Cyber civilian corps; Virginia Information Technologies Agency shall assess creation of corps. [HB-651]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
Virginia Information Technologies Agency; assess the creation of a cyber civilian corps for the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to assess the creation of a cyber civilian corps for the Commonwealth, including determining (i) the utility of such a corps, (ii) eligibility for such corps, and (iii) availability of potential volunteers. Virginia Information Technologies Agency; assess the creation of a cyber civilian corps for the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to
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HB-651: Cyber civilian corps; Virginia Information Technologies Agency shall assess creation of corps.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Feggans
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
Wholesale prescription drug importation program; Sec. of Health and Human Resources to establish. [SB-186]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Secretary of Health and Human Resources; work group; wholesale prescription drug importation programs; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to investigate wholesale prescription drug importation programs in other states and evaluate best practices for the establishment and application of such a program in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to provide a report to the Governor, the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services, and the Senate
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SB-186: Wholesale prescription drug importation program; Sec. of Health and Human Resources to establish.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0620) on 04/08/2024
Early childhood care and education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations. [HB-535]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of Early Childhood Care and Education of the Department of Education, in consultation with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to (i) conduct a comprehensive review of the findings and recommendations contained in the 2017 report of the Joint Legislative
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HB-535: Early childhood care and education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report. [HB-555]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector General. The bill creates the Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee) made up of four members of the General Assembly, nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, subject to criteria described in the bill, and two nonvoting members, appointed as described in the bill, who monitor
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HB-555: Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0392) on 04/04/2024
Special education; revised staffing requirements, report. [SB-187]
[Education ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Department of Education; plan to revise special education staffing requirements; report. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and any other individuals with expertise in special education as the Department of Education deems appropriate, to develop a plan for revised special education staffing requirements that addresses staffing needs of individual school divisions and the needs of students who receive special education and aims to improve special education teacher
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SB-187: Special education; revised staffing requirements, report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Incorporated By Finance And Appropriations on 02/08/2024
Commercial driver's license; DMV to convene a work group to develop & implement strategy to promote. [HB-505]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
Department of Motor Vehicles; commercial driver's license work group. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to develop and implement a statewide strategy to incentivize and promote the issuance of commercial driver's licenses to qualified applicants in the Commonwealth.
HB-505: Commercial driver's license; DMV to convene a work group to develop & implement strategy to promote.
Sponsored by: Rep. Laura Jane Cohen
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of HCD to convene advisory group to evaluate. [SB-195]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisions to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to permit Group R-2 occupancies to be served by a single exit, provided that the building has not more than six stories above grade plane. The bill requires the stakeholder advisory group to submit its findings and recommendations to the Board and to the Chairmen
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SB-195: Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of HCD to convene advisory group to evaluate.
Sponsored by: Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0385) on 04/04/2024
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; powers and duties, definition. [SB-155]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority by adding four additional ex officio members to the Authority's Board of Directors, adding setting priorities for and managing graduate medical education programs to the duties of the Authority, specifying additional recipients of the Board's biennial
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SB-155: Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; powers and duties, definition.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0761) on 04/08/2024
General Assembly; JLARC to study salaries and expenses of legislators. [SJR-17]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Study; JLARC; salaries and expenses of legislators; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and to make recommendations for any adjustments to such salaries or expenses. As part of this study, JLARC will review the current salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments of the members of the General Assembly; examine the Commonwealth's history of legislative compensation;
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SJR-17: General Assembly; JLARC to study salaries and expenses of legislators.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Bill Text As Passed Senate And House (sj17er) on 03/04/2024
Recovery residences; certification requirements, death and serious injury reports, report. [SB-190]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Housing ]
[Human Services ]
Recovery residences; certification requirements; death and serious injury reports; work group; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to promulgate regulations that require recovery residences to (i) comply with uniform health and safety requirements established by the Department and published on its website and (ii) report to the Department, in the same manner as licensed facilities and programs, any death or serious injury that occurs in the recovery residence. The bill requires the Department to maintain
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SB-190: Recovery residences; certification requirements, death and serious injury reports, report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Incorporated By Rehabilitation And Social Services (13-y 0-n) on 01/12/2024
Unaccompanied minor housing program; DSS & DHCD to study implementation of program. [HB-587]
[Housing ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
Study; Department of Social Services; Department of Housing and Community Development; unaccompanied minor housing program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work group to study the implementation of an unaccompanied minor housing program. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the relevant committees of the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2024.
HB-587: Unaccompanied minor housing program; DSS & DHCD to study implementation of program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
Contractors, Board for; required regulations and disclosures. [HB-576]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Small Business ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
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, or buyer in transactions involving door-to-door solicitations
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HB-576: Contractors, Board for; required regulations and disclosures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc. [HJR-25]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Funding ]
Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and universities in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and three members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study the challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success
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HJR-25: Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
Dillon Rule; joint subcommittee to study. [HJR-24]
[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.
HJR-24: Dillon Rule; joint subcommittee to study.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
Civil commitments & temporary detention orders; def. of mental illness neurocognitive disorders. [SB-176]
[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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State hospitals; discharge planning. [SB-179]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
State hospitals; discharge planning; report. Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after admission, the appropriate community services board shall implement the discharge plan developed by the state facility and (ii) when an individual is to be discharged from any other state facility in 30 days or less after admission, or from a state hospital more than 30 days after admission, the appropriate
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SB-179: State hospitals; discharge planning.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0153) on 03/26/2024
State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp. [SB-178]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all complaints it receives alleging abuse, neglect, or inadequate care at a state psychiatric hospital and (ii) submit such plan to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Office to submit
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SB-178: State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0664) on 04/08/2024
Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report. [HB-570]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Consumer Protection ]
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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HB-570: Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
State hospitals; discharge of individuals. [HB-515]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; discharge pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and implement a pilot program relating to the discharge of individuals at one state hospital. The bill requires the Department to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the House Committee on Health and Human Services, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Behavioral Health Commission no later than November 1, 2025. Department
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HB-515: State hospitals; discharge of individuals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0290) on 04/02/2024
Early voting; joint committee of the House & Senate Committees on P & E to study costs & benefits. [HJR-20]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Study; joint committee of the House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections to study the costs and benefits of 45 days of early voting. Establishes a joint committee of the House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections to study the costs and benefits of 45 days of early voting. In conducting its study, the joint committee shall survey several localities within the Commonwealth with different demographics, both urban and rural, to evaluate the fiscal impact on the locality and the ability of the locality to meet the burden imposed
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HJR-20: Early voting; joint committee of the House & Senate Committees on P & E to study costs & benefits.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024