| VA | HB520 | Engross
50% | Promise to appear after the issuance of a summons; issuance of summons instead of warrant in certain cases; nonviolent felonies. Provides that if any person refuses to give a written promise to appear after the issuance of a summons, the arresting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB379 | Intro
25% | Sentencing guidelines; violent felony offenses; purchasing or selling of minors. Adds the crime of purchasing or selling of minors to the list of violent felony offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1150 | Intro
25% | Live or recorded threats over public airways or by other means; penalty. Clarifies that, for the offense of using profane, threatening, or indecent language over public airways or by other methods, "over any telephone" includes any electronically tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB53 | Intro
25% | Actions against real estate appraisers or appraisal management companies; statute of limitations. Provides that no action for damages or other relief alleging that a certified general real estate appraiser, a certified residential real estate apprais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB399 | Intro
25% | Punishment for conviction of second or subsequent misdemeanor larceny; penalties. Provides that any person convicted of a second larceny offense shall be confined in jail not less than 30 days nor more than 12 months and that for a third or any subse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1143 | Intro
25% | Renaming child pornography as child sexual abuse material. Replaces all instances of "child pornography" in the Code with "child sexual abuse material."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB427 | Intro
25% | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB493 | Intro
25% | Power to arrest on property of owner. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any agent of the Commonwealth is prohibited from entering the property of another to remove the owner of such property or a family member of such person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1086 | Intro
25% | Admission of evidence; evidentiary hearing; excluded persons. Exempts those persons whose presence, in the judgment of the court, would be supportive of the complaining witness or the accused and would not impair the conduct of a fair hearing from be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB487 | Intro
25% | Harassment by computer or other electronic means; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for an individual injured by a person who coerces, intimidates, or harasses such individual by computer or other electronic means, regardless of whether s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB244 | Intro
25% | Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB835 | Intro
25% | Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; appointment of counsel or guardian ad litem; removal or appeal. Specifies that any attorney appointed to represent a child or parent, guardian, or other adult at a hearing in the juvenile and domestic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB391 | Intro
25% | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1329 | Intro
25% | Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civil actions. Clarifies timelines for dual-filing complaints alleging unlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill allows either the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB850 | Intro
25% | Operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways of the Commonwealth after conviction; petition procedures. States that upon a conviction for involuntary manslaughter as a result of driving under the influence or maiming as a result of driving under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1547 | Intro
25% | Alcohol safety action program; entry into program; fee. Increases from $300 to $400 the maximum fee a person may be required to pay when entering a court-ordered alcohol safety action program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB394 | Intro
25% | Capital murder; death penalty. Authorizes punishment by death for capital murder. The bill also provides that the Supreme Court of Virginia shall give priority to the review of cases in which the sentence of death has been imposed over other cases pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB849 | Intro
25% | Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations; penalty. Provides that a court may impose not more than 30 days of active incarceration upon a first technical violation of the terms and conditions of a suspende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1413 | Intro
25% | Identity of persons communicating anonymously over the Internet; procedure governing certain subpoenas in civil proceedings; social media companies and platforms. Applies the procedures governing certain subpoenas in civil proceedings, currently appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1276 | Intro
25% | Display of sexually explicit visual material to a child unlawful; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony to display sexually explicit visual material, as defined in relevant law, to a child under 13 years of age with the intent to entice, solicit, or enc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB554 | Intro
25% | Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole, the Board must notify the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB860 | Intro
25% | Removal of boundary or survey stake; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who intentionally or knowingly injures, removes, displaces, or destroys any boundary or survey stake, or any part thereof, erected to designate, locate, survey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1123 | Intro
25% | Maximum number of authorized judgeships in each judicial district. Increases from six to seven the number of authorized general district court judgeships and increases from five to seven the number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB851 | Intro
25% | Discovery; electronic means. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB635 | Intro
25% | Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1299 | Intro
25% | Ignition interlock systems; penalty. Ignition interlock systems; penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB773 | Intro
25% | Marijuana; criminal penalties. Modifies several criminal penalties related to marijuana, imposes limits on dissemination of criminal history record information related to certain marijuana offenses, and provides a petition process for any person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1144 | Intro
25% | Children alleged to be abused or neglected; preliminary removal hearing; appointment of counsel for parent of such child. Provides that at a preliminary removal hearing in cases in which a child is alleged to have been abused or neglected, the court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB400 | Intro
25% | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; repeal. Repeals the limitations on the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation or violation of the terms and conditions of a su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1368 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1332 | Intro
25% | Nuisance; action against adjoining property owner. Provides that a civil action may be brought by a property owner against the owner of an adjoining property alleged to be a nuisance for damages and reasonable attorney fees and costs. The bill furthe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB684 | Intro
25% | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB167 | Intro
25% | Special grand juries. Directs a circuit court to impanel a special grand jury when an unarmed person is killed by a law-enforcement officer or a correctional officer, as those terms are defined in relevant law, to investigate and report on any condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB871 | Intro
25% | Campgrounds; inherent risks; liability. Provides that a person who goes camping at a campground shall be presumed to have known the inherent risks of camping, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a camping professional, as defined in the bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | SB20 | Engross
50% | Deferred dispositions; expungement. Clarifies that a charged dismissed after a deferred disposition that may be eligible for expungement upon agreement of all parties includes an original charge that was reduced or a charge that is dismissed after a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1250 | Intro
25% | Action establishing boundaries to land; attorney fees. Provides that in an action to establish boundary lines the court may award attorney fees to any prevailing party when the need to ascertain the true boundary lines arose from the action of anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB448 | Intro
25% | Marijuana presumption; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; penalty. Establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.004 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1032 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring device; civil penalty; default process. Establishes a default process for the collection of civil penalties from residents of the Commonwealth who fail to respond to a summons for a speed violation issued based on evidence coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB209 | Intro
25% | Organized retail theft; repeal. Repeals the crime of organized retail theft and the Organized Retail Crime Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB826 | Intro
25% | Action of forfeiture; exemptions; court-imposed fine. Provides that no property subject to seizure, pursuant to relevant law, shall be forfeited unless the total value of such property in the aggregate is less than or equal to the value of the fine i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1468 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; enforcement by the Attorney General; civil penalty. Permits the Attorney General to prohibit TikTok from being available to known minors in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that a civil penalty of $7,500 may be assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB685 | Intro
25% | Selling, giving, or distributing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB735 | Intro
25% | Eminent domain; offer to sell to former owner. Provides that a former owner may enter into a contractual agreement or agree to a contractual provision waiving his right to receive an offer of sale from a condemnor. Under current law, any agreement or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB721 | Intro
25% | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| VA | HB890 | Intro
25% | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| VA | HB1481 | Intro
25% | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes the provision providing that, in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, and a natural or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| VA | HB837 | Intro
25% | Recording of proceedings in district courts; juvenile and domestic relations district court. Allows an audio recording of proceedings in a juvenile and domestic relations district court to be made by a party or his counsel. Recording of proceedings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| VA | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Grandparent; petition for visitation. Provides that in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, the court may consider whether (i) the marriage of the parents of such child has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| VA | HB1013 | Intro
25% | Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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