| VA | HB1 | Veto | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1404 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; disparity study report. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 834 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB805 | Veto | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | 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 | 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
Enacted, Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB173 | Enroll
75% | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| 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 | HB624 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| 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 | HB398 | Veto | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | 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 | HB1458 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Interagency Resilience Management Team; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Amends certain provisions relating to the functions and du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 753 (effective - see bill) |
| 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 | HB1330 | Pass | Absentee voting; persons confined awaiting trial or for conviction of a misdemeanor. Provides that any registered voter who is confined while awaiting trial or for having been convicted of a misdemeanor may vote by absentee ballot and requires the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| VA | HB35 | Pass | Firearm safety device tax credit; definition of firearm safety device. Expands the definition of "firearm safety device" as it relates to the firearm safety device tax credit to include any device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| VA | HB234 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| VA | HB561 | Pass | Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety; school safety audits; list of items required to be reviewed. Requires the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to include specific technology systems in the list of items to be reviewed and evalua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| 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 | 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 | HB626 | Pass | Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| 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 | HJR280 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 | HB825 | Engross
50% | Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HJR396 | Pass | Commending Providence Baptist Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ396ER) |
| VA | HJR397 | Pass | Commending Janet V. Green.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ397ER) |
| 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 | HR341 | Pass | Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR387 | Pass | Commending Katelyn Deel.
[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 | HR420 | Pass | Commending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House (HR420ER) |
| VA | HJR305 | Pass | Commending the Lionsbridge Football Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ305ER) |
| 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) |
