developing a base sexual misc...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR46Intro

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Study; Department of State Police; Starr Alert Program; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the need for an alert program, to be known as the Starr Alert Program, to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby hit-and-run incidents.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB357Intro

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Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB988Intro

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Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1497Intro

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Board of Pharmacy; pharmacy technician profession; work group; report. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to review and make recommendations related to the regulatory framework for the pharmacy technician ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1233Intro

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Unpaved secondary highway funds; improvements; report. Provides that improvements to nonsurface treated secondary highways may, at the discretion of the locality, include changes other than paving, including enhanced maintenance and capital improveme...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB923Intro

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Department of Transportation; Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway; report. Directs the Department of Transportation to review the tolls, fines, and penalties assessed on the Dulles Toll Road and the Dulles Greenway.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR39Intro

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Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR51Intro

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Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, poten...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
SB579Intro

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Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; professional liability insurance. Specifies that the required minimum amount of professional liability coverage for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities is the amount per occurrence. The bill ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HJR24Intro

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Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR61Intro

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Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; $10,000 per year baccalaureate degree; report. Requests that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (i) study the feasibility of implementing the option for students to pay $10,000 an...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB33Intro

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Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HB1031Intro

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Commission on Legislature Modernization; report. Establishes the Commission on Legislature Modernization in the legislative branch for the purpose of studying the operation and functionality of the General Assembly and identifying ways to make the le...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
HJR25Intro

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Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and univ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
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