SB53 - State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ryan T. McDougle, Bill R. DeSteph
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliant with model year standards related to the control of emissions adopted by California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB409 - Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements. Allows a locality by ordinance to adopt and require compliance with stretch codes, as defined in the bill, for the construction or rehabilitation of buildings within the locality that are in addition to or more stringent than those in the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and use them as an alternative means of compliance with a locality's building requirements. The bill requires periodic review of the codes and allows the locality to make amendments.
STATUS
Introduced
SR174 - Commending the NRI Vasavi Association, USA.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR162 - Commending Rachel Grover.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stella G. Pekarsky
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SJR81 - Commending the City of Alexandria.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB453 - Emissions inspections; fees, agreement for services and service charge fees.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Emissions inspections; agreement for services; fees. Increases from $3,500 to $5,000 the amount the emissions inspection program coordinator may be paid per year from each motor vehicle emissions inspection station for the provision and maintenance of each set of required equipment. The bill also increases from $28 to $30 the maximum amount that may be charged for the emissions inspection fee.
STATUS
Passed
SR54 - Commending the Prince William County Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Jeremy S. McPike, Danica A. Roem
Last updated 7 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SR607 - Judge; nomination for election to juvenile and domestic relations district court.
Virginia - 2024 Special IIntroduced by
Scott A. Surovell
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Nominating a person to be elected to a juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeship.
STATUS
Passed
SB507 - Health care providers & grocery store workers; employers to provide paid sick leave, effective date.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Scott A. Surovell, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Schuyler T. VanValkenburg
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain home health workers. The bill removes requirements that workers work on average at least 20 hours per week or 90 hours per month to be eligible for paid sick leave. The bill provides that certain health care providers may waive their right to accrue and use paid sick leave and provides an exemption for employers of certain other health care providers. The bill requires the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines for retail employers that sell groceries to provide sick leave and to publish such guidelines by December 1, 2024. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB85 - Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver," remote participation in meetings.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver"; remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. The bill also provides that the participation policy adopted by a public body, as required by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, shall not prohibit or restrict any individual member of a public body who is participating in an all-virtual meeting or who is using remote participation from voting on matters before the public body. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
STATUS
Passed
SB352 - Teachers; changes to provisions relating to licensure and certification, reciprocity.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark J. Peake
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without deficiencies that has been in force and in use by the individual as an employed teacher in a non-virtual classroom setting at a public or private elementary or secondary school for at least three years prior to and is in force at the time of application and meet other provisions set forth in the bill. The bill also permits the division superintendent rather than the Board of Education, as in current law, to issue a career and technical education teacher a provisional license to allow time for the teacher to attain the industry certification credential required by law. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Education to compile, publicly post on its website, and update as necessary, data on teacher licensure standards and requirements for each state for the purposes of facilitating the determination of the compatibility of out-of-state teacher licenses with requirements for teacher licensure and licensure by reciprocity in the Commonwealth and increasing transparency of such licensure requirements.
STATUS
Passed
SB178 - State Inspector General, Office of the; investigations of abuse/neglect at state psychiatric hosp.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all complaints it receives alleging abuse, neglect, or inadequate care at a state psychiatric hospital and (ii) submit such plan to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Office to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on or before December 1 of each year regarding the number of such complaints received and the number of complaints that were fully investigated by the Office. Office of the State Inspector General; investigations of abuse or neglect at state psychiatric hospitals; report. Directs the Office of the State Inspector General to (i) develop a plan to fulfill its statutory obligation to fully investigate all complaints it receives alleging abuse, neglect, or inadequate care at a state psychiatric hospital and (ii) submit such plan to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Office to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on or before December 1 of each year regarding the number of such complaints received and the number of complaints that were fully investigated by the Office.
STATUS
Passed
SB199 - High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of elective course credits.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs, Christie New Craig
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, Career and Technical Education directors, and industry partners, to develop and maintain a current, comprehensive, and uniform list of industry-recognized workforce credentials that students may take as a substitute for certain units of credit required for graduation, including such credentials that are accepted as substitutes for electives credits and credentials completed outside of regular school hours. The bill requires each school board to accept as a substitute for a required credit any credential listed as an accepted substitute for such required credit. The bill also requires any College and Career Access Pathways Partnership entered into between a school board and a comprehensive community college to specify, consistent with the list, industry-recognized credentials that are accepted as substitutes for certain credits required for high school graduation. Finally, the bill requires the Board, in establishing graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute elective credits for completion of any industry-approved workforce credential that is included on the list as an accepted substitute for such credits.
STATUS
Passed
SR52 - Commending Bruton Parish Episcopal Church.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs, Ryan T. McDougle
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB731 - Child pornography; production, publication, sale, financing, etc., penalty.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; penalty. Amends the definition of "child pornography" to include sexually explicit visual material that depicts a minor in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct where such depiction is obscene and specifies that such minor does not have to actually exist. Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; penalty. Amends the definition of "child pornography" to include sexually explicit visual material that depicts a minor in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct where such depiction is obscene and specifies that such minor does not have to actually exist.
STATUS
Passed