| HB1277 | Pass | Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB700 | Pass | Certain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance. Expands to include each public institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 449 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB561 | Pass | Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety; school safety audits; list of items required to be reviewed. Requires the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to include specific technology systems in the list of items to be reviewed and evalua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 429 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB699 | Pass | Board of Medicine; Board of Dentistry; Board of Optometry; Boards of Medicine and Nursing; patient counseling; treatment with opioids. Directs the Board of Medicine, the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Optometry, and the Boards of Medicine and Nursi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 448 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB711 | Pass | Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $124,285,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at James Madison University, Virginia State University, and The College of William and Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 450 (effective 4/4/24) |
| HB778 | Pass | Quitclaim and release property rights. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to quitclaim and release certain real property rights related to a portion of real estate owned by the Department related to an offsite ingress and egress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 453 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1312 | Pass | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 416 (effective - see bill) |
| HB1254 | Pass | Bridges; state of good repair; allocation of funds. Designates bridges with a general condition rating, defined in the bill, of no more than five for at least one major bridge component as eligible for state of good repair funds. Currently, bridges m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 415 (effective 6/1/25) |
| HB426 | Pass | Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 443 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1083 | Pass | Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 410 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB940 | Pass | Elections administration; change to location of polling place, additional notice requirement. Requires notice of a change in the location of a polling place to be posted, to the extent practicable, at the location last used for such polling place on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 461 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1163 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 414 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1460 | Pass | Virginia Verified Meat certification. Prohibits any person from labeling any product as Virginia Verified Meat if it does not meet the definition of that term in the bill and allows any person not employed by the Department of Agriculture and Consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 420 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB353 | Pass | Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians. Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed phys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB682 | Pass | Charter; City of Bristol. Amends the City of Bristol's charter to provide for five voting precincts rather than four. The bill also replaces references to the personnel department with "human resources department" and makes changes related to the ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 447 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB971 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 494 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1477 | Pass | Public schools; instructional time; competency-based education. Requires the Board of Education to provide local school boards maximum flexibility to waive existing instructional clock hour requirements by developing alternative instructional time mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 421 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB980 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; on-campus mental and behavioral health support. Requires each public institution of higher education and nonprofit priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 405 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB355 | Pass | School boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 442 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB555 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 392 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB218 | Pass | Health insurance; health care provider panels; continuity of care. Requires a provider to continue to render health care services to any of the carrier's enrollees who have an existing provider-patient relationship with the provider for a period of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB912 | Pass | Stores and telephone systems in local correctional facilities; fees. Provides that the net profits from the operation of stores and telephonic communication systems in local correctional facilities shall be used within each facility respectively for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 402 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB134 | Pass | Department of Education; development of education materials relating to risks of opioids. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with such stakeholders and experts as it deems necessary or appropriate, to develop and submit to the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB893 | Pass | Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 428 (effective - see bill) |
| HB989 | Pass | Elections administration; duties of the Department of Elections; required election and voter participation information on the Internet. Requires the Department of Elections to provide information for voters on its website, including (i) the role of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 406 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1270 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation. Makes it a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to sell or offer for sale services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwelling without holding a mold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 476 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1110 | Pass | Toll facilities; vehicle owner. Provides that, in the context of automated toll enforcement, the exemption from the definition of "owner" for vehicle rental or vehicle leasing companies applies only if such companies meet existing requirements relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB732 | Pass | Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 451 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB462 | Pass | School Construction Program and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Clarifies that, for the purposes of eligibility to receive grants through the School Construction Fund and Program, "local school division" includes any joint or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 388 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB160 | Pass | Department of Labor and Industry; workplace poster for veterans benefits and services. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Services, to create a poster describing benefits and services availab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 430 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB329 | Pass | Board of Counseling; licensure by endorsement for marriage and family therapists. Directs the Board of Counseling to amend its regulations related to the process for licensure by endorsement for marriage and family therapists. The bill removes requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 431 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1039 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 466 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1431 | Pass | Alternative onsite sewage systems; approval of treatment units. Requires the Department of Health to approve treatment units for alternative onsite sewage systems if they meet certain NSF/ANSI standards or certain testing requirements. Alternative o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 419 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1331 | Pass | Conveyance of easement; Department of State Police and Department of Transportation. Authorizes the conveyance of an easement in Campbell County by the Department of State Police in conjunction with the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB831 | Pass | Chief Medical Examiner; Maternal Mortality Review Team; work group; expansion plan; report. Directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Maternal Mortality Review Team to convene a work group to expand the work of the Maternal Mortality R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 457 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1423 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; publication of information related to home care services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to annually publish on its website the average hourly payment rates for home care services for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 484 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB964 | Pass | Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications. Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Board of Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Board of Medicine must be a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 463 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1187 | Pass | Xylazine; manufacturing; selling; giving; distributing; possessing; veterinary use exemption; penalties. Provides that any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with the intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB368 | Pass | Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 384 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB150 | Pass | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 435 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB558 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 394 (effective - see bill) |
| HB935 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for doula care services. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for obstetrical services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 460 (effective - see bill) |
| HB1108 | 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 469 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB234 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 436 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB640 | Pass | Wrongful incarceration; compensation. Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony by a county or city circuit court of the Commonwealth and is wrongfully incarcerated for such felony shall receive, in addition to the compensation for wrongf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 396 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB928 | Pass | Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally interferes with or impedes the operation or commercial fishing activity, defined in the bill, of a commerc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 403 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB913 | Pass | Parole Board; voting requirements. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, if the Parole Board adopts a rule or regulation requiring the concurrence of four or more members of the Board to grant discretionary parole or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 458 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1084 | Pass | Disabled parking placards; validity; fees. Extends from six months to 12 months the maximum duration for which the DMV may issue a temporary removable windshield placard to a person with a disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk or that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 411 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB73 | Pass | Unlawful detainer; expungement; entering of an order without further petition or hearing. Provides that in unlawful detainer actions filed in the general district court, if the 30-day period following the dismissal of such an action has passed or if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 372 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1435 | Pass | Subpoenas; release of witness. Makes the provisions governing a release of a witness from a subpoena applicable to a subpoena issued at the request of a party or by or at the request of an attorney representing a party. Under current law, these provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 487 (effective 7/1/24) |
