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VAHB1125Enroll
75%
Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four p...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1108Enroll
75%
Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1088Enroll
75%
Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate cha...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1457Enroll
75%
Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Requires, for any Virginia investment performance grant award determination that includes a job creation requirement, an eligible manufacturer or research and dev...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB626Enroll
75%
Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1098Enroll
75%
Unpaid family bereavement Unpaid family bereavement leave; civil penalty. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with up to 10 days of unpaid family bereavement leave in any 12-mon...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1269Enroll
75%
Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB27Enroll
75%
Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB368Enroll
75%
Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisio...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB893Enroll
75%
Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB173Enroll
75%
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch...
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2024-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 24109222D-H2
VAHB1157Enroll
75%
Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB624Enroll
75%
Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB398Enroll
75%
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB419Enroll
75%
Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1073Enroll
75%
Tow truck drivers; prohibited acts. Prohibits tow truck drivers from driving by the scene of a wrecked or disabled vehicle for which a law-enforcement tow has been initiated by a law-enforcement agency, initiating contact with the owner or operator o...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1116Enroll
75%
Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement; certain construction projects. Allows a public body to establish purchase procedures, if adopted in writing, not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1133Enroll
75%
Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan. Renames the Virginia College Savings Plan as the Commonwealth Savers Plan.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1071Enroll
75%
Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1080Enroll
75%
License suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation; period of suspension. Prohibits any license suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation from extending beyond 10 years from the date of convict...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1084Enroll
75%
Disabled parking placards; validity; fees. Extends from six months to 12 months the maximum duration for which the DMV may issue a temporary removable windshield placard to a person with a disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk or that...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1100Enroll
75%
Conservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1126Enroll
75%
Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; current Virginia members of Congress. Adds current Virginia members of the United States Senate or United States House of Representatives to the list of persons who may celebrate the rit...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1131Enroll
75%
Casino gaming; eligible host city. Removes the City of Richmond as an eligible host city for casino gaming establishments in the Commonwealth.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1082Enroll
75%
Enforcement of certain judgments; restricted license. Authorizes the court to order a restricted license to operate a motor vehicle to a judgment debtor who has had his driver's license suspended for failure to satisfy certain judgments.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB937Enroll
75%
Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from sch...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB25Enroll
75%
Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB157Enroll
75%
Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB100Enroll
75%
Child labor offenses; civil penalties. Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty for each violation of child labor laws that results in the employment of a child who is seriously injured or dies in the course of employment. The bill also in...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1365Enroll
75%
Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enroll...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB805Enroll
75%
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1455Enroll
75%
Virginia Center on Aging; Virginia Memory Project established. Establishes the Virginia Memory Project in the Virginia Center on Aging at Virginia Commonwealth University to collect and analyze data on Alzheimer's disease, related dementias, and othe...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1Enroll
75%
Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1085Enroll
75%
Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist t...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB985Enroll
75%
High polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pavement sealants; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale or distribution of any pavement sealant that contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations greater than one percent by weight on or after...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB234Enroll
75%
All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB819Enroll
75%
Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1069Enroll
75%
Liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products; certification and directory; penalties. Requires every manufacturer of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products that are sold for retail sale in the Commonwealth to certify to the Attorney General that (...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB698Enroll
75%
Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB18Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB78Enroll
75%
Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB609Enroll
75%
Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB912Enroll
75%
Stores and telephone systems in local correctional facilities; fees. Provides that the net profits from the operation of stores and telephonic communication systems in local correctional facilities shall be used within each facility respectively for ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB603Enroll
75%
Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB536Enroll
75%
Student bullying; definition; characteristics of victim. Adjusts the definition of "bullying" in the context of public education to specify that the real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim that is involved in ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB673Enroll
75%
Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in in low-income geographic areas and proje...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB187Enroll
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
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