| VA | HB1438 | Pass | Oyster Replenishment Fund. Adds the recycling of oyster shells to the list of activities eligible to receive funds from the Oyster Replenishment Fund. The bill also allows the Fund to be used for the encouragement of oyster shell donations for oyster...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| VA | HB2246 | Pass | Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| VA | HB1419 | Pass | Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program; extension of eligibility. Extends eligibility for the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program to the lineal and collateral descendants of persons who were residing in jurisdictions in Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| VA | HB1567 | Pass | Department of Health; perinatal health hub work group; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance, and Urban Baby Beginnings, to convene a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2190 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; data collection and analysis; claims submitted to managed care organizations; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to collect data for each fiscal year from fiscal year 2018 through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| VA | HB2150 | Pass | Trace evidence collection kit. Provides for the collection, retention, and storage of a trace evidence collection kit or anonymous trace evidence collection kit, defined in the bill, collected as part of a forensic medical examination of a victim of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| VA | HB1645 | Pass | Litter tax; penalty for failure to timely pay. Prohibits the Department of Taxation from imposing any penalty or interest for failure to pay the litter tax without first notifying the taxpayer at least 30 days prior to the date that a return must be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| VA | HB2244 | Pass | Department of Historic Resources; appropriations for African American cemeteries and graves. Requires appropriations by the Department of Historic Resources for African American cemeteries to be allocated on the bases of (i) the number of markers in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095) |
| 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 | HB2129 | Fail | Child victims and witnesses using two-way closed-circuit television; standard. Expands the age range that a child may testify using two-way closed-circuit television in a criminal case to any child younger than 18 years of age at the time of the tria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB2192 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Catawba Hospital; substance abuse treatment and recovery services. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to transform Catawba Hospital into a state-of-the-ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2253 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes the 10-member Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Commonwealth in the legislative branch to identify and recommend legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 | HR307 | Pass | Commending the City of Virginia Beach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Bill text as passed House (HR307ER) |
| 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 | HB1389 | Engross
Sine Die | Administration of controlled substances for treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbance; parental consent required. Provides that a minor shall not be deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to administration of medication for the trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jay T. Braxton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ646ER) |
| VA | HB2495 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishment of Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Program. Establishes the Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of assisting local school divisions to implement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1455 | Engross
Sine Die | Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HJR510 | Pass | Trisomy Awareness Month. Designates March, in 2023 and in each succeeding year, as Trisomy Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ510ER) |
| VA | HR293 | Pass | Commending Major General Thomas Tyler Thompson, USA, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Bill text as passed House (HR293ER) |
| VA | HJR642 | Pass | Commending G. Gilmer Minor III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ642ER) |
| VA | HR302 | Pass | Commending Hsiao Bi-khim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Bill text as passed House (HR302ER) |
| VA | HJR595 | Pass | Commending Jeffrey C. Michaels, O.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ595ER) |
| VA | HJR583 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph Edward Carey, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ583ER) |
| VA | HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction; age restriction. Removes the age 55 or older restriction on those individuals allowed a military benefits income tax subtraction beginning with taxable year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB2138 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; business interest; qualified business income deduction; corporate rate reduction. Increases from 30 percent to 50 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB2319 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; rates and deductions. Lowers the top income tax rate from 5.75 percent to 5.5 percent for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024. The bill also raises the standard deduction to $9,000 for single individuals and $18,000 for m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1688 | Engross
Sine Die | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR458 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendments (first reference); General Assembly and local elected officials; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three consecutive terms and members of the House of Delegates to six consecutive terms. The amendments provide tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR460 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | License tax; ownership of dogs and cats. Eliminates the requirement to pay a license tax for owning a dog or cat and eliminates the misdemeanor penalty for failing to pay such license tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HJR462 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplementing compensation of public defender. Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or employees, above the salary set by the Compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1466 | Intro
Sine Die | Special provisions involving voluntary anti-forced labor and child slavery certifications for sales of low emissions and electric motor vehicles in the Commonwealth of Virginia; remedies for Attorney General when sufficient supply of EV and LEV vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Employer-provided childcare tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 for qualified childcare expenses, as defined by the bill, incurred by a small business, as defined by the bill, in the amount of 20 percent of such busin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive community colleges; conditionally forgivable Comprehensive community colleges; conditionally forgivable loans for tuition and other fees and expenses. Requires each comprehensive community college to establish a process whereby admitted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1646 | Intro
Sine Die | Court duties of sheriff; commitment hearings at locations other than a courthouse. Allows a judge or special justice who conducts a commitment hearing at a location other than a courthouse to request that the sheriff of the appropriate jurisdiction p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited contributions from foreign-influenced corporations; required reports. Prohibits foreign-influenced corporations, as defined in the bill, from making independent expenditures or making contributions to a candidate, campaign committee, polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying loaded firearms in public areas prohibited; certain localities; repeal. Repeals the prohibition on carrying certain loaded shotguns and semi-automatic center-fire rifles and pistols in certain localities in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1801 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1716 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety and Health Codes Board; mental health resources. Directs the Safety and Health Codes Board within the Department of Labor and Industry to include mental health resources from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1863 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to Taxation in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to the Commonwealth's tax structure with the intention of eliminating the personal income tax. The bill provides that beginning January 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB2079 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; second offense. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member where it is alleged in the warrant, petition, information, or ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1715 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Labor and Industry; work group to evaluate workplace violence. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group for the purpose of evaluating the prevalence of workplace violence in the Commonwealth, including its ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
