SB136 - Local government; prohibition on certain appointments.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Chris T. Head
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or commission or as a member of a board of directors of a not-for-profit organization that receives funding from the locality.
STATUS
Introduced
SB616 - Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Todd E. Pillion
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation and its powers and duties and reporting requirements, the Virginia Farm Link Program, the Century Farm Program, and the Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund. The bill renames the Office as the Office of Working Lands Preservation. The bill makes technical amendments to effectuate the transfer and requires the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Department of Forestry by July 1 of each year certain enumerated information about nonpoint source nutrient credits certified in the previous year that involve land use conversion.
STATUS
Passed
SB438 - Juvenile detention home, group home, and residential care facility commissions; membership.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Juvenile detention home, group home, and residential care facility commissions; membership. Requires that members and alternate members of juvenile detention home, group home, or other residential care facility commissions have a background in law enforcement or corrections.
STATUS
Introduced
SB717 - Higher educational institutions, public; duties of governing boards, acceptance & use of donations.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ryan T. McDougle
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Public institutions of higher education; duties of governing boards; acceptance and use of donations. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education may receive, take, hold, and enjoy any donation or gift made to such institution or governing board and may use and administer any such donation or gift for the uses and purposes designated by the donor or, if no such specific designation is made, for the general purposes of the institution. The bill provides that in the event that a donor specifically designates any particular use or purpose for a donation or gift, each governing board is required to appropriate such donation or gift and any resulting interest, income, and profits only to such specifically designated use or purpose, provided, however, that if such specifically designated use or purpose fails by any means such that the specifically designated use or purpose is permanently frustrated, the whole donation or gift, including unexpended principal and interest, will revert to and be vested in the donor or his legal representatives.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR36 - Confirming Governor's appointments; January 12.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron R. Rouse
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Confirming Governor's appointments; January 12. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly January 12, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SR628 - Commending the York High School baseball team.
Virginia - 2024 Special IIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs
Last updated 3 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR34 - Celebrating the life of Geraldine Boyd Cole.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Hackworth
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR29 - Commending Xcellerated Offshore.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SJR37 - Celebrating the life of Tafari Jawara Campbell.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeremy S. McPike
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR33 - Commending the Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors of Virginia.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Glen H. Sturtevant
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB519 - Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
STATUS
Introduced
SB580 - Environmental Quality, Department of; judicial review, authorization of projects, hearing & appeal.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds, Travis Hackworth
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Department of Environmental Quality; review and authorization of projects; hearing and appeal. Allows any person aggrieved by the final decision of the Department of Environmental Quality regarding the authorization of a project and who has participated in a proceeding for a permit to construct or operate a small renewable energy project under procedures adopted by the Department to seek judicial review of such action in accordance with the Administrative Process Act in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond within 30 days of such decision. The bill requires the court to hear and decide such action as soon as practicable after the date of filing.
STATUS
Passed
SB721 - Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, etc.; approval process.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohibiting use of the comprehensive plan as the basis, in whole or in part, for the disapproval of a site plan that is otherwise in conformity with duly adopted standards, ordinances, and statutes and (ii) allowing automatic approval of certain land use applications rather than a right to petition the circuit court, as provided under current law, if a locality does not approve or disapprove the application within the required timeframe. The bill also reduces from 12 months to four months the time within which a locality must initially act upon certain proposed zoning ordinance amendments and requires a locality to act on all such proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance or map that it has previously disapproved within 45 days after an amended proposal has been resubmitted for approval.
STATUS
Introduced
SB293 - Guardianship and conservatorship; duties and powers of guardian and conservator.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Guardianship and conservatorship; duties and powers of guardian and conservator; self-dealing prohibited. Provides that a guardian and conservator shall avoid all conflicts of interest and self-dealing, including all appearances of conflicts of interest and self-dealing, when addressing the needs of the incapacitated person to whom the guardian or conservator owes a fiduciary duty. The bill provides that a conflict of interest arises when the guardian or conservator has a personal or agency interest that can be perceived as self-serving or adverse to the position or best interest of the incapacitated person, and self-dealing arises when the guardian or conservator seeks to take advantage of his position as guardian or conservator and acts for his own interests rather than for the interests of the incapacitated person. The bill further provides that any sale or transaction that constitutes self-dealing shall be voidable by the court.
STATUS
Introduced
SB563 - Regional career and technical education program; establishing in Planning District 2.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Hackworth
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, the Board of Education, the school board and division superintendent of Tazewell County Public Schools, and representatives of the governing boards of comprehensive community colleges located in Tazewell County and contiguous counties to study the feasibility of and make recommendations on developing a plan for establishing a regional career and technical education program for all students in grade levels six through 12 who reside in Planning District 2. Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, the Board of Education, the school board and division superintendent of Tazewell County Public Schools, and representatives of the governing boards of comprehensive community colleges located in Tazewell County and contiguous counties to study the feasibility of and make recommendations on developing a plan for establishing a regional career and technical education program for all students in grade levels six through 12 who reside in Planning District 2.
STATUS
Engrossed