Administration Of Government
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. [HB-1108]
[Construction ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management and design-build contracting. Requires state public bodies, covered institutions, and local public bodies to provide documentation of the processes used for the final selection of a construction contract to all the unsuccessful applicants upon request. The bill adds certain requirements for covered institutions, including posting all documents that are open to public inspection exchanged between the Department of General Services and the covered institution on the central electronic procurement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy B. Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0469) on 04/04/2024
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Quitclaim and release property rights; DCR to release certain property rights in Albemarle County. [HB-778]
[Real Estate ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Quitclaim and release property rights. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to quitclaim and release certain real property rights related to a portion of real estate owned by the Department related to an offsite ingress and egress easement serving the Biscuit Run property in Albemarle County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Katrina E. Callsen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0453) on 04/04/2024
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VA Human Rights Act; prohibits discrimination on the basis of citizenship or immigration status. [HB-954]
[Immigration ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Virginia Human Rights Act; prohibits discrimination on the basis of citizenship or immigration status. Adds citizenship or immigration status to the classes protected from unlawful discrimination in the Virginia Human Rights Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso H. Lopez
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/08/2024
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Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; guidance to small businesses. [HB-897]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; guidance to small businesses; identification of enforcement actions; work group; report. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to develop and provide guidance to businesses with newly approved permits and established businesses regarding responsibilities and requirements for maintaining such business that includes information identifying any regularly occurring required report to a state agency and any associated fees, penalties, or waivers. Department of Small Business
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Chad Green
Continued To 2025 With Substitute In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Medical cannabis program; product expiration, confidentiality, penalty. [HB-815]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Medical cannabis program; product expiration; confidentiality; penalty. Increases from six months to 12 months the maximum expiration date allowable for a cannabis product after registration absent stability testing. The bill allows pharmaceutical processors to employ as pharmacy technician trainees individuals who have less than one year of experience and allows pharmaceutical processors to employ persons with less than one year of experience to perform certain other supervised duties for which current law requires two years of experience. The
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike A. Cherry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0732) on 04/08/2024
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Noncitizens of the United States; removes term aliens throughout Code. [HB-962]
[Immigration ]
Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian E. Watts
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. [SB-329]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from other solid waste and ensure that the organic waste is diverted from final disposal in a refuse disposal system. The bill allows a locality to establish civil penalties for violations of such ordinance but requires the locality to issue a warning to a generator that violates the ordinance prior to collecting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott A. Surovell
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; created, penalty. [HB-997]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding fetal and infant deaths and to make such data available to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Department of Health. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan I. Helmer
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Virginia Tourism Authority; powers, historically accurate advertising. [HB-814]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Tourism ]
[Human Rights ]
Virginia Tourism Authority; powers; historically accurate advertising. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority, in consultation with The Library of Virginia, the Virginia African American Advisory Board, and other subject matter experts, to create guidelines for the Authority's publications and advertising materials to ensure the accurate representation in such publications and advertising materials of the experiences of enslaved persons at and the contributions of enslaved persons to properties in the Commonwealth with a historic link to slave
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0531) on 04/05/2024
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Administrative Process Act; emergency regulations for economic development projects. [HB-727]
[Economic Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Manufacturing ]
Administrative Process Act; emergency regulations for economic development projects. Provides that an agency may receive a waiver, defined in the bill as the approval for the promulgation of emergency regulations or suspension of current regulations, for the creation of qualifying economic development projects, also defined in the bill, upon consultation with and receipt of the approval of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority and the approval of the Governor that such regulations are necessary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael J. Webert
Left In General Laws on 02/13/2024
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DCR; conveying certain property to Newport Estates Homeowners' Association, Inc. [HB-795]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Construction ]
Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant and convey a temporary construction and ingress and egress easement over Neabsco Road at Leesylvania State Park to the Newport Estates Homeowners Association, Inc. The easement will allow ingress and egress for the repairs and restoration to a slope failure due to poor soils on the neighborhood open space property by the Newport Estates Homeowners Association.
Sponsored by: Rep. Candi Mundon King
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/13/2024
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Local government; authority, service employees, transition period. [HB-951]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Food ]
Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For example, such local ordinance or resolution may require that successor service employers retain incumbent service employees during a transition period of 90 days. Under the bill, service employees are those who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of property, services at an airport,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (14-y 0-n) on 02/29/2024
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1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amdmts., prog. modifications. [HB-909]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to seek federal authority through the necessary state plan amendments under Titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to modify the program rules for certain 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tony O. Wilt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0646) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia FOIA; creates closed meeting exemption where related to home instruction of children. [HB-873]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meeting exemption; home instruction of children. Creates an exemption from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for discussion, consideration, or decisions relating to home instruction of children, unless objected to by a parent or guardian in an open meeting, that are exempt from disclosure pursuant to relevant law.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Chad Green
Left In General Laws on 02/13/2024
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Surplus technological equipment; DGS to establish procedures for disposition of materials. [HB-728]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Department of General Services; Division of Purchases and Supply; disposition of surplus materials; technological equipment. Permits the Department of General Services to establish procedures for a buy-back or trade-in agreement with a purchasing vendor for surplus technological equipment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michelle E. Lopes-Maldonado
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0047) on 03/08/2024
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Administrative Process Act; appeals of case decisions regarding benefits sought. [HB-787]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Administrative Process Act; exemptions; limitations; appeals of case decisions regarding benefits sought. Provides that in appeals of case decisions regarding the grant or denial of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, general relief, auxiliary grants, or state-local hospitalization, the review shall be based upon the agency record and the court may enter intermediate relief. The bill also provides that in such appeals, unless an error of law appears, the court shall
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick A. Hope
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/27/2024
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Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. [HB-802]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution under the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the Museum is governed by a 15-member board of trustees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. [SB-377]
[Finance ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Barton Boysko
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Service Member Sentencing Act; created. [HB-754]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Crime ]
Service Member Sentencing Act. Creates the Service Member Sentencing Act to provide service members, defined in the bill, a service member sentencing option, defined in the bill, if such service member satisfies the eligibility criteria. The bill explains the process and procedures associated with a service member sentencing option. The bill also provides sentencing mitigation for service members that are not eligible for the service member sentencing option, including criteria for a judge to consider prior to sentencing a service member for a criminal
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Scott Walker
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia Human Rights Act; complaint or charge of discrimination, right to file civil action. [HB-782]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Virginia Human Rights Act; timelines for civil actions. Clarifies timelines for civil actions alleging unlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill requires any civil action for unlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act brought in an appropriate general district or circuit court to be filed within 90 days of the complainant receiving a notice of his right to file such action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law. Virginia Human Rights
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele L. Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0819) on 04/17/2024