| HB714 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; pilot program for underground transmission lines; additional project. Adds one project to the existing pilot program for underground transmission lines. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to approve one additional ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR179 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Honorable Kathy J. Byron. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR280 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR127 | Engross
Sine Die | Encouraging the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth. Encourages the Commonwealth of Virginia to take all practical steps to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel in the Commonwealth, regionally, and nationally. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To House Rules Committee |
| HB979 | Engross
Sine Die | School board duties; appointment and employment of division superintendents; oversight. Requires each school board to appoint, employ, and provide oversight for a division superintendent and provides that nothing in the Code of Virginia or the regula... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HJR171 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Elinor McManus. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB942 | Engross
Sine Die | Polling places and voter satellite offices; prohibited locations. Prohibits the placement of a polling place or a voter satellite office within a police station or sheriff's office, but permits the placement in a public building that houses multiple ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1216 | Engross
Sine Die | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1514 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility to allow a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns an interest in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot, required reports. Provides that a person who fails to file at least one of the campaign finance reports required by law to be filed in an election year by July 20 is not entitled... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB369 | Engross
Sine Die | Maiming, killing, or poisoning companion animals; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously shoot, stab, or wound, or otherwise cause bodily injury to, or administer poison to or expose poison with intent that it be taken by, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1303 | Engross
Sine Die | General Assembly members; administrative and legislative assistants. Removes the obsolete title of secretary and replaces it with administrative assistant for the purposes of employment of staff for officers and members of the General Assembly. The b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Rules Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio. Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for certain mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires that a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee meet or excee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Education Committee |
| SB28 | Engross
Sine Die | School boards; powers and duties; policies regarding cell phones and other handheld communication devices. Permits each school board to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the possession or use of cell phones and other handheld communication d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Education Committee |
| HB1171 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; processing absentee ballots returned before election day; processing upon receipt. Requires the general registrars to complete the initial processing of absentee ballots that are returned before election day within three business day... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB442 | Engross
Sine Die | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1545 | Engross
Sine Die | Requisite training and education achievements of physician assistants. Permits the Board of Medicine to grant provisional licensure as a physician assistant to applicants pending the results of an examination, as defined in the bill. Such provisional... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 Defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| SB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB573 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Emergency Management and financially man... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB109 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB696 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishment of recovery high schools; authorization in certain Superintendent's regions. Authorizes any school board that governs a school division located in Superintendent's Region 2, 4, or 7 to establish a recovery high school in the relevant sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1101 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; professional services; definition. Adds to the definition of "professional services," for use throughout the Virginia Public Procurement Act, services of an investment and financial advisor procured by the Department ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1185 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer, and Discharge data elements on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Heal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1445 | Engross
Sine Die | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB641 | Engross
Sine Die | Certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators by localities. Repeals an existing statute that allows localities by ordinance to require certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board to prioritize the preservation of wat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR67 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB73 | Engross
Sine Die | Photo-monitoring system for traffic signals; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a locality to employ a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, as defined in the bill, to review photographs, microphotographs, videotape, or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB264 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; school boards; student online activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions. Requires the Department of Education to establish reporting expectations for school divisions that collect student online activity data an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| HB675 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB677 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB57 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant; penalty. Makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person, except for active and qualified retired law-enforcement officers, to carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaura... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB331 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health Professions; informed consent requirements for hysterectomies and oophorectomies; review; report. Directs the Department of Health Professions to review and make recommendations regarding informed consent requirements for hyster... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB550 | Engross
Sine Die | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB606 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Social Work; licensure of clinical social workers; examination alternative; regulation amendments. Directs the Board of Social Work to amend the regulations for the licensure of clinical social workers to allow applicants to utilize an exami... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1322 | Engross
Sine Die | Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination Certified registered nurse anesthetist; elimination of supervision requirement. Eliminates the requirement that certified registered nurse anesthetists practice under the supervision of a doctor of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB842 | Engross
Sine Die | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB657 | Engross
Sine Die | Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter to, while... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB1403 | Engross
Sine Die | Dam Safety, Flood Prevention, and Protection Assistance Fund; percentage of funds available; owner match requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Exception to stopping requirement; bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter. Authorizes the person operating a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, elec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (5-Y 9-N) |