| VA | HB1161 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures for buyer to beware; lead pipes. Adds to the disclosure statement required to be furnished by the owner of residential real property to a buyer that the buyer beware and exercise nece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 520 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB617 | Pass | Workers' compensation; repetitive motion injuries. Directs the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to engage an independent and reputable national research organization to examine the implications of covering workers' injuries caused by repetit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 549 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB703 | Pass | School meal debt; donations. Permits any school board to solicit and receive any donation or other funds for the purpose of eliminating or offsetting any school meal debt at any time and requires each school board to use any such funds solely for suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB690 | Pass | TANF; family cap. Repeals the prohibition on increasing the amount of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that a family receives upon the birth of a child during the period of TANF eligibility or during the period in which the family or ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 550 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1622 | Pass | Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; acquisition of interests in property. Authorizes the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, in administering the Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund, to provide grants to persons conveying to the Foundation fee s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 567 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB698 | Pass | School boards; distribution of excess food. Allows public school boards to distribute excess food to students eligible for the School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 574 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB198 | Pass | Recounts; special election to be held in the case of a tie vote. Provides that if, after a recount of an election, the recount court finds that each party to the recount has received an equal number of votes, there shall be a special election to dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1164 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; policy statement. Adds provisions for addressing climate change and for the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, faith, disability, or income with res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 492 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1136 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; Hazardous Waste Site Inventory. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to compile and maintain a Hazardous Waste Site Inventory, consisting of a list of sites permitted by or in corrective action under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 491 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB6 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB697 | Pass | School meal policies. Requires each local school board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employees from requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to throw away or discard a meal after it has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 509 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB783 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 498 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB854 | Pass | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development and Virginia Housing and Development Authority; ways to incentivize the development of affordable housing in the Commonwealth of Virginia; report. Requests the Department of Housing and Community...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 482 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1174 | Pass | Professional use by practitioners; administration of inhaled asthma medication. Provides that, pursuant to an order or standing protocol issued by the prescriber within the course of his professional practice, any school nurse, school board employee,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 460 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1162 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; environmental justice. Provides that one of the purposes of the Department of Environmental Quality is to further environmental justice, as defined in the bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 454 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB665 | Pass | Electrical transmission lines; effect on historic resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), prior to approving the construction of any electrical transmission lines of 138 kilovolts or more, to determine that the corridor or route c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 450 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB264 | Pass | Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or Nationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 390 (effective 1/1/21) |
| VA | HB520 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; tree planting as land cover type, best management practice; stakeholder advisory group. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to convene a stakeholder advisory group for the purpose of studying the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 405 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB590 | Pass | Tax credit for participating landlords; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for the housing choice voucher tax credit to include Virginia census tracts in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 430 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB99 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; victims of family abuse; evidence to mitigate low credit score; damages. Allows an applicant for a lease to recover actual damages, including all amounts paid to the landlord as an application fee, application deposit, or reimbur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 388 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB160 | Pass | Special license plate bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE; revenue-sharing provisions. Provides that the special license plate bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE will remain nonrevenue-sharing. Current law provides that such special license plate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 426 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB108 | Pass | Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1150 | Enroll | Inquiry and report of immigration status; persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes. Provides that the provisions requiring (i) jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmate taken into custody at a jail, (ii) officers in charge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1184 | Enroll | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB913 | Enroll | Institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; immunity from disciplinary action; certain students who make reports. Requires the governing board of each nonprofit private institution of higher education and each public institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1196 | Enroll | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1526 | Enroll | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB2 | Enroll | Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1552 | Enroll | Tethering animals; adequate shelter and space. Provides that the outdoor tethering of an animal does not meet the requirement of adequate shelter during a hurricane warning or tropical storm warning or if the animal is not safe from predators or well...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1269 | Enroll | Veterans Services Foundation. Provides that the board of trustees of the Veterans Services Foundation may be assisted in the administration of the Foundation by volunteers and staff members employed by the Executive Director. The bill also (i) adds a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1211 | Enroll | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources or been claimed as a dependent on an individual tax return fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB582 | Enroll | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB19 | Enroll | Voter identification; repeal of photo identification requirements; additional forms of identification accepted; signed statement in lieu of required form of identification; penalty. Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1537 | Enroll | Memorials for war veterans. Provides that a locality may remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover any monument or memorial for war veterans on the locality's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB220 | Enroll | Absentee voting; postage prepaid on return envelope. Requires the envelope provided to an absentee voter for the return of the absentee ballot to include prepaid postage. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1499 | Enroll | Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Establishes the Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of supporting gun violence intervention a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB799 | Enroll | Child day programs; potable water; lead testing. Requires licensed child day programs and certain other programs that serve preschool-age children to develop and implement a plan to test potable water from sources identified by the U.S. Environmental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB861 | Enroll | Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat. Provides that any history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat that occurred no earlier than 10 years prior to the filing of a petition for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1424 | Enroll | American Revolution 250 Commission; report. Establishes the American Revolution 250 Commission to plan, develop, and perform programs and activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, and the indep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB201 | Enroll | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB534 | Enroll | Local disposable plastic bag tax. Authorizes any county or city, beginning no earlier than January 1, 2021, to impose a tax of five cents per bag on disposable plastic bags provided to consumers by certain retailers, with certain bags being exempt fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB785 | Enroll | Local tax authority. Modifies or eliminates several restrictions that apply to taxes imposed by counties, and establishes a new restriction on cigarette taxes imposed by any locality. The bill authorizes most counties to impose an admissions tax, not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1635 | Pass | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; labor organizations. Repeals enactments adopted in 2018 as part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) funding bills related to bidders, offers, contractors, and subcontractors to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 373 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB566 | Pass | Eligibility for food stamps and TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive food stamp benefits shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a drug-related felony. Under curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 361 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB270 | Pass | Public schools; lock-down drills; notice to parents. Requires every public school to provide the parents of enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the school conducts any lock-down drill. The bill specifies that no such notice is req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/20) |
| VA | HB1183 | Enroll | State Corporation Commission; bulk energy storage resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a task force to evaluate and analyze the potential for bulk energy storage resources to, among other things, help integrate renewable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB55 | Enroll | Worker cooperatives. Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. A worker cooperative is a stock corporation that has elected to be governed by provisions established by this measure, which include (i) conducting its bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB789 | Enroll | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB56 | Enroll | Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| VA | HB1522 | Enroll | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
