Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB173
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/19/24
Refer
1/19/24
Report Pass
1/29/24
Engrossed
2/1/24
Refer
2/5/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Vetoed
5/17/24
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. 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. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at such locations for detecting plastic firearms. Under current law, it is unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any plastic firearm and a violation is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number or to knowingly import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any completed or unfinished frame or receiver, unless the completed or unfinished frame or receiver (i) is deemed to be a firearm pursuant to federal law and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number. The portions of the bill prohibiting unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025; however, the portions of the bill prohibiting the knowing possession of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB174
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/19/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
1/29/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/19/24
Engrossed
2/19/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Chaptered
3/8/24
Passed
3/8/24
Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the basis of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill also requires that such lawful marriages be recognized in the Commonwealth regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall have the right to refuse to perform any marriage.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB175
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Vetoed
3/26/24
Carrying 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 place of whatever nature that is open to the public, with certain exceptions. Under current law, the current prohibition on carrying certain shotguns and semi-automatic center-fire rifles and pistols applies to a narrower range of firearms, only in certain localities, and only when such firearms are loaded.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB176
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Elections; form of ballot; party identification of candidates; constitutional offices. Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who is nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the name of his political party. Currently, only candidates for federal, statewide, and General Assembly offices are so identified. The constitutional offices are those of the treasurer, sheriff, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerk of court, and commissioner of the revenue.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB177
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to assess and make recommendations related to reimbursement rates for the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB178
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations. The bill contains an expiration date of June 30, 2027.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB179
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Failed
2/13/24
Consecutive terms of imprisonment. Eliminates the required imposition of mandatory consecutive sentences of imprisonment.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB18
Introduced
12/11/23
Refer
12/11/23
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Chaptered
4/2/24
Passed
4/2/24
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin 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. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of ethnic origin.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB180
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enforcement purposes, commonly known as radar detectors. The bill retains the prohibition on the use of such devices in a commercial motor vehicle.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB181
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. 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.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB182
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Breach of a contract; attorney fees; factors. Provides that, for any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2024, if such contract contains a provision allowing the award of attorney fees to a party when the other party to such contract breaches such contract, the court may also allow reasonable attorney fees to be awarded to the party that prevails in any action, whether as plaintiff or defendant, with respect to such contract. The bill requires the court to take into account certain factors in determining such reasonable attorney fees.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB183
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Vetoed
3/26/24
Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from possessing a firearm is present to store such firearm and the ammunition for such firearm in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet that is inaccessible to such minor or prohibited person. The bill provides that a violation is a Class 4 misdemeanor. The bill exempts (i) any person in lawful possession of a firearm who carries such firearm on or about his person and (ii) the storage of antique firearms and provides that the lawful authorization of a minor to access a firearm is not a violation of the bill's provisions. The bill also requires firearm dealers to post a notice stating such firearm storage requirements and the penalty for improperly storing such firearms.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB184
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/5/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/17/24
Foreclosure 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 an affidavit affirming whether monthly statements were sent to a property owner for each period of assessed interest, fees, or other charges and to include in such affidavit an itemized list of the current amount owed. The bill also requires that any purchaser at a foreclosure sale pay off any priority security instrument no later than 90 days from the date that the trustee's deed conveying the property is recorded in the land records, and, if such purchaser fails to pay, the person originally required to pay such instrument has the right to petition the circuit court of the city or county where the property is located to recover from such purchaser any payments made on such instrument after the date of the foreclosure sale, plus any attorney fees and costs. Foreclosure 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 an affidavit affirming whether monthly statements were sent to a property owner for each period of assessed interest, fees, or other charges and to include in such affidavit an itemized list of the current amount owed. The bill also requires that any purchaser at a foreclosure sale pay off any priority security instrument no later than 90 days from the date that the trustee's deed conveying the property is recorded in the land records, and, if such purchaser fails to pay, the person originally required to pay such instrument has the right to petition the circuit court of the city or county where the property is located to recover from such purchaser any payments made on such instrument after the date of the foreclosure sale, plus any attorney fees and costs.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB185
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Candidates for office; challenges to qualifications or eligibility; timeliness. Requires challenges to a person's eligibility to appear on the ballot on the basis that such person did not meet all qualifications or fulfill all requirements for candidacy to be made at least 60 days before the date of the election. Candidates who are nominated at a primary election cannot be later challenged on the basis of facts that were present prior to the primary election and could have been raised in a challenge to such candidate's eligibility for the primary ballot.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB186
Introduced
1/3/24
Refer
1/3/24
Special license plates; CEDAR BLUFF POW/MIA MEMORIAL. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the Cedar Bluff Overlook Park POW/MIA Memorial bearing the legend CEDAR BLUFF POW/MIA MEMORIAL.