| 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 |
| SB152 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1393 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB941 | Intro
Prefile | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; establishment on the campus of certain public institutions of higher education. Requires, for any general election, at least one voter satellite office to be established on the campus of any baccala...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1311 | 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 |
| HB1310 | Intro
Prefile | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB347 | Intro
Prefile | School board employees; civil cause of action against principals, division superintendents, and school boards for workplace injuries. Permits any school board employee who suffers bodily injury in the course of his employment on school board property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB247 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance by certain landlords; tenant remedies. Allows a tenant to bring a civil cause of action for compensatory damages against a housing authority when there is a material noncompliance by such ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB952 | Intro
Prefile | C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. Removes an exclusion for residential dwellings with fewer than five dwelling units and condominium projects from certain requirements related to a voluntary special assessment lien that secures a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| 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 |
