SB457 - Driving Decarbonization Program and Fund; established and created.
Virginia - 2024 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
SB75 - Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers, exemption from licensure.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any child care subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States from the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day program as a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and used in relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. The bill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a military base or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and provides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States or its agent, including an installation commander of a military base on which a child day program is located, may assume responsibility for approving or determining which children may be served by the program that is so exempted from licensure.
STATUS
Introduced
SB308 - Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeremy S. McPike
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by ordinance to regulate such rental if such regulations (i) are reasonable and (ii) do not exceed the requirements for an owner-occupied residential property or a residential property rented for a lease term of 12 months or more in the same zoning district.
STATUS
Passed
SB215 - FOIA; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry, Scott A. Surovell
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be citizens of the Commonwealth. Current law limits disclosure of public records to individuals who are citizens of the Commonwealth unless a clear exception applies.
STATUS
Passed
SB602 - Felony homicide; certain drug offenses, penalties.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
John J. McGuire
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalties. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious act that resulted in the killing of another involved the manufacture, sale, gift, or distribution of a Schedule I or II controlled substance to another person and such other person's use of the controlled substance results in his death, regardless of the time or place death occurred in relation to the commission of the underlying felony. The bill provides that venue for a prosecution of this crime shall lie in the locality where the underlying felony occurred, where the use of the controlled substance occurred, or where death occurred. The bill also provides that if a person gave or distributed a Schedule I or II controlled substance only as an accommodation to another individual who is not an inmate in a community correctional facility, local correctional facility, or state correctional facility, or in the custody of an employee thereof, and not with intent to profit thereby from any consideration received or expected nor to induce the recipient of the controlled substance to use or become addicted to or dependent upon such controlled substance, he is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
STATUS
Introduced
SR183 - Commending Jean Shrewsbury.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain, Chris T. Head
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Commending Jean Shrewbsury.
STATUS
Passed
SR165 - Commending the Fairfax Beekeepers Club.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stella G. Pekarsky
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR160 - Commending Andrea F. Warren.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SR157 - Celebrating the life of Michael Eugene Holbrook.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Todd E. Pillion
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB703 - General appropriations and revenue of the Commonwealth; includes digital personal property.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Louise Lucas
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
General appropriations and revenue of the Commonwealth. Includes digital personal property, defined in the bill, in the definition of tangible personal property for the purposes of the retail sales and use tax. Amendments are made throughout the chapter to impose the sales and use tax on streaming services, also defined in the bill, in addition to tangible personal property.
STATUS
Introduced
SR172 - Commending the South Loudoun Youth Chorale.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB171 - Zoning; enhanced civil penalties for violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Christie New Craig, Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liability shall be required to abate or remedy the nonpermitted commercial use violation within a period of time specified by the locality that is no less than 30 days but no more than 24 months from the date of admission of liability.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJR176 - Commending Neighborhood Health.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adam P. Ebbin, Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB210 - Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 6 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition.
STATUS
Passed
SJR207 - Commemorating the legacy of the Alexandria Library sit-in.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed