| VA | HR605 | Pass | Commending David Poole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-06
Bill text as passed House (HR605ER) |
| VA | HB1598 | Pass | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| VA | HB1595 | Pass | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2021, to December 31, 2022. The bill enacts Chapters 6 and 18 of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2168 | Pass | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; annual report; breach of Canons of Judicial Conduct; disciplinary action. Requires the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission to include in its annual report (i) the name of any judge who the Commission conclud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2258 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; beer distribution. Creates a restricted wholesale beer license that authorizes the licensee to provide wholesale beer distribution services to brewery and limited brewery licensees, provided that no more than 500 barrels o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| VA | HB2200 | Pass | License taxes; deductions; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to analyze and review current reimbursement and operational challenges for medical practices that administer anti-cancer drugs in an in-off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| VA | HB1629 | Pass | Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individuali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| 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 | HB1563 | Pass | Sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for property used to produce agricultural products for market in an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility. The property exempted incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Student literacy measures; scope; students in grades four through eight. Expands several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act, enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly, effective with the 2024–2025 school year, and current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| 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 | HB2182 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; process to solicit and receive input. Provides that the Behavioral Health Commission shall have the power and duty to implement a process to solicit and receive input from (i) individuals who are currently receiving or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| 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 | HB1753 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage carrier license; airport passenger lounge. Allows mixed beverage carrier licenses to be granted to financial institutions, subsidiaries of a financial institution, and certain persons under contract with a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1681 | Pass | Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission; coverage of institutional long-term services and supports. Provides that if an individual is admitted to a skilled nursing facility for skilled nursing services and such individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184) |
| VA | HB1737 | Pass | Practice of optometry; licensing; regulations. Reorganizes provisions regulating the practice of optometry; updates licensing requirements by removing specific requirements for the Board of Optometry's examination procedures; and expands possible Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1602 | Pass | State plan for medical assistance services; telemedicine; in-state presence. Establishes that health care providers are not required to maintain a physical presence in the Commonwealth to maintain eligibility to enroll as a Medicaid provider. Additio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) |
| VA | HB1555 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; human trafficking awareness and prevention training required. Directs the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring that a trauma-informed human traffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| VA | HB1647 | Pass | Civil cause of action; sexual abuse by person of authority; limitations period. Creates a civil cause of action for injury to a person 18 years of age or older resulting from sexual abuse by a person of authority, defined in the bill. The bill furthe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| 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 | 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 | HJR682 | Pass | Commending the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ682ER) |
| VA | HR331 | Pass | Commending Katherine Doctor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR331ER) |
| 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 | HR375 | Pass | Commending Virginia Voice, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
Bill text as passed House (HR375ER) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2405 | Engross
Sine Die | High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from the U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school student wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1800 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; transparency. Imposes several requirements on governing boards of public institutions of higher education relating to transparency, including requirements to (i) report by September 1 of each year to the Chair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-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) |
| VA | HB2385 | Engross
Sine Die | Administration of state government; prohibited actions; civil penalty. Prohibits state agencies from entering into a contract for goods or services with a scrutinized company, defined in the bill as any company owned or operated by a foreign adversar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (6-Y 10-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 | 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) |
