| VA | SB1308 | Veto | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Reduces from 100 acres to 50 acres the minimum number of contiguous acres required for a site that is not a brownfield to sati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2332 | Veto | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Reduces from 100 acres to 50 acres the minimum number of contiguous acres required for a site that is not a brownfield to sati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB1361 | Pass | Parole Board; eligibility determinations; reports. Removes provisions that exempted from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the records of the Parole Board. The bill requires the Board to (i) adopt rules re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| VA | HB1400 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I. Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| VA | SB1081 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman. Repeals the Children's Advocacy Fund, created to support the Office of the Children's Ombudsman (Office), as general funds are used to fund the Office. The definition of "abused and neglected child" is amended to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| VA | HB1840 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Medical School; establishment of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University. Repeals provisions establishing and relating to Eastern Virginia Medical School and designates the schools and divisions previously ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| VA | HB1842 | Pass | Economic development; Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Fund and Program. Creates the Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Program for the purposes of (i) acquiring sites for the purpose of creating and maintaining a portfolio of project...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| VA | SB1211 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Medical School; establishment of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University. Repeals provisions establishing and relating to Eastern Virginia Medical School and designates the schools and divisions previously ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| VA | SB1459 | Pass | Administration of state government; prohibited applications and websites. Prohibits any employee or agent of any public body or person or entity contracting with any such public body from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeCh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0768) |
| VA | SB1491 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management; contract requirements. Excludes construction management contracts involving infrastructure projects from the requirement that no more than 10 percent of the construction work be performed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| VA | SB1414 | Pass | Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation Fund; established. Establishes the Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation Fund to receive funds from a direct settlement, judgment, verdict, or other court order relating to consumer protection cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| VA | HB2450 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management; contract requirements. Excludes construction management contracts involving infrastructure projects from the requirement that no more than 10 percent of the construction work be performed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| VA | HB1738 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; state public bodies; meetings; virtual public access. Provides that all state public bodies may provide public access to meetings through electronic communication means and may provide the public with the opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| VA | HB2006 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public records charges; electronic payment method. Provides that any local public body that charges for the production of public records pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act may provide an electroni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| VA | HB2007 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; posting of fee policy. Requires a public body to make available upon request and post on its website or otherwise publish a written policy (i) explaining how the public body assesses charges for accessing or searc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| VA | SB1255 | Pass | Smartchart Network Program. Renames the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program as the Smartchart Network Program and expands the Program to allow participation by all health care providers, insurance carriers, and other organizations with a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| VA | SB1170 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; agency assistance; access; records. Clarifies the duty of agencies and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth to cooperate with and assist the Behavioral Health Commission in the performance of its duties and require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| VA | SB1208 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Virginia-Taiwan Trade Office. Directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of establishing a Virginia-Taiwan Trade Office to serve as the offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| VA | SB1313 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; private contracts; payment of subcontractors. Clarifies certain definitions throughout the Code for consistency between public and private construction contracts. The bill updates the notice required when a general co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| VA | HB2156 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; agency assistance; access; records. Clarifies the duty of agencies and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth to cooperate with and assist the Behavioral Health Commission in the performance of its duties and require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| 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 | SB1412 | Pass | American Revolution 250 Commission; report. Changes the American Revolution 250 Commission, established in 2020, from an executive branch advisory commission to a legislative branch commission. The bill provides that members previously appointed to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| VA | HB2113 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Virginia Tourism Authority; Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; adoption of procurement policies; exemptions. Requires the governing boards of the Virginia Economic Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| VA | HB2415 | Pass | American Revolution 250 Commission; report. Changes the American Revolution 250 Commission, established in 2020, from an executive branch advisory commission to a legislative branch commission. The bill provides that members previously appointed to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| VA | HB2500 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; private contracts; payment of subcontractors. Clarifies certain definitions throughout the Code for consistency between public and private construction contracts. The bill updates the notice required when a general co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| VA | HB2345 | Pass | Smartchart Network Program. Renames the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program as the Smartchart Network Program and expands the Program to allow participation by all health care providers, insurance carriers, and other organizations with a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| VA | SB1470 | 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 (CHAP0625) |
| VA | HB2394 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; proprietary records and trade secrets; Fort Monroe Authority. Excludes from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act trade secrets, proprietary information, or financial infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| VA | SB1513 | Pass | State Executive Council for Children's Services; membership. Adds the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to the State Executive Council for Children's Services. The bill also adds a representative from the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| VA | SB1497 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; proprietary records and trade secrets; Fort Monroe Authority. Excludes from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act trade secrets, proprietary information, or financial infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| VA | SB824 | Pass | Substance Abuse Services Council; name change; membership. Renames the Substance Abuse Services Council as the Virginia Addiction Recovery Council and increases from 29 to 32 the membership of the Council by adding two members representing the proble...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| VA | SB1150 | Pass | Obsolescence of 2011 district descriptions; legal boundaries. Repeals Code provisions related to the 2011 decennial redistricting, including descriptions of the districts enacted in that cycle, that are obsolete as a result of the 2021 decennial redi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| VA | HB2498 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; training for local officials; members of park authorities' boards. Adds members of any boards governing any authority established pursuant to the Park Authorities Act to the list of persons to whom the Virginia Fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| VA | HB1569 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; disclosure of personnel records. Clarifies that personnel records excluded from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act include those of persons employed by (i) a public body engaged in emergency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| VA | SB1002 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments, including legislators or members of their immediate family who may accept s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| VA | HB1610 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; installation of playground equipment. Excludes the installation of playground equipment, including all associated and necessary construction and maintenance, from the prohibition on using coop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| VA | SB826 | Pass | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus security department. Authorizes the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish and maintain a campus security dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| VA | HB1911 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments, including legislators or members of their immediate family who may accept s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| 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 | HB2122 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; training for members of appointed school boards. Adds members of appointed school boards to the list of persons for whom the Virginia Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| VA | HB2101 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; Department of Wildlife Resources; guidance documents; endangered species. Directs that certain guidance documents developed and used by the Department of Wildlife Resources relating to threatened and endangered species sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| VA | HB2224 | Pass | Department of Health; Department of General Services; newborn screening program; funding; work group. Directs the Department of Health and the Department of General Services to convene a work group to evaluate the current funding model for the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| VA | HB2165 | Pass | Criminal appeals; duties of the Attorney General and attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that in all criminal cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia in which the Commonwealth is a party or is directly interested, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| VA | SB1259 | Pass | Criminal appeals; duties of the Attorney General and attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that in all criminal cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia in which the Commonwealth is a party or is directly interested, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| VA | SB1460 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; training for members of appointed school boards. Adds members of appointed school boards to the list of persons for whom the Virginia Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| VA | SB1396 | 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 (CHAP0358) |
| VA | SB798 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| VA | HB1450 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| VA | SB860 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; fees; security. Grants the Fort Monroe Authority the ability to (i) charge certain fees for services within Fort Monroe and (ii) utilize security enhancement devices to enhance the safety of persons or property within Fort Monr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| VA | HB1490 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; certain construction contracts; performance and payment bonds. Allows localities to allow a contractor of indefinite delivery or quantity contracts, defined in the bill, who is otherwise required to furnish performanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
