SB673 - State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Richard H. Stuart
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Environmental Quality; State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board to prioritize the preservation of water for human consumption and food production in all permitting and regulatory processes related to groundwater and surface water resources. Department of Environmental Quality; State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board to prioritize the preservation of water for human consumption and food production in all permitting and regulatory processes related to groundwater and surface water resources.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB662 - Income tax, state; subtraction for state police retirement benefits.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark J. Peake, Christie New Craig
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to include retirement income received by a Virginia State Police officer who is at least 55 years of age and benefits paid to the surviving spouse of such officer whose death occurred in the line of duty.
STATUS
Introduced
SB417 - Adult protective services; created central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, etc.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Chris T. Head
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investigation requirements for local departments of social services related to reports of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (ii) record retention and disclosure requirements for the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and local departments of social services; (iii) notice requirements related to findings by local departments and central registry entries; and (iv) an appeals process to contest the findings of a local department related to substantiated reports of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The bill directs the Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and exempts the Commissioner's initial adoption of such regulations from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR160 - Celebrating the life of Paul Otie Bennett.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB359 - Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms, addictive feed.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Schuyler T. VanValkenburg, Lashrecse D. Aird, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 8 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent. Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB440 - School protection officers; employment in public schools.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school protection officer, defined in the bill as a retired law-enforcement officer hired by the local law-enforcement agency on a part-time basis to provide limited law-enforcement and security services to public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires each such school board and local law-enforcement agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding that sets forth the powers and duties of school protection officers. The bill requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for school protection officers and requires the collection of certain data relating to the activities of such officers.
STATUS
Introduced
SR630 - Celebrating the life of Randolph Nicklas Reynolds, Sr.
Virginia - 2024 Special IIntroduced by
John J. McGuire, Christie New Craig, Bill R. DeSteph
Last updated 3 months ago16 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB159 - Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to
STATUS
Passed
SB328 - Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Emily M. Brewer, Christie New Craig, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB457 - Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund; established and created.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden, Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund created. Creates the Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. The bill provides that a private developer is eligible to receive grants of 70 percent of such non-utility costs for electric vehicle charging stations installed in a historically economically disadvantaged community or a rural community, as those terms are defined in the bill, and 50 percent of such non-utility costs for electric vehicle charging stations installed in any other area of the Commonwealth. The bill caps the total amount of grants awarded in any fiscal year at $20 million.
STATUS
Introduced
SB406 - Political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or nonparty committee.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on white paper, (ii) include the words "sample ballot," (iii) include the statement: "Paid for by [Name of the sponsor as defined by § 24.2-956.1]," and (iv) include the statement "Authorized by [Name of political party]" or "Not authorized by a political party."
STATUS
Engrossed
SB708 - Underground transmission lines; qualifying projects, pilot program.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts. The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission shall approve additional qualifying projects as part of the pilot program that traverse along highways in developed areas where the route of proposed transmission lines and towers traverse areas protected by a scenic easement, view shed easement, areas of registered historic designation, or areas of conservation easements. Under the bill, existing requirements for qualifying projects shall continue to apply to such new category of qualifying projects.
STATUS
Introduced
SB445 - Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; credit for service, teacher salary scale.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a teacher in the local school division credit for any time served in any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the local school division's teacher salary scale.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR50 - Commending John T. Frey.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Scott A. Surovell, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 8 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR201 - Commending Fredericksburg Fallen Heroes.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant, Bryce E. Reeves, J.D. Diggs
Last updated 7 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed