Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB295
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of his minor children, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB296
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Department of Motor Vehicle records; vehicle registration; penalties. Provides that failing to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of a change in address within 30 days of a move and failing to renew a vehicle registration, as required by existing law, are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $30.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB297
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Planning District 4. Adds Planning District 4 (New River Valley Region) to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund and the Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB298
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Charitable gaming; use of proceeds. Allows a qualified organization to use a predetermined percentage of its receipts for those expenses relating to facility maintenance and upkeep, such as any rent or mortgage payment and utility expenses, and used for lawful religious, charitable, community, or educational purposes.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB299
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Engrossed
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Chaptered
3/28/24
Passed
3/28/24
License tax; retired police or military dogs; exemption. Allows a locality by ordinance to exempt any dog that served as a police or law-enforcement dog or military working dog from the license tax on the ownership of dogs. Such ordinance must include a verification process for the vaccination records of such a dog. License tax; retired police or military dogs; exemption. Allows a locality by ordinance to exempt any dog that served as a police or law-enforcement dog or military working dog from the license tax on the ownership of dogs. Such ordinance must include a verification process for the vaccination records of such a dog.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB3
Introduced
11/20/23
Refer
11/20/23
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliant with model year standards related to the control of emissions adopted by California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB30
Introduced
12/20/23
Refer
12/20/23
Report Pass
2/18/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June 2025 and the thirtieth day of June 2026.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB300
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB301
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Local enforcement of property maintenance. Adds the violation of one or more local ordinances related to the proper maintenance of property to existing provisions that allow a locality to require a property owner to remove, repair, or secure a building, wall, or other structure that might endanger the public health or safety of other residents of such locality as a reason for requiring such maintenance. The bill also allows the locality through its own agents or employees to take such actions after proper notice.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB302
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Firearm safety device tax credit; definitions. Defines an "eligible transaction" for purposes of the firearm safety device tax credit as one in which a taxpayer purchases one or more firearm safety devices from a commercial retailer, as defined in the bill.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB303
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Certification of ancillary traffic infractions and civil offenses. Allows the court to certify any ancillary traffic infraction or civil offense to the clerk of the circuit court upon certification of any felony offense, provided that the attorney for the Commonwealth and the accused consent to such certification. Current law only allows ancillary misdemeanor offenses to be certified.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB304
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Virginia Firefighting Facilities Grant Program. Establishes the Virginia Firefighting Facilities Grant Program for the purpose of awarding grants on a first-come, first-served basis to localities for the purpose of building and maintaining their firefighting facilities. The amount of such grants shall be as provided in the appropriation act. The Program shall be administered by the Department of Fire Programs. The Department shall develop guidelines for the Program, which shall (i) emphasize providing grants to localities that are cost burdened in the provision of firefighting services and (ii) require remedying facilities that do not meet minimum standards established by law.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB305
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Regional gas tax revenues. Provides that in allocating revenues from the regional fuels tax in localities not a part of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, the Interstate 81 Corridor, or the Central Virginia Transportation Authority, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall seek to award 50 percent of the revenues generated in each construction district for projects improving or maintaining secondary roads.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB306
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Refer
1/26/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the concurrence of the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, determines that the public defender's current active caseload would preclude the public defender from providing adequate representation to new clients. Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the concurrence of the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, determines that the public defender's current active caseload would preclude the public defender from providing adequate representation to new clients.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB307
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Alcoholic beverage control; exemptions from licensure; manufacture of spirits at personal residence for domestic consumption. Exempts from the licensure requirements of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act any person who, after being granted a permit by the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to keep, store, or possess any still or distilling apparatus for the purpose of distilling alcohol, manufactures at his residence for domestic consumption spirits in an amount not to exceed (i) 100 gallons per year if there are two or more persons 21 years of age or older residing in the residence or (ii) 50 gallons per year if there is only one person 21 years of age or older residing in the residence.