| VA | SB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB15 | Veto | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB1 | Veto | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB14 | Veto | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB274 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB383 | Veto | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB273 | Veto | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB569 | Pass | State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; regulations; crisis receiving centers; appropriate and safe use of seclusion; work group; report. Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend its regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 795 (effective 4/17/24) |
| VA | SB584 | Veto | Department of General Services; General Services Board established; Chief Administrator. Establishes the General Services Board to oversee the Department of General Services and, among other duties, to appoint a Chief Administrator for the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB565 | Pass | Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 794 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB550 | Pass | 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 (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 793 (effective 7/1/25) |
| VA | SB373 | Veto | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | SB400 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 622 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB580 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; review and authorization of projects; hearing and appeal. Allows any person aggrieved by the final decision of the Department of Environmental Quality regarding the authorization of a project and who has participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 774 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB253 | Pass | Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 763 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| VA | SB566 | Pass | Trustees; settlement of accounts; notice and statements to beneficiaries; requirements. Provides that the beneficiary of a trust shall be deemed to have released a trustee and ratified all actions of a trustee for the administration of a trust if, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 600 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB710 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 606 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB574 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; behavioral health and crisis response services; civil admissions laws and processes; work group; report. Directs the Behavioral Health Commission to convene a work group to study how to effectively align current civil ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 601 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB600 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; partial termination of certain time-shares. Allows for the partial termination of a time-share project by a developer or an association and provides the procedures for any such partial termination. The bill also s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 602 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB649 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| VA | SB568 | Pass | Crisis stabilization services; facilities licensed by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; nursing homes; dispensing and administration of drugs; emergency. Permits facilities licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| VA | SB426 | Pass | Pari-mutuel wagering; historical horse racing; percentage retained for distribution. Provides that with respect to all authorized historical horse racing terminals, of the amount that a horse racing licensee retains from wagering on historical horse ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| VA | SB386 | Pass | Quarters for magistrates; certain minimum standards for security and accessibility. Establishes certain minimum standards for ensuring security and accessibility in quarters for magistrates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0237) |
| VA | SB585 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| VA | SB704 | 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 (CHAP0133) |
| VA | SB466 | Engross
50% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB427 | Engross
50% | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB590 | Engross
50% | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB374 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB643 | Engross
50% | Penalties for failure to appear; contempt. Provides that any person (i) charged with a felony offense or misdemeanor offense or (ii) convicted of a felony offense or misdemeanor offense and execution of sentence is suspended who willfully fails to ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Chair votes No |
| VA | SB346 | Intro
25% | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB567 | Intro
25% | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB633 | Intro
25% | Court fines and fees; indigent defendant; waiver of fees. Provides that in any criminal or traffic case, the court may waive the assessment of certain fees specified in the bill, either wholly or in part, if the court determines the defendant to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB578 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB656 | Intro
25% | Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, malicious activation of fire alarm, or false emergency communication to emergency personnel. Allows a locality that has an ordinance requiring any person over 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB551 | Intro
25% | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least two days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
