Study Commissions Committees And Reports
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Secretariat of Rural Affairs; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. [HJR-32]
[Agriculture ]
[Economic Development ]
Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Continued To 2025 With Amendment(s) In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program; Manufacturing Development Commission to create. [SB-302]
[Manufacturing ]
[Economic Development ]
[Trade ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Free school meals; work group to study offering to students statewide. [SB-283]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to students statewide, identify options for reducing or eliminating student and school meal debt, and make recommendations on options for leveraging other programs funded at the state and federal levels for the provision of student school meals. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0586) on 04/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia. [SB-253]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Climate Change ]
Shared solar programs; Dominion Energy Virginia; minimum bill; capacity. Amends existing shared solar program provisions applicable to Dominion Energy Virginia. The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program means the resulting amount a customer must pay the utility after the bill credit, defined in relevant law, is deducted from the customer's monthly gross utility bill. The bill divides the shared solar program into two parts, the first of which has an aggregate capacity of 200 megawatts. The bill provides
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0763) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Parking Lot Solar Development Program; established, report. [SB-234]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Grants ]
[Climate Change ]
[Funding ]
Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program; report. Establishes the Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in Chesterfield County and Richmond City through grants. The bill directs the Department of Energy, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to administer such program, to establish and publish guidelines and criteria for solar projects funded through such program, and to report annually to the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/26/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; DVS to establish pilot program, report. [HB-691]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Military ]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available for military members, veterans, first responders, law-enforcement officers, and certain agents of federal agencies and family members of the aforementioned individuals. The bill requires the Department to establish regulations for administration of the pilot program. Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. [SB-287]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Comprehensive community colleges; authority to offer and confer certain baccalaureate degrees. Authorizes the State Board for Community Colleges, subject to approval and certification by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia of a proposal submitted for such purpose, to establish an upper division of any comprehensive community college consisting of the third and fourth years of baccalaureate degree programs that lead to occupations in a high-demand field and confer baccalaureate degrees in such degree programs. The bill requires any
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Sponsored by: Sen. Glen Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (15-y 0-n) on 01/25/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public school funding; ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students. [SB-272]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on each such student's English proficiency level, as established in the general appropriation act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0766) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Certificate of public need; expedited review process, etc. [SB-277]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
State Health Services Plan Task Force; certificate of public need; recommendations. Directs the Board of Health to convene the State Health Services Plan Task Force to make recommendations on expedited review of projects subject to certificate of public need requirements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0423) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Dillon Rule; joint subcommittee to study. [SJR-18]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program; created. [SB-217]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Manufacturing ]
Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Expedited Permitting Program and directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to designate up to two sites and four projects for participation in the Program. Sites and projects eligible for the Program shall include only (i) sites eligible for a site development grant under the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program or (ii) projects with significant local, regional, or statewide economic impact that the governing body
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0501) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Substantial Risk Order Training Program; Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish. [HB-637]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Substantial risk orders; training program. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a Substantial Risk Order Training Program for the purposes of training law-enforcement agencies and other public institutions throughout the Commonwealth to use and implement the substantial risk order law. The bill states that the programming shall provide training regarding proper procedures to follow, the circumstances under which the law can be used, the benefits to public safety from proper use of the law, and the harm that may ensue
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Civilian deaths in custody; report. [HB-611]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Education Success Account Program; established, report. [HB-667]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
End Hunger, Virginia Commission to; established, report, sunset date. [HB-607]
[Food ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
Virginia Commission to End Hunger established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission to End Hunger. The bill states that the purpose of the Commission is to develop an action plan every two years for ending hunger in the Commonwealth, review the progress of such plan, and ensure cross-collaboration among government entities and community partners toward the goal of ending hunger in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0296) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges; funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs. [HJR-29]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
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 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; youth and community violence prevention, report. [HB-626]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors that lead to gun violence and increasing community engagement among public school students by providing to students who are entering the eighth grade and enrolled in Roanoke City Public Schools and Petersburg City Public Schools opportunities during the school year after regular school hours and during
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0299) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
English language learner students; ratios of instructional positions, At-Risk Program established. [HB-624]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund, expands eligibility for incentive grant awards from such Fund pursuant to such Program from solely teachers who have obtained national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to all public school staff who are candidates
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; increases membership, training requirements, report. [HB-556]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Ethics ]
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; membership; training requirements; Commission staff; JLARC study; report. Increases the membership of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (the Commission) from seven to nine members and reduces from 15 to 10 years the legal practice requirement of any member of the Commission. The bill further provides for staggered terms of the members of the Commission. The bill requires that members of the Commission complete a certain amount of education on judicial misconduct and correcting implicit bias. Judicial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts, state intervention. [HB-655]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
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