| VA | HB2272 | Pass | Norfolk State University and Virginia State University; reduced rate tuition charges for certain students. Permits the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors and the Virginia State University Board of Visitors to charge reduced rate tuition to an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 696 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2325 | Enroll 75% | Agricultural land; acquisition or transfer by foreign adversaries prohibited; report. Prohibits any foreign adversary, as defined in the bill, from acquiring or transferring any interest in agricultural land, as defined in federal law, beginning Janu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27 Governor's substitute printed 23107693D-H2 |
| VA | HB2246 | Pass | Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law current... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 539 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1388 | Pass | State parks; Virginia National Guard Passport established; free entry and parking. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to establish a Virginia National Guard Passport that authorizes a member of the Virginia National Guard to enter ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 647 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1567 | Pass | Department of Health; perinatal health hub work group; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance, and Urban Baby Beginnings, to convene a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 654 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2394 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; proprietary records and trade secrets; Fort Monroe Authority. Excludes from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act trade secrets, proprietary information, or financial infor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1629 | Pass | Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individuali... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 652 (effective -see bill) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Student literacy measures; scope; students in grades four through eight. Expands several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act, enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly, effective with the 2024–2025 school year, and current... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 645 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2290 | Pass | Judgment or order for pregnancy and delivery expenses. Provides that in the event that the initial petition for the establishment of parentage is commenced within six months of the live birth of a child, the judgment or order shall, except for good c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 570 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2302 | Pass | Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund. Authorizes the Governor to direct funds from the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (Fund) to the Commonwealth Transportation Board for transportation projects determined to be necessary to suppor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 546 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2195 | Pass | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement (the Department) to administer workf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 624 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2166 | Pass | Racketeering offenses; penalty. Adds petit larceny to the list of offenses included in the definition of "racketeering activity." The bill prohibits any person who is directed by an organizer, supervisor, or manager of an enterprise from (i) receivin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 607 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1606 | Pass | Antisemitism. Provides that the Commonwealth adopts the non-legally binding Working Definition of Antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism set forth ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| VA | HB2250 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, under the direction of the Criminal Justice Services Board, to establish training standards and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| VA | HB2247 | Pass | Driver improvement clinics and driver training schools. Lengthens from one year to two years the validity of and increases the cost of licenses and certifications for driver training schools that are third party testers, third party examiners for Cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| VA | HB1478 | Pass | Crimes by gangs. Provides that the definition of "predicate criminal act" includes all violent felony offenses for purposes of predicate criminal acts for street gangs. The bill also increases various penalties for gang crimes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| VA | HB1682 | Pass | Weapon of terrorism; definition; penalty. Includes any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, as a weapon of terrorism for the purpose of defining terrorism... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| VA | HB1805 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority; purpose; community development and housing projects. Adds community development projects related to the production and preservation of housing, including housing for persons and families of low and moderate income, to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| VA | HB1931 | Pass | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional releas... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| VA | HB1911 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments, including legislators or members of their immediate family who may accept s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| VA | HB1885 | Pass | Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| VA | HB2312 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; stop work orders; appeals of State Building Code Technical Review Board decisions; recovery of costs. Defines stop work orders for the purposes of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. The bill provides that if, during... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| VA | HB2256 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; fees; security. Grants the Fort Monroe Authority the ability to (i) charge certain fees for services within Fort Monroe and (ii) utilize security enhancement devices to enhance the safety of persons or property within Fort Monr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| VA | HB2324 | Pass | Recount elections; recount standards; elections for offices to which more than one candidate can be elected. Directs the State Board of Elections to promulgate standards and instructions for the conduct of recounts in elections for any office to whic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| VA | HB2080 | Pass | Special license plate; women veterans. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of women veterans bearing the legend SUPPORT WOMEN VETERANS. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| VA | HB1628 | Pass | Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund; availability of credits; use of funds. Permits the Department of Environmental Quality to use the Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund for purposes other than the purchase of mitigation bank credits, as set out in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| VA | HB2216 | Pass | Health insurance; mental health benefits; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis stabilization units. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for mobile crisis response services, defined in the bill, and su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186) |
| VA | HB2244 | Pass | Department of Historic Resources; appropriations for African American cemeteries and graves. Requires appropriations by the Department of Historic Resources for African American cemeteries to be allocated on the bases of (i) the number of markers in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095) |
| VA | HB1514 | Pass | Deceased high school seniors; waiver of graduation requirements and award of posthumous high school diplomas. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to provide for the waiver of certain graduation requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007) |
| VA | HJR616 | Engross 50% | Commending Hsiao Bi-khim. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02 To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR798 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Juliette Carolyn Brooks Herring. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB1973 | Fail | Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp products. Establishes provisions for the registration of a retail facility for regulated hemp products, as defined in the bill, establishes pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25 Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB2208 | Fail | Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that as used in the Code of Virginia, "race," "religion," or "national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity; "racial, religious, or ethnic animosity" shall i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25 Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HJR722 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable William Kyle Barlow. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HR457 | Pass | Commending Michael Louis Chapman. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR455 | Pass | Commending Walter Cunningham. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR454 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Master Sergeant James Richard Phillips, USAF, Ret. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24 Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR493 | Pass | Commending Meaghan Gruber. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR807 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Lawrence Eason. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2253 | Engross 50% | Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes the 10-member Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Commonwealth in the legislative branch to identify and recommend legis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22 To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR679 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable James P. Massie III. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2259 | Engross 50% | Paternity; genetic tests to determine parentage; relief from paternity. Requires the court to set aside a final judgment, court order, administrative order, obligation to pay child support, or any legal determination of paternity if a scientifically ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1462 | Engross 50% | Criminal history record information check required for the transfer of certain firearms; photo identification. Removes the provision that prevents a firearms dealer from selling or otherwise transferring a firearm to a prospective purchaser until 30 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20 Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB2420 | Engross 50% | Nonresident concealed handgun permits. Provides that if the Department of State Police has not issued a nonresident concealed handgun permit nor determined that the applicant for such permit is disqualified within 90 days of receipt of the completed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2130 | Engross 50% | State Corporation Commission; renewable energy portfolio standard requirements; report. Provides that the State Corporation Commission may extend certain renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) requirement timelines if it finds compliance with such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1379 | Engross 50% | Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials; graphic sexual content; parental opt out and request for review. Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to (... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1711 | Engross 50% | Parental access to minor's medical records. Prohibits denial of parental access to the medical records of such parent's minor child, unless federal law requires the minor child's consent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB2495 | Engross 50% | Establishment of Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Program. Establishes the Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of assisting local school divisions to implement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jay T. Braxton. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB1816 | Engross 50% | Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |