Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
12/19/23
Refer
12/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/16/24
Enrolled
2/26/24
Chaptered
3/26/24
Passed
3/26/24
Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the age of 18 whose willful act or omission causes or enables that child to gain possession of a firearm (i) after having received notice of a preliminary determination, pursuant to relevant law, that such child poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others or (ii) when such parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of the child knows or reasonably should know that such child has been charged with, either by warrant or petition, convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent of a violent juvenile felony. Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any parent, guardian, or other person who is 18 years of age or older and is responsible for the care of a child under the age of 18 whose willful act or omission causes or enables that child to gain possession of a firearm (i) after having received notice of a preliminary determination, pursuant to relevant law, that such child poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others or (ii) when such parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of the child knows or reasonably should know that such child has been charged with, either by warrant or petition, convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent of a violent juvenile felony. The bill provides that no person shall be subject to arrest or prosecution regarding knowledge of a preliminary threat determination if such person received notice that the threat assessment team concluded that the child does not indicate a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others or that any case or review opened or conducted by that threat assessment team as a result of such preliminary determination has been closed. The bill also provides that no person shall be subject to arrest or prosecution if such person has received notice that any pending charge for a violent juvenile felony has been dismissed or a nolle prosequi has been entered. The bill provides an affirmative defense to prosecution if the parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of a child caused or enabled such child to gain possession of a firearm while in a dwelling because of a reasonable belief that he or such child was in imminent danger of bodily injury. Lastly, the bill provides that the new offense is eligible for the enhanced earned sentence credits.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB440
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school protection officer, defined in the bill as a retired law-enforcement officer hired by the local law-enforcement agency on a part-time basis to provide limited law-enforcement and security services to public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires each such school board and local law-enforcement agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding that sets forth the powers and duties of school protection officers. The bill requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for school protection officers and requires the collection of certain data relating to the activities of such officers.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB441
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/9/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/26/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
School boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another school board. The bill defines working day as every day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal state and federal holidays.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB442
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/2/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Refer
2/13/24
Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any school board. Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any school board.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB443
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Refer
2/13/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Chaptered
3/8/24
Passed
3/8/24
Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the disposition in a delinquency case concerning a student who is not enrolled in such school division, forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division where such student is enrolled or where such student intends to enroll, as evidenced by the receipt of a request from the other school division for such student's scholastic records. Current law only permits the superintendent of any such school division to forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is currently enrolled. The bill also requires a copy of the complete student disciplinary records of any student transferring from one school division to another to be transferred to the school division to which such student is transferring, upon request from such school division.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB444
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/9/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pursuant to relevant law, is required to be disclosed to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is enrolled to, upon written request of any such division superintendent, provide a copy of the court order ordering any conditions upon such disposition or deferred disposition to such superintendent. The bill also provides that the division superintendent may, for any student charged with such offense and who is required to attend an alternative education program, request from the court, upon a showing of good cause, additional information that may be relevant to such student's placement in an alternative education program, including conditions that may have not been specified in the court order. School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pursuant to relevant law, is required to be disclosed to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is enrolled to, upon written request of any such division superintendent, provide a copy of the court order ordering any conditions upon such disposition or deferred disposition to such superintendent. The bill also provides that the division superintendent may, for any student charged with such offense and who is required to attend an alternative education program, request from the court, upon a showing of good cause, additional information that may be relevant to such student's placement in an alternative education program, including conditions that may have not been specified in the court order.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB445
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a teacher in the local school division credit for any time served in any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the local school division's teacher salary scale.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB446
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board and transfers the duties of such boards into a new Board of Environmental Resources. The bill establishes membership, term, meeting, and recording requirements for the Board and also establishes the position, powers, and duties of the Executive Director of the Board.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB447
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/22/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
2/13/24
Report Pass
2/16/24
Enrolled
2/26/24
Vetoed
3/26/24
Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. The bill provides that any person violating such prohibition is subject to a civil penalty of no more than $500 and such unattended motor vehicle may be subject to removal for safekeeping.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB448
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/26/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/8/24
Vetoed
3/28/24
Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all marijuana licenses on September 1, 2024, but provides that no retail sales may occur prior to May 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB449
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/13/24
Refer
2/16/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Enrolled
3/4/24
Vetoed
3/20/24
Juvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during a single sentencing hearing or multiple sentencing hearings, for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 consecutive years of incarceration, including any period of commitment in a juvenile correctional center, shall be eligible for parole. Under current law, any period of commitment in a juvenile correctional center for any sentences for such juvenile offender is not considered as a portion of the minimum of 20 years of incarceration served in order for such offender to be eligible for parole.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB45
Introduced
12/19/23
Refer
12/19/23
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB450
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Enrolled
3/7/24
Chaptered
3/28/24
Passed
3/28/24
Regulation of towing fees; State Corporation Commission; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to examine the existing regulation of fees charged for the removal of vehicles and identify policy options for the Commission to assume all or part of such regulation. The bill requires the Commission to report its findings to the General Assembly by November 30, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB451
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 Senate Bill SB452
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/8/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Enrolled
3/4/24
Chaptered
3/14/24
Passed
3/14/24
Motor vehicle dealers; independent dealer-operator recertification; exam. Permits the recertification of independent dealer-operators by passing an examination administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law provides that such recertification requires completing one live instructor-led course and passing an examination administered by the course provider. The bill also directs the Department to collect the $50 exam fee at the time the exam is administered, transmit $48 from that fee to the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board within 15 days, and retain the remaining $2.