SB484 - Public schools; youth and community violence prevention.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lashrecse D. Aird, David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors that lead to gun violence and increasing community engagement among public school students by providing to students who are entering the eighth grade and enrolled in Roanoke City Public Schools and Petersburg City Public Schools opportunities during the school year after regular school hours and during the summer months for community engagement, workforce development, postsecondary education exploration, and social-emotional education and development. The bill provides that the school boards of Roanoke City Public Schools and Petersburg City Public Schools shall be responsible for the administration of the Program and are directed to collect data and report to the Governor and relevant committees of the General Assembly by November 1 of each year on the progress of the Program. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027.
STATUS
Passed
SB546 - Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; evaluations, presence of others.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lamont Bagby, Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; evaluations; presence of others. Requires (i) the evaluator conducting the evaluation of an individual to determine whether such individual meets the criteria for temporary detention or (ii) the hospital emergency department and treating physician or other health care provider designated by the physician, when providing services to an individual who is being evaluated to determine whether the individual meets the criteria for temporary detention, to allow the individual's family member or legal guardian who is present and who may provide support and supportive decision making to be present with the individual unless the individual objects or the evaluator or treating physician determines that their presence would create a medical, clinical, or safety risk to the patient or health care provider or interferes with patient care.
STATUS
Passed
SJR124 - Commending George Teague, Jr.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph, Lamont Bagby, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 7 months ago38 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB191 - Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Suhas Subramanyam, Adam P. Ebbin, Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 9 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation, transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demand at the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024, (i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customers and the different classifications of customers of electric utilities results in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonable subsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend such allocation of costs.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR76 - Commending Travis G. Hill.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bryce E. Reeves, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Creigh Deeds
Last updated 8 months ago14 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR177 - Commending Alvin D. Parker.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lamont Bagby
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SJR137 - Commending Risa Goluboff.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds, Scott A. Surovell
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SJR172 - Commending United We Light: Project Guatemala.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bryce E. Reeves, Jennifer Barton Boysko, J.D. Diggs
Last updated 7 months ago8 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB675 - Casino gaming; eligible host localities.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Casino gaming; eligible host localities. Adds Fairfax County to the list of localities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth and provides that any proposed site for a casino gaming establishment considered by Fairfax County shall be (i) located within one-quarter of a mile of an existing station on the Metro Silver Line, (ii) part of a coordinated mixed-use project development, (iii) outside of the Dulles airport flight path, (iv) within two miles of a major shopping destination containing not less than 1.5 million square feet of gross building area, and (v) outside of the Interstate 495 Beltway. The bill also requires an eligible host locality in selecting a preferred casino gaming operator to consider and give substantial weight to the proposer's history of or commitment to (a) paying or contracting for the payment of prevailing wages to those individuals providing construction labor during the initial construction of the casino gaming establishment and any hospitality facilities on the premises, and (b) entering into labor peace agreements with labor organizations that are actively engaged in representing or seeking to represent employees in the gaming or hospitality industries in the Commonwealth. The bill also requires an eligible host locality to provide with its submission of its preferred casino gaming operator to the Virginia Lottery an executed agreement with its preferred casino gaming operator certifying that such casino gaming operator and any subcontractor or sublessee responsible for the performance of casino gaming or hospitality operations at the proposed casino gaming establishment will enter into a labor peace agreement with each labor organization actively engaged in representing or seeking to represent employees in the gaming or hospitality industries in the Commonwealth that requests such labor peace agreement, and evidence of all such signed labor peace agreements. Casino gaming; eligible host localities. Adds Fairfax County to the list of localities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth and provides that any proposed site for a casino gaming establishment considered by Fairfax County shall be (i) located within one-quarter of a mile of an existing station on the Metro Silver Line, (ii) part of a coordinated mixed-use project development, (iii) outside of the Dulles airport flight path, (iv) within two miles of a major shopping destination containing not less than 1.5 million square feet of gross building area, and (v) outside of the Interstate 495 Beltway. The bill also requires an eligible host locality in selecting a preferred casino gaming operator to consider and give substantial weight to the proposer's history of or commitment to (a) paying or contracting for the payment of prevailing wages to those individuals providing construction labor during the initial construction of the casino gaming establishment and any hospitality facilities on the premises, and (b) entering into labor peace agreements with labor organizations that are actively engaged in representing or seeking to represent employees in the gaming or hospitality industries in the Commonwealth. The bill also requires an eligible host locality to provide with its submission of its preferred casino gaming operator to the Virginia Lottery an executed agreement with its preferred casino gaming operator certifying that such casino gaming operator and any subcontractor or sublessee responsible for the performance of casino gaming or hospitality operations at the proposed casino gaming establishment will enter into a labor peace agreement with each labor organization actively engaged in representing or seeking to represent employees in the gaming or hospitality industries in the Commonwealth that requests such labor peace agreement, and evidence of all such signed labor peace agreements.
STATUS
Introduced
SB91 - Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola, Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide consumer-directed services. The bill provides that "employer" includes the Commonwealth, any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, and any public body.
STATUS
Introduced
SR84 - Commending the 2024 Inductees to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron R. Rouse, Christie New Craig, Creigh Deeds
Last updated 7 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Commending the 2024 inductees to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
STATUS
Passed
SB383 - Firearm/explosive material; carrying w/in Capitol Square or bldg. owned or leased by Commonwealth.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds, Lamont Bagby, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 6 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or explosive material within any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or agency thereof or any office where employees of the Commonwealth or any agency thereof are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties that currently applies to any property owned or operated by a public institution of higher education to instead apply to any individual within a building owned or operated by a public institution of higher education who possesses a weapon as part of such public institution of higher education's curriculum or activities or as part of any organization authorized by such public institution of higher education to conduct its programs or activities within such building, as such uses are approved through the law-enforcement or public safety unit of such institution.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB271 - Net energy metering; eligible customer-generators and agricultural customer-generators.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Net energy metering; eligible customer-generators and eligible agricultural customer-generators. Provides that no contract, lease, or arrangement by which a third party owns, maintains, or operates an electrical generating facility on an eligible customer-generator's property shall constitute the sale of electricity or cause the customer-generator or the third party to be considered an electric utility by virtue of participating in net energy metering. The bill prohibits an eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator from being required to provide proof of liability insurance or to purchase additional liability insurance as a condition of interconnection. The bill exempts eligible customer-generators and eligible agricultural customer-generators that operate a battery storage device of capacity commensurate with and equal to or greater than that of the electrical generating facility and in conjunction with the electrical generating facility from standby charges. The bill provides that any eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator may participate in demand response, energy efficiency, or peak reduction from dispatch of onsite battery service, provided that the compensation received is in exchange for a distinct service that is not already compensated by net metering credits for electricity exported to the electric distribution system or compensated by any other utility program or tariff.
STATUS
Passed
SJR196 - Commending the Glenvar High School boys' tennis team.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Chris T. Head, David R. Suetterlein
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB165 - Candidates for office; petition of qualified voters, start date.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bryce E. Reeves
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Elections; candidates for office; petition of qualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which valid signatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected for persons seeking to become candidates in certain elections.
STATUS
Passed