| VA | HR605 | Pass | Commending David Poole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-06
Bill text as passed House (HR605ER) |
| VA | HB2444 | Pass | Development of offshore wind capacity; cost recovery. Requires the State Corporation Commission, in conducting its review of requests for cost recovery by a Phase II Utility for costs associated with generating facilities utilizing energy derived fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| VA | HB1807 | Pass | State agency compliance with flood plain management regulations. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation, no later than September 30, 2023, and in cooperation with numerous Secretariats and the Special Assistant to the Governor for Coas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| VA | HB1949 | Pass | Oyster planting grounds; existing leases; transfer or assignment. Removes the requirement that the Marine Resources Commissioner consider certain factors when recording in his office an application for transfer or assignment for an existing lease of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| VA | HB1948 | Pass | Elections; absentee voting; witness requirement; required information on return ballot envelope; unique identifier. Removes the witness requirement for absentee ballots and replaces it with the requirement that the voter provide the last four digits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| 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 | HB1822 | Pass | Public school employees; offense involving solicitation of sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child; penalty. Provides that the convictions that bar employment and contract work that requires direct contact with students on sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1950 | Pass | Virginia Marine Resources Commission; wetland mitigation site; improving and enhancing tidal wetlands. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) to review and update its "Guidelines for Establishment, Use and Operation of Tidal Wetland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| VA | HB2304 | Pass | Motorcycle rider safety training courses. Changes one of the three available types of motorcycle training courses from a sidecar and three-wheeled motorcycle course to a three-wheeled motorcycle course and changes the helmet requirement for motorcycl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1804 | Pass | Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| VA | HB2443 | Pass | Certificates of election; persons elected by write-in votes; exception for certain localities. Provides that in an election for a local office in a locality with a population of no more than 4,000 persons, if the person having the highest number of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| VA | HB2225 | Pass | Certain student assessment results; availability. Requires each school board to provide teachers, parents, principals, and other school leaders with their students' results on any Standards of Learning assessment or Virginia Alternate Assessment Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) |
| VA | HB1704 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| 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 | HB1951 | Pass | Official emblems and designations; state pony. Designates the Chincoteague Pony as the official pony of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060) |
| VA | HB1806 | Pass | Farm use placards. Delays from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, the date by which vehicles claiming a farm use exemption are required to obtain a farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and display such placard at all times. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| 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 | HJR722 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable William Kyle Barlow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ722ER) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1808 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority; emergency. Overrides a provision in the appropriation act that required a certain approval from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prior to disbursement of funds to the Virginia Commercial Sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR493 | Pass | Commending Meaghan Gruber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
Bill text as passed House (HR493ER) |
| 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 | HJR672 | Pass | Commemorating the life and legacy of Arthur William Crudup.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ672ER) |
| VA | HJR670 | Pass | Commending Michael J. Oesterling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ670ER) |
| 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 | HR320 | Pass | Commending Deborah Pratt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
Bill text as passed House (HR320ER) |
| VA | HR342 | Pass | Commending Audrey Furness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Bill text as passed House (HR342ER) |
| 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 | 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 | HJR643 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Robert H. Brink.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ643ER) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jay T. Braxton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ646ER) |
| 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 | 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 | 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) |
