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HJR8 - Black Women's History Month; designating as April 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
Joshua G. Cole, Bonita Grace Anthony, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Last updated 9 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Black Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Virginia. Black Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HB1273 - VA Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements, delayed effective date.
Paul E. Krizek, Dan I. Helmer, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 10 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety training programs, maintain records of compliance with applicable laws, and participate in approved apprenticeship training programs. The bill provides exemptions from such requirements for reasons related to lack of availability of apprentices and high costs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety training programs, maintain records of compliance with applicable laws, and participate in approved apprenticeship training programs. The bill provides exemptions from such requirements for reasons related to lack of availability of apprentices and high costs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB743 - Legal holidays; replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Paul E. Krizek
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Legal holidays; Indigenous Peoples' Day. Replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day as a state holiday.
STATUS
Introduced
HB771 - Content manufacturing tax credit; removes sunset for the motion picture credit, redesignates credit.
Charniele L. Herring, Terry Lee Austin, David A. Reid
Last updated 11 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases the total amount of credits that can be allocated to taxpayers to $46.5 million beginning in fiscal year 2024; however, should less than $100 million worth of certain new investments, as described by the bill, occur in Virginia by January 1, 2027, the cap will be reduced to $10 million per fiscal year. Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases the total amount of credits that can be allocated to taxpayers to $46.5 million beginning in fiscal year 2024; however, should less than $100 million worth of certain new investments, as described by the bill, occur in Virginia by January 1, 2027, the cap will be reduced to $10 million per fiscal year. The bill also amends the definition of the "qualifying expenses" eligible for the content manufacturing tax credit to mean certain amounts spent in connection with the production of an eligible project filmed in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "eligible project" to be the production of a motion picture or an episodic television series.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1292 - Income tax, state; subtraction for professional firefighter pension.
Alex Q. Askew, Rozia A. Henson, Patrick A. Hope
Last updated 11 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Income tax subtraction; professional firefighter pension. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year thereafter. The bill defines firefighter benefits to include retirement income related to firefighting services and benefits paid to the surviving spouse of a firefighter whose death occurred in the line of duty.
STATUS
Introduced
HB518 - Income tax, state; Foreign Service retirement benefits subtraction.
Paul E. Krizek, David A. Reid, Patrick A. Hope
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Income tax; Foreign Service retirement benefits subtraction. Establishes for certain individuals receiving Foreign Service retirement benefits an income tax subtraction of such benefits up to $5,000 in taxable year 2024, up to $10,000 in taxable year 2025, up to $15,000 in taxable year 2026, and up to $20,000 in taxable year 2027 and each taxable year thereafter. The bill defines Foreign Service retirement benefits as any retirement income received by an individual for employment in the Foreign Service of the United States and as an eligible member of the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System or the Foreign Service Pension System.
STATUS
Introduced
HB993 - Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited provisions, fees for maintenance.
Kathy K.L. Tran, Adele Y. McClure, Marcia S. Price
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited fees. Prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from requiring a tenant to (i) pay any fee for the maintenance or repair of any unit subject to such rental agreement unless necessitated by the tenant's violation of a requirement of the Act or (ii) pay any fee to submit periodic rent payments or other amounts due, unless the landlord offers an alternative method of payment that does not include additional fees.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB201 - Transportation entities, certain; membership.
Paul E. Krizek
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Certain transportation entities; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the four members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the two members of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, and the two members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority who are appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates.
STATUS
Passed
HB173 - Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.
Marcus B. Simon, Marcia S. Price, Irene Shin
Last updated 6 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings, schools, correctional facilities, and other locations for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at such locations for detecting plastic firearms. Under current law, it is unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any plastic firearm and a violation is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number or to knowingly import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any completed or unfinished frame or receiver, unless the completed or unfinished frame or receiver (i) is deemed to be a firearm pursuant to federal law and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number. The portions of the bill prohibiting unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025; however, the portions of the bill prohibiting the knowing possession of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB33 - Public drinking water; Commissioner of Health's work group to study occurrence of microplastics.
Nadarius E. Clark, Bonita Grace Anthony, Alex Q. Askew
Last updated 11 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water and develop recommendations for the reduction of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Education and Health by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
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