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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. [SB-393]
MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosure statement submitted by the business seeking incentives. The Commission is required to consider (i) whether such statement specifies the number and percentage of diverse directors who identify as female or as representing a national, racial, ethnic, indigenous, or cultural minority in the country of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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American Revolution 250 Commission; amends membership and staffing. [HB-839]
American Revolution 250 Commission; membership and staffing. Amends the membership of the American Revolution 250 Commission to allow for the appointment of ex officio members who are directors of historic homes, historic sites, or National Park Service sites or former legislative members of the Commission. The bill also provides for staff of the Commission to serve as the Commission's fiscal agent.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Austin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0400) on 04/04/2024
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Advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives; joint licensing. [SB-351]
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0844) on 02/08/2024
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Arts, Virginia Commission for the; reduces membership. [HB-832]
Virginia Commission for the Arts; membership. Reduces the membership of the Virginia Commission for the Arts from 13 to nine members and requires at least one member to be appointed from each of the eight superintendent's regions. Current law requires at least one but no more than two members to be appointed from each congressional district in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0208) on 03/28/2024
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Pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access; regulations. [HB-1068]
Board of Pharmacy; regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. Board of Pharmacy; regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0407) on 04/04/2024
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Advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives; joint licensing. [HB-978]
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only. Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Health And Human Services By Voice Vote on 02/08/2024
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Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors, Virginia Board for; dust sampling technicians, renovators, etc. [HB-720]
Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; dust sampling technicians, renovators, and accredited renovation training programs. Removes the responsibility of the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors to promulgate regulations concerning dust sampling technicians, renovators, and accredited renovation training programs.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (21-y 0-n) on 01/25/2024
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History of Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Inst. of Higher Ed., Com. to Study; established. [HB-1066]
Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth established; report. Establishes the 19-member legislative Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Institutions of Higher Education for the purpose of studying and determining (i) whether any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth has purchased, expropriated, or otherwise taken possession of property owned by any individual within the boundaries of a community
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Education, Board of; model policies on parental review of instructional material, local adoption. [HB-757]
Board of Education; model policies on parental review of instructional material; local adoption. Requires the Board of Education to adopt and distribute to each school board model policies requiring any instructional material used in any public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth to be open for inspection during normal business hours by the parents of students enrolled in the relevant public school, regardless of the copyright status of any such material. The bill requires each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board. [HB-964]
Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications. Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Board of Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Board of Medicine must be a physician.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0463) on 04/04/2024
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Education, Board of; through-year growth assessment system, alternatives during 2024-2026. [HB-1076]
Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the through-year growth assessment system established by the Board, provided that any such alternative assessment is aligned to the Standards of Learning.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0148) on 03/26/2024
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Blockchain technology, digital asset mining, etc.; Jt. Commission on Technology & Science to study. [SB-339]
Joint Commission on Technology and Science analysis; blockchain, digital asset mining, and cryptocurrency; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to conduct an analysis of and make recommendations regarding the use of blockchain technology, digital asset mining, and cryptocurrency in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Commission to submit its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Communications, Technology and Innovation and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and General
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0707) on 04/08/2024
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Artificial intelligence technology; use in education. [SB-385]
Study; Board of Education; work group on the use of artificial intelligence technology in education; report. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on guidelines for the use and integration of AI technology in education in public elementary and secondary schools and public institutions of higher education. The bill requires the work group to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Department of Education,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stella Pekarsky
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/07/2024
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Behavioral Health Commission; changes composition of membership. [HB-807]
Behavioral Health Commission; membership. Changes the composition of the Behavioral Health Commission by increasing from two to three the number of House appointees who are required to be members of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0456) on 04/04/2024
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Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. [SB-332]
Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to revise all labels on Sentencing Guidelines worksheets and instructions in the Sentencing Guidelines manual so that any conviction for an offense defined as a Class 1 misdemeanor or any other misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 364 days of incarceration, as provided by the bill, shall be scored
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; qualifications and performance. [HB-893]
Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, beginning July 1, 2026, to adopt standards for the qualification and performance of attorneys appointed to represent a parent or guardian of a child when such child is the subject of a child dependency case, as defined in the bill. The bill also requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, beginning July 1,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0428) on 04/04/2024
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School boards; inclusion of enrolled students in work of boards. [HB-958]
Commission on Civic Education; model guidance on student participation in the work of local school boards. Requires the Commission on Civic Education, in conjunction with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to create and provide to each local school board no later than July 1, 2025, model guidance on the inclusion and involvement of students enrolled in the local school division in the work of the local school board, including model guidance on a process and structure for adding a student representative to the local school board. Commission
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Parole Board; voting requirements. [HB-913]
Parole Board; voting requirements. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, if the Parole Board adopts a rule or regulation requiring the concurrence of four or more members of the Board to grant discretionary parole or conditional release, in the event that there are less than four members but at least three members on the Parole Board, then such requirement shall be satisfied upon a unanimous vote of the members on the Board. Parole Board; voting requirements. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Irene Shin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0458) on 04/04/2024
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Large animal veterinarians; Board of Veterinary Medicine, et al., to study shortage. [HJR-43]
Study; Board of Veterinary Medicine; shortage of large animal veterinarians; report. Directs the Board of Veterinary Medicine, in consultation with the State Veterinarian, to complete a two-year study of the shortage of large animal veterinarians, with technical assistance provided by relevant stakeholders, including a member of the House of Delegates and a member of the Senate of Virginia, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules, respectively. Study; Board of Veterinary Medicine; shortage of large
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Bill Text As Passed House And Senate (hj43er) on 03/05/2024
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Treatment with opioids; Board of Medicine, et al., to amend their regulations. [HB-699]
Board of Medicine; Board of Dentistry; Board of Optometry; Boards of Medicine and Nursing; patient counseling; treatment with opioids. Directs the Board of Medicine, the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Optometry, and the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to amend their regulations to require the provision of certain information to patients being prescribed an opioid for the treatment of acute or chronic pain. The bill requires that the regulations include an exception to the required provision of such information for patients who are (i) in active
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text Reprinted (chap0448) on 04/04/2024