Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB66
Introduced
12/22/23
Refer
12/22/23
Report Pass
1/17/24
Engrossed
1/22/24
Refer
1/24/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/8/24
Engrossed
3/8/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires every public school to hold fire drills during the school session in accordance with the requirements of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code. Current law requires such fire drills to be conducted at least twice during the first 20 school days of each school session and at least twice more during the remainder of the school session.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB660
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Corporate income tax; distribution of revenues; state parks. Requires five percent beginning July 1, 2024, of all corporate income tax revenues to be distributed to the State Park Conservation Resources Fund to provide (i) free entry to Virginia state parks and (ii) the conservation, development, maintenance, and operations of state parks acquired or held by the Department of Conservation and Recreation as provided in the appropriation act. The bill provides that such distribution shall not reduce the total amount of annual appropriations for the Department and the Fund below the total amounts appropriated for the most recent fiscal year ending before July 1, 2024, except as provided by a subsequent appropriation act.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB661
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Department of Transportation; design-build engineer regulations. Directs the Department of Transportation to promulgate regulations clarifying that design-build contractors are not required to employ a professional engineer on staff in order to qualify to submit a proposal for or be awarded a transportation project.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB662
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Towing; registration for tow truck drivers; Driver Authorization Document; penalty. Requires tow truck drivers, prior to registration or the first renewal on or after January 1, 2025, with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to obtain a Driver Authorization Document, for which such drivers must take instructional courses, the requirements for which are set forth in the bill, and complete a drug test. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB663
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
School Divisions of Innovation; regulatory exemptions; clock hours of instruction. Requires the Board of Education's regulations relating to the designation of School Divisions of Innovation to require the local school board in the local school division so designated to be exempted, pursuant to a plan of innovation, from the regulatory requirement for a student to successfully complete 140 clock hours of instruction in order to earn a standard or verified unit of credit.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB664
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of a human infant who has been born alive following such attempt as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age and (ii) take all reasonable steps to ensure the immediate transfer of the human infant who has been born alive to a hospital for further medical care. A health care provider who fails to comply with the requirements of the bill is guilty of a Class 4 felony and may be subject to disciplinary action by the Board. The bill also requires every hospital licensed by the Department of Health to establish a protocol for the treatment and care of a human infant who has been born alive following an attempt to terminate a pregnancy and for the immediate reporting to law enforcement of any failure to provide such required treatment and care.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB665
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requirements issued by the Commissioner of Health during an epidemic. Currently, exemption from mandatory immunization requirements during an epidemic is available only to those persons to whose health the administration of a vaccine would be detrimental, as certified in writing by a licensed physician.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB666
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
State agencies; electronic information breach. Requires every state agency to promptly notify affected citizens of the Commonwealth in the event of a breach of such state agency's electronic information system from unauthorized uses, intrusions, or other security threats, which breach compromises such citizens' personal information. The bill requires the Chief Information Officer to provide requirements for such notifications.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB667
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department of the Treasury.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB668
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Timing of local elections. Provides that a locality may by ordinance shift the timing of the election of members of the local governing body from an even year to an odd year by extending the existing terms of local governing body members by one year. Such change may occur only after a public hearing and a majority vote of the governing body.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB669
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning in grades six through 12 and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction in grades six through 12 the study of the dangers of communism.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB67
Introduced
12/22/23
Refer
12/22/23
Disabled Veteran's Passport; service-connected disability. Entitles any veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces with a service-connected disability to a Disabled Veteran's Passport for free entry into state parks and discounted services. Current law limits such passport to veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces with a service-connected disability rating of 100 percent.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB670
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee to (i) as soon as practicable, inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor (a) expresses to any individual who is employed in such school that such minor is experiencing gender incongruence, as defined in the bill, or (b) requests that any such employee participate in social affirmation of such minor's gender incongruence or the transition of such minor to a sex or gender different from the minor's biological sex while at school and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school. Any such plan shall include provision for parental participation to the extent requested by the parent. The bill also clarifies, in the definition of the term "abused or neglected child," that in no event shall referring to and raising the child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex, including related mental health or medical decisions, be considered abuse or neglect. Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee to (i) as soon as practicable, inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor (a) expresses to any individual who is employed in such school that such minor is experiencing gender incongruence, as defined in the bill, or (b) requests that any such employee participate in social affirmation of such minor's gender incongruence or the transition of such minor to a sex or gender different from the minor's biological sex while at school and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school. Any such plan shall include provision for parental participation to the extent requested by the parent. The bill also clarifies, in the definition of the term "abused or neglected child," that in no event shall referring to and raising the child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex, including related mental health or medical decisions, be considered abuse or neglect.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB671
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public body; revenue from public funds. Adds to the definition of "public body" any organization, corporation, or agency that received more than 50 percent of its annual revenue, within any of the three preceding years, from public funds.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB672
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth; Compensation Board. Provides that the Compensation Board shall provide for employing at least one compensated assistant to the attorney for the Commonwealth in every county and city where the attorney for the Commonwealth devotes his full time to his duties and does not engage in the private practice of law. Under current law, the Compensation Board has discretion in determining if a county or city needs to employ any compensated assistants to the attorney for the Commonwealth.