SB663 - Veterinary Medicine, Board of; powers and duties, satellite offices.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Hackworth
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties; veterinary satellite offices. Requires the Board of Veterinary Medicine to regulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinary medicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties; veterinary satellite offices. Requires the Board of Veterinary Medicine to regulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinary medicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
STATUS
Passed
SJR27 - Epilepsy Heroes Day.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs, Bill R. DeSteph, Adam P. Ebbin
Last updated 9 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Epilepsy Heroes Day. Designates March 26, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Epilepsy Heroes Day in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
SB449 - Juveniles; juvenile correctional centers, eligibility for parole.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Dave W. Marsden
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Juvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during a single sentencing hearing or multiple sentencing hearings, for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 consecutive years of incarceration, including any period of commitment in a juvenile correctional center, shall be eligible for parole. Under current law, any period of commitment in a juvenile correctional center for any sentences for such juvenile offender is not considered as a portion of the minimum of 20 years of incarceration served in order for such offender to be eligible for parole.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB17 - Motor sports facilities; local incentives.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William M. Stanley, Christie New Craig, Glen H. Sturtevant
Last updated 8 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Motor sports facilities; local incentives. Allows a locality that is home to a motor sports facility, as defined in relevant law, in the Commonwealth to propose local incentives that address the economic conditions within such locality and will help stimulate real property improvements and new job creation. The bill allows a locality to establish eligibility criteria for local incentives that are different from the current criteria required by relevant law. Motor sports facilities; local incentives. Allows a locality that is home to a motor sports facility, as defined in relevant law, in the Commonwealth to propose local incentives that address the economic conditions within such locality and will help stimulate real property improvements and new job creation. The bill allows a locality to establish eligibility criteria for local incentives that are different from the current criteria required by relevant law.
STATUS
Passed
SB595 - Comprehensive plan; locality may consider adopting a healthy communities strategy.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lamont Bagby, Lashrecse D. Aird
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's strategy may include identifying (i) major sources of pollution or hazardous waste sites within the locality, (ii) policies to mitigate the unique or compounded health risks to residents that may be caused by such pollution sources or hazardous waste sites, (iii) objectives and policies to promote civic engagement in public decision-making processes by residents, (iv) objectives and policies that prioritize improvements and programs that promote healthy communities, and (v) objectives and policies that encourage linking public transit with community and health services and siting or co-locating health services in unconventional settings to ensure convenient access for all community members.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB199 - High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of elective course credits.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs, Christie New Craig
Last updated 8 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
SB527 - General Assembly; selection of delegates to a convention for proposing amendments.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Glen H. Sturtevant, John J. McGuire
Last updated 11 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
General Assembly; intergovernmental affairs; delegates to a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States. Provides for the selection by the General Assembly of delegates to attend a convention for proposing amendments held under Article V of the Constitution of the United States. The bill grants the General Assembly the power to recall delegates, appoint new delegates, and convene an advisory committee to oversee the conduct of delegates. The bill provides that delegates must take an oath to adhere to the instructions of the General Assembly.
STATUS
Introduced
SB14 - Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeremy S. McPike, Creigh Deeds, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 8 months ago9 Co-Sponsors
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. The bill removes the requirement that such a tax must have an expiration date on either (i) the date of the repayment of any bonds or loans used for such capital projects or (ii) a date chosen by the governing body. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB9 - Orange County; authorization to establish department of real estate assessment, etc.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bryce E. Reeves
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessment. Under current law, real estate assessments are made by the commissioner of the revenue, except in Accomack, Goochland, James City, and Powhatan Counties, and among those, only James City and Powhatan Counties may enter into an agreement to establish a joint department of real estate assessment. Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessment. Under current law, real estate assessments are made by the commissioner of the revenue, except in Accomack, Goochland, James City, and Powhatan Counties, and among those, only James City and Powhatan Counties may enter into an agreement to establish a joint department of real estate assessment.
STATUS
Passed
SB475 - Pulaski, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Hackworth
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Charter; Town of Pulaski. Amends the charter for the Town of Pulaski in Pulaski County to reflect the town's shift from May to November municipal elections. The bill clarifies that the town council's membership consists of seven members, including the mayor, and provides that the mayor may vote in the council. The bill also changes the time of the election of the vice-mayor from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years at the first meeting of the council.
STATUS
Passed
SB60 - Individualized education program; guidelines for teams relating to age-appropriate instruction.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board and post on its website by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year the guidelines established in accordance with relevant law for individualized education program (IEP) teams to use in developing IEPs for children with disabilities relating to the need for age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction.
STATUS
Passed
SB116 - Retail sales and use tax holiday; establishes an annual tax holiday that takes place in August.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Louise Lucas, Christie New Craig, Tara A. Durant
Last updated 8 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) school supplies, (ii) clothing and footwear, (iii) qualified products designated as Energy Star or WaterSense, (iv) portable generators, or (v) hurricane preparedness equipment.
STATUS
Passed
SB269 - General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments, Marine Resources Commission.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph, Christie New Craig
Last updated 11 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
General oyster-planting ground leases; riparian assignments; Marine Resources Commission. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to not issue or renew any private leases for general oyster-planting grounds in the Commonwealth on or after July 1, 2024, and to promulgate regulations to conform to the provisions of the bill. The bill returns any general oyster-planting grounds that are unassigned or currently leased by the Commission to public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals that are unassignable to any person for private use but does not curtail the length of time remaining on existing leases.
STATUS
Introduced
SB298 - Conservation tillage and precision agricultural application equipment; tax credit for purchase.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Timmy F. French, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural application equipment; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individual and corporate tax credit for purchase of conservation tillage and precision agricultural application equipment from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2030.
STATUS
Passed
SB204 - Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill also permits a victim, a victim's immediate family members if the victim is deceased, a victim's parent or guardian, the victim's insurance company, or the victim's attorney to waive the 14-day period for a public body to respond to a request for criminal investigative files. Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill also permits a victim, a victim's immediate family members if the victim is deceased, a victim's parent or guardian, the victim's insurance company, or the victim's attorney to waive the 14-day period for a public body to respond to a request for criminal investigative files.
STATUS
Passed
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