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VASB942Engross
50%
Retail sales and use tax; aircraft components. Extends the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any aircraft's avionics system, engine, or comp...
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2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N)
VASB1278Engross
50%
Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement; bimonthly meetings. Requires the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement to meet every other month beginning in July 2025 until the 2025 annual report is provided to the Governor and the General As...
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2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
VASB746Engross
50%
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
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2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (34-Y 3-N)
VASB945Engross
50%
Campaign finance; appeal of penalties. Provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. Upon petition, the State Board of Elections may provide relief to the petiti...
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2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB945)
VASB1371Engross
50%
Gift certificates; fees; expiration. Prohibits the imposition of a dormancy fee, an inactivity charge or fee, or a service fee with respect to a gift certificate, unless certain requirements of the bill are met. The bill also prohibits the sale or is...
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2025-02-19
Passed House (63-Y 33-N)
VASB941Engross
50%
Robbery; air or gas operated weapon, etc.; penalty. Expands the crime of Class 3 felony robbery to include robbery committed by any person by using or displaying any air or gas operated weapon or any object similar in appearance to a firearm, whether...
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2025-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee
VASJR280Engross
50%
The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
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2025-02-17
Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N)
VASB636Engross
50%
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available...
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2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB302Engross
50%
Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides t...
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2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee
VASJR127Engross

Sine Die
Encouraging the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth. Encourages the Commonwealth of Virginia to take all practical steps to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth, regionally, and nationally.
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2024-03-09
To House Rules Committee
VASB302Engross

Sine Die
Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides tha...
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2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB636Engross

Sine Die
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available ...
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2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB1234Engross

Sine Die
Transcranial magnetic stimulation; pilot program. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation available for veterans, fir...
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2023-02-15
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VASB1201Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Retirement System and State Police Officers' Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service...
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2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (14-Y 6-N)
VASB528Engross

Sine Die
Income tax; military benefits subtraction. Provides an individual income tax subtraction for up to $5,000 of military benefits in taxable year 2022, up to $10,000 in taxable year 2023, up to $15,000 in taxable year 2024, and up to $20,000 in taxable ...
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2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455
VASB451Engross

Sine Die
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides a state sales and use tax exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill would also ...
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2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455
VASB289Engross

Sine Die
Workers' compensation; anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that an anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, as both are defined in the bill, incurred by a law-enforcement officer or ...
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2022-03-08
To House Commerce and Energy Committee
VASB27Engross

Sine Die
Income tax credits; Neighborhood Assistance Program and Education Improvement Scholarships. Makes several amendments to expand the availability of the Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits (EISTC). T...
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2022-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VASJR322Engross

Sine Die
Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of...
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2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VASB1104Engross

Sine Die
Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall release a prisoner no sooner than 21 business days after the date of notification by the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to the appropriate attorne...
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2021-03-01
Failed to pass
VASB1367Engross

Sine Die
Line of Duty Act; requiring licensed health practitioners to conduct medical reviews. Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act, the Virginia Retirement System shall require that such rev...
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2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB1103Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB1153Engross

Sine Die
Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigne...
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2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VASB1341Engross

Sine Die
Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons. Provides that a licensed insurer may issue a policy of group accident and sickness insurance to an association of real estate salespersons (association), which association shall ...
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2021-03-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VASB1125Engross

Sine Die
Parole Board; notice to victim. Requires the Parole Board, within seven days of making any decision regarding the parole of a prisoner, to provide written or electronic notice of such decision to the victim of the crime for which the prisoner was inc...
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2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB1322Engross

Sine Die
Public schools; seizure management and action plans; biennial training. Provides for the submission and utilization of seizure management and action plans for students with a diagnosed seizure disorder. The bill requires that school nurses and certai...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
VASB1295Engross

Sine Die
Electric utilities; procurement. Requires a utility, in the construction of certain onshore wind, solar, and energy storage facilities, to procure, subject to a competitive process, equipment from a Virginia-based or United States-based manufacturer ...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote
VASB1213Engross

Sine Die
Driver's license suspensions; restricted licenses; drug offenses. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue restricted driving credentials to individuals with driver's license suspensions resulting from drug-related offenses.
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
VASB1153Engross

Sine Die
Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigne...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
VASB1303Engross

Sine Die
Local school divisions; virtual and in-person learning. Requires each local school division to make virtual and in-person learning available to all students by choice of the student's parent or guardian. Local school divisions; virtual and in-person...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
VASB1103Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
VASB1104Engross

Sine Die
Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall release a prisoner no sooner than 21 business days after the date of notification by the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to the appropriate attorne...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
VASB1299Engross

Sine Die
Alcoholic beverage control; sale and delivery of mixed beverages and pre-mixed wine for off-premises consumption. Allows distillers that have been appointed as agents of the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Au...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote
VASB1125Engross

Sine Die
Parole Board; notice to victim. Requires the Parole Board, within seven days of making any decision regarding the parole of a prisoner, to provide written or electronic notice of such decision to the victim of the crime for which the prisoner was inc...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
VASB1130Engross

Sine Die
Personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle of a disabled veteran. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability shall be exempt from local taxes. This bill is the enabling le...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote
VASJR322Engross

Sine Die
Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
VASJR333Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Frederick Cameron.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASB1119Engross

Sine Die
Law-enforcement agencies; body-worn camera systems. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Body-Worn Camera System Fund to assist state or local law-enforcement agencies with the costs of purchasing, operating, and maintaining body-wo...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote
VASJR334Engross

Sine Die
Commending Major Wayne R. Lee, Jr., USA, Ret.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR338Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Jane Carey Gardner.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASJR364Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Stephen Johnson.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASJR363Engross

Sine Die
Commending Steven R. Cover.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR392Engross

Sine Die
Commending Darnell Dozier.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR348Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Michael Wayne Woods.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASJR370Engross

Sine Die
Commending Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASB1341Engross

Sine Die
Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons. Provides that a licensed insurer may issue a policy of group accident and sickness insurance to an association of real estate salespersons (association), which association shall ...
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2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote
VASJR378Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robert Lathan Calhoun.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASJR393Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robert S. Bloxom, Sr.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASJR377Engross

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Officer Brian David Sicknick.
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2021-02-08
Agreed to by House
VASB1367Engross

Sine Die
Line of Duty Act; requiring licensed health practitioners to conduct medical reviews. Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act, the Virginia Retirement System shall require that such rev...
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2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote
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