Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1499
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Report Pass
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority by adding four additional ex officio members to the Authority's Board of Directors, adding setting priorities for and managing graduate medical education programs to the duties of the Authority, specifying additional recipients of the Board's biennial report, and authorizing the Authority to partner with other agencies and institutions to obtain and manage health workforce data. The bill establishes the Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund. The bill directs the Board of Nursing to add or remove certain educational requirements for members of the nursing faculty in specified nursing education programs and establishes a licensing procedure by the Board of Psychology for a psychological practitioner, as defined by the bill. The bill directs the Board of Nursing and the Board of Psychology to adopt regulations to implement relevant provisions of the bill to be effective no later than January 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB15
Introduced
12/8/23
Refer
12/8/23
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
1/30/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Enrolled
2/26/24
Chaptered
3/14/24
Passed
3/14/24
Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB150
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
1/30/24
Report Pass
3/1/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to appear in person. The bill also codifies the Department of Health's authority to implement a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), which is currently authorized by regulation. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to appear in person. The bill also codifies the Department of Health's authority to implement a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), which is currently authorized by regulation.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1500
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Board of Counseling; registration of behavioral health technicians and behavioral health technician trainees. Establishes requirements for the Board of Counseling to register individuals as behavioral health technicians or behavioral health technician trainees. The bill authorizes the Board to promulgate regulations for such registration, including necessary qualifications, education, and experience. The bill removes references to qualified mental health professionals with a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1501
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Cash proffers; development rights. Provides that cash payments proffered pursuant to § 15.2-2298, 15.2-2303, or 15.2-2303.1 may be used for the purpose of extinguishing development rights elsewhere in the locality if the development rights to be extinguished are greater than the development rights being granted and the extinguishing of those development rights results in a perpetual conservation easement. The bill also provides that cash payments proffered may be used to seek matching funds from the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation and the Virginia Farmland Preservation Fund.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1502
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Tangible personal property tax; classification; certain vehicles. Removes the sunset on authorization for localities to assign a rate of tax or assessment different from the general tangible personal property rate on certain automobiles, trucks, motor vehicles for use by the handicapped, motorcycles, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles, off-road motorcycles, campers, and other recreational vehicles. Under current law, such authorization is limited to taxable years 2022 through 2024.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1503
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes. Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1504
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
2/5/24
Engrossed
2/8/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Engrossed
2/19/24
Engrossed
3/5/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Vetoed
5/17/24
Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. Requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local school boards in the implementation of such policies. The bill requires such guidelines to include (i) a model action plan for each school board to follow in responding to any school-connected overdose, including communicating and coordinating with the Department of Education and the applicable law-enforcement liaison or the local law-enforcement agency that employs such school division's school resources officers, and (ii) criteria for issuing parental notification to ensure sensitivity to the privacy interests of affected individuals and compliance with any applicable law, rules, or regulations relating to the disclosure and protection of a minor's personal, confidential, or otherwise sensitive information.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1505
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Report Pass
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/17/24
Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth (institution) for the use of the name, image, or likeness of such student-athlete, including (i) prohibiting any athletic association, athletic conference, or other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing an institution, its supporting foundations, or an entity acting on its behalf from identifying, creating, negotiating, facilitating, supporting, engaging with, assisting with, or otherwise enabling a name, image, or likeness opportunity for a student-athlete; (ii) requiring each institution to develop and submit to the institution's governing board or similar governing body for approval institutional policies or procedures that govern the compensation of a student-athlete for the use of his name, image, or likeness; and (iii) permitting any institution to provide assets, resources, or benefits as an incentive to individuals, companies, or other entities to provide money, benefits, opportunities, or services to an outside entity that supports name, image, or likeness opportunities for the institution's student-athletes. The bill also requires the Intercollegiate Athletics Review Commission to review plans and implementation considerations for the provisions of the bill and provide a report on its review to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024. Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth (institution) for the use of the name, image, or likeness of such student-athlete, including (i) prohibiting any athletic association, athletic conference, or other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing an institution, its supporting foundations, or an entity acting on its behalf from identifying, creating, negotiating, facilitating, supporting, engaging with, assisting with, or otherwise enabling a name, image, or likeness opportunity for a student-athlete; (ii) requiring each institution to develop and submit to the institution's governing board or similar governing body for approval institutional policies or procedures that govern the compensation of a student-athlete for the use of his name, image, or likeness; and (iii) permitting any institution to provide assets, resources, or benefits as an incentive to individuals, companies, or other entities to provide money, benefits, opportunities, or services to an outside entity that supports name, image, or likeness opportunities for the institution's student-athletes. The bill also requires the Intercollegiate Athletics Review Commission to review plans and implementation considerations for the provisions of the bill and provide a report on its review to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1506
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Retail franchise agreements; governing law; competition restrictions. Provides that retail franchise agreements shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth and prohibits any person from offering or entering into a franchise agreement that includes competition restrictions that extend beyond termination or expiration of the franchise agreement unless such restriction is approved by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1507
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Penalties and interest associated with the filing of tax returns or payment of taxes.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1508
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Engrossed
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/4/24
Chaptered
3/20/24
Passed
3/20/24
Assessment of omitted taxes; erroneous payments. Provides that any retail sales tax payment erroneously remitted by a taxpayer to the Department of Taxation shall be applied to the taxpayer's delinquent use tax accounts. The taxpayer must provide evidence of the erroneous sales tax collected and remitted in each transaction. The provisions of this bill do not apply in the case of (i) the taxpayer already applying for and receiving the relief described in this bill or (ii) a false or fraudulent action by the taxpayer with the intention of evading the payment of the tax. Further, the taxpayer must show that the erroneous retail sales tax has been refunded to the purchaser or credited to the purchaser's account prior to receiving a refund from Department of Taxation.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1509
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Refer
2/6/24
Restrictions on the sale of nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine and hemp products intended for smoking; civil penalties. Provides restrictions and prohibitions on certain retail sales that include (i) restrictions on the number of nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine, liquid nicotine containers, and hemp products intended for smoking, as such terms are defined in the bill, that may be sold in one transaction to a consumer; (ii) packaging, labeling, and signage requirements for those selling any nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine or hemp products intended for smoking; (iii) advertising and marketing requirements for those selling any nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine or hemp products intended for smoking; (iv) education requirements for employees at retail establishments selling nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine or hemp products intended for smoking; and (v) online delivery sale requirements of nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine or hemp products intended for smoking. The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as applicable, shall enforce such requirements and restrictions and shall impose civil penalties on violations thereof.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB151
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
1/30/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related to onsite renewable energy generation, energy storage, and resilience standards for construction or renovation of certain public buildings. The bill also makes several technical and clarifying changes to the existing statute, in part by defining or redefining existing terms found in the statute.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1510
Introduced
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Toll-relief programs; low-income residents. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and administer toll-relief programs for low-income residents of any locality impacted by the presence of a toll facility in proximity to such locality, as determined by the Department.