| VA | HB1943 | Pass | Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to consult with a crime victim in a felony case to (i) inform the victim of the contents of a proposed plea agreement and (ii) obtain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| VA | HB2325 | Pass | Agricultural land; acquisition or transfer by foreign adversaries prohibited; report. Prohibits any foreign adversary, as defined in the bill, from acquiring or transferring any interest in agricultural land, as defined in federal law, beginning Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| VA | HB1416 | Pass | Testing persons charged with certain crimes for sexually transmitted infections. Provides that as soon as practicable following arrest, or following indictment, arrest by warrant, or service of a petition in the case of a juvenile, the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| VA | HB1511 | Pass | Midwifery; administration of medication. Allows licensed midwives to obtain, possess, and administer drugs and devices within the scope of their practice. The bill requires the Board of Medicine to develop and publish best practice and standards of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| VA | HB1388 | Pass | State parks; Virginia National Guard Passport State 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 m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| VA | HB2290 | Pass | Judgment or order for pregnancy and delivery expenses. Provides that in the event that the initial petition for the establishment of parentage is commenced within six months of the live birth of a child, the judgment or order shall, except for good c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| VA | HB2302 | Pass | Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund. Authorizes the Governor to direct funds from the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (Fund) to the Commonwealth Transportation Board for transportation projects determined to be necessary to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| VA | HB2195 | Pass | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement (the Department) to administer workf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| VA | HB2166 | Pass | Racketeering offenses; penalty. Adds petit larceny to the list of offenses included in the definition of "racketeering activity." The bill prohibits any person who is directed by an organizer, supervisor, or manager of an enterprise from (i) receivin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| VA | HB2482 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; certain electricity transmission projects. Directs the State Corporation Commission to issue its final order for certificates of public convenience and necessity regarding certain projects no later than 270 days after th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| VA | HB1606 | Pass | Antisemitism. Provides that the Commonwealth adopts the non-legally binding Working Definition of Antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism set forth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| VA | HB2158 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; compliance with certain federal requirements; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to evaluate its ability to comply with certain federal requirements regarding the Commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| VA | HB1478 | Pass | Crimes by gangs. Provides that the definition of "predicate criminal act" includes all violent felony offenses for purposes of predicate criminal acts for street gangs. The bill also increases various penalties for gang crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| VA | HB1885 | Pass | Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| VA | HB1682 | Pass | Weapon of terrorism; definition; penalty. Includes any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, as a weapon of terrorism for the purpose of defining terrorism...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| VA | HB1805 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority; purpose; community development and housing projects. Adds community development projects related to the production and preservation of housing, including housing for persons and families of low and moderate income, to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| VA | HB1931 | Pass | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| VA | HB2312 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; stop work orders; appeals of State Building Code Technical Review Board decisions; recovery of costs. Defines stop work orders for the purposes of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. The bill provides that if, during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| VA | HB2151 | Pass | State parks; master planning requirements. Increases from $500,000 to $2 million the value of physical improvements and structures in state parks that are considered substantial improvements, as defined in the bill. The bill also stipulates that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) |
| VA | HB1408 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain cancers. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five years of servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| VA | HB1775 | Pass | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder; law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that an anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, as both are defined in the bill, incurred by a law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| VA | HB1628 | Pass | Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund; availability of credits; use of funds. Permits the Department of Environmental Quality to use the Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund for purposes other than the purchase of mitigation bank credits, as set out in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| VA | HB2216 | Pass | Health insurance; mental health benefits; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis stabilization units. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for mobile crisis response services, defined in the bill, and su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186) |
| VA | HB2157 | Pass | Interjurisdictional compacts; criminal history record checks. Provides that when an interjurisdictional compact requires criminal history record checks as a condition of participation, the applicable health regulatory board shall require each applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| VA | HB2359 | Pass | Practice of physical therapy. Eliminates the requirement that treatment by a licensed physical therapist for more than 60 consecutive days after evaluation of the patient occurs only upon the referral and direction of a licensed doctor of medicine, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| VA | HB1973 | Fail | Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp products. Establishes provisions for the registration of a retail facility for regulated hemp products, as defined in the bill, establishes pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HJR717 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Scott Blackford Meacham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ717ER) |
| VA | HJR798 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Juliette Carolyn Brooks Herring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ798ER) |
| VA | HB2208 | Fail | Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that as used in the Code of Virginia, "race," "religion," or "national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity; "racial, religious, or ethnic animosity" shall i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HR457 | Pass | Commending Michael Louis Chapman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
Bill text as passed House (HR457ER) |
| VA | HR455 | Pass | Commending Walter Cunningham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
Bill text as passed House (HR455ER) |
| VA | HR454 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Master Sergeant James Richard Phillips, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
Bill text as passed House (HR454ER) |
| VA | HJR809 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Robert Earl Bryant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ809ER) |
| VA | HR369 | Pass | Commending the Lynchburg Association of REALTORS®.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR369ER) |
| VA | HJR821 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Theodore Nathan Lerner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ821ER) |
| VA | HJR679 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable James P. Massie III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ679ER) |
| VA | HB2460 | Engross
Sine Die | Control of firearms by state agencies; rights of employees. Prohibits state agencies other than the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, and Virginia Port Authority and public institutions of higher education from adopting any r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2130 | Engross
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; renewable energy portfolio standard requirements; report. Provides that the State Corporation Commission may extend certain renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) requirement timelines if it finds compliance with such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1379 | Engross
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials; graphic sexual content; parental opt out and request for review. Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1816 | Engross
Sine Die | Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1711 | Engross
Sine Die | Parental access to minor's medical records. Prohibits denial of parental access to the medical records of such parent's minor child, unless federal law requires the minor child's consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jay T. Braxton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ646ER) |
| VA | HB1689 | Engross
Sine Die | Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable diseas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB2360 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. Firearms-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2167 | Engross
Sine Die | Workplace violence; violence in certain public places; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 felony for any person to commit an act of violence at (i) such person's place of employment or former place of employment, or at any other workplace of the same employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1603 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction during confinement. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and reduces enhanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1898 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1523 | Engross
Sine Die | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. The bill increases the fines from $100 to $1000 and from $500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HR313 | Pass | Commending William Edward Wagner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Bill text as passed House (HR313ER) |
