| VA | HB2113 | Pass | Sealing of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 542 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2312 | Pass | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and imposes lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 551 |
| VA | HB1890 | Pass | Elections; prohibited discrimination in voting and elections administration; required process for enacting certain covered practices; civil causes of action. Prohibits any voting qualification or any standard, practice, or procedure related to voting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 533 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2326 | Pass | Regulation of child-care services in localities. Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulation of child-care services that is currently available to certain Northern Virginia localities. This will have the effect of granting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| VA | HB1985 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| VA | HB1888 | Pass | Absentee voting; procedural and process reforms; availability and accessibility reforms; penalty. Makes various reforms to absentee voting processes and procedures, including those related to availability and accessibility. The bill requires certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| VA | HB1903 | Pass | Local government authority; reduction of speed limits. Authorizes local governing bodies to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, in a business district or residence district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| VA | HB2203 | Pass | Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| VA | HB1993 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires state agencies to establish and maintain a comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan in coordination with the Governor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168) |
| VA | HB1968 | Pass | Absentee voting; early in person; availability on Sundays. Permits the electoral board or general registrar of a county or city to provide absentee voting in person in the office of the general registrar or voter satellite office on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| VA | HB2284 | Pass | Reinstatement of certain driving privileges. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to reinstate driving privileges, and to waive fees related to the reinstatement, for individuals whose privileges were suspended prior to July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| VA | HB1921 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting. Clarifies that any voter with a permanent physical disability, temporary physical disability, or injury is entitled to vote outside of the polling place. The bill further provides that during a declared...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| VA | HB2046 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| VA | HB2216 | Pass | Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program. Renames the Virginia Missing Child with Autism Alert Program to the Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program and expands it to apply to any missing person with autism, regardless of age. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) |
| VA | HB2206 | Pass | Child Care Subsidy Program; emergency. Provides that regulations governing the Child Care Subsidy Program (the Program) shall be amended to provide that (i) a family shall be eligible for assistance through the Program if the family's income does not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0171) |
| VA | HB1778 | Pass | Removal of clutter from property; civil penalty. Provides that a locality may by ordinance require the removal of clutter from property, except on land zoned for or in active farming operation, or may, whenever the governing body deems it necessary, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125) |
| VA | HB1965 | Pass | State Air Pollution Control Board; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board to implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| VA | HB2123 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; certain students; financial assistance programs. Provides that students who meet the criteria to be deemed eligible for in-state tuition regardless of their citizenship or immigration status shall be afforded ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107) |
| VA | HB2042 | Pass | Replacement and conservation of trees during development; work group. Gives a locality the ability to exceed general requirements in its tree replacement and conservation ordinances in specific circumstances, including development that impacts stormw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| VA | HB1845 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; license fee reform; delay; emergency. Delays the effective date of the 2020 alcoholic beverage control license and fee reform from July 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022. During the period of delay and subject to certain require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| VA | HB2288 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; requirement to submit list of subcontractors. Requires bidders or offerors on contracts for construction of $250,000 or more to submit along with their bid or proposal a list of all subcontract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| VA | HR639 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Anna Mae Washington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR640 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending educators and school support staff in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR594 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR622 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Officer Howard Charles Liebengood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR628 | Engross
Sine Die | Commemorating the life and legacy of Giles Beecher Jackson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR634 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending long-term caregivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR618 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Grant Holloway. Commending Grant Holloway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR569 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the 100 Black Men of the Virginia Peninsula, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR560 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Roger Allan Saunders, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR544 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending John E. Smith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR572 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Grace Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR538 | Pass | Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right. Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 33-N) |
| VA | HJR605 | Pass | Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day. Designating March 14, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR537 | Pass | Racism; public health crisis. Recognizes that racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2291 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1859 | Enroll
Sine Die | Local financing of clean energy and other programs; when owner costs are incurred. Changes the parameters for local ordinances authorizing loan contracts for the installation by property owners of clean energy, resiliency, or stormwater management im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1859ER) |
| VA | HB2333 | Enroll
Sine Die | Facilitate the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine; emergency. Facilitates the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. The bill requires the Department of Health (the Department) to establish a program to enable eligible health care providers to v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2333ER) |
| VA | HB2284 | Engross
Sine Die | Reinstatement of certain driving privileges. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to reinstate driving privileges, and to waive fees related to the reinstatement, for individuals whose privileges were suspended prior to July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2288 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; requirement to submit list of subcontractors. Requires bidders or offerors on contracts for construction of $250,000 or more to submit along with their bid or proposal a list of all subcontract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1968 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; early in person; availability on Sundays. Permits the electoral board or general registrar of a county or city to provide absentee voting in person in the office of the general registrar or voter satellite office on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1903 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government authority; reduction of speed limits. Authorizes local governing bodies to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, in a business district or residence district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1845 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; license fee reform; delay; emergency. Delays the effective date of the 2020 alcoholic beverage control license and fee reform from July 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022. During the period of delay and subject to certain require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia housing opportunity tax credit. Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunity tax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2291 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2326 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of child-care services in localities. Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulation of child-care services that is currently available to certain Northern Virginia localities. This will have the effect of granting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR605 | Engross
Sine Die | Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day. Designating March 14, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR537 | Engross
Sine Die | Racism; public health crisis. Recognizes that racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR538 | Engross
Sine Die | Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right. Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
