Study Commissions Committees And Reports
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; student application fees, report. [HB-1307]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; student application fees; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to survey each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to determine, for the 2023–2024 academic year, (i) the median, average, and full per-student application fee charged by the institution; (ii) the total number and percentage of student applicants who receive an application fee waiver from the institution; (iii)
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Sponsored by: Rep. Atoosa Reaser
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Artificial intelligence; Joint Commission on Technology and Science to study advancements. [SJR-14]
Joint Commission on Technology and Science; study; advancements in artificial intelligence; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to study advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), including assessing (i) the impacts of deep fakes, data privacy implications, and misinformation; (ii) measures to ensure these technologies do not indirectly or directly lead to discrimination; (iii) strategies to promote equity in AI algorithms; and (iv) ways in which AI can be utilized to improve government operations and services, and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Litter tax; Department of Taxation, et al., to study tax policy options for reforming. [HJR-35]
Study; Department of Taxation; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Directs the Department of Taxation, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Quality, to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
VA Military Survivors & Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate, etc., Program. [SB-347]
Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate and make recommendations on improving long-term viability; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs and the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of evaluating the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and making recommendations on legislative actions and budgetary modifications that could improve the stability, strength, and long-term
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Parking Lot Solar Development Program; established, report. [SB-234]
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
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Length of Stay Guidelines & Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; DJJ's work group to study, report. [HB-1494]
Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of Stay Guidelines and the Department's direct care capacity in response to the Department's report on the 2023 Length of Stay Guidelines. The work group is directed to study (i) the evidence and research relied upon by the Department as identified in the Department's report, including adjusting for changes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Localities hosting data center infrastructure; DHCD to study revenue sharing program. [HJR-64]
Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study creating a revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure for data centers located in other localities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Cannabis; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study creation of a retail market. [HJR-63]
Study; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; creation of a retail cannabis market; report. Requests the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study the creation of a retail cannabis market in the Commonwealth and draft regulations governing the indoor cultivation, processing, manufacturing, testing, packaging, labeling, distribution, sale, and delivery of cannabis. The resolution requires that such regulations include (i) appropriate application and license fees; (ii) reasonable restrictions on cannabis advertising; (iii) restrictions on product
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Data centers; energy usage. [HB-910]
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
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Va. State Crime Commission; benefits of violence interrupters, impact of barrier crime statutes. [HB-1316]
Virginia State Crime Commission; benefits of violence interrupters; impact of barrier crime statutes; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission, in consultation with stakeholders, to assess (i) the benefits of violence interrupters and (ii) the impact barrier crimes statutes have on the recruitment and retention rates of violence interrupters in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Crime Commission to report its findings and any recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee for Courts
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeion Ward
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Secretariat of Rural Affairs; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. [HJR-32]
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
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges; funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs. [SJR-20]
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: Sen. Lashrecse Aird
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Social Work Advisory Board; established, report, sunset date. [HB-178]
Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations. The bill contains an expiration date of June 30, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Public elementary schools; incorporation of career & technical education into curricula. [HB-1091]
Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education; recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula; report. Requires the Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education established by the Board of Education to develop and submit to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024, recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for the incorporation of career and technical education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores Oates
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Sexual misconduct policies; SCHEV to convene task force on combating violence, civil penalty. [HB-369]
Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual violence for the purpose of developing a base sexual misconduct campus climate survey to be distributed to institutions of higher education no less than annually. The bill defines "institution of higher education" as any public institution of higher education or any private institution of higher education. The bill permits each institution of higher education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Tidal and nontidal wetlands; DEQ to establish work group to develop strategies to protect, report. [HB-357]
Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for protecting the existing tidal and nontidal wetlands of the Commonwealth and (ii) plans for wetland restoration and creation to address losses and adverse impacts from human activities and climate change. The bill specifies that such work group shall include certain relevant stakeholders and will focus on
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Institute of Marine Science; review the cumulative surface water intake effects. [HB-1520]
Virginia Institute of Marine Science; review the cumulative surface water intake effects on aquatic fauna in the Chesapeake Bay; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to review the feasibility of studying cumulative impacts of surface water intakes on aquatic fauna and water quality in Virginia's rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. VIMS is required to report whether the study may be conducted and, if so, report the total amount of funding necessary to conduct the study to the Governor by October 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. [HB-1375]
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for developing a local plan for the delivery of preschool services to at-risk children. A local match based on the composite index of local ability to pay is required to fund such a proposal. The proposal must include the number of at-risk four-year-olds and three-year-olds to be served and eligibility criteria
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Comprehensive community colleges, certain; JLARC to study waiver of tuition and mandatory fees. [HJR-39]
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
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Employment service organizations; DGS, et al., to study procuring goods and services. [HJR-51]
Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, potential set-asides or percentage goals that could be utilized or bolstered by employment service organizations, and whether employment service organizations should be housed within the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024