| VA | HB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committees. Requires the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convene an Advisory Review Committee to assist in the distribution of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| VA | HB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB386 | Intro
Prefile | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Mattress stewardship program established; civil penalty. Prohibits the disposal of a mattress, as defined in the bill, in a landfill or an incinerator beginning January 1, 2028, and requires producers of mattresses sold at retail in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB9 | Intro
Prefile | Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB240 | Intro
Prefile | Income tax; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan Income tax; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan accounts; report. Increases the maximum individual income tax deduction for amounts paid or contributed to a prepaid tuition contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB181 | Intro
Prefile | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB745 | Intro
Prefile | Mattress stewardship program established; civil penalty. Prohibits the disposal of a mattress, as defined in the bill, in a landfill or an incinerator beginning January 1, 2028, and requires producers of mattresses sold at retail in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB582 | Intro
Prefile | Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB602 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention (the Center) within the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB977 | Intro
Prefile | Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB721 | Intro
Prefile | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1124 | Intro
Prefile | Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act. Permits a religious organization, defined in the bill, to construct affordable housing on real estate owned by such religious organization (i) on or before January 1, 2024, or for a period of not less than f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB535 | Intro
Sine Die | Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB535 | Intro
Prefile | Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB38 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Weapons; possession or transportation; facility that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to possess in or transport into any facility that provides mental health services o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety |
| VA | HB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program and Fund; firearm and ammunition tax. Establishes the Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program (the Program) and redirects funds from the Virginia Gun Violence Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety |
| VA | HB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns |
| VA | HB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1013 | Intro
Prefile | Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HJR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce |
| VA | HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on Legislature Modernization; report. Establishes the Commission on Legislature Modernization in the legislative branch for the purpose of studying the operation and functionality of the General Assembly and identifying ways to make the le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR25 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and univ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1492 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Social Services; Department of Housing and Community Development; unaccompanied minor housing program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, poten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1537 | Intro
Sine Die | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Public deposits; credit unions. Authorizes credit unions to hold public deposits and become qualified public depositories. The bill provides that the Commonwealth and counties, cities, towns, and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Failed to report (defeated) in Labor and Commerce (9-Y 13-N) |
| VA | HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Incorporated by Transportation |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB587 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Social Services; Department of Housing and Community Development; unaccompanied minor housing program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1537 | Intro
Prefile | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1492 | Intro
Prefile | Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
Prefile | Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB33 | Intro
Prefile | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR14 | Intro
Prefile | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB286 | Intro
Prefile | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR21 | Intro
Prefile | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
