| VA | HB6003 | Engross
Sine Die | General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB315 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; lien for claim of personal injuries. Creates a process by which a lien in favor of the Department of Medical Assistance Services on a claim for personal injuries may be satisfied upon the request of the inju... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0807) |
| VA | HB25 | Pass | Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| VA | HB1342 | Pass | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; provision of physical evidence recovery kits. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to either (i) staff its on-campus student health center with at least one on-campu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| VA | HB1019 | Pass | Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| VA | HB1022 | Pass | Universal certification for certain law-enforcement officers. Provides that any sworn law-enforcement officer with at least one year of experience (i) whose training qualifications meet or exceed current training standards established by the Board of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| VA | HB848 | Pass | Veterinary medicine; traineeships. Allows any veterinary medicine licensure applicant enrolled in a traineeship program to engage in the limited practice of veterinary medicine, as that term is defined by the Board of Veterinary Medicine, under the d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| VA | HB1513 | Pass | Active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty. Provides that the Adjutant General may maintain state active-duty status for any service member injured while in the line of duty during the course of a state active-duty mi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB1381 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB292 | Pass | Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| VA | HB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes. Provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities may be used for the additional purposes of (i) constructing, improving, or expanding fire station facilities, (ii) providing mental h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB842 | Engross
Sine Die | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB489 | Engross
Prefile | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes. Provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities may be used for the additional purposes of (i) constructing, improving, or expanding fire station facilities, (ii) providing mental h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB842 | Engross
Prefile | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB496 | Engross
Sine Die | Waste tire disposal by tire producers and haulers; fee; requirements. Requires a hauler, as defined in the bill, to (i) register with the Department of Environmental Quality and (ii) transfer all waste tires to a transfer station, material recovery f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse of a child who is 13 or 14 years of age from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; subtractions; volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services personnel. Provides a state income tax subtraction of $2,000 per taxable year for bona fide volunteers who perform qualifying services, defined in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | First responders; proof of immunization; exemption. Provides that first responders shall not be required to show proof of immunization to attend trainings at medical care facilities, regardless of whether the administration of immunizing agents confl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax exclusion; veteran student loan forgiveness. Eliminates the sunset date and expands eligibility for the income tax exclusion for any income received by a disabled veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States from the discharge of feder... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment by computer or other electronic means; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for an individual injured by a person who coerces, intimidates, or harasses such individual by computer or other electronic means, regardless of whether s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Power to arrest on property of owner. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any agent of the Commonwealth is prohibited from entering the property of another to remove the owner of such property or a family member of such person ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Action of forfeiture; exemptions; court-imposed fine. Provides that no property subject to seizure, pursuant to relevant law, shall be forfeited unless the total value of such property in the aggregate is less than or equal to the value of the fine i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Electors for President and Vice President; method of allocating electoral votes. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that the qualified voters of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Requires any probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, upon discovering that such supervised perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fire and EMS Safety Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Fire and EMS Safety Loan Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Under the bill, money in the Fund would be used exclusively for the financing of purchases by local fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; Standards of Quality; Standards of School Safety. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to establish pursuant t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions. Provides that for the purposes of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act a majority decision of a hearing panel shall be binding on the employing agency. Under... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1382 | Intro
Sine Die | Meat; misbranding. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1448 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discrimination. Prohibits any state agency or political subdivision in the Commonwealth from supporting, implementing, recognizing, or utilizing any program, process, or procedure that conveys or denies a benefit, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB669 | Intro
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] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
Prefile | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Fire Programs; statewide contract language for procurement of fire and emergency medical services apparatuses and equipment; work group; report. Directs the Department of Fire Programs, the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Med... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB492 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Fire Programs; statewide contract language for procurement of fire and emergency medical services apparatuses and equipment; work group; report. Directs the Department of Fire Programs, the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Med... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB486 | Intro
Prefile | Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exception for concealed handgun permit holders. Adds an exception for persons who have been issued a v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 Passed by indefinitely in Public Safety (12-Y 9-N) |