| VA | HB2113 | Pass | Sealing of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| VA | HB2031 | Pass | Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| VA | HB2168 | Pass | Illegal gambling; skill games; civil penalty; enforcement by localities and Attorney General. Provides that any person who conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| VA | HB2055 | Pass | Child support obligations; party's incarceration not deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment. Provides that a party's incarceration alone for 180 or more consecutive days shall not ordinarily be deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| VA | HB2038 | Pass | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; limitations. Limits the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation. The bill provides that if the court finds the basis of a viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| VA | HB1936 | Pass | Robbery; penalties. Creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of another person is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any person who co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| VA | HB2312 | Pass | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and imposes lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| VA | HB1890 | Pass | Elections; prohibited discrimination in voting and elections administration; required process for enacting certain covered practices; civil causes of action. Prohibits any voting qualification or any standard, practice, or procedure related to voting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | HB2167 | Pass | Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports; discretionary early consideration. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall set the release date for an inmate granted discretionary parole or conditional release no sooner than 30 business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| VA | HB2020 | Pass | Nomination of candidates for elected offices; restrictions on nomination method selected by political party. Provides that a method of nomination for elected office may not be selected if such method will have the practical effect of excluding partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| VA | HJR555 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| VA | HB2124 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19; emergency services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the U....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| VA | HB1928 | Pass | Historic resources; acquisition and lease of land. Authorizes the Department of Historic Resources and the Board of Historic Resources to undertake additional leasing and property acquisition activities related to battlefield properties, designated l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| VA | HB2072 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; recommendations for creation of Virginia Good Neighbor Next Door program. Requires the Virginia Housing Development Authority to report to the Governor, the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| VA | HB1895 | Pass | Fines and costs; accrual of interest; deferral or installment payment agreements. Provides that no interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction (i) for a period of 180 days followin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| VA | HB2208 | Pass | Department of General Services; removal of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., statue. Directs the Department of General Services to remove the statue of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., from Capitol Square. The bill directs the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) |
| VA | HB1993 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires state agencies to establish and maintain a comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan in coordination with the Governor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168) |
| VA | HB2233 | Pass | Orders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) |
| VA | HB1921 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting. Clarifies that any voter with a permanent physical disability, temporary physical disability, or injury is entitled to vote outside of the polling place. The bill further provides that during a declared...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| VA | HB1887 | Pass | Titling and registration of foreign market vehicles. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a negotiable title for a foreign market vehicle manufactured 25 or more years ago that does not comply with current federal safety requirements....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| VA | HB2216 | Pass | Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program. Renames the Virginia Missing Child with Autism Alert Program to the Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program and expands it to apply to any missing person with autism, regardless of age. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) |
| VA | HB2110 | Pass | Pretrial data collection. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111) |
| VA | HB2013 | Pass | School board policies; school meal debt; enforcement. Requires each school board to adopt a policy that prohibits the board from filing a lawsuit against a student or the student's parent because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106) |
| VA | HB1916 | Pass | Research and development tax credits. Provides that the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit shall be available against the bank franchise tax for taxable years beginning on and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047) |
| VA | HR606 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Ernest George Minns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR606ER) |
| VA | HR639 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Anna Mae Washington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR639ER) |
| VA | HR640 | Pass | Commending educators and school support staff in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR640ER) |
| VA | HR641 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Young Democrats Teen Caucus and the Teenage Republican Federation of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR641ER) |
| VA | HR634 | Pass | Commending long-term caregivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR634ER) |
| VA | HR618 | Pass | Commending Grant Holloway. Commending Grant Holloway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR618ER) |
| VA | HJR542 | Pass | Study; Department of Rail and Public Transportation; transit equity and modernization; report. Requests the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to conduct a two-year study of transit equity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with emphasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HR637 | Pass | Commending Matthew Savage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed House (HR637ER) |
| VA | HB1848 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of disability. Adds discrimination on the basis of disability as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill also requires employers, defined in the bill, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| VA | HR535 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Michael Wilson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Bill text as passed House (HR535ER) |
| VA | HR544 | Pass | Commending John E. Smith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Bill text as passed House (HR544ER) |
| VA | HJR538 | Pass | Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right. Access to water; human right. Recognizing that access to clean, potable, and affordable water is a necessary human right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 33-N) |
| VA | HJR606 | Pass | Equal Citizens Month. Designates November, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Equal Citizens Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR605 | Pass | Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day. Designating March 14, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Victims of COVID-19 Remembrance Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR525 | Pass | National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol; Barbara Rose Johns. Authorizes, and directs the submission to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, that the vacant spot of the Commonwealth in the National Statuary Hall Colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR537 | Pass | Racism; public health crisis. Recognizes that racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2056 | Engross
Sine Die | Status offenders; willful and material violation of court order or terms of probation; notice; orders of disposition for violation. Removes the option for a court to order that a status offender be detained in a secure facility for a willful and mate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| VA | HJR522 | Pass | Study; staffing levels, employment conditions, and compensation at the Virginia Department of Corrections; report. Continues the joint committee of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions; the House Committee on Public Safety; the Sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ522ER) |
| VA | HR509 | Pass | Commending supermarket employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Bill text as passed House (HR509ER) |
| VA | HJR689 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jamile J. Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ689ER) |
| VA | HJR736 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Josephine Johnson Bigger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ736ER) |
| VA | HJR733 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Willie Woodson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ733ER) |
| VA | HJR729 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Willie Makently Andrews.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ729ER) |
| VA | HJR724 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Tony E. Colden, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ724ER) |
| VA | HJR675 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ675ER) |
| VA | HJR734 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thelonius Leander Wood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ734ER) |
