Virginia Senator John Bell [D]

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VASR606PassCommending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University women's basketball team.
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2023-09-06
Bill text as passed Senate (SR606ER)
VASJR231PassConstitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action t...
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2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739)
VASB1491PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; construction management; contract requirements. Excludes construction management contracts involving infrastructure projects from the requirement that no more than 10 percent of the construction work be performed by t...
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2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727)
VASB825PassPublic schools; background checks; Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. Provides that the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is deemed a governmental entity for the purpose of receiving from the Central Crimina...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670)
VASB1014PassRestrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreat...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642)
VASB1313PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; private contracts; payment of subcontractors. Clarifies certain definitions throughout the Code for consistency between public and private construction contracts. The bill updates the notice required when a general co...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676)
VASB1415PassOpioid impact reduction. Allows any person to possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal other than naloxone in an injectable formulation with a hypodermic needle or syringe in accordance with protocols deve...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631)
VASB915PassState parks; Virginia National Guard Passport established; free entry and parking. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to establish a Virginia National Guard Passport that authorizes a member of the Virginia National Guard to enter ...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648)
VASB1082PassDepartment of Veterans Services; post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury treatments; data collection. Allows the Department of Veterans Services to contract with any hyperbaric clinic providing medical-grade 100 percent oxygen in U.S...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545)
VASB955PassPublic institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard. Provides that public institutions of higher education may enter into special arrangement contracts with the Virginia Department of Military Affairs for the purpose of p...
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2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638)
VASB824PassSubstance Abuse Services Council; name change; membership. Renames the Substance Abuse Services Council as the Virginia Addiction Recovery Council and increases from 29 to 32 the membership of the Council by adding two members representing the proble...
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2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)
VASB1276PassAutopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, o...
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2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478)
VASB891PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits. Increases from 15 to 30 days the additional time period that a landlord has to provide a tenant with an itemization of damages to the premises and the cost of repair when such damages e...
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2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434)
VASB1072PassPublic schools; codes of student conduct; policies and procedures prohibiting bullying; parental notification. Requires each local school board to require the principal of each public school or his designee to notify the parent of any student who is ...
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2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297)
VASB826PassBoard of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus security department. Authorizes the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish and maintain a campus security dep...
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2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428)
VASB1249PassInternet ticketing platforms and resellers; deceptive trade practices. Prohibits an Internet ticketing platform or reseller, as defined in the bill, from using or displaying any trademarked or copyrighted URL or other mark or symbol of an operator, a...
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2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305)
VASB924PassBurial fees for military spouses. Provides that, from such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise received for such purpose, the Commonwealth shall pay any burial fee for (i) a member of the National Guard and Reserve or (ii) a deceased spouse of ...
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2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367)
VASB1071PassDepartment of Veterans Services; mental health and rehabilitative services; Military Spouse Liaison. Adds military service members transitioning from military to civilian life to the list of persons supported by the program for mental health and reha...
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2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)
VASB1024PassVirginia Public Records Act; confidentiality of certain archived records. Provides that medical and educational records made confidential by law shall remain so after being archived by The Library of Virginia.
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2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127)
VASB1424PassDepartment of Corrections; possession and administration of naloxone. Adds employees of the Department of Corrections designated by the Director of the Department to the list of persons who are authorized to possess and administer naloxone or other o...
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2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116)
VASJR415PassCelebrating the life of Brody Alexander Watson.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ415ER)
VASJR418PassCommending Jamael Orondé Barber.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ418ER)
VASJR416PassCelebrating the life of Elizabeth Lewis Beamer.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ416ER)
VASJR411PassCelebrating the life of D'Sean Emir Perry.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ411ER)
VASJR412PassCelebrating the life of Lavel Tyler Davis, Jr.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ412ER)
VASJR413PassCelebrating the life of Devin Keith Chandler.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ413ER)
VASJR421PassCelebrating the life of Catherine Cummings Rennolds.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ421ER)
VASR185PassCelebrating the life of Colonel Alfonso Victor Pe%F1a, USA, Ret.
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2023-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR185ER)
VASR131PassCommending the Honorable Judith Williams Jagdmann.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR131ER)
VASR156PassCelebrating the life of Edward Morris Levine.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR156ER)
VASR152PassCommending Commonwealth Catholic Charities.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR152ER)
VASR135PassCommending Edward D. Martirosian, MD.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR135ER)
VASR166PassCommending Michael Louis Chapman.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR166ER)
VASR173PassCelebrating the life of Wanda Fay Slemp.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR173ER)
VASR174PassCommending Matthew McClung.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR174ER)
VASR168PassCommending Donald Houston.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR168ER)
VASR167PassCommending Donald L. Wells.
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2023-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR167ER)
VASJR390PassCelebrating the life of Juliette Carolyn Brooks Herring.
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2023-02-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ390ER)
VASJR230Engross

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Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; hate crimes and bias-motivated acts directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the increase in hate crimes and bias-motivated acts direct...
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2023-02-22
To House Rules Committee
VASB783Engross

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Issuance of a restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may...
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2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB957Engross

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Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Fund 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 ...
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2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee
VASB1139Engross

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Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor under 18 years of age or a person who is prohibited by law from possessing a firearm...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB852Engross

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Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited; definition. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing ...
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2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB901Engross

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Firearm 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, unless the vehicle is locked. The bill provides that any person violating such ...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB1167Engross

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Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill requires any firearm industry member that sells, manufac...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB1181Engross

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Sale, transfer, or purchase of unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, for any person to knowingly sell, offer to se...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB1192Engross

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Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB909Engross

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Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
VASB1067Engross

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Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate shall consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issu...
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2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB1382Engross

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Purchase, possession, 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, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
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2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee
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