| 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) |
| SB314 | Pass | Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB995 | Pass | Board of Medicine; temporary licensure of physicians licensed in a foreign country. Permits the Board of Medicine to issue a provisional license to a physician licensed in a foreign country for no more than two years, then a subsequent renewable two-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 464 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB509 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB794 | Pass | Statutory agents; service of process. Adds the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission to the definition of "statutory agent" when such Clerk is appointed for the purpose of service of process on any individual, corporation, or limited partnership....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 454 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB311 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 438 (effective 1/1/25) |
| HB511 | Pass | Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| SB214 | Pass | Service of garnishment summons upon corporation, limited liability company, etc.; garnishment designee. Requires a summons for garnishment against a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, financial institution, or other entity a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 1/1/25) |
| HB66 | Pass | Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires every public school to hold fire drills during the school session in accordance with the requirements of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB839 | Pass | American Revolution 250 Commission; membership and staffing. Amends the membership of the American Revolution 250 Commission to allow for the appointment of ex officio members who are directors of historic homes, historic sites, or National Park Serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| SB195 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB744 | Pass | Consumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers. Requires a supplier making automatic renewal or continuous service offers that automatically renew after more than 30 days and extend the automatic renewal or continuous service off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1410 | Pass | Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. Clarifies that the board of supervisors of Russell County may appoint nine members to its industrial development authority, which shall consist of two members from the governing body of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 483 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB151 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; fees. Reduces the fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, reissue, or renewal special identification card without a photograph from $10 per year with a $20 minimum fee to $2 per year with a $10 minimum fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 497 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB801 | Pass | Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services; lowest available rates. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1224 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; fees. Reduces the fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, reissue, or renewal special identification card without a photograph from $10 per year with a $20 minimum fee to $2 per year with a $10 minimum fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 474 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB523 | Pass | Charitable gaming. Amends charitable gaming law to allow, as a condition of receiving a charitable gaming permit or authorization to conduct electronic gaming, certain organizations to use a predetermined percentage of its receipts for expenses relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| HB514 | Pass | Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2028, the sunset of the Advisory Council o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| SB118 | 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 495 (effective - see bill) |
| HB1125 | Pass | Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 471 (effective 1/1/25) |
| SB605 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of "person with a disability"; training. Amends the definition of "person with a disability" for purposes of the Elections title to mean any person who has a physical or mental im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 515 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB960 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit; maximum amount of tax credit. Increases from $5 million to $7.5 million, beginning in taxable year 2025, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 462 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB769 | Pass | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; elder abuse crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, (ii) financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB1430 | Pass | Local library boards; King and Queen County. Adds King and Queen County to the list of localities that are not required to establish a library board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 486 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1279 | Pass | Department of Health and Department of Education; school health entrance form. Requires the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Department of Education, to examine the Department of Health's COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL HEALTH ENTRANCE F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 478 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB568 | Pass | Crisis stabilization services; facilities licensed by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; nursing homes; dispensing and administration of drugs; emergency. Permits facilities licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (effective 4/4/24) |
| HB1503 | Pass | Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 488 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB175 | Pass | Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; former statewide legislators and officials; clerk of a circuit court. Adds any (i) former member of the General Assembly; (ii) former Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 499 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB1256 | Pass | Larceny offenses; venue. Allows grand larceny and embezzlement offenses to be prosecuted in any county or city where the victim of the larceny or embezzlement resides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 475 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB92 | Pass | Percy Lee House, III Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Otterdam Road over Interstate 95 in Greensville County the "Percy Lee House, III Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| HB233 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Provides that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may determine a site of at least 50 contiguous acres to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB350 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; quorum and signature requirements. Lowers the quorum requirement for the Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB93 | Pass | Alpha-gal syndrome; Board of Health; reportable disease list. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations to include alpha-gal syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required to be reported in accordance with the Code of Virginia. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| SB474 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB98 | Pass | Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB324 | Pass | PA Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the PA Licensure Compact. The Compact permits eligible physician assistants to practice in Compact-participating states, provided that they are licensed in at least one participating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB1073 | Pass | Tow truck drivers; prohibited acts. Prohibits tow truck drivers from driving by the scene of a wrecked or disabled vehicle for which a law-enforcement tow has been initiated by a law-enforcement agency, initiating contact with the owner or operator o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB807 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; membership. Changes the composition of the Behavioral Health Commission by increasing from two to three the number of House appointees who are required to be members of the House Committee on Appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 456 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB117 | Pass | American Revolution 250 Commission; membership and staffing. Amends the membership of the American Revolution 250 Commission to allow for the appointment of ex officio members who are directors of historic homes, historic sites, or National Park Serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| SB166 | Pass | Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund transfer as payment for the sale to a consumer of a security issued by such financial institution to make available...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB415 | Pass | Charter; City of Virginia Beach; board of equalization. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach by expanding the board of equalization from four members to five members and an alternate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB1401 | Pass | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; firefighters. Adds full-time firefighters employed by the Department of Military Affairs to the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System for service earned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (effective 7/1/25) |
| HB830 | Pass | Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB204 | Pass | Maternal Mortality Review Team; membership. Adds a representative of the Department of Corrections and a representative of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, both appointed by the Governor, to the membership of the Maternal Mortality Review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB637 | Pass | Collections of fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, etc.; duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth; consultation with clerk. Requires that at least 30 days prior to the execution of a contract with a private attorney or private collection agency to un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 518 (effective 7/1/24) |
| HB678 | Pass | Trustees; settlement of accounts; notice and statements to beneficiaries; requirements. Provides that the beneficiary of a trust shall be deemed to have released a trustee and ratified all actions of a trustee for the administration of a trust if, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 446 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB727 | Pass | Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. Clarifies that the board of supervisors of Russell County may appoint nine members to its industrial development authority, which shall consist of two members from the governing body of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 520 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB125 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; membership. Changes the composition of the Behavioral Health Commission by increasing from two to three the number of House appointees who are required to be members of the House Committee on Appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 496 (effective 7/1/24) |
| SB516 | 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 510 (effective 7/1/24) |
