Commissions Boards And Institutions Generally
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. [HB-693]
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth
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Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware
Left In Labor And Commerce on 02/13/2024
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General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments, Marine Resources Commission. [SB-269]
General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to not issue or renew any private leases for general oyster-planting grounds in the Commonwealth on or after July 1, 2024, and to promulgate regulations to conform to the provisions of the bill. The bill returns any general oyster-planting grounds that are unassigned or currently leased by the Commission to public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals that are unassignable to any person for private use but does not curtail the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (14-y 0-n) on 01/16/2024
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VA School for the Deaf & the Blind, Board of Visitors of the; authority to establish campus police. [HB-675]
Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in compliance with the provisions of law relating to campus police departments established by institutions of higher education, and to employ campus police officers therein.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Runion
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (12-y 3-n) on 03/04/2024
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Marine Resources Commission; permits, public notice. [SB-268]
Marine Resources Commission; permits; public notice. Requires the Commissioner of Marine Resources to ensure that for any project under consideration for a Commission-issued permit the Commission sends public notice electronically to any business, residence, or civic organization that has requested to be added to the Commission's public notice email list. Marine Resources Commission; permits; public notice. Requires the Commissioner of Marine Resources to ensure that for any project under consideration for a Commission-issued permit the Commission
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Failed To Report (defeated) In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (6-y 9-n) on 01/23/2024
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Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report. [SB-274]
Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. The bill requires the Board to meet in open session at least four times annually, with certain exceptions and requirements enumerated in the bill. Members of the Board are required to disclose any conflicts of interest, as described in the bill. The
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Contractors, Board for; required regulations and disclosures. [SB-313]
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 Surovell
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process, printed receipt for cast ballot. [SB-303]
Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the date and time the voter's ballot was cast, the voter's number corresponding to the order in which ballots were cast, and a list of all the voter's selections on the ballot as recorded by the voting system.
Sponsored by: Sen. Glen Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (8-y 6-n) on 01/23/2024
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Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program; Manufacturing Development Commission to create. [SB-302]
Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program. Directs the Manufacturing Development Commission (the Commission) to develop a budget and business plan to establish a Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program (the Program). The bill provides that the business plan shall identify existing manufacturers in the Commonwealth that are potential candidates for reshoring, near-shoring, or in-shoring manufacturing jobs and capital investments. The bill directs that the Program focus on expanding and recruiting manufacturing operations that produce
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Cave Board; repeals provisions relating to establishment and transfers duties to BCR. [SB-299]
Board of Conservation and Recreation; Cave Board; repeal. Repeals provisions relating to the establishment of the Cave Board and transfers the duties of the Cave Board to the Board of Conservation and Recreation. The bill also changes from 12 members to 13 members the membership of the Board of Conservation and Recreation and requires at least one appointment made by the Governor to the Board of Conservation and Recreation to be based on a person's knowledge of and activity in the conservation, exploration, study, and management of caves.
Sponsored by: Sen. Timmy French
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (14-y 0-n) on 01/16/2024
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Open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. [HB-659]
Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several topics enumerated in the bill. Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several topics enumerated in the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 5-n) on 02/22/2024
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Henrietta Lacks Commission; changes sunset date. [HB-613]
Henrietta Lacks Commission; sunset date. Changes the sunset of the Henrietta Lacks Commission from July 1, 2026, to July 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0297) on 04/02/2024
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Civilian deaths in custody; report. [HB-611]
Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional adult correctional facility to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated, or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctional facility. The bill provides
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0813) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; powers and duties, historically underrepresented students. [HB-615]
Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purpose and duties; historically underrepresented students. Expands the purpose of the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board to include promoting the participation of historically underrepresented students, as defined in the bill, in primary and secondary schools in STEM education. The bill expands the duties of the Board to effectuate this additional purpose. Finally, the bill increases from 16 to 23 the nonlegislative citizen membership of the Board and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0814) on 04/17/2024
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Clinical social workers; licensure examination alternative. [HB-606]
Board of Social Work; licensure of clinical social workers; examination alternative; regulation amendments. Directs the Board of Social Work to amend the regulations for the licensure of clinical social workers to allow applicants to utilize an examination alternative, which shall consist of at least 1,500 hours of supervised experience that is obtained within the five calendar years immediately preceding the date of application. The bill clarifies that the examination alternative shall be in addition to any other supervised clinical experience
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Failed To Report (defeated) In Rehabilitation And Social Services (6-y 8-n) on 03/01/2024
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Assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth; Compensation Board to provide for every county and city. [HB-672]
Assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth; Compensation Board. Provides that the Compensation Board shall provide for employing at least one compensated assistant to the attorney for the Commonwealth in every county and city where the attorney for the Commonwealth devotes his full time to his duties and does not engage in the private practice of law. Under current law, the Compensation Board has discretion in determining if a county or city needs to employ any compensated assistants to the attorney for the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholas Freitas
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/13/2024
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Comprehensive community colleges; funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs. [HJR-29]
Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacy of the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs; work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to study the current funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs offered at comprehensive community colleges in order to identify areas of inadequacy and make recommendations on options for reforming the funding model to address those inadequacies and improve the sustainability of offering and providing noncredit workforce credential programs to ensure
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain. [HB-654]
Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides (a) a description of the purpose
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts, state intervention. [HB-655]
Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts; state intervention. Sets out a procedure for determining when localities are in fiscal distress, as defined in the bill, and when state intervention may be necessary. The bill requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to develop criteria for a preliminary determination that a locality may be in fiscal distress. The bill also requires the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to identify any amounts remaining unexpended
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (43-y 55-n) on 02/13/2024
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Standards of Learning; Board of Education to develop all assessments using UDL principles. [HB-500]
Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments; development and administration of assessments; assessments in languages other than English; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to develop all Standards of Learning assessments using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, as defined in the bill. The bill also requires the Board to develop and implement policies providing for the development and administration of all Standards of Learning assessments in languages other than English that are identified as being present to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Laura Jane Cohen
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 01/31/2024
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Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act; established. [SB-212]
Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill game machines in the Commonwealth. The bill authorizes and specifies the registration requirements for the distribution, operation, hosting, and play of skill game machines, as defined in the bill. The bill imposes a 25 percent tax on the gross receipts from the play of each skill game machine from each
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Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024