| VA | HB1899 | Pass | Sunset of coal tax credits. Sunsets the Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit and Coalfield Employment Enhancement Tax Credit after tax year 2021 and prohibits the allocation of such credits on and after January 1, 2022. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| VA | HB1992 | Pass | 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] | 2021-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| VA | HB2113 | Pass | Sealing of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| VA | HB2047 | Pass | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| 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
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| VA | HB2038 | Pass | Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; limitations. Limits the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as a result of a revocation hearing for a probation violation. The bill provides that if the court finds the basis of a viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| VA | HB1936 | Pass | Robbery; penalties. Creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of another person is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any person who co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| 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
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| VA | HB2138 | Pass | Identification privilege cards; fee; confidentiality; penalties. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue identification privilege cards to applicants who hold a citizenship or legal presence status that is eligible for a special identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| VA | HB2312 | Pass | Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and imposes lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| VA | HB2207 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, correctional officers, and reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| VA | HB2167 | Pass | Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports; discretionary early consideration. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall set the release date for an inmate granted discretionary parole or conditional release no sooner than 30 business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| VA | HB2032 | Pass | Employment; domestic service. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service are not excluded from employee protection laws. Employment; domestic service. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| VA | HB2326 | Pass | Regulation of child-care services in localities. Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulation of child-care services that is currently available to certain Northern Virginia localities. This will have the effect of granting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| 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 | HB2262 | Pass | Traffic regulation; bicycles; report. Requires the driver of a motor vehicle to change lanes when overtaking a bicycle or certain other vehicles when the lane of travel is not wide enough for the overtaking motor vehicle to pass at least three feet t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| VA | HB2062 | Pass | Food delivery platforms; agreements required; penalty. Prohibits a food delivery platform, as defined in the bill, from submitting orders on behalf of a consumer or arranging for the delivery of an order from a restaurant, as defined in the bill, wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| VA | HB2121 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; business entities filings; Virginia Stock Corporation Act. Aligns provisions governing the filings by nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, and partnerships related to cancellations, abando...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| 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 reprinted (CHAP0471) |
| VA | HJR555 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| 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 | HB2030 | Pass | Neonicotinoid pesticides; study. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the Beekeeper Pollinator Protection Plan and voluntary best management practices for the purpose of proposing improvements to communication between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| 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 | HB1889 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan; extend sunset. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, of certain provisions enacted during the 2020 Special Sessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| 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 | HB1843 | Pass | Charitable gaming; increase in certain maximum allowable prize amounts. Increases the maximum allowable amount for a single bingo door prize from $50 to $250 and the maximum allowable cumulative door prizes in any one bingo session from $250 to $500....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| VA | HB1881 | Pass | Enterprise zone job creation grants. Provides that, for purposes of wage requirements for the enterprise zone job creation grant program, the minimum wage shall be the higher of the state minimum wage or the federal minimum wage. The bill also reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| 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 | HB2063 | Pass | Virginia Overtime Wage Act; penalties. Requires an employer to compensate certain employees at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay, defined in the bill, for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| 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 | HB2213 | Pass | Work group; gold mining; report. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to establish a work group to study the mining of gold in the Commonwealth. The bill requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| VA | HB2163 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; privileged information. Limits the release of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) privileged information to government entities and law-enforcement agencies for the purpose of civil immigration enforcement unless (i) the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| VA | HB2120 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; meetings, input, and disclosures. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to establish and maintain on the institution's website (i) a listing of all board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| VA | HB1919 | Pass | Local green banks. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to establish a green bank to promote the investment in clean energy technologies in its locality and provide financing for clean energy technologies, defined in the bill. The bill establishes ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| VA | HB2014 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation; tenant's right of redemption. Prohibits a landlord from accepting full payment of rent, as well as any damages, money judgment, award of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| VA | HB2249 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance; filing of information regarding resident agent appointed by nonresident prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| 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 | HB1980 | Pass | Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program established. Establishes the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program, whereby Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth Univers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| VA | HB2227 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; amendments; energy efficiency and conservation. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development, upon each publication by the International Code Council of a new version of the International Energy Conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| 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 | HB2269 | Pass | Revenue share for solar energy projects and energy storage systems. Allows localities to assess a revenue share of up to $1,400 per megawatt on energy storage systems. The bill provides that on July 1, 2026, and every five years thereafter, the maxim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| 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 | HB2053 | Pass | Department of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; accessory dwelling units. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) to convene a stakeholder advisory group to evaluate the construction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
