SJR144 - Commending Zoie Lamanna.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark J. Peake
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB466 - Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus and private police officers.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain, Creigh Deeds, Mark J. Peake
Last updated 8 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education or private police department that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education or contributing private police department, respectively. The bill requires each contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education and contributing private police department to pay its pro rata share of the initial costs to implement this bill, as determined by the Virginia Retirement System. Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education or private police department that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education or contributing private police department, respectively. The bill requires each contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education and contributing private police department to pay its pro rata share of the initial costs to implement this bill, as determined by the Virginia Retirement System.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB395 - Public elementary & secondary schools; student athletes, pre-participation mental health assessment.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stella G. Pekarsky
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation mental health assessment required. Provides that no public elementary or secondary school student is permitted to be a participant on or try out for any school athletic team or squad with a predetermined roster, regular practices, and scheduled competitions with other elementary or secondary schools unless such student has submitted to the school principal a signed report from a licensed physician, licensed advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed physician assistant acting under the supervision of a licensed physician attesting that such student has, within the preceding 365 days, received both a physical examination and a mental health assessment. Current law only requires that the signed report attest that any such student has received a physical examination within the preceding 12 months. The bill prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from becoming a member of any organization or entity that regulates or governs interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation any student who has satisfied the requirements for eligibility in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Board of Education to convene a work group have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB108 - Income tax, state; standard deduction.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia taxable income; standard deduction. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that was scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
SB727 - Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Todd E. Pillion
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. Clarifies that the board of supervisors of Russell County may appoint nine members to its industrial development authority, which shall consist of two members from the governing body of a town that has used its borrowing capacity to borrow $2 million or more for industrial development and such other members as the board of supervisors shall agree upon. Under current law, two of the members must come from a town that has used its borrowing capacity to borrow $2 million or more for industrial development.
STATUS
Passed
SB555 - First-time homebuyer; creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves, Lamont Bagby, Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
First-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for individuals or married couples filing jointly who sell residential real property that is the taxpayer's primary residence and is located in the Commonwealth to a first-time homebuyer, as defined by the bill. Such credit will be equal to two percent of the sales price of the property, not to exceed $5,000.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR35 - Celebrating the life of Debra Jane Griggs.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William M. Stanley
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB123 - Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property, petition for entry.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Schuyler T. VanValkenburg
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property; petition for entry. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property to petition the circuit court for a license to enter adjoining property for the purpose of performing the improvements, repairs, or maintenance when the property is so situated that it is impossible to perform the improvements, repairs, or maintenance without entering such adjoining property and permission to enter such adjoining property has been denied. The bill provides that such license shall be granted by the court in an appropriate case upon such terms as justice requires. No such entry shall be deemed a trespass, and the licensee shall be liable to the adjoining owner or his lessee for actual damages occurring as a result of the entry.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR70 - Commending Urban League Greater Richmond & Urban League Greater Richmond Young Professionals.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lamont Bagby
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Commending the Urban League Greater Richmond and the Urban League Greater Richmond Young Professionals.
STATUS
Passed
SB612 - Local law enforcement; reduction of budget prohibited, exception.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
John J. McGuire
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by unanimous vote of all members elected to the governing body.
STATUS
Introduced
SB718 - Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund; established, report.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Scott A. Surovell, Richard H. Stuart
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. The Authority is composed of nine members, six of whom are appointed by the Governor and three of whom are appointed by the governing body of the City of Alexandria. Each appointed member is subject to specific criteria for appointment. The bill authorizes the Authority to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers and exempts it from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. Under the bill, the Authority may issue bonds with a maximum maturity date of 40 years. Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. The Authority is composed of nine members, six of whom are appointed by the Governor and three of whom are appointed by the governing body of the City of Alexandria. Each appointed member is subject to specific criteria for appointment. The bill authorizes the Authority to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers and exempts it from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. Under the bill, the Authority may issue bonds with a maximum maturity date of 40 years. The bill entitles the Authority to the following revenues: (i) sales tax revenues from construction and transactions on the campus, defined in the bill, but certain revenues that current law dedicates to transportation and education are excluded; (ii) all pass-through entity tax revenues and corporate income tax revenues from income generated by the company, defined in the bill, or any professional sports team or any affiliates as well as in the development and construction of the campus; and (iii) all personal income tax revenues from income generated through employment and business activity on the campus. It also authorizes the City of Alexandria to appropriate tax revenues to the Authority. The revenues shall be deposited in the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority Financing Fund, created in the bill, from which the Authority will deposit revenues into priority accounts for Authority revenues, debt service, subordinate debt service, reserves, and capital expenditures and maintenance. If the Authority determines that all such accounts are sufficiently funded, the bill directs the Authority to issue the excess to the Commonwealth and the City of Alexandria if so provided for in any bond or financing agreements.
STATUS
Introduced
SB651 - Income tax, state; military benefits subtraction, eliminates age requirement.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Military benefits income tax subtraction; age requirement; emergency. Eliminates the age requirement to claim the individual income tax subtraction for military benefits beginning in taxable year 2023. Under current law, only taxpayers 55 years of age or older may claim the subtraction prior to taxable year 2024. The bill contains an emergency clause.
STATUS
Introduced
SB394 - Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving as a confidential informant, defined in the bill, if he (i) is a law-enforcement officer; (ii) knows that such person is serving as a confidential informant for the law-enforcement agency where such officer is employed; and (iii) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, such confidential informant while such person is serving as a confidential informant or is expected to testify in a criminal case for which the confidential informant assisted the law-enforcement agency with its investigation. The bill provides that such offense is a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that an accused is guilty of sexual battery if he sexually abuses (a) a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer and the accused is a law-enforcement officer, (b) a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender and the accused is an owner or employee of the bail company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, or (c) a person serving as a confidential informant and the accused is a law-enforcement officer. Current law provides that sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a third or subsequent offense. Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving as a confidential informant, defined in the bill, if he (i) is a law-enforcement officer; (ii) knows that such person is serving as a confidential informant for the law-enforcement agency where such officer is employed; and (iii) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, such confidential informant while such person is serving as a confidential informant or is expected to testify in a criminal case for which the confidential informant assisted the law-enforcement agency with its investigation. The bill provides that such offense is a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that an accused is guilty of sexual battery if he sexually abuses (a) a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer and the accused is a law-enforcement officer, (b) a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender and the accused is an owner or employee of the bail company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, or (c) a person serving as a confidential informant and the accused is a law-enforcement officer. Current law provides that sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a third or subsequent offense.
STATUS
Passed
SR51 - Celebrating the life of Hawes Campbell III, M.D.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs, Ryan T. McDougle
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Celebrating the life of Hawes Campbell III, MD.
STATUS
Passed
SB664 - Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Richard H. Stuart
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being recovered from any other customer.
STATUS
Introduced