Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB538
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Fund and Program established. Requires the Office of Environmental Education within the Department of Conservation and Recreation, in conjunction with the Department of Education and any other stakeholder that it deems appropriate, to implement the Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Program and Fund for school districts to develop local student environmental literacy plans and, with consultation from the Department of Education, to maintain a state environmental literacy plan. The bill establishes the Program and Fund, to be administered by the Office, for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any local school board that seeks assistance to initiate, expand, or improve teacher professional development opportunities or student environmental education programs that align with the content and objectives of the bill. Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Fund and Program established. Requires the Office of Environmental Education within the Department of Conservation and Recreation, in conjunction with the Department of Education and any other stakeholder that it deems appropriate, to implement the Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Program and Fund for school districts to develop local student environmental literacy plans and, with consultation from the Department of Education, to maintain a state environmental literacy plan. The bill establishes the Program and Fund, to be administered by the Office, for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any local school board that seeks assistance to initiate, expand, or improve teacher professional development opportunities or student environmental education programs that align with the content and objectives of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB539
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Release of developer performance guarantees. Provides that no governing body or administrative agency shall refuse to make a periodic partial or final release of a bond, escrow, letter of credit, or other performance guarantee for the actions of anyone not under contractual agreement with a subdivider or developer or under the direct supervision and control of the subdivider or developer.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB54
Introduced
12/22/23
Refer
12/22/23
Report Pass
1/19/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/8/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Chaptered
4/8/24
Passed
4/8/24
Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Repeals certain provisions in the City of Falls Church charter related to qualifications of persons appointed to boards and commissions.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB540
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill. Under current law, such products are exempt from state sales and use tax but are subject to the standard local rate of one percent.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB541
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Income tax; deduction for qualified business income. Establishes, beginning with tax year 2024, an individual income tax deduction in an amount equal to 50 percent of certain federal qualified business income deductions, excluding qualified real estate investment trust dividends.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB542
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Refer
1/17/24
Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund; required deposits. Requires deposit of any revenues that would be required to be deposited in the Revenue Stabilization Fund or Revenue Reserve Fund to be deposited in the Taxpayer Relief Fund, established by the bill, in certain circumstances. Such deposits shall be made if the combined balance in the Revenue Stabilization Fund or Revenue Reserve Fund exceeds 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax revenues derived from taxes on income and retail sales.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB543
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regards to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemployment compensation for purposes of child support obligations is final. The bill contains a number of technical amendments related to the Commission's appeals proceedings. The bill also repeals provisions related to appeal tribunals and the Commission-appointed Board of Review and contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB544
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill directs the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to examine the feasibility or need of any new workforce development program prior to its creation and provide a report to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill changes the minimum level of fiscal support from WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker funds to training and job placement services from 40 to 50 percent. The bill also makes the Department responsible for providing a list of high-demand occupations to eligible educational institutions.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB545
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Law-enforcement officers; Internet publication of personal information; exemption. Prohibits publication of the personal information of active and retired law-enforcement officers on the statewide geographic information system (GIS) if a request to redact such information is made by the officer to the entity that manages the GIS in the officer's locality. Current law prohibits the Commonwealth from publishing personal information on the Internet of public officials only if a petition has been granted by the circuit court.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB546
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a court, to disclose his residence address, home telephone number, or any personal information concerning his family. The bill also provides that any law-enforcement officer who testifies as a witness in a criminal case may refuse to disclose personal information concerning his family unless it is determined by the court that such evidence is relevant to the case.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB547
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Internet Safety Advisory Council; school boards; Internet safety education program. Extends from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for the Internet Safety Advisory Council. The bill requires each school board, after considering the model policy, instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources that are developed, recommended, or designed by the Internet Safety Advisory Council, to adopt policies (i) requiring all elementary and secondary schools in the local school division to provide an Internet safety education program to each student in grades three through 12 at least once each school year but (ii) permitting the parent of any such student to opt his child out of participating in such program.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB548
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
International Registration Plan; temporary registration authorization. Authorizes the issuance of a temporary registration document valid for no more than 45 days for a vehicle with a pending registration application with the International Registration Plan. The bill requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to permit authorized motor carrier representatives to (i) update the registration or title record of the vehicle electronically and in real time through the Virginia Motor Carrier System and (ii) regardless of whether such record has been updated electronically or in person, retrieve registration tags in person at a Department branch office or by mail.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB549
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposed increase. Requires localities, after conducting a reassessment of real estate, to provide notice to property owners by mail of certain information prior to adopting a tax rate that would increase the amount of real property tax collected above 101 percent of the prior year's tax collections. The bill requires the notice to include (i) the dollar and percentage amount of increase that the proposed tax rate would levy on the owner's particular property compared to the previous year's tax levy, (ii) the tax levy on the owner's particular property for the previous tax year and the proposed levy for the current tax year, and (iii) all of the information regarding the proposed tax rate that under current law is required to be posted in a newspaper and a prominent public location.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB55
Introduced
12/22/23
Refer
12/22/23
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/20/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Chaptered
3/28/24
Passed
3/28/24
Primary elections; candidates for nomination; withdrawal of candidacy resulting in unopposed primary; primary cancellation and nomination procedure. Provides that if a person who is a candidate for nomination by a political party at a primary election and who appears on the ballot for such election withdraws his candidacy on or after the forty-fourth day before but prior to the Tuesday immediately preceding the primary election, and the result of such withdrawal is one remaining candidate who is now unopposed, the remaining candidate will be declared the party's nominee for the office sought and the primary election will be canceled. The bill requires the notice of withdrawal to be signed and notarized and to be submitted to the general registrar, who then transmits it to the local electoral board and the State Board of Elections along with a certification that the remaining candidate is now unopposed for nomination. The State Board is required to declare the remaining candidate to be the nominee within one calendar day of receiving such notice, and the local electoral board is then required to petition the circuit court for the cancellation of the primary election. Finally, the bill directs the State Board to prescribe procedures for canceling a primary election, including instructions for locking and securing voting systems, disposition of marked and unmarked absentee ballots, and voter notification. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB550
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
1/30/24
Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate.