| VA | SB6012 | 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 (CHAP0003) |
| VA | SB6010 | Intro
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] | 2024-06-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6006 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB6003 | Intro
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| VA | SB102 | Pass | Wills and trusts; tangible personal property; nonexoneration. Provides that if a trust instrument that was revocable, as defined in relevant law, immediately before the settlor's death refers to a written statement or list of items of tangible person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| VA | SB17 | Pass | Motor sports facilities; local incentives. Allows a locality that is home to a motor sports facility, as defined in relevant law, in the Commonwealth to propose local incentives that address the economic conditions within such locality and will help ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| VA | SB214 | Pass | Service of garnishment summons upon corporation, limited liability company, etc.; garnishment designee. Requires a summons for garnishment against a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, financial institution, or other entity a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| VA | SB469 | Pass | Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| VA | SB7 | 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 (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB112 | Pass | Charter; City of Colonial Heights. Amends the charter of the City of Colonial Heights by updating language related to the duties of the City Manager and City Attorney, including elimination of the City Attorney's duties to the school board and school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) |
| 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 | SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited acquisition of residential land; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any partnership, corporation, or real estate investment trust that manages funds pooled from investors, is a fiduciary to such investors, and has $50 million or more i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB693 | Intro
Prefile | Prohibited acquisition of residential land; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any partnership, corporation, or real estate investment trust that manages funds pooled from investors, is a fiduciary to such investors, and has $50 million or more i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle sales and use tax; exemptions; transfers; limited liability companies. Provides that no motor vehicle sales and use tax shall be imposed on vehicle transfers from (i) an individual, partnership, or limited liability company to a corpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Local review of zoning decisions. Clarifies that a locality may schedule regular reviews of previous zoning decisions in order to determine whether provisions of the zoning ordinance (i) continue to meet the general purpose of promoting the health, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; denial of referral by direct primary care provider prohibited. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from (i) denying payment for any health care service covered under an enrollee's health benefit plan based solely on the basis that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB735 | Intro
Prefile | Health insurance; denial of referral by direct primary care provider prohibited. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from (i) denying payment for any health care service covered under an enrollee's health benefit plan based solely on the basis that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB219 | Intro
Prefile | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | E-Verify program. Requires every employer to enroll in the E-Verify program by January 1, 2025, and to use the program for each newly hired employee who is to perform work within the Commonwealth. Under current law, only state agencies and certain em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; board of directors membership; powers and duties; capital projects; issuance of bonds. Provides for a number of reforms related to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. Authorizes the State Board for Community Colleges, subject to approval and certification by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia of a proposa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign adversaries; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any foreign adversary or foreign business, as those terms are defined in the bill, from acquiring any interest in land in the Commonwealth and requires registration with the Secretary of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; offenses against the sovereignty of the Commonwealth; unfaithful delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States; penalties. Provides that a delegate or interim delegate to a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; intergovernmental affairs; delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States. Provides for the selection by the General Assembly of delegates to attend a convention for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning ordinances; adequate public facilities. Allows a locality to determine the timing of development by considering the adequacy of public facilities when making zoning decisions. The bill provides that a locality that makes a determination of ina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 2-N) |
| VA | SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) |
