| VA | HB707 | Enroll
75% | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Prohibits, subject to a parental consent requirement, a data controller from processing personal data of a known child (i) for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of such personal dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB361 | Enroll
75% | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Prohibits, subject to a parental consent requirement, a data controller from processing personal data of a known child (i) for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of such personal dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB351 | Veto | Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1388 | Pass | Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 658 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1146 | Pass | Department of Law; Address Confidentiality Program; victims of child abduction. Expands to victims of child abduction eligibility for the Address Confidentiality Program established by the Statewide Facilitator for Victims of Domestic Violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 413 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB100 | Pass | Child labor offenses; civil penalties. Increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty for each violation of child labor laws that results in the employment of a child who is seriously injured or dies in the course of employment. The bill also in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB317 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| VA | SB44 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162) |
| VA | HB36 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0161) |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB231 | Engross
50% | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB320 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB359 | Engross
50% | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB177 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB290 | Intro
25% | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB488 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB970 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB821 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1026 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting working on school property; penalty. Adds certain offenses involving children, including kidnapping, trafficking, sex crimes, and prostitution and commercial sex crimes, to the list of offenses that would prohibit an adult if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1276 | Intro
25% | Display of sexually explicit visual material to a child unlawful; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony to display sexually explicit visual material, as defined in relevant law, to a child under 13 years of age with the intent to entice, solicit, or enc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1144 | Intro
25% | Children alleged to be abused or neglected; preliminary removal hearing; appointment of counsel for parent of such child. Provides that at a preliminary removal hearing in cases in which a child is alleged to have been abused or neglected, the court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1169 | Intro
25% | Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1368 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB228 | Intro
25% | Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities. Requires, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover (i) the actual a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB197 | Intro
25% | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB969 | Intro
25% | Child tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for individuals whose households include dependents younger than the age of 18. The bill provides that the amount of the credit will be equal to $500 for each such dependent f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1168 | Intro
25% | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; powers. Grants the Children's Ombudsman with regard to children receiving child-protective services, in foster care, or placed for adoption and children who may have died as a result of alleged abuse or neglect the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Tabled in Health and Human Services (14-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB890 | Intro
25% | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB432 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB684 | Intro
25% | Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB12 | Intro
25% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of handguns; child safety warning required; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any handgun to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Incorporated by Public Safety |
| VA | SB666 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB162 | Intro
25% | Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| VA | SB201 | Engross
50% | Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
