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2024 Priority Legislation
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2024 Priority Bills
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| Cat | Number | Title | Patron | House | Senate | GA | Governor | updated |
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| workers | HB 1 Support | Minimum wage; increases wage to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025.
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Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 1242 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020.
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Ward (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 18-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/28/24
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3/30/24 |
| guns | HB 2 Support | Assault firearms & certain ammunition, etc.; purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., prohibited.
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Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. ...
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Helmer (D) |
Passed
(51-49)
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Passed
w. substitute (20-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/26/24
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3/29/24 |
| campaign finance | HB 40 Support | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
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Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. ...
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Simon (D) |
Left
P&E 20-0; in Appropriations
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2/12/24 | ||
| climate | HB 106 Support | Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia.
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Amends existing shared solar program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia (Phase II Utility). The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program means the resulting amount a customer must pay the utility after the bill credit, defined in relevant law, is deducted from the customer's monthly gross utility bill. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a minimum bill, below which a subscriber's net bill cannot go, that is calculated based on the amount of kilowatt-hours billed by the utility. The bill also changes the shared solar program capacity to at least 10 percent of each utility's adjusted Virginia peak load and requires the Commission's regulations to allow for program participation by all jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customer classes. ...
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Sullivan (D) |
Passed
(54-Y 44-N)
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Passed
22-17
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Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |
| climate | HB 107 Support | Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund; established and created.
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Creates the Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in certain localities. The bill provides that a private developer is eligible to receive grants of 70 percent of such non-utility costs for electric vehicle charging stations installed in a city or county that meets the criteria of a distressed locality, as defined in the bill, and caps the total amount of grants awarded in any fiscal year at $25 million.
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Sullivan (D) |
Passed
(71-Y 27-N)
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Passed
(28-Y 12-N)
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CC Report Rejected | 3/11/24 | |
| climate | HB 116 Support | Retail Sales and Use tax; exemption for data centers.
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Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources.
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Sullivan (D) |
Tabled
to 2025
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4/9/24 | ||
| climate | HB 117 Support | Net energy metering; solar interconnection, cost recovery.
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Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay 33 cents ($0.33) per kilowatt-hour per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period required by State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering. ...
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Sullivan (D) |
Failed
Labor & Commerce sub3 5-5
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2/9/24 | ||
| climate | HB 118 Support | Electric utilities; cost recovery for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
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Requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Electric Power, by May 1, 2025, to (i) file a proposal with the State Corporation Commission to design and deploy all electrical distribution infrastructure on the utility side of a customer%92s meter for each customer installing separately metered infrastructure to support electric vehicle charging stations, other than those in single-family residences; (ii) file an application with the Commission to accelerate widespread transportation electrification across the Commonwealth in a manner designed to lower total ratepayer costs and that significantly contributes to meeting air quality standards and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a manner consistent with the objectives of the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law; ...
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Sullivan (D) |
Failed
Labor & Commerce sub 4-6
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2/8/24 | ||
| voting rights | HB 128 Support | Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; political parties exempted.
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Provides that local ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any person participating in certain specified political activities.
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Watts (D) |
Passed
(98-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/3/24 |
| education | HB 145 Support | Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps; established.
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Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for the purposes of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students seeking to obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students upon completion of their degree or certificate to fill teaching positions for one year for each year of scholarship receipt at a high-need school, as defined pursuant to federal law. ...
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Reid (D) |
Tabled
Approp. Elementary & Secondary Education (7-Y 0-N)
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2/7/24 | ||
| education | HB 181 Support | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors.
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Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.
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Feggans (D) |
Continued
voted to continue to 2025 by voice vote
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3/11/24 | ||
| education | HB 187 Support | Teacher and support staff compensation; at or above national average.
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Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average teacher salary. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. The bill also requires that public school instructional and noninstructional support staff be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average salary for such staff. The bill requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund an annual increase for public school teacher and instructional and noninstructional support staff salaries such that, no later than the 2028%962029 school year, such individuals are compensated at a rate that is at or above the respective national average salary.
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Clark (D) |
Passed
(74-Y 24-N)
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Passed
w. amendments (21-Y 18-N)
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Gov Rec Rejected
4/17/24
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Recommendations
Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
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4/25/24 |
| workers | HB 212 Support | MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements.
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Requires that the MEI Project Approval Commission considers, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, (i) whether a business has and commits to maintaining a balanced board of directors based upon gender and racial diversity, such that at least 30 percent of such board of directors consists of women and historically underrepresented groups, and (ii) whether a business seeking approval of a project submits a board diversity disclosure and commits to updating such disclosure annually, specifying the number and percentage of diverse directors on the board of such business who self-identify as female or represent a national, racial, ethnic, indigenous, or cultural minority in the country of the business's principal executive offices.
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Watts (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 48-N)
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Passed
with sub (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/28/24
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3/30/24 |
| rights | HB 243 Support | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; availability of complaint forms in courthouses.
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Requires that paper copies of any standardized form developed and utilized by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission for the filing of a complaint be made available to the public in the clerk's office in all state courts of the Commonwealth. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 48-N)
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Passed
(32-Y 6-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| governance | HB 265 Support | Removal of public officers from office; petition requirements; procedure.
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Requires the signatures collected on a petition for removal of certain public officers to be collected within 90 days of the first signature being collected and provides that no signatures gathered after such period shall count toward the required number. ...
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Simon (D) |
Passed
(58-Y 37-N), then (63-Y 37-N) w Senate substitute
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Passed
w substitute (22-Y 17-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/2024
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4/9/24 |
| justice | HB 267 Support | Arrest/prosecution of individual experiencing mental health emerg.; assault against law enforcement.
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Provides that no individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for an assault or assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer if at the time of the assault or assault and battery (i) the individual (a) is experiencing a mental health emergency or (b) meets the criteria for issuance of an emergency custody order and (ii) the law-enforcement officer subject to the assault or assault and battery was responding to a call for service requesting assistance for such individual. ...
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Watts (D) |
Passed
(56-Y 42-N)
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Passed
w substitute (20-Y 19-N)
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CC Report Accepted
by Senate (21-Y 19-N)
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Vetoed
3/27/23
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4/2/24 |
| campaign finance | HB 276 Support | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures, electioneering communications.
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Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. The bill also requires an advertisement that is an independent expenditure or that expressly advocates for the passage or defeat of a referendum to contain a disclaimer providing the names of the advertisement sponsor's three largest contributors. The bill also requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
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Helmer (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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2/13/24 | ||
| voting rights | HB 280 Support | Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty.
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Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from serving in any position of public trust within the Commonwealth for life if such person is convicted of certain offenses related to rioting and unlawful assembly or any substantially similar offense under the laws of the United States or any of its states or territories when such offense occurs (i) at a polling place, a voter satellite office, or any other location being used for voting or registration purposes; (ii) during the certification of an election; or (iii) at any other official proceeding related to an election. ...
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Helmer (D) |
Left
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2/13/24 | ||
| rights | HB 295 Support | Protective orders; prohibits parent of a minor from filing a petition for family abuse, etc.
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Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of his minor children, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Left
In Courts of Justice
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2/13/24 | ||
| rights | HB 335 Support | Employment; determining wage of tipped employee.
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Provides that an employer shall increase the amount paid to its tipped employees by an amount determined by the employer in accordance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a tipped employee who regularly performs services in the course of his employment for which there is no reasonable expectation of receiving tips shall receive an amount not less than the minimum wage for the time that he performs such services. ...
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Gardner (D) |
Passed
(49-Y 47-N)
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Passed
(20-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| guns | HB 362 Support | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm following an assault and battery.
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Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally purchases, possesses, or transports any firearm following a misdemeanor conviction for an offense that occurred on or after July 1, 2024, for the offense of assault and battery against a person in a dating relationship, as defined in the bill, with the alleged offender or an offense substantially similar under the laws of any other state or of the United States is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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McClure (D) |
Passed
(53-Y 46-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/26/24
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3/29/24 |
| rights | HB 370 Support | Employment; annual interactive training and education; harassment and workplace discrimination.
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Requires each employer with 50 or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions, to provide annual interactive training and education regarding harassment and workplace discrimination, as both terms are defined in the bill, by July 1, 2025. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Left
In Labor and Commerce
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3/11/24 | ||
| education | HB 386 Support | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions.
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Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions. ...
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Hernandez (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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2/13/24 | ||
| education | HB 398 Support | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based.
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Prohibits, except in certain cases involving firearms, drugs, adjudications of delinquency, or convictions of certain crimes, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without implementing at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice ...
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McQuinn (D) |
Passed
(52-Y 47-N)
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Passed
w substitute (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/23/24 |
| governance | HB 440 Support | Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications.
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The bill requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notification filed by electronic means by a party official or candidate. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to develop standards for the electronic preparation, production, submission, and transmittal of all forms required of party officials and candidates. The bill also requires the State Board to prescribe all candidate and party forms in both paper and electronic formats. ...
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Cole (D) |
Continued
Bill will be heard in 2025 after ELECT system updated
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2/2/24 | ||
| education | HB 458 Support | Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in all counties & cities to support schools.
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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 construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax. ...
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Callsen (D) |
Incorporated
HB805-Rasoul
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2/11/24 | ||
| rights | HB 470 Support | Minor; petition for child in need of services or in need of supervision.
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Authorizes an attorney or guardian ad litem representing a minor, or a parent, guardian, or other person standing in loco parentis of a minor, to file a petition for a child in need of services or in need of supervision with the clerk of the juvenile and domestic relations district court. Under current law, such petitions are required to be filed with an intake officer and are prohibited from being filed directly with the clerk. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Passed
(75-Y 23-N)
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Passed
w substitute (26-Y 14-N)
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CC Report Rejected
by House
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3/11/24 | |
| justice | HB 555 Support | Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, report.
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Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee), also created by the bill.
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Hope (D) |
Passed
(98-Y-0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
| rights | HB 569 Support | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations.
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Requires an employer who receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of discrimination for which the employee may seek enforcement by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the Office of the Attorney General to notify such employee that a charge may be filed with the EEOC or the Office of the Attorney General within 300 days after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred. ...
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Henson (D) |
Passed
(49-Y 48-N)
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Passed
w substitute (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled | Vetoed | 3/25/24 |
| workers | HB 570 Support | Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report.
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Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. ...
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Delany (D) |
Passed
(52-Y 46-N)
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Passed
(25-Y 15-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| education | HB 624 Support | Public school funding; places several parameters on SOQ funding calculations performed by DOE.
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Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions that is provided as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act; (ii) ...
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(85-Y 14-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Gov Rec Rejected |
Action Deadline 11:59 pm, May 17, 2024
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4/23/24 |
| education | HB 625 Support | Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education.
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Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the development and growth of community schools throughout the Commonwealth in accordance with the Virginia Community School Framework ...
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(64-Y 35-N)
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Passed
w sub (21-Y 19-N)
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Gov Rec Adopted |
Enacted
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/23/24 |
| education | HB 626 Support | Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention.
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Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program and Fund for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors that lead to gun violence and increasing community engagement among public school students by providing to students who are entering the eighth grade and enrolled in Roanoke City Public Schools and Petersburg City Public Schools ...
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/3/24 |
| campaign finance | HB 629 Support | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
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Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. ...
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Cherry (R) |
PBI
Folded into HB40
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3/11/24 | ||
| education | HB 632 Support | Teachers; certain licenses and certificates.
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Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed;
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
w substitute (39-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
| climate | HB 638 Support | [ARC] Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs, duty to implement the Energy Policy, etc..
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Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission determines that the program is cost-effective and directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding no later than December 31, 2025, to establish a single, consistent cost-effectiveness test for use in evaluating proposed energy efficiency programs. ...
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Sullivan (D) |
Tabled
Labor & Commerce
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3/11/24 | ||
| campaign finance | HB 643 Support | Campaign fundraising; prohibited during legislative sessions, enforcement of civil penalty.
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Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General who shall initiate civil proceedings to enforce the civil penalty currently assessed for such violations. ...
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Cherry (R) |
Tabled
Subc (5-Y 3-N)
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|
2/25/24 | ||
| governance | HB 658 Support | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report.
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Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill also clarifies requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be reported along with other results reported on election night, except that such results must clearly be identified as preliminary and based on the first rankings in a ranked choice voting election. ...
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Cole (D) |
Continued
by house vote - continuing until 2025
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|
1/23/24 | ||
| campaign finance | HB 730 Support | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports; electronic filing required.
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Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
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Sickles (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(39-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/25)
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4/2/24 |
| climate | HB 746 Support | [SAVE] Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings.
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Provides that it is in the public interest and the policy of the Commonwealth to deploy demand-side management programs and energy efficiency measures throughout the Commonwealth to achieve the greatest possible reductions in energy consumption. The bill permits the State Corporation Commission to increase or decrease an investor-owned electric utility's combined rate of return based on the utility's success in complying with energy efficiency program targets in existing law. ...
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Webert (R) |
Passed
(90-Y 7-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 18-N)
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Gov Rec Adopted |
Enacted
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/23/24 |
| rights | HB 768 Support | Child victims and witnesses; using two-way closed-circuit television, expands age range.
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Expands the age range during which a child may testify using two-way closed-circuit television in a criminal case to include any child younger than 18 years of age at the time of the trial. Under current law, an alleged victim must be 14 years of age or younger at the time of the alleged offense and 16 years of age or younger at the time of the trial to testify by two-way closed-circuit television, and a child witness must be 14 years of age or younger at the time of the trial to so testify. ...
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Delaney (D) |
Left
In Appropriations
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|
2/13/24 | ||
| rights | HB 782 Support | Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civil actions.
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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 complainant or the respondent for any charge of discrimination to request a notice of the right to file a civil action after the Commission has closed its file on such charge of discrimination. ...
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Herring (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled | Recommendations | 4/9/24 |
| education | HB 805 Support | Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in all counties & cities to support schools.
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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 construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax.
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(69-Y 28-N)
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Passed
w. substitute (27-Y 12-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| justice | HB 834 Support | Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility, procedures.
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Provides a process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility or secure facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such time as the court shall determine, or (iii) otherwise modify the sentence imposed.
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Cousins (D) |
Left
Appropriations
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|
2/13/24 | ||
| governance | HB 841 Support | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report.
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Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. ...
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Hope (D) |
Left
Rules
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|
2/13/24 | ||
| education | HB 865 Support | Income tax, state; establishes a new tax bracket beginning on and after January 1, 2024.
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Establishes a new income tax bracket beginning on and after January 1, 2024, that taxes income in excess of $1 million at a rate of 10 percent. The bill provides that 50 percent of revenues generated by the new tax bracket will be dedicated to providing additional basic aid funding for public schools, 30 percent of such revenues will be dedicated to the Child Care Subsidy Program, and 20 percent of such revenues will be dedicated to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
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Hernandez (D) |
Continued
to 2025
|
|
2/13/24 | ||
| campaign finance | HB 874 Support | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty.
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Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the Senate of Virginia or $10,000 to any one candidate for the House of Delegates in any one election cycle. ...
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Bulova (D) |
Left
Privileges and Elections
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|
2/14/24 | ||
| governance | HB 894 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings.
more...
Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. ...
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Bennett-Parker (D) |
Passed
(74-Y 26-N)
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Passed
(32-Y 7-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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3/9/24 |
| governance | HB 911 Support | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; staffing; annual audit of certain disclosure forms; lobbyist registration and reporting; civil penalties.
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Provides for an annual audit of the Statement of Economic Interests disclosure forms filed by members of the General Assembly to ensure the completeness and material accuracy of the information disclosed. The bill directs the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to appoint and employ an executive director; currently, the Division of Legislative Services employs the executive director and provides additional staff assistance. ...
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Shin (D) |
Left
Rules
|
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2/13/24 | ||
| justice | HB 920 Support | License plate readers; penalties.
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Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owner or other responsible non-law-enforcement entity to operate a data trust, defined in the bill, to store the data collected by a license plate reader and requires any such law-enforcement agency to apply to the data trust for access to such data. The bill limits the use of license plate readers to scanning, detecting, and identifying license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying vehicles involved in certain crimes.
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Shin (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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2/8/24 | ||
| guns | HB 939 Support | Unlawful to knowingly carry a firearm within 100 feet of certain locations.
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Prohibits any person, with certain exceptions, from knowingly possessing a firearm within 100 feet of the entrance of a polling place, the building used by the local electoral board to meet to ascertain election results, or the building used to conduct a recount of an election. ...
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Shin (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
w. substitute (20-Y 19-N)
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Agreed
by House (51-Y 49-N)
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Vetoed
03/27/24
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3/29/24 |
| rights | HB 994 Support | Legal age for marriage.
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Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry.
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Keys-Gamarra (D) |
Passed
(55-Y 42-N)
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Passed
w amendment (39-Y 1-N)
|
Enrolled
by House
|
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
|
4/9/24 |
| governance | HB 1040 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of 'caregiver;' remote participation in meetings.
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Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. ...
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Bennett-Parker (D) |
Passed
(100-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(26-Y 12-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
|
4/9/24 |
| campaign finance | HB 1045 Support | Elections; campaign finance; Public Campaigns Program and Fund established; tax check-off.
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Establishes the Public Campaigns Program within the Department of Elections for the purpose of providing matching payments of public money to participating candidates receiving qualified small-dollar contributions of less than $250. The bill requires participating candidates to agree to abide by contribution limits and limits on the use of public matching payments in addition to agreeing to participate in public debates. Under the bill, matching payments are made from the Public Campaigns Fund, which is funded by an option on Virginia tax returns to direct a contribution of $40 from an individual filer, or $80 dollars for joint filers, to the Fund. The bill requires the Department to conduct audits of elections involving Program participants and to make a report to the General Assembly on the status of the Program generally.
|
Simon (D) |
Tabled
P&E Reported 12-10; in App Gen Gov Subc Tabled 8-0
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|
3/11/24 | ||
| rights | HB 1344 Support | Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions; civil action.
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Prohibits the inclusion of a provision in any employment contract that has the purpose or effect of concealing illegal activity or activity an employee believes to be unlawful, including unlawful sexual harassment, discrimination, wage theft, and protected whistleblowing, as those terms are described in existing law.
|
McQuinn (D) |
Continued
to 2025
|
|
2/13/24 | ||
| campaign finance | HB 1360 Support | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
more...
Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, ...
|
Convirs-Fowler (D) |
Left
Privileges and Elections
|
|
3/11/24 | ||
| climate | HB 1456 Support | Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design.
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Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready, cool, or energy-efficient roof, defined in the bill.
|
Carr (D) |
Tabled
Finance sub 2
|
|
2/9/24 | ||
| rights | HB 1492 Support | Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report.
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Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, adoption, and implementation of trauma-informed training and education for judges, magistrates, and court personnel. The bill requires the work group to submit its recommendations by December 1, 2024, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.
|
Cousins (D) |
Continued
to 2025
|
|
2/21/24 | ||
| workers | HJ 1 Support | Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).
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Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising the individual's right to reproductive freedom or for aiding another individual in the exercise of such right, unless justified by a compelling state interest.
|
Herring (D) |
Continued
to 2025
|
|
3/11/24 | ||
| voting rights | HJ 2 Support | Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote.
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Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth and that such right shall not be abridged by law, except for persons who have been convicted of a felony and persons who have been adjudicated to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting. A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be entitled to vote during any period of incarceration for such felony conviction, but upon release from incarceration for that felony conviction and without further action required of him, such person shall be invested with all political rights, including the right to vote. Currently, in order to be qualified to vote a person convicted of a felony must have his civil rights restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority. The amendment also provides that a person adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction as lacking the capacity to understand the act of votin
|
Bennett-Parker (D) |
Continued
to 2025
|
|
2/13/24 | ||
| climate | HJ 30 Support | [PBUR] Study; State Corporation Commission; electric utilities; performance-based regulatory tools; report.
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Requests the State Corporation Commission, in consultation with the Department of Energy, to study performance-based regulatory tools for investor-owned electric utilities in the Commonwealth.
|
Sullivan (D) |
Passed
(97-Y 0-N)
|
Passed
w Substitute
|
CC Report Accepted | 3/11/24 | |
| climate | HJ 36 Support | Clean energy; Dept. of Energy to study barriers for local governments to purchase.
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Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their constituents...
|
Sewell (D) |
Tabled
Continued to 2025 by Rules Comm
|
|
4/9/24 | ||
| justice | HJ 38 Support | Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
more...
Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the scope and cost of the current laws in the Commonwealth penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
|
Cousins (D) |
Tabled
Rules sub: Studies
|
|
1/31/24 | ||
| workers | SB 1 Support | Minimum wage; increases wage to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025.
more...
Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 1242 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020.
|
Lucas (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/28/24
|
3/30/24 |
| guns | SB 2 Support | Assault firearms & certain ammunition, etc.; purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., prohibited.
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Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has been rendered permanently inoperable, is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action, or was manufactured before July 1, 2024. ...
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Deeds (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/26/24
|
3/29/24 |
| education | SB 14 Support | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum.
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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 construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax.
|
McPike (D) |
Passed
(68-Y 28-N)
|
Passed
(27-Y 13-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
|
4/9/24 |
| workers | SB 15 Support | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes.
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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 violation involves the receipt of or assistance with reproductive health care services within the Commonwealth unless the alleged criminal violation would also constitute a criminal offense under the laws of the Commonwealth. ...
|
Favola (D) |
Passed
(54-Y 46-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
04/05/24
|
4/8/24 |
| workers | SB 16 Support | Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited, definition.
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Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information.
|
Favola (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
|
Passed
(22-Y 18-N)
|
Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
|
4/8/24 |
| guns | SB 47 Support | Firearm; transfers to another person from a prohibited person.
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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 household member may transfer a firearm owned by such prohibited person to any person who is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing such firearm, provided that such person who is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing such firearm is 21 years of age or older and does not reside with the person who is subject to the protective order. ...
|
Favola (D) |
Passed
(52-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
3/8/24
|
3/9/24 |
| campaign finance | SB 78 Support | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements.
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Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. The bill also requires an advertisement that is an independent expenditure or that expressly advocates for the passage or defeat of a referendum to contain a disclaimer providing the names of the advertisement sponsor's three largest contributors. The bill also requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
|
Favola (D) |
|
Failed
Privileges & Elections 8-7-1, Failed 19-21
|
2/14/24 | ||
| climate | SB 79 Support | Solar-ready roofs for certain gov't bldgs
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Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready, cool, or energy-efficient roof, defined in the bill. The bill also requires new public school buildings and facilities and improvements and renovations to existing public school buildings and facilities where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building to, after notice is given to the governing body, be designed and constructed to meet net-zero energy consumption standards. The provisions of this bill only apply to projects entering the design phase on or after January 1, 2025.
|
Favola (D) |
Tabled
Appropriations (22-Y, 0-N)
|
Passed
(22 - Y, 17-N)
|
4/3/24 | ||
| governance | SB 85 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver;" remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting.
more...
Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. ...
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Favola (D) |
Passed
(95-Y 3-N)
|
Passed
(28-Y 11-N)
|
Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
|
4/9/24 |
| guns | SB 100 Support | Plastic firearms and unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.
more...
Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings, schools, correctional facilities, and other locations for security screening. ...
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Ebbin (D) |
Passed
(52-Y 48-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled | Recommendations | 4/10/24 |
| education | SB 104 Support | Teacher compensation; at or above national average.
more...
Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. The bill requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a three percent increase for Standards of Quality-funded instructional and support positions, effective for the 2025%962026 school year and to fund an additional seven percent increase, effective for the 2026%962027 school year, for each school division, Academic Year Governor's School, and Regional Alternative Education Program. The bill contains provisions relating to eligibility to receive a prorated share of such state funding for any school division that fails to provide the required increases. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
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Lucas (D) |
Passed
(70-Y 26-N)
|
Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
|
Gov Rec Rejected | Recommendations | 4/18/24 |
| education | SB 105 Support | National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program & Fund; eligibility, incentive grant awards.
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Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund, expands eligibility for incentive grant awards from such Fund pursuant to such Program from solely teachers who have obtained national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to (i) all public school staff who are candidates for initial national certification or maintenance of national certification to cover certain costs of obtaining or maintaining such certification and (ii) all public school staff who have successfully obtained or maintained such certification. ...
|
Lucas (D) |
Passed
w. substitute (96-Y 0-N)
|
Passed
w. substitute (40-Y 0-N)
|
Gov Rec Rejected | Recommendations | 4/18/24 |
| campaign finance | SB 107 Support | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited.
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Prohibits campaign fundraising by a member of the General Assembly or statewide official on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, such campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions of the General Assembly.
|
Suetterlein (R) |
|
Left
Privileges & Elections 10-4, floor recommitted to P&E
|
2/12/24 | ||
| education | SB 127 Support | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions.
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Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division. The bill also increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions.
|
VanValkenburg (D) |
|
Incorporated
SB105 - Lucas
|
2/11/24 | ||
| education | SB 128 Support | Public school funding; certain calculations.
more...
Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions that is provided as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act; (ii) requiring the Department, when estimating the cost of any compensation supplement for instructional and support positions under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include and estimate the cost of such a compensation supplement for facilities staff; (iii) prohibiting the Department from applying any cap on inflation rate adjustments...
|
VanValkenburg (D) |
|
Incorporated
SB105 - Lucas
|
2/11/24 | ||
| climate | SB 192 Support | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers.
more...
Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources.
|
Subramanyam (D) |
|
Tabled
Continued to 2025 in Finance & Approps
|
4/9/24 | ||
| education | SB 227 Support | Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students.
more...
Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions that is provided as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act; ...
|
Hashmi (D) |
|
Incorporated
(SB105-Lucas)
|
2/11/24 | ||
| education | SB 228 Support | Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities.
more...
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 average school division cost to educate children with disabilities and (ii) a per-pupil Standards of Quality funding add-on for English language learner and special education students.
|
Hashmi (D) |
|
Incorporated
(SB105-Lucas)
|
2/11/24 | ||
| climate | SB 230 Support | [ARC] Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs, duty to implement the Energy Policy, etc..
more...
Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission determines that the program is cost-effective and directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding no later than December 31, 2025, to establish a single, consistent cost-effectiveness test for use in evaluating proposed energy efficiency programs. ...
|
Hashmi (D) |
|
Tabled
Continued to 2025 by Commerce & Labor
|
4/9/24 | ||
| climate | SB 253 Support | Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia.
more...
Amends existing shared solar program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia (Phase II Utility). The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program means the resulting amount a customer must pay the utility after the bill credit, defined in relevant law, is deducted from the customer's monthly gross utility bill. ...
|
Surovell (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
(23-Y 17-N)
|
Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
|
4/9/24 |
| governance | SB 270 Support | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting.
more...
Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice.
|
Subramanyam (D) |
Continued
to 2025 by voice vote
|
Passed
(21-Y 0-19 N)
|
2/24/24 | ||
| education | SB 272 Support | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students.
more...
Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: ...
|
Hashmi (D) |
Passed
w. sub (57-Y 43-N)
|
Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
|
Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
|
4/10/24 |
| guns | SB 273 Support | Firearms; waiting period for purchases, penalty.
more...
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 history record information, with exceptions enumerated in relevant law.
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Subramanyam (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/26/24
|
3/29/24 |
| workers | SB 274 Support | Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report.
more...
Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. ...
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Deeds (D) |
Passed
(50-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
(23-Y 16-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
|
4/9/24 |
| justice | SB 334 Support | Plea agreements; prohibited provisions.
more...
Prohibits plea agreements from containing any provision that purports to waive, release, or extinguish a defendant's (i) rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia; (ii) right to file a petition requesting expungement of the police records and the court records; or (iii) right to have criminal history record information and court records sealed. ...
|
Salim (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y-19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/20/24
|
3/22/24 |
| climate | SB 346 Support | Net energy metering; solar interconnection, cost recovery.
more...
Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period required by State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering.
|
Subramanyam (D) |
|
Tabled
Continued to 2025 by Commerce & Labor
|
4/9/24 | ||
| rights | SB 350 Support | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue.
more...
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 after 180 days have passed from the date the complaint was filed to commence a timely civil action in an appropriate general district or circuit court having jurisdiction over the person who allegedly unlawfully discriminated against the complainant. ...
|
Perry (D) |
Passed
(85-Y 12-N)
|
Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
|
Enrolled
by Senate
|
Recommendations | 4/9/24 |
| justice | SB 357 Support | Assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer; penalty.
more...
Reduces the penalty for assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer from a Class 6 felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor and reduces the mandatory minimum term of confinement from six months to 10 days. The bill also specifies that a person must commit assault and battery that results in bodily injury to be guilty of the enhanced offense. ...
|
Boysko (D) |
Passed
(49-Y 48-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
3/27/24
|
4/3/24 |
| voting rights | SB 364 Support | Elections; protection of election officials, penalty.
more...
Adds current or former status as an election official or employee of an election official to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. ...
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Ebbin (D) |
Passed
w sub (52-Y 47-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled | Recommendations | 4/9/24 |
| workers | SB 373 Support | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements, civil action.
more...
Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. ...
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Boysko (D) |
Passed
(50-Y 46-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
04/05/24
|
4/8/24 |
| campaign finance | SB 377 Support | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions.
more...
Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, ...
|
Boysko (D) |
Continued
P&E 22-0; Appropriations continued voice vote
|
Passed
P&E 13-1; Finance 15-0; Senate 35-4
|
3/2/24 | ||
| workers | SB 393 Support | MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements.
more...
Requires that the MEI Project Approval Commission considers, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, (i) whether a business has and commits to maintaining a balanced board of directors based upon gender and racial diversity, such that at least 30 percent of such board of directors consists of women and historically underrepresented groups, and (ii) ...
|
Pekarsky (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 46-N)
|
Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
|
Enrolled |
Vetoed
03/27/24
|
3/30/24 |
| justice | SB 427 Support | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures.
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Provides a process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility or secure facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such time as the court shall determine, or (iii) otherwise modify the sentence imposed.
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Deeds (D) |
Continued
Continued to 2025
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Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
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2/29/24 | ||
| governance | SB 428 Support | Elections; any local or constitutional office may be conducted by ranked choice voting.
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Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. ...
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VanValkenburg (D) |
Passed
w sub (54-Y 44-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
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Agreed |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| justice | SB 456 Support | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created.
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Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee), also created by the bill. The bill provides that the Committee is made up of four members of the General Assembly and 11 nonlegislative citizen members who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections (the Department). ...
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Marsden (D) |
Passed
(97-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(37-Y-2-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
| climate | SB 457 Support | Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund; established and created.
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Creates the Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. ...
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Marsden (D) |
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Tabled
Continued to 2025 by Finance & Approps
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4/9/24 | ||
| guns | SB 522 Support | Purchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of a firearms safety.
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Requires that a prospective purchaser of a firearm present proof that such prospective purchaser has demonstrated competence with a firearm or completed a firearms safety or training course, as specified in the bill, within the past five years.
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Williams Graves (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 19-N)
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CC Report Rejected
by Senate
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3/11/24 | |
| justice | SB 539 Support | License plate readers; penalties.
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Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owners or other responsible non-law-enforcement entity to operate a data trust, defined in the bill, to store the data collected by a license plate reader and requires any such law-enforcement agency to apply to the data trust for access to such data. The bill limits the use of license plate readers to scanning, detecting, and identifying license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying vehicles involved in certain crimes.
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Bagby (D) |
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Left
Courts of Justice
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2/13/24 | ||
| climate | SB 565 Support | [SAVE] Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings.
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Provides that it is in the public interest and the policy of the Commonwealth to deploy demand-side management programs and energy efficiency measures throughout the Commonwealth to achieve the greatest possible reductions in energy consumption. ...
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Deeds (D) |
Passed
w. substitute (86-12)
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Passed
w. substitute (21-Y 18-N)
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Gov Rec Adopted |
Enacted
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/23/24 |
| education | SB 586 Support | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, restorative disciplinary practices.
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Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first initiating at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice such as community conferencing, community service, mentoring, a peer jury, peer mediation, positive behavioral interventions and supports, a restorative circle, or the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports. ...
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Pekarsky (D) |
Passed
w substitute (51-Y 47-N)
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Passed
House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
| rights | SB 592 Support | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary; approval.
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Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to eliminate the requirement that a patient try and fail a drug from the Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary in the six months immediately prior to approval of a nonpreferred drug when such patient has previously tried the drug from the Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary and experienced harmful side effects.
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Salim (D) |
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Continued
to 2025
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2/21/24 | ||
| campaign finance | SB 692 Support | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports; electronic filing required.
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Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
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Perry (D) |
Passed
(100-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/25)
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4/2/24 |
| workers | SB 716 Support | Unprofessional conduct; disciplinary action against doctor for providing abortion care, etc.
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Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardless of where such abortion care was provided or received. ...
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Carroll Foy (D) |
Passed
(54-Y 45-N)
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Passed
(21-Y 18-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
04/05/24
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4/8/24 |
| governance | SB 734 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings.
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Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. ...
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Marsden (D) |
Passed
(79-Y 20-N)
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Passed
(35 Y 4N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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3/29/24 |
| climate | SB 737 Support | Energy efficiency programs.
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Surovell (D) |
Passed
w. substitute (50-Y 46-N)
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Passed
w. substitute (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |
| workers | SJ 1 Support | Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).
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Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising the individual's right to reproductive freedom or for aiding another individual in the exercise of such right, unless justified by a compelling state interest.
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Boysko (D) |
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Continued
to 2025
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3/11/24 | ||
| voting rights | SJ 2 Support | Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote.
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Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth and that such right shall not be abridged by law, except for persons who have been convicted of a felony and persons who have been adjudicated to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting. A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be entitled to vote during any period of incarceration for such felony conviction, but upon release from incarceration for that felony conviction and without further action required of him, such person shall be invested with all political rights, including the right to vote. Currently, in order to be qualified to vote a person convicted of a felony must have his civil rights restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority. The amendment also provides that a person adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction as lacking the capacity to understand the act of votin
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Locke (D) |
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Continued
to 2025
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3/11/24 | ||
| justice | SJ 26 Support | Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
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Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the scope and cost of the current laws in the Commonwealth penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
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Pekarsky (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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Passed
(22-Y 18-N)
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2/23/24 | ||
| climate | HB 3 Oppose | State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards.
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Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliant with model year standards related to the control of emissions adopted by California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act.
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Wilt (R) |
Tabled
Labor & Commerce
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2/8/24 | ||
| climate | HB 7 Oppose | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations, low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards.
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Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later.
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Fowler (R) |
Left
Agriculture, Chesapeake & Natural Resources
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2/13/24 | ||
| climate | HB 397 Oppose | Regulation of electric utilities; development of renewable energy facilities; powers.
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Repeals provisions (i) requiring the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from any electricity generating unit in the Commonwealth and authorizing the Board to establish an auction program for energy allowances; (ii) prohibiting the State Corporation Commission from approving any new utility-owned generation facilities that emit carbon dioxide as a by-product of energy generation, in certain circumstances; (iii) declaring that statutory allowances for energy derived from sunlight, onshore wind, offshore wind, and storage facilities are in the public interest; and (iv) relating to the development of solar and wind generation and energy storage capacity, ...
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Griffin (R) |
Tabled
Labor & Commerce
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2/8/24 | ||
| climate | SB 3 Oppose | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations, low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards.
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Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later.
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Stuart (R) |
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PBI
Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources
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3/11/24 | ||
| education | SB 37 Oppose | Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care.
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Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee to (i) as soon as practicable, inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor (a) expresses to any individual who is employed in such school that such minor is experiencing gender incongruence, as defined in the bill, or (b) requests that any such employee participate in social affirmation of such minor's gender incongruence or the transition of such minor to a sex or gender different from the minor's biological sex while at school and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school. ...
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McGuire (R) |
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PBI
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2/13/24 | ||
| climate | SB 53 Oppose | State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards.
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Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliant with model year standards related to the control of emissions adopted by California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act.
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McDougle (R) |
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PBI
Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources
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1/30/24 | ||
| climate | SB 454 Oppose | Electric utilities; recovery of development costs associated with small modular reactor.
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Permits American Electric Power and Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission at any time for the approval of a rate adjustment clause for the recovery of small modular reactor project development costs for up to one small modular reactor facility. The bill also permits the utility to petition the Commission for project development cost recovery along separate development phases.
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Marsden (D) |
Passed
(52-Y 44-N 1-A)
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Passed
(20-Y 16-N)
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Gov Rec Adopted |
Enacted
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/23/24 |
| education | SJ 9 Oppose | Teacher retention, etc.; JLARC to study effect of salaries, employment benefits, etc.
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Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on recruiting and retaining high-quality, fully licensed teachers, including (i) examining salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention in each local school division; ...
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Sturtevant (R) |
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Failed
Voice vote
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2/21/24 | ||