SB565 - Energy efficiency programs; definitions, incremental annual savings.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 5 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Energy efficiency programs; incremental annual savings. Provides that for the 2029 program year and all subsequent years, "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs means that the State Corporation Commission determines that the program is cost-effective. The bill directs the Commission to promulgate regulations no later than September 30, 2025, establishing a single, consistent cost-effectiveness test for use in evaluating proposed energy efficiency programs. The bill requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power Company to track, quantify, and report to the Commission the incremental annual savings, as defined in the bill, achieved by such utility's energy efficiency programs.
STATUS
Passed
SB571 - Synthetic media; expands applicability of provisions related to defamation, etc., penalty.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adam P. Ebbin, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause to be generated, created, or used any deceptive audio or visual media, defined in the bill, for the purpose of committing a criminal offense involving fraud. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that such deceptive audio or visual media was generated or created for the purpose of committing such criminal offense if such deceptive audio or visual media is subsequently used as part of a plan or course of conduct to commit such criminal offense. The bill also authorizes the individual depicted in the deceptive audio or visual media to bring a civil action against the person who violates such prohibition to recover actual damages, reasonable attorney fees, and such other relief as the court determines to be appropriate. The bill directs the Attorney General to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on the current enforcement of laws related to the use of deceptive audio or visual media, including deepfakes, and any further action needed to address the issue of such use in fraudulent acts.
STATUS
Introduced
SR56 - Celebrating the life of Michelle Antonette Leete.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB446 - Environmental Resources, Board of; created.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Richard H. Stuart
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board and transfers the duties of such boards into a new Board of Environmental Resources. The bill establishes membership, term, meeting, and recording requirements for the Board and also establishes the position, powers, and duties of the Executive Director of the Board.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR195 - Commending the Glenvar High School boys' soccer team.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Chris T. Head, David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB424 - Admission to bail; act of violence.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ryan T. McDougle, David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Admission to bail; act of violence. Provides that a judicial officer who admits a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence shall notify the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which such person's case is filed contemporaneously with such person's grant of bail or release. The bill provides that such notice may be made by facsimile or other electronic means. Admission to bail; act of violence. Provides that a judicial officer who admits a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence shall notify the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which such person's case is filed contemporaneously with such person's grant of bail or release. The bill provides that such notice may be made by facsimile or other electronic means.
STATUS
Passed
SB461 - Forestland and Urban Tree Canopy Conservation Plan; Department of Forestry to establish.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Department of Forestry; Forestland and Urban Tree Canopy Conservation Plan required. Requires the Department of Forestry, in coordination with a Technical Advisory Committee composed of stakeholders, to develop a Forestland and Urban Tree Canopy Conservation Plan no later than November 1, 2026, and update such plan at least once every five years thereafter. The bill requires the Department to post and maintain on its website the most recent version of the Plan and to submit the Plan to the Governor and Chairmen of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources no later than November 30, 2026, and following any update to such plan.
STATUS
Passed
SB666 - Sex offenses; prohibiting proximity to children in state parks, penalty.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentence be forever prohibited from going, for the purpose of having any contact whatsoever with children who are not in his custody, within 100 feet of the premises of any area of a state park where he knows or has reason to know that children are present. A violation is a Class 6 felony.
STATUS
Introduced
SB343 - Military centered community zones; localities may establish, by ordinance, one or more zones.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron R. Rouse
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Military centered community zones; local designation. Allows localities to establish, by ordinance, one or more military centered community zones, defined in the bill as a community that has a significant presence of military personnel living or working in the designated area and where such presence drives, or has the potential to drive, significant economic activity. The bill provides that a locality, or another political subdivision acting on behalf of the locality, may offer unique benefits to businesses looking to locate within a zone for the purpose of serving the needs of the military personnel, including reduction of certain fees and taxes. In addition, the bill provides that local governing bodies are authorized to enter into agreements for the payment of economic development incentive grants to such businesses. The bill also allows a governing body to provide for certain regulatory flexibility and incentives and provides that the establishment of a military centered community zone shall not preclude the area from also being designated as an enterprise zone or from receiving support under the Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program.
STATUS
Passed
SJR99 - Commending the Virginia Society of Association Executives.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves, Christie New Craig
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR16 - Unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions; acknowledging with profound regret.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko, Lamont Bagby, Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 7 months ago8 Co-Sponsors
Acknowledging with profound regret the unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions. Expresses the sentiment of the General Assembly in acknowledging with profound regret the unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions in the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Passed
SB575 - Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence or harm or the necessary additional educational services. The bill requires such facility to, prior to providing any such portions of any minor's discharge plan, provide to the parent of such minor student reasonable notice of the types of information that would be included in any portions of the discharge plan being provided and of the parent's right to, upon written request, refuse the provision of any such information.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB305 - Gas-powered leaf blowers; local prohibition or regulation, civil penalty.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil penalty and that the funds from such civil penalties may be used by the locality to assist with the purchase of nonprohibited leaf blowers by residents and local businesses.
STATUS
Introduced
SB205 - Toll invoices; mail.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Toll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to unpaid tolls. Current law requires such invoices to be mailed by certified mail.
STATUS
Passed
SB346 - Net energy metering; solar interconnection, cost recovery.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Suhas Subramanyam, Creigh Deeds, Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period required by State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering. The bill requires that, for the purposes of net energy metering, an eligible customer-generator shall bear all reasonable costs of equipment required at the eligible customer-generator's side of the meter for the interconnection to the supplier's electric distribution system, including reasonable and prudent costs of additional controls, tests, or liability insurance. Additionally, the bill allows for cost recovery by Phase I and Phase II Utilities for electric distribution grid transformation projects that support the interconnection of generating facilities using energy derived from sunlight that are owned or contracted by eligible customer-generators, subject to the Commission finding those costs to be reasonable and prudent in accordance with existing law.
STATUS
Introduced