SR112 - Celebrating the life of Charles Cameron Ballard.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR125 - Commending the Virginia State University marching band.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lashrecse D. Aird, Lamont Bagby, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 7 months ago40 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB567 - Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commission for the siting of an energy facility rather than from the governing body of a locality. Under the bill, applicants are authorized to submit an application to the Commission if (i) the locality fails to timely approve or deny an application; (ii) the application complies with certain requirements for Commission approval, but a host locality denies the application; or (iii) the locality amends its zoning ordinance after it has notified the applicant that its requirements are compatible with the requirements for Commission approval, and the amendment imposes additional requirements that are more restrictive. The bill provides that an applicant who is issued a certificate by the Commission for an energy facility is exempt from obtaining approvals or permits, including any land use approvals or permits under the regulations and ordinances of the locality. The bill applies to any solar energy facility with a capacity of 50 megawatts or more, any wind energy facility with a capacity of 100 megawatts or more, and any energy storage facility with a nameplate capacity of 50 megawatts or more and an energy discharge capability of 200 megawatt hours or more.
STATUS
Introduced
SB212 - Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act; established.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron R. Rouse, Timmy F. French, Louise Lucas
Last updated 4 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill game machines in the Commonwealth. The bill authorizes and specifies the registration requirements for the distribution, operation, hosting, and play of skill game machines, as defined in the bill. The bill imposes a 25 percent tax on the gross receipts from the play of each skill game machine from each distributor and provides for the use of such tax proceeds, with most being deposited into the PreK-12 Priority Fund, established in the bill. The bill directs the Virginia Lottery Board to promulgate regulations no later than January 1, 2027, to implement the provisions of the bill and authorizes the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to grant a provisional registration, beginning July 1, 2024, to any entity that provides a laboratory certification from a laboratory approved by the Authority that the game being distributed, operated, or placed in an establishment meets the definition and requirements of a skill game machine. Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act established; regulation of skill game machines; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Small Business Economic Development Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for skill game machines in the Commonwealth. The bill authorizes and specifies the registration requirements for the distribution, operation, hosting, and play of skill game machines, as defined in the bill. The bill imposes a 25 percent tax on the gross receipts from the play of each skill game machine from each distributor and provides for the use of such tax proceeds, with most being deposited into the PreK-12 Priority Fund, established in the bill. The bill directs the Virginia Lottery Board to promulgate regulations no later than January 1, 2027, to implement the provisions of the bill and authorizes the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to grant a provisional registration, beginning July 1, 2024, to any entity that provides a laboratory certification from a laboratory approved by the Authority that the game being distributed, operated, or placed in an establishment meets the definition and requirements of a skill game machine.
STATUS
Vetoed
SJR146 - Commending the Brunswick Academy football team.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Emily M. Brewer
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB685 - Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers, civil action.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime pay or (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violates the bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee for certain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill. The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouse employee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performance standard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverse employment action that may result from such employee's failure to meet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employer from taking adverse action against a warehouse employee for such employee's use of a bathroom facility. The bill provides that a warehouse employer that violates the bill's provisions relating to warehouse employers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.
STATUS
Introduced
SB665 - Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its conduct of land-disturbing activities to the Department of Environmental Quality for approval by the Department as an alternative to submitting soil erosion control and stormwater management plans.
STATUS
Introduced
SB694 - Skill games; exceptions.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William M. Stanley
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise.
STATUS
Introduced
SB578 - Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities, competitive procurement process.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities owned by persons other than a public utility and located off the Commonwealth's Atlantic shoreline or in federal waters and interconnected directly into the Commonwealth is in the public interest. The bill states that, except for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project, the purchase or development of offshore wind facilities or the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from such facilities shall include a competitive procurement process held by the Department of Energy. The bill specifies that Dominion Energy Virginia may submit a bid but shall not participate in evaluating bids or making selections in such process. Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities owned by persons other than a public utility and located off the Commonwealth's Atlantic shoreline or in federal waters and interconnected directly into the Commonwealth is in the public interest. The bill states that, except for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project, the purchase or development of offshore wind facilities or the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from such facilities shall include a competitive procurement process held by the Department of Energy. The bill specifies that Dominion Energy Virginia may submit a bid but shall not participate in evaluating bids or making selections in such process.
STATUS
Introduced
SB586 - Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stella G. Pekarsky
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department of Education, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first considering at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice such as community conferencing, community service, mentoring, a peer jury, peer mediation, positive behavioral interventions and supports, a restorative circle, or the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports. The bill also requires the Department to add as part of the student behavior and administrative response collection required pursuant to relevant law the use of evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices as a behavioral intervention in order to evaluate the use and effectiveness of such practices.
STATUS
Vetoed
SJR187 - Celebrating the life of Richard Robert Paradis.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph, Lashrecse D. Aird, Lamont Bagby
Last updated 7 months ago37 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR159 - Celebrating the life of George Declan O'Reilly.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Bryce E. Reeves
Last updated 7 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SR107 - Commending Zoya Bitici.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SJR1 - Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko, Ghazala F. Hashmi, Louise Lucas
Last updated 10 months ago16 Co-Sponsors
Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising the individual's right to reproductive freedom or for aiding another individual in the exercise of such right, unless justified by a compelling state interest.
STATUS
Introduced
SR117 - Commending Jim Snavely.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed