Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB108
Introduced
1/1/24
Refer
1/1/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Engrossed
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Shared solar programs; American Electric Power; minimum bill; capacity. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program, as defined in the bill, through which customers of American Electric Power may purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility, as defined in the bill. The bill requires the Commission to establish a minimum bill, which shall include the costs of all utility infrastructure and services used to provide electric service and administrative costs of the shared solar program, taking into account certain considerations. The bill directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding to recalculate such minimum bill within 30 days of its final order in a proceeding establishing the value of a solar renewable energy certificate as required by relevant law. The bill specifies that the Commission shall establish the shared solar program consistent with the requirements of the bill by January 1, 2025, and shall require each utility to file any associated tariffs, agreements, or forms necessary for implementing the program by July 1, 2025. Additionally, the bill requires the Department of Energy to convene a stakeholder work group to determine the amounts and forms of certain project incentives and to submit a written report to the Chairs of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor no later than November 30, 2024.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1080
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
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
License suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation; period of suspension. Prohibits any license suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation from extending beyond 10 years from the date of conviction for such violation.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1081
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Public schools; instructional time. Makes several changes relating to student instructional time in public elementary and secondary schools, including (i) defining "instructional hour" for the purpose of minimum annual instructional hour requirements; (ii) establishing several provisions and requirements relating to the enrollment of part-time students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) requiring the Board of Education to adopt rules for approving alternative programs for which course credit may be granted for the purpose of satisfying high school graduation requirements to any student who completes such course and masters the course content by demonstrating at least 80 percent of the competencies required by course standards, regardless of time, place, or pace; and (iv) permitting school boards that govern school divisions of innovation to adopt instructional time models that allow students to personalize the pace of learning and accelerate their learning based on the mastery of course content by demonstrating at least 80 percent of the competencies required by course standards, regardless of time, place, or pace.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1082
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/8/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Enforcement of certain judgments; restricted license. Authorizes the court to order a restricted license to operate a motor vehicle to a judgment debtor who has had his driver's license suspended for failure to satisfy certain judgments.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1083
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/5/24
Refer
2/5/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Engrossed
3/9/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the Virginia Workforce Data Trust and, based on the results of such review, develop a work plan for improving the Virginia Longitudinal Data System. Virginia Longitudinal Data System and Virginia Workforce Data Trust; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the current capabilities and future needs of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the Virginia Workforce Data Trust and, based on the results of such review, develop a work plan for improving the Virginia Longitudinal Data System.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1084
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Disabled parking placards; validity; fees. Extends from six months to 12 months the maximum duration for which the DMV may issue a temporary removable windshield placard to a person with a disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk or that creates a concern for his safety while walking. The bill also eliminates the fee for the issuance of temporary and permanent disabled parking placards and includes technical amendments.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1085
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/16/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Chaptered
4/2/24
Passed
4/2/24
Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) by transferring to the Department quarterly all validated monitoring results available to VDH that indicate PFAS maximum containment level, as defined in the bill, exceedances. In such circumstances, the bill provides that the Department is required to develop and implement a plan to prioritize and conduct PFAS assessments for identifying significant sources of PFAS in such public water system's raw water source or sources. The bill requires any facility, if deemed by the Department to be a potentially significant source of PFAS in the public water system's raw water source, (i) to perform and promptly report the results of quarterly discharge monitoring for one year and (ii) to report to the Department, within 90 days after being directed by the Department, its manufacture or use of PFAS. The bill establishes a PFAS Expert Advisory Committee to assist the Department and VDH in its PFAS-related efforts and requires the Committee to meet at least two times per year through June 30, 2027. The bill requires the Department to annually report certain information to the Governor and the General Assembly by October 1.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1086
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Admission of evidence; evidentiary hearing; excluded persons. Exempts those persons whose presence, in the judgment of the court, would be supportive of the complaining witness or the accused and would not impair the conduct of a fair hearing from being excluded from evidentiary hearings for certain prosecutions.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1087
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Refer
1/29/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Engrossed
3/8/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community College System to establish the College and Career Ready Virginia Program whereby each school board is required to offer each qualified high school student in the local school division access at the high school to the dual enrollment courses that are sufficient to complete the Passport Program and the Uniform Certificate of General Studies Program at a public institution of higher education at no cost to such students. The bill establishes several enumerated duties for the Department and the System in the administration of the College and Career Ready Virginia Program, including the establishment of a work group to make recommendations no later than November 1, 2024, on the incorporation of a career and technical education program of coursework into the College and Career Ready Virginia Program.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1088
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Vetoed
4/2/24
Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy that are based on and include peer-reviewed scientific sources. The bill requires the Board of Education to develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy, including a requirement for any such selected material to accurately portray changes in weather and climate patterns over time, the impacts of human activity on changes in weather and climate patterns, and the effects of climate change on people and resources.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1089
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Report Pass
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of Education to (a) develop, establish, review and update as necessary at least once every five years, and make available to each local school board an IEP writing, facilitation, tracking, and transfer system to be referred to as the Virginia IEP that includes, at a minimum, an IEP template component and a data system component and (b) develop and publish a data dashboard for the annual public reporting of state-level, division-level, and school-level special education data; (ii) each local school board to designate a faculty member to serve as a special education parent/family liaison to be a resource to parents and families to understand and engage in the referral, evaluation, reevaluation, and eligibility process if they suspect that their child has a disability and in the IEP process; and (iii) the Parent Training and Information Center in the Commonwealth designated pursuant to relevant federal law to establish special education family support centers in eight distinct regions of the Commonwealth that shall each be staffed by a regional special education family liaison employed by such center, coordinate with the designated special education parent/family liaisons in the local school divisions in the region, develop and implement outreach and support to parents of children with disabilities in its region, and track and report to the State Parent Ombudsman for Special Education data on questions and concerns raised by parents.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB109
Introduced
1/1/24
Refer
1/1/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/9/24
Refer
2/13/24
Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as required under current law to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year. Such report shall include all recorded votes cast by the utility during the immediately preceding calendar year, all votes cast by an affiliate of the utility, and a brief description explaining how each vote cast by the utility or its affiliate is in the public interest.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1090
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Prohibiting purchase or possession of tobacco products, etc.; persons under 21 years of age; civil penalties. Increases the civil penalty from $100 to $500 for a first violation, $200 to $1,000 for a second violation, and $500 to $2,500 for a third or subsequent violation by an individual or by a separate retail establishment that, for products other than a bidi, (i) sells to, distributes to, purchases for, or knowingly permits the purchase by any person less than 21 years of age, knowing or having reason to believe that such person is less than 21 years of age, any tobacco product, nicotine vapor product, alternative nicotine product, or hemp product intended for smoking or (ii) sells a tobacco product, nicotine vapor product, alternative nicotine product, or hemp product intended for smoking to any individual who does not demonstrate, by producing a driver's license or similar photo identification issued by a government agency, that the individual is at least 21 years of age.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1091
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education; recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula; report. Requires the Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education established by the Board of Education to develop and submit to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024, recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for the incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1092
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; local building officials. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code and corresponding regulations to remove any authority for local building departments to appoint local building officials for permanent terms. The bill requires the Board to require local building departments to appoint such officials for a term not to exceed 10 years and to only reappoint such officials after holding a performance evaluation.