| VA | HJR1 | Intro | Constitution of the United States; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-18
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB4003 | Intro | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4005 | Intro | Control of firearms by localities. Grants localities authority to adopt or enforce an ordinance, resolution, or motion, governing the possession, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4004 | Intro | Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and makes such an offense a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4011 | Intro | Reporting lost or stolen firearms; civil penalty. Requires that, if a firearm is lost or stolen from a person who lawfully possessed it, such person shall report the loss or theft of the firearm to any local law-enforcement agency or the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4009 | Intro | Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Prohibits any person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) from knowingly possessing a firearm wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4021 | Intro | Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, certain firearm magazines, trigger activators, and silencers; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4015 | Intro | Firearm transfers; criminal history record information Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB4006 | Intro | Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB2263 | Pass | Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; breach of procedures. Provides that any evidence gathered through the conduct of an interrogation that violates the provisions of the Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| VA | HB2141 | Pass | Local services districts; broadband and telecommunications services. Authorizes a local governing body, with respect to a service district, to contract with a nongovernmental broadband service provider who will construct, maintain, and own communicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| VA | HB2664 | Pass | Wage payment statements. Requires each employer to provide on each regular pay date a written statement, by a paystub or online accounting, that shows the name and address of the employer, the number of hours worked during the pay period, and the rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| VA | HB2717 | Pass | Virginia Driver's Manual course; computer-based mediums. Provides that the course on the Virginia Driver's Manual required for certain persons who have failed the driver knowledge examination three times may be conducted in a classroom or through a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| VA | HB2605 | Pass | Community corrections alternative program; establishment. Repeals the boot camp incarceration program, diversion center incarceration program, and detention center incarceration program established and maintained by the Department of Corrections and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| VA | HB2577 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in individuals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| VA | HB2170 | Pass | False caller identification information; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who, with the intent to defraud, intimidate, or harass, causes a telephone to ring and engages in conduct that results in the display of false caller iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| VA | HB2147 | Pass | Standards for Accreditation; review and corrective action. Aligns the state review process of underperforming schools and school divisions with the new Standards for Accreditation adopted by the Board of Education (Board). The bill requires the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| VA | HB2020 | Pass | Virginia Community College System; certain registered apprenticeships; uniform instruction. Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop and deliver uniform, related instruction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| VA | HB1997 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary school students; protective orders; notification. Requires any school principal who receives notice that a circuit court, general district court, juvenile and domestic relations court, or magistrate has issued a protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| VA | HB2474 | Pass | Medical assistance services; long-term care; eligibility; screening; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to report annually by August 1 to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| VA | HB2022 | Pass | Workers' compensation; filing of claim. Provides that if an employer has received notice of an accident resulting in compensable injury to an employee and the employer has paid compensation or wages to such employee during incapacity for work resulti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| VA | HB2005 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); eligibility. Makes eligible for TANF any person who is between the ages of 18 and 19 years old and a full-time student in a secondary school or in the equivalent level of career and technical education....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| VA | HB2037 | Pass | Teacher licensure; criteria; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to issue a license to an individual seeking initial licensure who has not completed the professional assessments prescribed by the Board, if such individual (i) holds a provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| VA | HB2126 | Pass | Health insurance; step therapy protocols. Requires carriers issuing health benefit plans that develop step therapy protocols for a health benefit plan to ensure that those step therapy protocols are (i) developed and endorsed by a multidisciplinary p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| VA | HB2681 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; City of Hampton. Adds seven cemeteries in Hampton to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African Ameri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| VA | HB1923 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; tenant's right to reasonable attorney fees. Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| VA | HB2384 | Pass | Public schools; tobacco products and nicotine vapor products. Requires each school board to (i) develop and implement a policy to prohibit the use and distribution of tobacco products and nicotine vapor products on a school bus, on school property, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| VA | HB2238 | Pass | Previously unidentified cemeteries. Adds the category of previously unidentified cemetery to the laws allowing for the removal of remains from graveyards or family cemeteries that have been abandoned or are unused and neglected by their owners. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195) |
| VA | HB2400 | Pass | School boards; School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; web-based application. Requires each local school board that collects information to determine eligibility for participation in the School Breakfast Program or the National Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | HB1674 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of incapacitated adults; informed consent. Clarifies, for the purposes of the exemptions to abuse and neglect of incapacitated adults, that the informed consent or a declaration of the incapacitated person must have been given when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| VA | HB2699 | Pass | Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; task force; membership. Adds five members to the task force established to assist the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in its work regarding the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| VA | HJR1079 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Christopher C. Carter, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1079ER) |
| VA | HJR1089 | Pass | Commending First Church of Newport News.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1089ER) |
| VA | HJR1139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Bradford Turner Clark.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1139ER) |
| VA | HJR1138 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Captain Anthony Reid Adams, USCG, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1138ER) |
| VA | HR416 | Pass | Commending Black women in the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR416ER) |
| VA | HR455 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joshua Wayne Bell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR455ER) |
| VA | HJR716 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Daun Sessoms Hester.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ716ER) |
| VA | HR397 | Pass | Commending Virginia Indians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR397ER) |
| VA | HJR599 | Pass | Commending the Washington Capitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ599ER) |
| VA | HJR630 | Pass | Silence Empowers Violence Break the Code Awareness-to-Action Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as Silence Empowers Violence Break the Code Awareness-to-Action Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ630ER) |
| VA | HJR617 | Pass | Year of Reconciliation and Civility. Designates 2019 as the Year of Reconciliation and Civility in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ617ER) |
| VA | HJR674 | Pass | Study; Department of Veterans Services and Department of Taxation; feasibility of exempting military retirement income from taxation; report. Requests the Department of Veterans Services and the Department of Taxation (the Agencies) to convene a join...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ674ER) |
| VA | HJR697 | Pass | Correctional Officers' Week. Designates the first full week of May, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as Correctional Officers' Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ697ER) |
| VA | HJR720 | Pass | World Refugee Day. Designates June 20, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as World Refugee Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ720ER) |
| VA | HJR966 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Technology Council Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ966ER) |
| VA | HJR967 | Pass | Commending Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ967ER) |
| VA | HJR759 | Pass | Commending Mikaeel Martinez Jaka.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ759ER) |
| VA | HJR760 | Pass | Commending the George Washington University School of Nursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ760ER) |
| VA | HJR948 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Annie Lee Farmer McGuire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ948ER) |
