SR26 - Commending Margaret L. Sanner.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ghazala F. Hashmi, Lashrecse D. Aird, Lamont Bagby
Last updated 8 months ago33 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SR124 - Commending Ann Cannon Taylor.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lashrecse D. Aird, Lamont Bagby, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 7 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SR30 - Commending Harrison A. Moody.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB423 - Cannabis control; retail market, penalties.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all marijuana licenses on July 1, 2025; however, the bill allows certain pharmaceutical processors to begin operations on July 1, 2024, and allows a limited number of other licensees to begin operations on January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR31 - Governor; confirming appointments.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron R. Rouse
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Confirming Governor's appointments; December 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly December 1, 2023. Confirming Governor's appointments; December 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly December 1, 2023.
STATUS
Passed
SR108 - Celebrating the life of John Mason.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Saddam Azlan Salim, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 7 months ago6 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR154 - Commending the Reverend Dr. Harold James Cobb, Jr.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB631 - VNG; efforts to make state-sponsored group term life insurance offered to members.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Timmy F. French
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Authorize the Adjutant General to facilitate and coordinate efforts to promote participation in the state-sponsored group term life insurance program offered to members of the Virginia National Guard.
STATUS
Introduced
SB320 - WIC applicants; DH to provide information to food banks regarding providing assistance.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Danica A. Roem, Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application. The bill also directs the Department of Health to explore strategies to support the outreach and education efforts for food banks pursuant to the bill and report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health and the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services by November 1, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJR9 - Teacher retention, etc.; JLARC to study effect of salaries, employment benefits, etc.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Glen H. Sturtevant
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Study; JLARC; effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on teacher recruitment and retention; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on recruiting and retaining high-quality, fully licensed teachers, including (i) examining salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention in each local school division; (ii) identifying disparities in salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to teacher recruitment and retention rates between high-poverty and rural school divisions, high-income school divisions, and the Commonwealth on average; (iii) reviewing salaries, employment benefits, and other financial benefits and incentives available to teachers in relation to the rates of teacher recruitment and retention and the numbers of fully licensed teachers in adjoining states and the District of Columbia; and (iv) identifying factors that positively impact the recruitment and retention of high-quality, fully licensed teachers.
STATUS
Introduced
SB714 - Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger vehicle exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on a highway; any driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, or business; any governmental property open to the public; any industrial establishment providing parking space for customers, patrons, or employees; and any highway under construction or not yet open to the public. Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger vehicle exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on a highway; any driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, or business; any governmental property open to the public; any industrial establishment providing parking space for customers, patrons, or employees; and any highway under construction or not yet open to the public. The bill allows, in Planning District 8, a law-enforcement officer to stop a passenger vehicle he determines is emitting exhaust system noise in excess of such limit and issue a notice of an administrative fee of $250 to be assessed at the time of the vehicle's next registration renewal and establishes a process for inspecting such vehicle. The bill has a contingent effective date of January 1, 2025, provided that the Department of Environmental Quality has received the necessary funding to supply the necessary equipment for such vehicle exhaust system inspections to inspection stations. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2027.
STATUS
Introduced
SB140 - Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; created, penalty, report.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding fetal and infant deaths and to make such data available to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Department of Health. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions of meetings of the Team at which individual fetal and infant deaths are discussed shall be confidential.
STATUS
Introduced
SB346 - Net energy metering; solar interconnection, cost recovery.
Virginia - 2025 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
SB368 - Firearms; storage in residence where minor or person prohibited from possessing is present, penalty.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko, Lamont Bagby, Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 6 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from possessing a firearm is present to store such firearm and the ammunition for such firearm in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet that is inaccessible to such minor or prohibited person. The bill provides that a violation is a Class 4 misdemeanor. The bill exempts (i) any person in lawful possession of a firearm who carries such firearm on or about his person and (ii) the storage of antique firearms and provides that the lawful authorization of a minor to access a firearm is not a violation of the bill's provisions. The bill also requires firearm dealers to post a notice stating such firearm storage requirements and the penalty for improperly storing such firearms.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB446 - Environmental Resources, Board of; created.
Virginia - 2025 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