Study Commissions Committees And Reports
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements, civil action. [SB-373]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Finance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Small Business ]
[Human Services ]
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2027. Under the program, benefits are paid to covered individuals, as defined in the bill, for family and medical leave. The bill specifies that covered individuals shall not include state employees, constitutional and other local officers, and employees of local school divisions and that funding for the program
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Firefighters and emergency medical services personnel; recruitment and professional development. [HB-1049]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; work group to study recruitment and professional development of firefighters and emergency medical services personnel; report. Requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to convene a work group to (i) study the recruitment and professional development of firefighters and emergency medical services personnel, (ii) make recommendations to ensure the uniformity of training for firefighters and emergency medical services
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Continued To 2025 With Amendment(s) In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Artificial intelligence technology; use in education. [SB-385]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program; established, report, sunset date. [HB-1075]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Libraries ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Human Services ]
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program established. Establishes Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program for the purpose of promoting a comprehensive statewide initiative for encouraging preschool-age children to develop a love of reading and learning whereby one reading selection, as defined in the bill, is provided per month to each registered child from birth to age five in each participating county at no cost to the family of such child. The bill requires the Program to contribute to local programs a 50 percent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0147) on 03/26/2024
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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 Torian
Incorporated By Rules on 01/26/2024
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Public service companies; pole attachments to accommodate cable TV systems & telecommunications. [HB-800]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Energy ]
Public service companies; pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers. Requires a public utility, as defined in the bill, to establish and adhere to pole attachment practices and procedures that comply with certain requirements, including determining whether an attachment request is complete before reviewing such request on its merits, complying with certain timelines, and providing notice of a rearrangement to affected existing attachers. The bill provides that a public utility shall not apportion to a telecommunications
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0822) on 04/17/2024
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Civil commitments & temporary detention orders; def. of mental illness neurocognitive disorders. [HB-888]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Civil commitments and temporary detention orders; definition of mental illness; neurocognitive disorders and neurodevelopmental disabilities; Secretary of Health and Human Resources to evaluate placements for certain individuals; report. Specifies that for the purpose of civil commitments and temporary detention orders, behaviors and symptoms that manifest from a neurocognitive disorder or neurodevelopmental disability are excluded from the definition of mental illness and are, therefore, not a basis for placing an individual under a temporary detention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0696) on 04/08/2024
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Starr Alert Program; Department of State Police to study need for an alert program, etc. [HJR-46]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Study; Department of State Police; Starr Alert Program; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the need for an alert program, to be known as the Starr Alert Program, to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby hit-and-run incidents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonita Anthony
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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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 Webert
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (22-y 0-n) on 01/30/2024
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Distressed localities; JLARC to study potential effects of revising distribution of 599 funding. [HJR-33]
[Crime ]
[Poverty ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
Study; JLARC; potential effects of revising the distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential effects of revising the distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim Taylor
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Veterans; examining practice of persons receiving compensation for providing certain services, etc. [HB-736]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill. Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0730) on 04/08/2024
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Individuals with developmental disabilities; financial eligibility. [HB-908]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Disabilities ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Department of Medical Assistances Services; financial eligibility standards for certain waivers providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the financial eligibility standards for individuals receiving services under the Family and Individual Support Waiver, Community Living Waiver, and Building Independence Waiver (the DD Waivers). The bill requires the Department, when determining financial eligibility for the DD Waivers, to disregard any Social Security Disability
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0211) on 03/28/2024
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Electric utilities; federal funding resources. [HB-809]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Department of Energy; State Corporation Commission; federal funding resources for electric utilities; report. Directs the Department of Energy, in collaboration with the State Corporation Commission, to estimate and analyze total and discrete federal funding resources available to electric utilities in the Commonwealth for transmission, generation, distribution, or grid transformation projects. The bill directs the Department to develop a benchmarking and tracking system to encourage the maximum leveraging of federal funding resources by electric
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Tabled In Rules (18-y 0-n) on 02/01/2024
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Comprehensive community colleges, certain; JLARC to study waiver of tuition and mandatory fees. [HJR-39]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who attend Mountain Empire Community College, Southwest Virginia Community College, and Virginia Highlands Community College and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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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 Green
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Data centers; energy usage. [HB-910]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Economic Development ]
[Data Privacy ]
Department of Energy; data center energy usage. Requires each data center located in the Commonwealth to make a quarterly energy source report to the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency that identifies the amount of energy, disaggregated by the source of energy, consumed by the data center in the previous quarter. The bill requires the Division to publish aggregate deidentified data from such reports on its website. The bill also directs the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to convene a work group to estimate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Kannan Srinivasan
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Elections; allows for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. [HB-841]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill also clarifies requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be reported along with other results reported on election
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; qualifications and performance. [HB-893]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Criminal Justice ]
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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Voter registration; list maintenance activities, cancellation procedures, required record matches. [HB-904]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Data Privacy ]
Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the Department of Elections for list maintenance purposes and requires the Department, upon receiving any such list, to do an initial comparison of the information included on such list with the list of registered voters and determine the confidence score for any match. Matches with a confidence score of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024