| VA | HB187 | Enroll
75% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB1496 | Pass | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Requires all state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments to provide to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 614 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1146 | Pass | Department of Law; Address Confidentiality Program; victims of child abduction. Expands to victims of child abduction eligibility for the Address Confidentiality Program established by the Statewide Facilitator for Victims of Domestic Violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | HB18 | Pass | Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB155 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a bar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| VA | HB1513 | Pass | Active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty. Provides that the Adjutant General may maintain state active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty during the course of a state active-duty mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB1381 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB1138 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties. Renames the executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority as the chief executive officer of the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114) |
| VA | HB1139 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; land and utility ownership. Removes the number of acres and the instrument number of the quitclaim deed recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Hampton on June 14, 2013, in reference to the area that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| VA | HB1156 | Intro
25% | Real property tax; permanent and total disability; definition. Amends the definition of "permanently and totally disabled" for the purposes of real property tax exemptions to include those individuals who are blind or have uncorrectable vision loss t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1137 | Intro
25% | Virginia income tax subtractions; disability income. Allows an individual who claims an income tax subtraction for disability income to also claim an income tax deduction for taxpayers age 65 and older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1140 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid eligibility; asset limits. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) submit an amendment to the state plan for medical assistance services to remove or lower any asset limits rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1169 | Intro
25% | Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1142 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for physical therapy; outpatient visit limit. Prohibits (i) insurers proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1158 | Intro
25% | Administrative Process Act; executive branch agencies. Requires executive branch agencies to ensure that certain regulations and guidance documents under the Virginia Register Act and Administrative Process Act, as appropriate, are posted on the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1152 | Intro
25% | Teacher compensation; at or above national average; various annual salary adjustments. Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average for each step or level on a years of experience-based pay sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1155 | Intro
25% | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; electric vehicle battery suppliers; certification; penalty. Requires each supplier of electric vehicle batteries operating in the Commonwealth to certify under penalty of perjury to the Commissioner of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1153 | Engross
50% | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | HB1147 | Intro
25% | Threats to members of the General Assembly; obstruction of justice; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony to knowingly and willfully send, deliver or convey, or cause to be sent, delivered, or conveyed, to a current member of the General Assembly or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1145 | Intro
25% | Arrest, summons, etc., quotas; prohibition; civil penalty. Provides that any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers who implements a formal or informal quota for arrests made, summon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1148 | Engross
50% | School boards; employment of counsel. Clarifies that any school board, whether elected or appointed, may employ the attorney for the Commonwealth or other counsel to advise it concerning any legal matter or to represent it, any member thereof, or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (49-Y 50-N) |
| VA | HB1151 | Intro
25% | Marine Resources Commission; use of a photo monitoring system; Dandy Point Landing. Allows the Marine Resources Commission to place and operate a photo monitoring device, as defined in the bill, at Dandy Point Landing facility in the City of Hampton ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1300 | Intro
25% | "Occupational disease" definition.Clarifies that for the purpose of worker's compensation claims, an "occupational disease" does not include certain physical conditions resulting from repetitive and sustained physical stressors. "Occupational diseas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1141 | Intro
25% | 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 applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; legacy admissions prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from utilizing legacy admissions for any student applicant. The bill defines "legacy admissions" as any policy or practice whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1527 | Intro
25% | Electric vehicle charging equipment tax credit. Provides an income tax credit for the costs of installing electric vehicle charging equipment at a gas station. The credit shall extend for five years once claimed. For the first year of the credit, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1528 | Intro
25% | Celeste's Law; school boards; bathroom check policy required. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that requires an employee in each public elementary and secondary school, including any school resource officer or any school secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1308 | Intro
25% | Tangible personal property tax relief; rate of taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personal property tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB756 | Intro
25% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB44 | Intro
25% | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1149 | Intro
25% | Removal of elected and certain appointed local officers by courts; Governor. Allows the Governor to petition the circuit court to remove from office any local elected officer or local officer who has been appointed to fill a local elective office due...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1529 | Intro
25% | General registrars; term of office and exception from general early retirement provisions. Extends the term of office of general registrars from four years to eight years beginning on July 1, 2029, and extends the term of any general registrar servin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1530 | Intro
25% | Elections; administration; chief deputy and other deputy registrars. Requires that each locality have one chief deputy registrar. The bill requires any chief deputy registrar serving on a full-time basis to be paid not less than 60 percent of the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (18-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB859 | Intro
25% | Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1168 | Intro
25% | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; powers. Grants the Children's Ombudsman with regard to children receiving child-protective services, in foster care, or placed for adoption and children who may have died as a result of alleged abuse or neglect the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Tabled in Health and Human Services (14-Y 8-N) |
