Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB376
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/8/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Charter; Town of New Market. Establishes a new charter for the Town of New Market in Shenandoah County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1972. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains powers typically granted to towns.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB377
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Zoning; traffic impact statements. Prohibits a locality from requiring a local traffic impact statement as a condition for approval of a rezoning application that involves a multifamily residential use of fewer than 50 residential units.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB378
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, stormwater management facilities, and fill and borrow areas.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB379
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Sentencing guidelines; violent felony offenses; purchasing or selling of minors. Adds the crime of purchasing or selling of minors to the list of violent felony offenses.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB38
Introduced
12/19/23
Refer
12/19/23
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.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB380
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Chaptered
3/28/24
Passed
3/28/24
Special license plates; United States Air Force. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for active duty members with, honorably discharged veterans with six months of active duty service in, and retirees from the United States Air Force and unremarried surviving spouses of such service members.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB381
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation by veteran-owned small businesses. Requires all public bodies to include in their goals for participation by small businesses a minimum of five percent participation by veteran-owned businesses and service disabled veteran-owned businesses. Current law only requires a goal of three percent participation by service disabled veteran-owned businesses and does not impose such goal upon local public bodies. The bill also requires the Department of General Services to update the eVA portal to include a category for veteran-owned and service disabled veteran-owned small businesses that is conspicuous to the general public to easily display and search set-aside opportunities for such businesses.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB382
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Report Pass
1/22/24
Refer
1/22/24
Broadband access in farmland and rural areas; information and reporting. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to create and maintain, in consultation with the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor, the Broadband Advisory Council, and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, an interactive tool or application to provide current information on connectivity and broadband access in rural areas of the Commonwealth and on farmland in the Commonwealth and permits such tool or application to be incorporated into the Department's website. The bill also directs the Department to, with the assistance of any necessary agencies of the Commonwealth, collect and incorporate information and data regarding connectivity and broadband access in rural areas and on farmland into such interactive tool or application and annually report to the Broadband Advisory Council any such information and data. Broadband access in farmland and rural areas; information and reporting. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to create and maintain, in consultation with the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor, the Broadband Advisory Council, and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, an interactive tool or application to provide current information on connectivity and broadband access in rural areas of the Commonwealth and on farmland in the Commonwealth and permits such tool or application to be incorporated into the Department's website. The bill also directs the Department to, with the assistance of any necessary agencies of the Commonwealth, collect and incorporate information and data regarding connectivity and broadband access in rural areas and on farmland into such interactive tool or application and annually report to the Broadband Advisory Council any such information and data.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB383
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Engrossed
2/2/24
Refer
2/6/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Chaptered
3/8/24
Passed
3/8/24
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate board; continuing education requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons. Increases from eight to 11 the number of hours of continuing education an applicant for relicensure as a real estate broker or salesperson shall complete in the topics of ethics and standards of conduct, fair housing, legal updates and emerging trends, real estate agency, and real estate contracts. The bill also decreases from eight to five the number of hours of general elective courses such applicants shall complete. The bill directs the Real Estate Board to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill against current licensees beginning in such licensee's next full renewal cycle following the effective date of such regulations.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB384
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm machinery and farm implements that a locality may exempt from personal property taxation.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB385
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
Refer
2/8/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Enrolled
3/6/24
Vetoed
3/14/24
Railroad safety; civil penalties. Requires a crew of at least two qualified individuals on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB386
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB387
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Tax credit for vehicle emissions testing equipment; certain vehicles. Allows a corporation, individual, or public service corporation a tax credit equal to 10 percent of the purchase price of a vehicle with an internal combustion engine that is principally garaged in Virginia. Current law allows such a credit only for certain clean-fuel vehicles.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB388
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Virginia Retirement System; investments; diversity, equity, and inclusion investing restricted. Provides that unless the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System can demonstrate that a social investment, defined in the bill, would provide a superior rate of return compared to a similar investment that is not a social investment with a similar time horizon and risk, neither the Board nor any external fiduciary utilized by the Board may invest or make recommendations regarding state funds for the purpose of social investment on or after July 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB389
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.