| VA | SB39 | Pass | Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (effective - see bill) |
| 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 | SB707 | Pass | Public middle schools and high schools; student organizations; career and technical education organizations permitted. Permits each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB14 | Veto | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB178 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 664 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB626 | Pass | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services; exception. Permits the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providers of substance abuse or mental health services to adults, and community services boards and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB119 | Enroll
75% | Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| 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 | SB121 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 702 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB15 | Veto | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB16 | Pass | Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB87 | Pass | Health insurance provider panels; incentives for mental health services. Allows a provider panel contract between a carrier and a primary care provider to include provisions that promote comprehensive screening using evidence-based tools for mental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 575 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB51 | Pass | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; dissemination and availability of online transition resources. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, in partnership with relevant entities, to ensure that online resources are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 573 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB176 | Pass | Civil commitments and temporary detention orders; definition of mental illness; neurocognitive disorders and neurodevelopmental disabilities; Secretary of Health and Human Resources to evaluate placements for certain individuals; report. Specifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 579 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB174 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 578 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB628 | Enroll
75% | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Amends the list of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by replacing Richmond with Petersburg. The bill also provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| VA | SB373 | Veto | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB11 | Pass | Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 489 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB60 | Pass | Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires the Department of Education to make available to each s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 493 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB125 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; membership. Changes the composition of the Behavioral Health Commission by increasing from two to three the number of House appointees who are required to be members of the House Committee on Appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 496 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB220 | Pass | Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 502 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | SB605 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of "person with a disability"; training. Amends the definition of "person with a disability" for purposes of the Elections title to mean any person who has a physical or mental im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 515 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB59 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid Works access and utilization work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to study and make recommendations to improve a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 335 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB98 | Pass | Health insurance; prior authorization. Requires that any provider contract between a carrier and a participating health care provider contain specific provisions that require that if a prior authorization request is approved for prescription drugs an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 338 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB177 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; employee designation and payment policies; nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to amend its policies to authorize the Department of Behavioral Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 342 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB13 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| VA | SB425 | Pass | Health insurance; ethics and fairness in carrier business practices. Makes various changes to requirements governing the business practices of health carriers in the processing and payment of claims. The bill prescribes criteria for what constitutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| VA | SB702 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| VA | SB80 | Veto | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB327 | Veto | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB273 | Veto | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB179 | Pass | State hospitals; discharge planning; report. Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0153) |
| VA | SB383 | Veto | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB368 | Veto | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB642 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB505 | Veto | Limitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that, when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB47 | Veto | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SJR186 | Fail | Commending Buta Biberaj.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB19 | Pass | Recovery residences; death and serious injury reports. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to promulgate regulations that require recovery residences to report to the Department any death or serious injury that occ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| VA | SR121 | Pass | Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw; portrait. Establishes a committee to contract for a portrait of Senator Richard L. "Dick" Saslaw to be painted, framed, and installed in the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR121ER) |
| VA | SR166 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dana Bertrand Hamel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR166ER) |
| VA | SR170 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jeanette Lucille Graves White.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR170ER) |
| VA | SR171 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jasmin Sadé Thomas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR171ER) |
| VA | SJR175 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Samuel Reynolds III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ175ER) |
| VA | SJR176 | Pass | Commending Neighborhood Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ176ER) |
| VA | SJR170 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James "Jim" Horace Hinshaw.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ170ER) |
| VA | SJR189 | Pass | Commending the Community Development Block Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ189ER) |
| VA | SJR183 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Julie Clemente.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ183ER) |
| VA | SJR199 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Frank W. Somerville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ199ER) |
