Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR5
Introduced
12/21/23
Refer
12/21/23
Study; Department of Transportation; bridge from Surry County to James City County; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the need and options for constructing a bridge from Hog Island in Surry County to James City County and to submit a report of its finding no later than the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR50
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; JLARC; Department of Juvenile Justice; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and benefits of transferring responsibility for the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR51
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, potential set-asides or percentage goals that could be utilized or bolstered by employment service organizations, and whether employment service organizations should be housed within the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR52
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Passed
2/27/24
Student Appreciation Week. Designates the week of March 20, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Student Appreciation Week in Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR53
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; JLARC; effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on teacher recruitment and retention; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on recruiting and retaining high-quality, fully licensed teachers, including (i) examining salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention in each local school division; (ii) identifying disparities in salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention rates between high-poverty and rural school divisions, high-income school divisions, and the Commonwealth on average; (iii) reviewing salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to the rates of teacher recruitment and retention and the numbers of fully licensed teachers in adjoining states and the District of Columbia; and (iv) identifying factors that positively impact the recruitment and retention of high-quality, fully licensed teachers.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR54
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; charges for the production of public records; report. Directs the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council (the FOIA Council) to convene a work group consisting of citizens of the Commonwealth, representatives of state and local government entities, broadcast, print, and electronic media sources, open government organizations, and other interested parties to study whether the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allowing public bodies to charge requesters for the production of public records should be amended to make access to public records easier for requesters. The resolution further directs the work group to examine the current FOIA provisions on charges and make recommendations on ways to amend such provisions to make the assessment of charges by public bodies for the production of public records more uniform, more transparent, easier to understand, and less costly.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR55
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; continuing the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding for two additional years, through the 2025 interim.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR56
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; JLARC; effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on teacher recruitment and retention; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on recruiting and retaining high-quality, fully licensed teachers, including (i) examining salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention in each local school division; (ii) identifying disparities in salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention rates between high-poverty and rural school divisions, high-income school divisions, and the Commonwealth on average; (iii) reviewing salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to the rates of teacher recruitment and retention and the numbers of fully licensed teachers in adjoining states and the District of Columbia; and (iv) identifying factors that positively impact the recruitment and retention of high-quality, fully licensed teachers.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR57
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Passed
2/27/24
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day. Designates September 16, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day in Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR58
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Constitutional amendment (first reference); tax and finance; exempt property; affordable housing tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, city, town, or regional government to provide for the exemption from local real property taxation, or a portion thereof, within such restrictions and upon such conditions as may be prescribed, of real estate owned and occupied by persons of low income. Such general law shall require that (i) the real property is a single family habitation and has been owned and continuously occupied as the sole dwelling of the owner of such real property for a prescribed minimum number of years, (ii) the assessment on the property has increased by a prescribed percentage or more from the previous year or over a number of previous years, and (iii) the taxes on such property are current or the owner of such property has entered into a plan for payment of any delinquent taxes and shall establish the annual household income limits to qualify for such exemption. Constitutional amendment (first reference); tax and finance; exempt property; affordable housing tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, city, town, or regional government to provide for the exemption from local real property taxation, or a portion thereof, within such restrictions and upon such conditions as may be prescribed, of real estate owned and occupied by persons of low income. Such general law shall require that (i) the real property is a single family habitation and has been owned and continuously occupied as the sole dwelling of the owner of such real property for a prescribed minimum number of years, (ii) the assessment on the property has increased by a prescribed percentage or more from the previous year or over a number of previous years, and (iii) the taxes on such property are current or the owner of such property has entered into a plan for payment of any delinquent taxes and shall establish the annual household income limits to qualify for such exemption.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR59
Introduced
1/10/24
Engrossed
1/15/24
Enrolled
1/18/24
Passed
1/18/24
Celebrating the life of the Honorable Victor Blake McKinney.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR6
Introduced
1/1/24
Refer
1/1/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/8/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Passed
2/27/24
Energy Efficiency Day. Designates October 4, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Energy Efficiency Day in Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR60
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; sickle cell disease in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study sickle cell disease in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to submit an executive summary of its findings and recommendations to the Division of Legislative Automated Systems no later than the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR61
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; $10,000 per year baccalaureate degree; report. Requests that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (i) study the feasibility of implementing the option for students to pay $10,000 annually for tuition and mandatory fees to earn a degree at a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth by surveying each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to determine the likely impact of such an option on enrollment, revenue, costs, services, staffing, and such other factors as the institution deems relevant and (ii) report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR62
Introduced
1/10/24
Engrossed
1/15/24
Enrolled
1/18/24
Passed
1/18/24
Celebrating the life of Charles Wayne Payne, Sr.