| VA | HB285 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 806 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1415 | Pass | Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 835 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB34 | Pass | Contract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 800 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB603 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB611 | Pass | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional correctional facility to report to the State Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 813 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB578 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; fines. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the minimum amount and from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that any person, firm, or corporation shall be fined when convicted of a third or subsequent offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB257 | Pass | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 635 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB25 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 628 (effective 7/1/25) |
| VA | HB459 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 691 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB456 | Pass | City council salaries. Increases the statutory salary caps for members of city councils and requires a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance to set city council salaries. The bill also provides that the maximum salaries may be adjusted in any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 608 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1287 | Pass | Towing companies; local authority. Clarifies that the provisions of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8 to require towing companies that tow from the county, city, or town to a storage or release location outside of the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 653 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1345 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 657 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB827 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 644 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB321 | 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 (CHAP0380) |
| VA | HB1270 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation. Makes it a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to sell or offer for sale services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwelling without holding a mold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| VA | HB831 | Pass | Chief Medical Examiner; Maternal Mortality Review Team; work group; expansion plan; report. Directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Maternal Mortality Review Team to convene a work group to expand the work of the Maternal Mortality R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| VA | HB830 | Pass | Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| VA | HB100 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB18 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB238 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. Requires health insurers to provide coverage for examinations and laboratory tests related to colorectal cancer screening in accordance with the most recently published recommendations estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB269 | Pass | Board of Education; Provisional (Career Switcher) License; special education. Requires the Board of Education to amend its relevant regulation to permit any career switcher who seeks a teaching endorsement preK through grade 12, including any career ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183) |
| VA | HB832 | Pass | Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| VA | HB255 | Pass | Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| VA | HB131 | Pass | Department of Education; learning needs dashboard. Requires the Department of Education to continue to maintain until July 1, 2029, a learning needs dashboard that includes an interactive bar chart feature to compare annual pass rates and an interact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173) |
| VA | HB1381 | 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 (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB174 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| VA | HB48 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015) |
| VA | HJR365 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ365ER) |
| VA | HR281 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
VOTE: (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR406 | Pass | Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ406ER) |
| VA | HJR397 | Pass | Commending Janet V. Green.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ397ER) |
| VA | HR341 | Pass | Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR382 | Pass | Commending the Highland Springs High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR383 | Pass | Commending the Varina High School boys' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR386 | Pass | Commending ChildSavers-Memorial Child Guidance Clinic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR375 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR381 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dr. Estelle F. Braxton-Davis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR420 | Pass | Commending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR420ER) |
| VA | HR395 | Pass | Commending In My Humble Opinion Radio Show.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR433 | Pass | Commending Charlottesville Community Engagement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR433ER) |
| VA | HR432 | Pass | Commending The Cavalier Daily.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR432ER) |
| VA | HR430 | Pass | Commending Vinegar Hill Magazine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR430ER) |
| VA | HR437 | Pass | Commending Sandy Hausman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR437ER) |
| VA | HR434 | Pass | Commending Terri Allard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR434ER) |
| VA | HR431 | Pass | Commending Charlottesville Tomorrow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR431ER) |
| VA | HJR287 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ287ER) |
| VA | HJR384 | Pass | Commending Steve Nesmith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ384ER) |
| VA | HJR363 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ363ER) |
| VA | HJR362 | Pass | Commending the United Network for Organ Sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ362ER) |
| VA | HJR346 | Pass | Commending Julian C. Deck.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ346ER) |
