Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1160
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Refer
2/7/24
Portable benefit accounts; tax credit. Authorizes a Virginia resident who has worked as an independent contractor to establish a portable benefit account. Under the bill, a portable benefit account offered through and administered by a bank, credit union, or other depository institution and distributions from the account may be used for the payment of various health-related costs. The bill establishes a nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for individuals who contribute to a portable benefit account.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1161
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media; parental consent. Requires social media platforms, defined in the bill, that are subject to the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to permitting any minor to create an account with such social media platform and, with such account, use the social media platform. The bill requires such social media platforms to give the parent or guardian the option to consent to the collection and use of the minor's personal data without consenting to the disclosure of such minor's personal data to third parties.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1162
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Security camera monitoring by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations may establish a program to allow for the monitoring or reviewing of security cameras, as defined in the bill, for the purpose of tracking and reducing crime by such law-enforcement agency. The bill requires that any law-enforcement agency establishing such program shall develop a policy for how such security cameras will be monitored and how such data from such security cameras will be used and maintained.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1163
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/8/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Enrolled
2/26/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Department of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and requiring the existence of an impairment that will prevent the driver from exercising reasonable and ordinary control over a motor vehicle or drive a motor vehicle safely. Department of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and requiring the existence of an impairment that will prevent the driver from exercising reasonable and ordinary control over a motor vehicle or drive a motor vehicle safely.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1164
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1165
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
3/1/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions. Adds definitions related to the rights of persons with disabilities to relevant law. The bill defines "path of travel," "place of public accommodation,"" "public entity," "private entity," and "readily achievable." The bill requires places of public accommodation to ensure that barriers to accessibility are removed when the removal is readily achievable.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1166
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Central fill pharmacies. Establishes requirements for central fill pharmacies, which are defined in the bill as permitted pharmacy facilities that, upon the request of an originating pharmacy, perform the product fulfillment of a drug order and return the filled prescription to the originating pharmacy for delivery to the patient or patient's agent or, for non-federally controlled substances, send the filled prescription directly to the patient. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1167
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/20/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Vetoed
3/14/24
Local prohibition on the sale of English ivy; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of English ivy, with violations punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $50 for a first violation and not to exceed $200 for a subsequent violation within 12 months.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1168
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Refer
1/30/24
Office of the Children's Ombudsman; powers. Grants the Children's Ombudsman with regard to children receiving child-protective services, in foster care, or placed for adoption and children who may have died as a result of alleged abuse or neglect the power to directly oversee local departments of social services, reverse the decisions of local departments of social services, and petition a court to reverse any custody or visitation changes made as a result of the error of a local department of social services.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1169
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missing or endangered child as a child (i) who is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age; (ii) whose whereabouts are unknown; and (iii) whose disappearance is under suspicious circumstances or poses a credible threat as determined by law enforcement to the safety and health of the child and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB117
Introduced
1/1/24
Refer
1/1/24
Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. 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 the State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering. The bill requires that, for the purposes of net energy metering, an eligible customer-generator shall bear all reasonable costs of equipment required at the eligible customer-generator's premises for the interconnection to the supplier's electric distribution system, including commercially reasonable costs of additional controls, tests, or liability insurance. Additionally, the bill allows for cost recovery by Phase I and Phase II Utilities for electric distribution grid transformation projects that support the interconnection of generating facilities using energy derived from sunlight that are owned or contracted by eligible customer-generators, subject to the Commission finding those costs to be reasonable and prudent in accordance with existing law. Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. 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 the State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering. The bill requires that, for the purposes of net energy metering, an eligible customer-generator shall bear all reasonable costs of equipment required at the eligible customer-generator's premises for the interconnection to the supplier's electric distribution system, including commercially reasonable costs of additional controls, tests, or liability insurance. Additionally, the bill allows for cost recovery by Phase I and Phase II Utilities for electric distribution grid transformation projects that support the interconnection of generating facilities using energy derived from sunlight that are owned or contracted by eligible customer-generators, subject to the Commission finding those costs to be reasonable and prudent in accordance with existing law.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1170
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Elections; conduct of election; provisional voting procedures; type of identification to be noted. Requires officers of election to note on the green envelope used for persons voting provisionally the specific type of identification presented by the voter. Current law only requires officers to note whether or not identification was presented.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1171
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
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 days of receipt. Under current law, registrars are directed to mark the date of receipt in the voter's record and examine the ballot envelope to verify completion of the required voter affirmation when an absentee ballot is returned but are not subject to a deadline for doing so. 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 days of receipt. Under current law, registrars are directed to mark the date of receipt in the voter's record and examine the ballot envelope to verify completion of the required voter affirmation when an absentee ballot is returned but are not subject to a deadline for doing so.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1172
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Absentee voting; voter satellite offices; minimum number required. Requires that absentee voting in person be available in the office of the general registrar and in any voter satellite office that the governing body of any county or city chooses to establish. Localities with a population of 50,000 or more are required to establish at least one voter satellite office to be in operation for the duration of the period during which absentee voting in person is available. Under current law, the governing body of any county or city, regardless of its population, is authorized to establish as many voter satellite offices as it deems necessary.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1173
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the four members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates.