| VA | HB2295 | Pass | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to carry any firearm or explosive material within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 548 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB1999 | Pass | Tax Commissioner; waiver of accrual of interest in the event that the Governor declares a state of emergency; emergency. Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to waive interest for any class of taxpayers when he finds that imposing interest has caused, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 536 (effective 4/7/21) |
| VA | HB1962 | Pass | Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive ki...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2031 | Pass | Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2327 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirement to pay prevailing wage; transportation infrastructure projects. Clarifies, for purposes of the requirement under certain circumstances to pay the prevailing wage rate for work performed on public works con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 549 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2040 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; failure to respond; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Provides that when a claimant has had a determination of initial eligibility for unemployment benefits, as determined by the issuance of compensation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 539 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB2133 | Pass | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking. Establishes a procedure for victims of sex trafficking to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and court records expunged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Enacted, Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB1992 | Enroll
Sine Die | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery of a family or household member, as defined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 7, 2021 |
| VA | HB1864 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of employer; person employing one or more domestic workers. Expands the definition of "employer" for all purposes of the Virginia Human Rights Act to include a person employing one or more domestic workers, as de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| VA | HB2161 | Pass | Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's military status, defined as a member of the uniformed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| VA | HB1985 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| VA | HB2019 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers. Requires each local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| VA | HB1979 | Pass | Electric vehicle rebate program; creation and funding; report. Creates a rebate program for the purchase or lease of new and used electric vehicles, to be administered by the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. A purchaser or lessee of a new or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| VA | HB1888 | Pass | Absentee voting; procedural and process reforms; availability and accessibility reforms; penalty. Makes various reforms to absentee voting processes and procedures, including those related to availability and accessibility. The bill requires certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| VA | HB1811 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for energy-efficient and water-efficient goods. Provides that in the course of procuring goods, if a state agency receives two or more bids for products that are Energy Star certified, meet Federal Energy M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| VA | HB2004 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, relating to a criminal investigation or proceeding that is not ongoing, also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| VA | HB2001 | Pass | Building standards for certain state and local buildings. Requires that any executive branch agency or institution or locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size or the renova...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| VA | HB2081 | Pass | Polling places; prohibited activities; unlawful possession of a firearm; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly possessing a firearm within 40 feet of any building, or part thereof, used as a polling place, including one hour before and one hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| VA | HB2124 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19; emergency services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the U....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| VA | HB2132 | Pass | Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| VA | HB2075 | Pass | U.S. Route 1; "Emancipation Highway." Renames any section of U.S. Route 1 in Virginia that is designated as "Jefferson Davis Highway" to "Emancipation Highway." The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022. U.S. Route 1; "Emancipation Hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| VA | HB1818 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for salaried or volunteer emergency medical services personnel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| VA | HB2137 | Pass | Paid sick leave. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide personal care, respite, or companion services to an individual who receives consumer-directed services under the state plan for medical assistance servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| VA | HB1900 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe. Provides that a general district court shall enter an order upon petition by a tenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| VA | HB2321 | Pass | Governor's Secretaries; Secretary of Labor created. Creates in the Governor's Cabinet the position of Secretary of Labor. The bill transfers from the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to the Secretary of Labor responsibility for the Department of Labor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| VA | HB2027 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment and for the purpose of providing measures of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| VA | HB2159 | Pass | Release of balloon prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits any individual 16 years of age or older or other person, including a corporation, from intentionally releasing, discarding, or causing to be released or discarded any nonbiodegradable balloon ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| VA | HB1909 | Pass | Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Permits any school board to deem any non-school zone building or property that it owns or leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for the purpose of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| VA | HB2072 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; recommendations for creation of Virginia Good Neighbor Next Door program. Requires the Virginia Housing Development Authority to report to the Governor, the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| VA | HB2118 | Pass | Electric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program; creation; work group report. Establishes the Electric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program for the purpose of (i) awarding grants on a competitive basis to public school divisions for (a) assisting with costs of rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| VA | HB2204 | Pass | Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| VA | HB1923 | Pass | Electric utilities; broadband capacity pilot program. Expands an existing pilot program under which Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power are authorized to provide or make available broadband capacity to Internet service providers in areas of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| VA | HB1817 | Pass | Practice of certified nurse midwives. Expands the categories of practitioners with whom a certified nurse midwife may enter into a practice agreement to include other certified nurse midwives who have practiced for at least two years and allows a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| VA | HB1832 | Pass | Virginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| VA | HB2129 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| VA | HB1852 | Pass | Uniform Collaborative Law Act. Creates the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, which provides a framework for the practice of collaborative law, a process entered into voluntarily by clients for the express purpose of reaching a settlement in a family or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| VA | HB1982 | Pass | Nutrient credits; use by facility with certain stormwater discharge permit. Authorizes a facility that has been issued a Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit regulating stormwater discharges to acquire, use, and transfer nut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| VA | HB1776 | Pass | Board of Education; temporary extension of certain licenses. Requires the Board of Education to grant a two-year extension of the license of any individual licensed by the Board whose license expires on June 30, 2021, in order to provide the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| VA | HB1987 | Pass | Telemedicine. Requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance to provide for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine for certain high-risk patient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| VA | HB1903 | Pass | Local government authority; reduction of speed limits. Authorizes local governing bodies to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, in a business district or residence district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| VA | HB1853 | Pass | Lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court of Virginia from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account. The bill provides that any rule promulgated by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| VA | HB2322 | Pass | Opioid Abatement Authority; established; report. Establishes the Opioid Abatement Authority. The Authority, with the assistance of the Office of the Attorney General, would administer the Opioid Abatement Fund, which would receive moneys from settlem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| VA | HB2007 | Pass | Prescription drug price transparency. Directs the Department of Health to enter into a contract or an agreement with a nonprofit data services organization to collect, compile, and make available on its website information about prescription drug pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| VA | HB1750 | Pass | Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program (the Program). The bill provides that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| VA | HB2203 | Pass | Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| VA | HB1995 | Pass | Rare Disease Council and Rare Disease Council Fund; report. Creates the Rare Disease Council for the purpose of (i) advising the Governor and the General Assembly on the needs of individuals with rare diseases in the Commonwealth; (ii) identifying ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| VA | HB1894 | Pass | Certain employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice; naloxone or other opioid antagonist. Authorizes employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice designated as probation and parole officers or as juvenile correctional officers to possess and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB2171 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; annual report; utilization or award of loan and grant program funds. Requires the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to include in its annual report information regarding the percentage of loan an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| VA | HB2208 | Pass | Department of General Services; removal of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., statue. Directs the Department of General Services to remove the statue of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., from Capitol Square. The bill directs the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) |
| VA | HB1838 | Pass | Loudoun County school board; staggered terms. Enables the Loudoun County school board to stagger the terms of its members at the November election immediately preceding the end of the board's term and upon the board's prior vote for staggered terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166) |
