| SB555 | Intro
25% | First-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for individuals or married couples filing jointly who sell residential real property that is the taxpayer's primary residence and is located in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB633 | Intro
25% | Court fines and fees; indigent defendant; waiver of fees. Provides that in any criminal or traffic case, the court may waive the assessment of certain fees specified in the bill, either wholly or in part, if the court determines the defendant to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB285 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
25% | Income tax credit; adaptive repurposing of underutilized structures. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit in taxable years 2024 through 2028 for eligible expenses, defined in the bill, incurred in converting office buildings to residential uses....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB270 | Intro
25% | Sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms and firearm magazines; Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program and Fund established; penalties. Provides that, unless otherwise prohibited by law, any person may import, sell, transfer, manufacture, or purchase an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
25% | Unlawful picketing or parading to obstruct or influence justice; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing or intimidating in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1414 | Intro
25% | Reinstatement of the estate tax. Reinstates the estate tax for persons dying on and after July 1, 2024. The bill provides that no estate tax shall be imposed on a gross estate if the majority of the assets of the estate are an interest in a closely h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HB284 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; criteria for initial renewable teacher licensure for certain individuals. Requires the Board of Education to issue an initial renewable license as a teacher to any applicant who (i) is enrolled in an accredited education preparati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education |
| HB181 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB680 | Intro
25% | Manufactured homes; conversion to real property. Creates a process by which a manufactured home with a security interest may be converted to real property and provides requirements and procedures for doing so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB410 | Intro
25% | Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's Major Entertainment Opportunity Fund. Renames the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund under the Virginia Tourism Authority as the Governor's Major Entertainment Opportunity Fund and changes its purpose fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1383 | Intro
25% | Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N) |
| SB419 | Intro
25% | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
25% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers; establishment of minimum employment qualifications prohibited. Prohibits the Department of Criminal Justice Services from establishing minimum qualifications for the employment of sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1081 | Intro
25% | Public schools; instructional time. Makes several changes relating to student instructional time in public elementary and secondary schools, including (i) defining "instructional hour" for the purpose of minimum annual instructional hour requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education |
| SB164 | Intro
25% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
25% | Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
25% | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB116 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB183 | Intro
25% | Earned income tax credit. Allows eligible low-income taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year by the taxpayer for the same taxable year. The bill also states that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB277 | Engross
50% | State Health Services Plan Task Force; certificate of public need; recommendations. Directs the Board of Health to convene the State Health Services Plan Task Force to make recommendations on expedited review of projects subject to certificate of pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| HR17 | Pass | House of Delegates; portrait of the former Speaker. Authorizes and allocates funding for the painting of a portrait of former Speaker of the House of Delegates C. Todd Gilbert to be hung in the Chamber of the House of Delegates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Bill text as passed House (HR17ER) |
| HB918 | Intro
25% | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; termination without cause. Provides purchasers of any time-share within the Commonwealth a right to terminate such time-share if, at least 10 years after the initial purchase, the purchaser has paid the entire pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| HB1239 | Intro
25% | Unaccompanied homeless youth; consent to surgical or medical care. Provides that except for the purposes of sexual sterilization or abortion, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB662 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB813 | Intro
25% | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
25% | Chief Resilience Officer of the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Office of Commonwealth Resilience; Interagency Resilience Working Group; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB624 | Engross
50% | Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| SB294 | Intro
25% | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment. The bill provides that no interest will accrue on any unpaid balances 90 days after the date on whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB312 | Intro
25% | Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services; Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman, with the purpose of receiving, recording, and responding to conce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
25% | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation |
| HB1258 | Intro
25% | Employee protections; discipline for political activity or affiliations prohibited. Prohibits an employer from (i) directing the political activity or affiliations of an employee; (ii) discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Tabled in Labor and Commerce (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB601 | Intro
25% | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB345 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; limits on required local referendums. Provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum on the question of whether casino gaming should be permitted in such city that subsequently fails shall be p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB905 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices in any location deemed necessary by the locality for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation |
| HB20 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices in any location deemed necessary by the locality for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB388 | Engross
50% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 11-N) |
| HB662 | Intro
25% | Towing; registration for tow truck drivers; Driver Authorization Document; penalty. Requires tow truck drivers, prior to registration or the first renewal on or after January 1, 2025, with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to obtain a Driv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB628 | Intro
25% | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
25% | Taxation. Decreases, beginning in taxable year 2025, the income tax imposed (i) on income less than $3,000, from two percent to 1.75 percent; (ii) on income in excess of $3,000 but less than $5,000, from three percent to 2.65 percent; (iii) on income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB521 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to authorize, by ordinance, its local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation |
| HR89 | Pass | Commending Dr. Willis L. Lonzer III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Bill text as passed House (HR89ER) |
| HB733 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; units occupied by elderly tenants; rent stabilization allowance. Allows any locality to adopt rent stabilization provisions to prohibit any landlord, defined in the bill, from increasing the rent on any u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| HB1282 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Health and Human Services |
| SB548 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance; hazardous duty. Provides that members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System, political subdivision employees eligible for enhanced hazardous duty coverage, and members of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB528 | Intro
25% | Property Owners' Association Act; managed conservation landscaping; unreasonable restrictions prohibited. Provides that no association shall prohibit an owner from installing managed conservation landscaping, defined in the bill, upon such owner's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
25% | Sports betting; Virginia college sports. Permits betting, with the exception of proposition betting, on Virginia college sports. Under current law, betting other than proposition betting is allowed on all college sports except Virginia college sports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB258 | Engross
50% | Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate must consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
