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HB45VetoEarned sentence credits; incarceration prior to entry of final order of conviction. Provides that a person's eligibility for earned sentence credits shall include any period of time actually spent in any state or local correctional facility, state ho...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB939VetoElections administration; certain activities or conduct prohibited at polling places applicable to locations for absentee voting in person; prohibited possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations. Clarifies that the provisions of law pr...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB315PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; lien for claim of personal injuries. Creates a process by which a lien in favor of the Department of Medical Assistance Services on a claim for personal injuries may be satisfied upon the request of the inju...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0807)
HB776VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have app...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB258VetoSubstantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate must consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issuing an emergency substantial risk order or a substantia...
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2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present
SB506VetoPublic institutions of higher education; governing boards; powers and duties; legal counsel; scope of employment. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall have authority over the employment of all legal c...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB2VetoPurchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB967PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, a description of any rent and fees to b...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826)
HB1244VetoRestorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB588VetoDepartment of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
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2024-04-17
Passed by for the day
HB1462VetoFirearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB990VetoProhibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB77VetoRobbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting to the three higher degrees of ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB418VetoCivil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil action or may be proceeded against in a civil action, provided that ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB569PassState Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; regulations; crisis receiving centers; appropriate and safe use of seclusion; work group; report. Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend its regula...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795)
SB428VetoElections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Clarifies the requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires the results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be repor...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB746PassEnergy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission det...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)
SB99VetoCarrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB597VetoAffordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB184PassForeclosure procedures; subordinate mortgage; affidavit required. Provides that, when a foreclosure sale is initiated due to a default in payment of a subordinate security instrument, such subordinate mortgage lienholder shall submit to the trustee a...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803)
HB265VetoRemoval of public officers from office; petition requirements; procedure. 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 n...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB457VetoDecreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employmen...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB529VetoConservation and replacement of trees during development process. Expands certain existing local government authority to conserve or replace trees during the development process by expanding such authority statewide. The bill allows localities to est...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB447VetoFirearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB957PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit due to condemnation. Provides that the landlord shall be liable to the tenant for actual damages if the tenant gave notice to the landlord during the ten...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825)
SB448VetoCannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB544PassShort-term rental property; special exceptions. Prohibits a locality from barring the use of or requiring that a special exception, special use, or conditional use permit be obtained for the use of a residential dwelling as a short-term rental where ...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792)
SB584VetoDepartment of General Services; General Services Board established; Chief Administrator. Establishes the General Services Board to oversee the Department of General Services and, among other duties, to appoint a Chief Administrator for the Department...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB504VetoExpungement of police and court records. Provides that, for the purposes of expungement of police and court records, the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB161VetoArrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility sha...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB175VetoCarrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB14VetoAdditional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB333VetoVirginia Council on Environmental Justice; meetings and staffing; appointment of members. Allows the members of the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice to travel throughout the Commonwealth to view and record conditions related to human health ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB598VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB608PassPublic education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797)
HB1062PassNet energy metering; eligible customer-generators and eligible agricultural customer-generators. Provides that no contract, lease, or arrangement by which a third party owns, maintains, or operates an electrical generating facility on an eligible cus...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827)
HB786PassGuardianship and conservatorship; restoration of capacity or modification or termination of order; informal written communication. Allows a person subject to a guardianship or conservatorship who is not represented by counsel to initiate the process ...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820)
HB1415PassCivil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)
SB405PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, a description of any rent and fees to b...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
SB642VetoPurchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB1252VetoLimitation on sentence upon revocation of suspension of sentence; technical violations. Provides that when conducting a revocation hearing, the court shall consider at the same revocation hearing all alleged technical violations that occurred prior t...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB571VetoPolicies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB466VetoConcealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB1534VetoElections; challenges to voter or voter's registration; challenges to candidate qualifications or eligibility. Eliminates the process by which any voter could challenge, in a polling place on the day of an election, the right of any other voter to ca...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
HB318VetoFirearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
SB373VetoPaid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Und...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB550PassLiquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products; certification and directory; penalties. Requires every manufacturer of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products that are sold for retail sale in the Commonwealth to certify to the Attorney General that (...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)
HB1404PassDepartment of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; disparity study report. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of c...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834)
SB713PassPublic service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with cer...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799)
HB335VetoDepartment of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
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