| VA | HB30 | Enroll
75% | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB333 | Veto | Virginia Council on Environmental Justice; meetings and staffing; appointment of members. Allows the members of the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice to travel throughout the Commonwealth to view and record conditions related to human health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB651 | Veto | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; assess the creation of a cyber civilian corps for the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to assess the creation of a cyber civilian corps for the Commonwealth, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB260 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia preference. Provides first preference for goods produced in Virginia and then provides for preference to goods produced in the United States before a tie bid is decided by lot in determining the award for any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 782 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB329 | Veto | Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB782 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civil actions. Clarifies timelines for dual-filing complaints alleging unlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill allows either the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | SB350 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as requested afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB904 | Enroll
75% | Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB1157 | Enroll
75% | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reenrolled |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1178 | Veto | Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Amends the membership of the board of directors of the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority by adding four nonlegislative citizen members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB570 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of "employer." Waives the Commonwealth's sovereign immunity to a civil action under the definition of "person" in relevant law. The bill also expands the definition of "employer" as it relates to the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB584 | Veto | Department of General Services; General Services Board established; Chief Administrator. Establishes the General Services Board to oversee the Department of General Services and, among other duties, to appoint a Chief Administrator for the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB506 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; powers and duties; legal counsel; scope of employment. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall have authority over the employment of all legal c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1404 | Enroll
75% | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; disparity study report. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | SB729 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established; report. Creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank to finance clean energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects, and other qualified projects through the strategic deployment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB36 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions of meetings and public business. Exempts certain public meetings from the definition of "meeting" under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to clarify that three or more members of a public body ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 756 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB85 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 617 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB242 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB186 | Pass | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; work group; wholesale prescription drug importation programs; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to investigate wholesale prescription drug importation programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 620 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB242 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 705 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB340 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifies that the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appears on a purchase card statement or other payment record and the descript...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB815 | Pass | Medical cannabis program; product expiration; confidentiality; penalty. Increases from six months to 12 months the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing. The bill allows pharmaceutical pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB818 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions of meetings and public business. Exempts certain public meetings from the definition of "meeting" under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to clarify that three or more members of a public body ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 733 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1040 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 610 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB324 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; charges for production of public records; report. Prohibits a public body from charging a requester for any costs incurred during the first hour spent accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for records re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 669 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB1261 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Reinstates provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB463 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 677 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB496 | Pass | Virginia Growth and Opportunity Act; Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Reduces the local funding match requirement for GO Virginia grants from being equal to the grant amount to being at least equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 624 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| VA | SB536 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Reinstates provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 772 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB487 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; analysis of the use of artificial intelligence by public bodies; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1337 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 654 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1361 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 749 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1452 | Pass | Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires each state agency to submit its annual report assessing the impact of its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans on the populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 659 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1458 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Interagency Resilience Management Team; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Amends certain provisions relating to the functions and du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 753 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB1499 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 754 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB215 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 582 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB204 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 580 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1018 | Pass | Powers of investigators; enforcement of certain tobacco laws. Authorizes investigators with the Office of the Attorney General to seize cigarettes that are unlawfully sold, possessed, distributed, transported, imported, or otherwise held and to accom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 540 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB814 | Pass | Virginia Tourism Authority; powers; historically accurate advertising. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority, in consultation with The Library of Virginia, the Virginia African American Advisory Board, and other subject matter experts, to create gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 531 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1116 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement; certain construction projects. Allows a public body to establish purchase procedures, if adopted in writing, not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 544 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1418 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Exempts certain rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act, provided that the Commission provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 559 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1457 | Pass | Virginia investment performance grants; Virginia economic development incentive grants. Requires, for any Virginia investment performance grant award determination that includes a job creation requirement, an eligible manufacturer or research and dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 563 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill) |
| VA | SB18 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a constructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 490 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB134 | Pass | Department of Education; development of education materials relating to risks of opioids. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with such stakeholders and experts as it deems necessary or appropriate, to develop and submit to the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB233 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Provides that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may determine a site of at least 50 contiguous acres to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB311 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 438 (effective 1/1/25) |
| VA | HB342 | Pass | Naloxone or other opioid antagonists; possession and administration by state agencies. Requires state agencies to possess naloxone or other opioid antagonists used for overdose reversal to a person who is believed to be experiencing or about to exper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 440 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB222 | Pass | Commonwealth information security requirements. Exempts cybersecurity information, defined in the bill, from the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act while in possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 503 (effective 7/1/24) |
