Administration Of Government
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Capital outlay plan; repeals existing six-year capital outlay for projects to be funded. [HB-715]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke E. Torian
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0205) on 03/28/2024
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License plate reader systems; use by law-enforcement agencies, civil penalty. [HB-775]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about vehicles and license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying a vehicle that is (i) associated with a wanted, missing, or endangered person or human trafficking; (ii) stolen; (iii) involved in an active law-enforcement investigation; or (iv) in the vicinity of a recent crime and may be connected
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele L. Herring
Continued To 2025 In Courts Of Justice (12-y 0-n) on 02/28/2024
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; amends definition of meeting, provisions of Act. [HB-818]
[Ethics ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions of meetings and public business. Exempts certain public meetings from the definition of "meeting" under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to clarify that three or more members of a public body may appear and participate in such public meeting without violating the Act, provided that no public business is transacted or discussed. The bill also exempts members of a public body who attend a public meeting of a second public body without violating the Act, provided that no public business is transacted
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike A. Cherry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0733) on 04/08/2024
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Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; disparity study. [HB-716]
[Small Business ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Economic Development ]
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; disparity study. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to conduct a disparity study every five years, the next due no later than January 1, 2026. The study shall evaluate the need for enhancement and remedial measures to address the disparity between the availability and the utilization of women-owned and minority-owned businesses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke E. Torian
Incorporated By Rules on 01/26/2024
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Regulatory Budget Program; established, report. [HB-722]
[Budget and Spending ]
Department of Planning and Budget; Regulatory Budget Program established; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget to establish a Regulatory Budget Program under which each executive branch agency subject to the Administrative Process Act shall reduce overall regulatory requirements by 30 percent by January 1, 2027. The bill requires the Department to report to the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules on the status of the Program no later than October 1 of each year, beginning October 1,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael J. Webert
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (22-y 0-n) on 01/30/2024
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Legal holidays; replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day. [HB-743]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Legal holidays; Indigenous Peoples' Day. Replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day as a state holiday.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul E. Krizek
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure, purchase card statement. [SB-340]
[Data Privacy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Ethics ]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifies that the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appears on a purchase card statement or other payment record and the description of individual purchases are not exempt from disclosure by the State Comptroller.
Sponsored by: Sen. Scott A. Surovell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0671) on 04/08/2024
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Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; moves position under the Governor, etc. [HB-966]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
[Climate Change ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; Office of Commonwealth Resilience; Interagency Resilience Working Group; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committee. Moves the position of Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) from under the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources to under the Governor and creates an Office of Commonwealth Resilience to support the CRO in his functions and duties. The bill requires the CRO to convene an Interagency Resilience Working Group to support the coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Chad Green
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Elections, State Board of; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. [HB-742]
[Elections ]
State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal of a Commissioner shall require an affirmative vote of four of the five members of the Board. The Commissioner shall be subject to confirmation and reconfirmation by the General Assembly every four years. If the Board fails to make or communicate an appointment of a Commissioner by the end of the term,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel D. O'Quinn
Continued To 2025 In Privileges And Elections (8-y 7-n) on 02/27/2024
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver," remote participation in meetings. [HB-1040]
[Disabilities ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. The bill also provides that the participation policy adopted by a public body, as required by the Virginia
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso H. Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0610) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. [SB-350]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue. Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, regardless of whether the complaint was dual-filed, as requested after 180 days have passed from the date the complaint was filed to commence a timely civil action in an appropriate general district or circuit court having jurisdiction over the person who allegedly unlawfully discriminated against the complainant.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Russet W. Perry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0784) on 04/17/2024
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Investigators; powers, enforcement of certain tobacco laws. [HB-1018]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Powers of investigators; enforcement of certain tobacco laws. Authorizes investigators with the Office of the Attorney General to seize cigarettes that are unlawfully sold, possessed, distributed, transported, imported, or otherwise held and to accompany and participate with special agents of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board or other law-enforcement officials engaging in an enforcement action involving counterfeit and unstamped cigarettes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony O. Wilt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0540) on 04/05/2024
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Cannabis control; establishes a framework for creation of a retail marijuana market, penalties. [HB-698]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy B. Carr
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Six-year financial plan; modifies requirements for plans submitted by Governor to General Assembly. [HB-712]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
Six-year financial plan. Modifies the requirements for the six-year financial plan submitted by the Governor to the General Assembly by (i) requiring that such plan be submitted on or before the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly instead of on or before the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly held in an even-numbered year as required by current law and (ii) providing that such plan ensure structural balance between projected revenues and expenditures for the six-year period.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke E. Torian
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0203) on 03/28/2024
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Human Resource Management, Department of; recruitment policy, direct work experience. [HB-680]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
Department of Human Resource Management; recruitment policy; direct work experience. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a statewide recruitment policy designed to provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postsecondary degree requirements from hiring considerations and recruit qualified employees utilizing appropriate baseline requirements, the specifics of which are outlined in the bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Leftwich
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (10-y 5-n) on 02/27/2024
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Commonwealth information security; definitions, requirements. [SB-222]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
Commonwealth information security requirements. Exempts cybersecurity information, defined in the bill, from the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act while in possession of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). The bill requires VITA to keep such cybersecurity information confidential unless the Chief Information Officer or his designee authorizes publication or disclosure of reports or aggregate cybersecurity information. Commonwealth information
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Sponsored by: Sen. John J. McGuire
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0503) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation, exceptions to contractual terms. [SB-242]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liability provisions contained in a Request for Proposal for information technology. The bill also requires an offeror to state any exception to any contractual terms or conditions in writing at the time of responding to such Request for Proposal, if so requested by the public body, which exception shall
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy S. McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0705) on 04/08/2024
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Foreign adversaries; restrictions, civil penalty. [SB-295]
[Real Estate ]
[National Security ]
[Taxes ]
[Property Tax ]
[International ]
[Economic Development ]
Foreign adversaries; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any foreign adversary or foreign business, as those terms are defined in the bill, from acquiring any interest in land in the Commonwealth and requires registration with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Secretary to report annually by December 1 on the registrations and any penalties assessed for failure to register and to submit such report to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill restricts foreign entities governed by a foreign adversary from transacting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Glen H. Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (9-y 5-n) on 01/24/2024
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Va. Public Procurement Act; preference for goods produced in Virginia, U.S., & Va. resident bidders. [SB-260]
[Trade ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia resident preference. Provides preference as it relates to procurement for a bidder who is a resident of Virginia and then a bidder whose goods are produced in the United States. For the procurement of goods by manufacturers, when the lowest responsive and responsible bidder is not a resident of Virginia and the bid of any Virginia resident is within 10 percent of such bid, the bill gives the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that is a Virginia resident the option to match the price of the lowest responsive
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy S. McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0782) on 04/17/2024
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Contractors, Board for; required regulations and disclosures. [SB-313]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Small Business ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subcontractors to the contracting parties and those who engage in routine maintenance or service contracts, to use legible written contracts that include certain terms and conditions. The bill directs the Board to require a statement of protections be provided by the contractor to the homeowner, consumer,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott A. Surovell
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024