| VA | HB6004 | Pass | General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $90 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | HB6003 | Engross
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB597 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB187 | Veto | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB819 | Veto | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB568 | Veto | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB609 | Veto | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB624 | Veto | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB938 | Veto | Unemployment insurance; benefit eligibility conditions; lockout exception to labor dispute disqualification. Amends the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act's labor dispute disqualification to provide that a lockout by an employer shall not constit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB157 | Veto | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| VA | HB466 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB385 | Veto | Railroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1098 | Veto | Unpaid family bereavement leave; required; remedies. 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-month period to (i) atte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| VA | HB2 | 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 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB351 | Veto | Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB362 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB570 | 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 House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB933 | Pass | Alzheimer's disease and dementia training for dispatchers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel. Requires certain agencies in the Commonwealth to develop curricula and provide training related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia to dispatche... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| VA | HB102 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| VA | HB1269 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| VA | HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| VA | HB1361 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| VA | HB937 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| VA | HB935 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for doula care services. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for obstetrical services t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| 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 | HB928 | Pass | Interference with commercial fishing vessels or activity; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally interferes with or impedes the operation or commercial fishing activity, defined in the bill, of a commerc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| VA | HB1392 | Pass | Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be cove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| VA | HB980 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; on-campus mental and behavioral health support. Requires each public institution of higher education and nonprofit priva... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| 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 | HB607 | Pass | Virginia Commission to End Hunger established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission to End Hunger. The bill states that the purpose of the Commission is to develop an action plan every two years for ending hunger in the Commonwealth, review th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| VA | HB407 | Pass | Child Care Subsidy Program; categorical eligibility for certain families. Provides that any family that receives public assistance through Medicaid or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children shall be deemed to cate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| 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 | HB583 | Pass | Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the shar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| 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 | HB281 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) |
| 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 | HB719 | Pass | Public high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or hea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| VA | HB139 | Fail | Prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure works by public service companies. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to determine and make available the prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure work. Under the bill, each pub... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility to allow a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns an interest in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1216 | Engross
Sine Die | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB934 | Pass | Small claims court; representation of certain entities. Adds limited liability companies and other legal or commercial entities to those parties that may have representation by an owner, a general partner, an officer, a member, or an employee of such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| 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 | HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1284 | Engross
Prefile | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1483 | Engross
Sine Die | Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment or according to instructions sent with such payment. The bill also states that a city's director of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |