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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Insurrections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust, civil penalty. [HB-280]
Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from serving in any position of public trust within the Commonwealth for life if such person is convicted of certain offenses related to rioting and unlawful assembly or any substantially similar offense under the laws of the United States or any of its states or territories when such offense occurs (i) at a polling place, a voter satellite office, or any other location being used for voting or registration purposes; (ii) during the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/13/2024
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Local tax credits; emergency services providers. [SB-114]
Local tax credits; emergency services providers. Enables localities to by ordinance provide a credit against taxes and fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approved emergency services in the locality. As defined in the bill, "approved emergency services" include professional or volunteer local law enforcement or first responders who provide emergency services to a nonprofit organization or to the locality. The bill specifies that the credit shall not be applied against any property taxes or payments in lieu of property taxes
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Failed To Report (defeated) In Finance And Appropriations (7-y 7-n) on 01/23/2024
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All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. [HB-234]
All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or off-road motorcycle operated on a highway or sidewalk within such city.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0436) on 04/04/2024
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Persons occupying street for commercial use; civil penalty. [HB-235]
Persons occupying street for commercial use; civil penalty. Allows cities and towns by ordinance to establish a uniform schedule of civil penalties for commercial use of a street, avenue, park, bridge, or any other public place or public property or any public easement of a city or town, in a manner not permitted to the general public, without having first legally obtained the consent of the city or town. The bill provides that the schedule of civil penalties shall be uniform for each type of specified violation, and the penalty for any one violation,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Ferrell Tata
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/13/2024
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Legal notices; locality to advertise on their website. [HB-229]
Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Stricken From Docket By Counties, Cities And Towns (21-y 0-n) on 02/09/2024
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Omitted taxes; installment agreements. [HB-226]
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Comprehensive plan; locality may consider adopting a healthy communities strategy. [HB-208]
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's strategy may include identifying (i) major sources of pollution or hazardous waste sites within the locality, (ii) policies to mitigate the unique or compounded health risks to residents that may be caused by such pollution sources or hazardous waste sites, (iii) objectives and policies to promote civic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry. [SB-93]
Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant information of persons convicted of certain felony offenses for animal cruelty and that a person on such registry may request removal of his name after 15 years, provided that he has no additional felony convictions of an animal cruelty offense. The bill directs that all costs relating to a locality's animal
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0758) on 04/08/2024
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Stafford County; authorized to impose an additional local sales tax for schools. [HB-193]
Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Stafford County. Adds Stafford County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the construction or renovation of schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Candi Mundon King
Left In Finance on 02/13/2024
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Law-enforcement and jail officers; various changes to provisions related to decertification. [SB-88]
Decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. Makes various changes to the provisions related to decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. The bill provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services may conduct decertification review hearings in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Process Act. The bill provides that the findings and decision of the Department may be appealed to the Board and that the final administrative decision of the Board may be then appealed and reviewed by a court.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0494) on 04/04/2024
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Procurement; preference for local products and firms by localities. [HB-164]
Procurement; preference for local products and firms by localities. Allows localities to give a procurement preference to a higher bid that includes local products and firms so long as the bid price is not more than 10 percent greater than the bid price of the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Incorporated By General Laws on 02/01/2024
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Trees; conservation during land development process. [HB-170]
Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) that meets certain population density and nonattainment classification criteria is authorized to adopt such an ordinance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Incorporated By Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/02/2024
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Staunton, City of; City allowed to reduce or waive utility connection fees in certain areas. [HB-136]
Waiving of utility connection fees in certain areas; City of Staunton. Allows the City of Staunton to reduce or waive utility connection fees in certain designated areas.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 P.m., April 8, 2024 on 03/08/2024
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Energy, Department of; building standards for certain local buildings. [HB-151]
Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related to onsite renewable energy generation, energy storage, and resilience standards for construction or renovation of certain public buildings. The bill also makes several technical and clarifying changes to the existing statute, in part by defining or redefining existing terms found in the statute.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0687) on 04/08/2024
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Terrorism hoax incident, etc.; reimbursement of expenses incurred to localities. [HB-147]
Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, malicious activation of fire alarm, or false emergency communication to emergency personnel. Allows a locality that has an ordinance requiring any person over 18 years of age convicted of false emergency communication to emergency personnel to reimburse such locality at the time of sentencing or in a separate civil action to bill a flat fee of $2,500 or a minute-by-minute accounting of actual costs incurred.
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Speed limits; notification to primary liaison in each locality when change occurs. [HB-144]
Change in speed limits; notification. Requires Change in speed limits; notification. Requires the Department of Transportation, if the Commissioner of Highways increases or decreases a speed limit, to notify the primary liaison with the Department in each locality within which such speed limit change will occur. The bill also requires the locality to notify the governing body of any property owners' association or condominium association if any such speed limit change will occur in a community subject to such association.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0272) on 04/02/2024
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Constitutional officers; dual office holding, prohibited for deputies and other persons. [HB-130]
Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any persons serving in such officer's absence until a special election to fill the vacancy is held.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Door-to-door vendors; local regulation, political parties exempted. [HB-128]
Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; political parties exempted. Provides that local ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any person participating in certain specified political activities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0172) on 03/28/2024
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Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund; established and created. [HB-107]
Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund created. Creates the Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of public electric vehicle charging stations in certain localities. The bill provides that a private developer is eligible to receive grants of 70 percent of such non-utility costs for public electric vehicle charging stations installed in a city or county that meets the criteria of a distressed
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Failed To Pass In House on 03/09/2024
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Local gov't; ongoing health care for employees exposed to toxic materials. [HB-133]
Department of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure that local government employees who respond to emergencies that expose them to toxic materials have appropriate preemptive and ongoing health care and are able to pay any health expenses related to such emergency and its aftereffects that are not covered by relevant health insurance plans. The work group
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0174) on 03/28/2024