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VASB1VetoMinimum 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB696VetoModification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB80VetoDecreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB357VetoAssault and battery; affirmative defense; penalty. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery of certain specified individuals for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six month mandatory minim...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB626Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB710Enroll
75%
Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB393VetoMEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosur...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB2VetoPurchase, 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...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB44PassAbuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB368VetoStorage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB447VetoFirearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB383VetoCarrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB491VetoFirearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB69VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police, po...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB370VetoProhibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB16Enroll
75%
Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB15Enroll
75%
Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB101Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB14Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB11Enroll
75%
Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB158Enroll
75%
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; technical advisory committee; appointments. Provides that six members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority's technical advisory committee are appointed by the Authority rather than appointed by...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB157Enroll
75%
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisem...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB237Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB373Enroll
75%
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB405Enroll
75%
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB411Enroll
75%
Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities, consisting of legislat...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB412Enroll
75%
Rabies clinics; animal vaccination and microchip services. Allows rabies clinics approved by local health departments and governing bodies to offer microchipping and additional animal health vaccines at the discretion of the licensed veterinarian or ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB93Enroll
75%
Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB232Enroll
75%
Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB456Enroll
75%
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector Ge...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB469Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB119Enroll
75%
Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB306Enroll
75%
Invasive plant species; retail sales; civil penalty. Requires, for the retail sale of any invasive plant species for outdoor use on a list established by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous m...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB713Enroll
75%
Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB547Enroll
75%
Law-enforcement training; individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum and in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers on communicating with individuals...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB246Enroll
75%
Limited-duration licenses and driver privilege cards and permits; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials and commercial dri...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB565Enroll
75%
Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB433Enroll
75%
Board of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB274Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB238Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-03-09
Passed by for the day
VASB235VetoPolicies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
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2024-03-09
Passed by for the day
VASB159PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredit...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
VASB28Engross
50%
School boards; powers and duties; policies regarding cell phones and other handheld communication devices. Permits each school board to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the possession or use of cell phones and other handheld communication d...
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2024-03-06
To House Education Committee
VASB280Engross
50%
Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
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2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB311Engross
50%
Board of Medical Assistance Services; investigate violence prevention services benefit programs. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to (i) investigate violence prevention services benefits in other states, including evidenc...
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2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VASB377Engross
50%
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca...
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2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB427Engross
50%
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
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2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB79Engross
50%
Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater...
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2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VASB229Engross
50%
Health Commissioner; workgroup; recommendations on Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention. Directs the State Health Commissioner to establish a work group to examine the feasibility of and make recommendations for t...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee
VASB374Intro
25%
Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
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