| HJR22 | Intro
Prefile | Study; JLARC; skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the capacity and condition of skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| HB373 | Intro
Prefile | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution, as defined in the bill, to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HJR15 | Intro
Prefile | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; offering reduced rate in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to dependents of public school instructional, administrative, and support personnel in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
Prefile | Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1536 | Intro
Prefile | Sales tax exemption; certain baby products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Prefile | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1033 | Intro
Prefile | Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1374 | Intro
Prefile | In-state tuition eligibility; certain members of National Guard or Reserves of the Armed Forces of the United States units in the Commonwealth. Declares eligible for in-state tuition charges at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB1470 | Intro
Prefile | Income tax deduction; union dues. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2024 for the amount paid by an individual for union dues for participation in a labor organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| HB500 | Intro
Prefile | Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments; development and administration of assessments; assessments in languages other than English; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to develop all Standards of Learning assessments using ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB961 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia local journalism sustainability tax credits. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for eligible local newspaper publishers, defined in the bill, for compensation paid to local news journalists. The credit is equal to (i) for the first ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Prefile | Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
Prefile | State correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Prefile | Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB762 | Intro
Prefile | Organ donation leave tax credit. Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for a taxpayer that is a private employer, as defined by the bill, for certain costs incurred during a period of organ donation leave r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| HB573 | Intro
Prefile | Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to prepare in writing and provide to the principal or his designee and the division superinte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB372 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Education; Child Care Implementation and Substitute Employee Pool Grant Program established. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act, to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB564 | Intro
Prefile | Public schools; classified instructional support staff; competitive compensation; biennial review. Declares that it is a goal of the Commonwealth that its classified instructional support staff, defined in the bill as any individual who works more th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
Prefile | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB507 | Intro
Prefile | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB847 | Intro
Prefile | Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. Provides that in any case in which an indigent defendant is charged with any felony punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB432 | Intro
Prefile | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB711 | Intro
Prefile | Taxation; secrecy of information; taxpayer waiver. Allows a taxpayer to waive confidentiality and secrecy of information provisions of Virginia law with respect to tax information upon executing a written acknowledgement waiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1029 | Intro
Prefile | Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
Prefile | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to develop, maintain, and post publicly on the financial aid page of such institution's web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Prefile | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB684 | Intro
Prefile | Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Prefile | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB408 | Intro
Prefile | Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB524 | Intro
Prefile | Permit applications for natural gas pipelines; State Water Control Law. Requires applicants for federal licenses or permits for natural gas transmission pipelines with an inside diameter of at least 24 inches to submit a separate application, erosion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB623 | Intro
Prefile | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB631 | Intro
Prefile | Authorize the Adjutant General to facilitate and coordinate efforts to promote participation in the state-sponsored group term life insurance program offered to members of the Virginia National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB206 | Intro
Prefile | Pet shops; notice of deceased animals; report. Requires pet shops to annually submit a summary of records indicating any time a dog or cat in their possession dies or is euthanized to the State Veterinarian in a format prescribed by him.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB563 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Education; procedure for adjusting grievances; definition of "classified instructional support staff." Requires the Board of Education, for the purpose of its regulations that establish the procedure for adjusting grievances, to define "clas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| HB627 | Intro
Prefile | Early childhood care; Child Care Subsidy Program expansion; provision of free child care to certain child care provider employees. Requires the Child Care Subsidy Program, established pursuant to applicable regulations, to be expanded to assist emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB922 | Intro
Prefile | Common interest communities; pesticides; prohibition on use. Clarifies that common interest community associations may ban the use of pesticides in or upon any common area or common element, as defined in relevant law. The bill also allows such assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB465 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Land Conservation Foundation. Allows land trusts that have been accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission or a similar set of standards and practices adopted by the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees (the Board) to hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Prefile | Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund established. Establishes the Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Prefile | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB228 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; recycling information on products. Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of any product that indicates on the product's container or packaging that such container or packaging is recyclable unless such container or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Prefile | Nonliving shoreline stabilization structures; regulations; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to promulgate regulations regarding the types of repairs or maintenance to nonliving shoreline stabilization structures in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB349 | Intro
Prefile | Vehicle inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends the timeframe following the first inspection of a new motor vehicle in which such vehicle must be inspected from 12 months after the first inspection to either 36 months after the first inspection or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Prefile | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Prefile | Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Prefile | Financial reports by retirement systems; annual disclosures. Requires retirement systems to provide disclosures describing the process and criteria used for selecting third-party fund managers, advisers, or consultants and other persons providing ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
Prefile | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB371 | Intro
Prefile | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB612 | Intro
Prefile | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
