| VA | HB5047 | Pass | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. However, the bill provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016) |
| VA | HB5051 | Enroll | Decertification of law-enforcement officer. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to adopt standards of conduct applicable to law-enforcement and jail officers and due process procedures for decertification based on serious misconduct i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020 |
| VA | HB5087 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | HR621 | Engross | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB5052 | Pass | Legal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | HR608 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-02
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR607 | Engross | Commending the House Clerk's Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-29
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR588 | Engross | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-25
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB5103 | Engross | Appropriation; Department of Elections. Appropriates $2,000,000 to the Department of Elections to be used to provide prepaid postage for the return of absentee ballots for the November 3, 2020, election. The bill requires that such prepaid postage be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-10
Recommitted to Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | HR538 | Engross | Commending Lorna L. Parkins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB207 | Pass | Absentee voting; no excuse; permanent absentee voter list. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1201) |
| VA | HB789 | Pass | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1215) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB833 | Pass | Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency, or with a locality that has adopted an ordinance requiring the payment of prevailing wages, for public works to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1216) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1193) |
| VA | HB271 | Pass | Public schools; school resource officers; data. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1039) |
| VA | HB784 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1070) |
| VA | HB1301 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman as a means of effecting changes in policy, procedure, and legislation; educating the public; investigating and reviewing actions of the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1090) |
| VA | HB330 | Pass | Covenants not to compete; low-wage employees; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer from entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce a covenant not to compete between the employer and a low-wage employee. The employer is subject to a civil pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0948) |
| VA | HB1443 | Pass | Department of Education; biennial teacher compensation review. Requires the Department of Education to conduct a biennial review of teacher compensation that takes into consideration the Commonwealth's compensation for teachers relative to the nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| VA | HB1570 | Pass | Possession of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, and alternative nicotine products by persons under 21 years of age; exception; scientific study. Provides an exception to the law prohibiting possession of tobacco products, nicotine vapor prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| VA | HB270 | Pass | Public schools; lock-down drills; notice to parents. Requires every public school to provide the parents of enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the school conducts any lock-down drill. The bill specifies that no such notice is req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| VA | HB273 | Fail | School boards; teachers; planning time and planning periods. Requires each local school board to ensure that each elementary school teacher has an average of one 45-minute period per school day of planning time and that each middle and high school te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB554 | Pass | Zoning for wireless communications infrastructure. Authorizes a locality to disapprove an application submitted for an administrative review-eligible project or for any zoning approval required for a standard process project that proposes to locate a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| VA | HB758 | Fail | Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission; standards and criteria. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The Commission, tasked with estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB759 | Fail | Strategic lawsuits against public participation; special motion to dismiss; stay of discovery; fees and costs. Establishes a procedure by which a party alleging that a claim filed against him is a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB761 | Fail | Elections; preclearance of certain covered practices required. Requires the governing body of a covered jurisdiction, prior to enacting or seeking to administer any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or any standard, practice, or procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB1663 | Fail | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates explicit causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HR173 | Engross | Commending Rosa B. Price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR190 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Lorine Bernice Allen Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR454 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Maria Bonazzoli Bourne.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ454ER) |
| VA | HJR353 | Pass | Commending the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ353ER) |
| VA | HB973 | Pass | Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; racial segregation; repeal of provisions. Repeals several Acts of Assembly from 1901 to 1960 that contain provisions relating to the racial segregation of stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110) |
| VA | HJR108 | Pass | Year of the Eye Exam. Designates 2020 as the Year of the Eye Exam in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ108ER) |
| VA | HB292 | Pass | School boards and local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding; frequency of review and public input. Shortens from every five years to every two years the frequency of the review period for memorandums of understanding between school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| VA | HB1490 | Pass | Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obligations of marriage. These prohibitions are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075) |
| VA | HJR231 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ231ER) |
| VA | HJR232 | Pass | Commending the Richmond Police Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ232ER) |
| VA | HJR254 | Pass | Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ254ER) |
| VA | HR122 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Rosalyn Randolph Dance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed House (HR122ER) |
| VA | HJR4 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ4ER) |
| VA | HJR162 | Engross | Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | HJR233 | Pass | Commending Robert Eugene Foster, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ233ER) |
| VA | HJR71 | Intro | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Constitutional amendment (second resolution); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, a 16-member Commission tasked with establishing districts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR195 | Pass | Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Robert Russa Moton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ195ER) |
| VA | HJR186 | Pass | Commending The Faison Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ186ER) |
| VA | HB272 | Intro | Department of Education and Department of Environmental Quality; sixth grade science curriculum. Directs the Department of Education to coordinate with the Department of Environmental Quality to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1316 | Intro | Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB182 | Intro | General Assembly meetings; streaming and recording. Requires the Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate to ensure that every (i) subcommittee or committee meeting of a standing committee of the General Assembly, regardless of mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR173 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Russell Lee Scott.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ173ER) |
