Authorities
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exempts railway tunnels and bridges from Building Code. [HB-1425]
Uniform Statewide Building Code; Virginia Passenger Rail Authority exemption. Exempts railway tunnels and bridges owned by the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act. The bill requires the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to report annually to the State Fire Marshal on the maintenance and operability of installed fire protection and detection systems in its railway tunnels and bridges.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Austin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0078) on 03/14/2024
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Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans. [SB-665]
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its conduct of land-disturbing activities to the Department of Environmental Quality for approval by the Department as an alternative to submitting soil erosion control and stormwater management plans.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Continued To 2025 In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (9-y 6-n) on 01/30/2024
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Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. [HB-1410]
Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. Clarifies that the board of supervisors of Russell County may appoint nine members to its industrial development authority, which shall consist of two members from the governing body of a town that has used its borrowing capacity to borrow $2 million or more for industrial development and such other members as the board of supervisors shall agree upon. Under current law, two of the members must come from a town that has used its borrowing capacity to borrow $2 million or more for industrial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0483) on 04/04/2024
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Roanoke Higher Education Authority; powers and duties, specialized noncredit workforce training. [HB-1373]
Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive community colleges to meet specialized noncredit workforce training needs identified by industry but provides that if local comprehensive community colleges are unable to meet identified industry needs, then the board may seek to collaborate with other education providers to provide or may provide Roanoke
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/27/2024
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Advanced Learning and Research, Institute for; powers and duties. [HB-1357]
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to encourage and coordinate the development and delivery of noncredit courses with a focus on statewide and regional critical shortage areas and the needs of industry that include needed adult education and workforce training. The bill requires the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and the Roanoke
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0220) on 03/28/2024
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Public transit systems, joint subcommittee to study funding needs. [SJR-28]
Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain Study; joint subcommittee; funding needs in certain transit systems; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study long-term, sustainable, dedicated funding and cost-containment controls and strategies to ensure the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Virginia Railway Express, and the public transit systems that serve the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission transportation districts meet the growing needs of public
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Bill Text As Passed Senate And House (sj28er) on 03/05/2024
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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget, operating assistance. [SB-617]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under the normal operation of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) may be included in the calculation of a WMATA budget increase for purposes of the cap of such budget increase. Current law provides that any payment or obligation of any kind arising from or related to legal disputes
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Continued To 2025 In Transportation (15-y 0-n) on 02/01/2024
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Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; adds to powers and duties. [HB-1285]
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose; Board of Directors; powers and duties. Adds managing primary care graduate medical education programs and managing the Health Workforce Innovation Fund to the duties of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority. The bill adds language noting that the Commonwealth will make an effort to match federal grants for federal Area Health Education Centers. The bill increases from 15 to 19 the membership of the Authority's Board of Directors by adding four additional ex officio members.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Left In Health And Human Services on 02/13/2024
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Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; health workforce development program. [HB-1289]
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; health workforce development program. Directs the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to establish a program to strengthen the health and health sciences workforce.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Left In Health And Human Services on 02/13/2024
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Behavioral health and nursing; revision of policies that hinder, etc., health care workforce. [HB-1293]
Behavioral health; nursing; work group; report. Directs the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to convene a work group to identify and propose revisions to current regulations and policies that hinder the development, retention, and productivity of the health care workforce in behavioral health and nursing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Cannabis; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study creation of a retail market. [HJR-63]
Study; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; creation of a retail cannabis market; report. Requests the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study the creation of a retail cannabis market in the Commonwealth and draft regulations governing the indoor cultivation, processing, manufacturing, testing, packaging, labeling, distribution, sale, and delivery of cannabis. The resolution requires that such regulations include (i) appropriate application and license fees; (ii) reasonable restrictions on cannabis advertising; (iii) restrictions on product
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget, operating assistance. [HB-1201]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under the normal operation of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) may be included in the calculation of a WMATA budget increase for purposes of the cap of such budget increase. Current law provides that any payment or obligation of any kind arising from or related to legal disputes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Obenshain
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties. [HB-1138]
Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties. Renames the executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority as the chief executive officer of the Authority.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0114) on 03/20/2024
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VA Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to VA Port Authority. [HB-1103]
Virginia Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to the Virginia Port Authority. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide certain employment information to the Virginia Port Authority as may be necessary to facilitate the administration and enforcement by the Authority of performance agreements with businesses that have received incentive awards. The bill provides that any information provided to the Authority is confidential, requires that the information only be disclosed to members of the Authority who
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0215) on 03/28/2024
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Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. [HB-1070]
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill also provides for the board of the Authority to adopt policies for the procurement of goods and services and requires such policies to incorporate certain provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act. In addition, the bill (i) makes the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act and the policies of
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Morefield
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (10-y 5-n) on 02/27/2024
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Fort Monroe Authority; land and utility ownership. [HB-1139]
Fort Monroe Authority; land and utility ownership. Removes the number of acres and the instrument number of the quitclaim deed recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Hampton on June 14, 2013, in reference to the area that is known as Fort Monroe and redefines such area to be what is shown in the land records of the City of Hampton as being owned by the Commonwealth, whether in the name of the Commonwealth or the Fort Monroe Authority.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0115) on 03/20/2024
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Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program; grant funding. [HB-1196]
Virginia Port Authority; Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program; grant funding; projects. Clarifies the circumstances under which the Virginia Port Authority may award grant funding from the Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program for the construction and management of dredged material. The bill provides that such funding may be used for the lease, purchase, or development of upland containment areas where dredged material can be selectively excavated and used beneficially for environmental restoration or for mitigation of coastal erosion.
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/13/2024
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Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; amends membership of board of directors. [HB-1178]
Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Amends the membership of the board of directors of the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority by adding four nonlegislative citizen members to increase the total membership to 15 members and removing the position currently held by a director of a technology transfer office or equivalent position from a major research public institution of higher education. The bill (i) provides the Speaker of the House of Delegates the power to appoint four
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. [HB-1175]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the two members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
Incorporated By Transportation on 02/01/2024
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Virginia Tourism Authority; powers, historically accurate advertising. [HB-814]
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