2024 Priority Bills
Human Rights & Civil Rights | ||||||||
Cat | Number | Title | Patron | House | Senate | GA | Governor | updated |
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rights | HB 243 Support | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; availability of complaint forms in courthouses.
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Requires that paper copies of any standardized form developed and utilized by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission for the filing of a complaint be made available to the public in the clerk's office in all state courts of the Commonwealth. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 48-N)
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Passed
(32-Y 6-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
rights | HB 295 Support | Protective orders; prohibits parent of a minor from filing a petition for family abuse, etc.
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Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of his minor children, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Left
In Courts of Justice
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2/13/24 | ||
rights | HB 335 Support | Employment; determining wage of tipped employee.
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Provides that an employer shall increase the amount paid to its tipped employees by an amount determined by the employer in accordance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a tipped employee who regularly performs services in the course of his employment for which there is no reasonable expectation of receiving tips shall receive an amount not less than the minimum wage for the time that he performs such services. ...
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Gardner (D) |
Passed
(49-Y 47-N)
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Passed
(20-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Vetoed
4/8/24
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4/9/24 |
rights | HB 370 Support | Employment; annual interactive training and education; harassment and workplace discrimination.
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Requires each employer with 50 or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions, to provide annual interactive training and education regarding harassment and workplace discrimination, as both terms are defined in the bill, by July 1, 2025. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Left
In Labor and Commerce
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3/11/24 | ||
rights | HB 470 Support | Minor; petition for child in need of services or in need of supervision.
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Authorizes an attorney or guardian ad litem representing a minor, or a parent, guardian, or other person standing in loco parentis of a minor, to file a petition for a child in need of services or in need of supervision with the clerk of the juvenile and domestic relations district court. Under current law, such petitions are required to be filed with an intake officer and are prohibited from being filed directly with the clerk. ...
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Martinez (D) |
Passed
(75-Y 23-N)
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Passed
w substitute (26-Y 14-N)
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CC Report Rejected
by House
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3/11/24 | |
rights | HB 569 Support | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations.
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Requires an employer who receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of discrimination for which the employee may seek enforcement by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the Office of the Attorney General to notify such employee that a charge may be filed with the EEOC or the Office of the Attorney General within 300 days after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred. ...
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Henson (D) |
Passed
(49-Y 48-N)
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Passed
w substitute (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled | Vetoed | 3/25/24 |
rights | HB 768 Support | Child victims and witnesses; using two-way closed-circuit television, expands age range.
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Expands the age range during which a child may testify using two-way closed-circuit television in a criminal case to include any child younger than 18 years of age at the time of the trial. Under current law, an alleged victim must be 14 years of age or younger at the time of the alleged offense and 16 years of age or younger at the time of the trial to testify by two-way closed-circuit television, and a child witness must be 14 years of age or younger at the time of the trial to so testify. ...
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Delaney (D) |
Left
In Appropriations
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2/13/24 | ||
rights | HB 782 Support | Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civil actions.
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Clarifies timelines for dual-filing complaints alleging unlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill allows either the complainant or the respondent for any charge of discrimination to request a notice of the right to file a civil action after the Commission has closed its file on such charge of discrimination. ...
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Herring (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled | Recommendations | 4/9/24 |
rights | HB 994 Support | Legal age for marriage.
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Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry.
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Keys-Gamarra (D) |
Passed
(55-Y 42-N)
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Passed
w amendment (39-Y 1-N)
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Enrolled
by House
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Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |
rights | HB 1344 Support | Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions; civil action.
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Prohibits the inclusion of a provision in any employment contract that has the purpose or effect of concealing illegal activity or activity an employee believes to be unlawful, including unlawful sexual harassment, discrimination, wage theft, and protected whistleblowing, as those terms are described in existing law.
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McQuinn (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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2/13/24 | ||
rights | HB 1492 Support | Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report.
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Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, adoption, and implementation of trauma-informed training and education for judges, magistrates, and court personnel. The bill requires the work group to submit its recommendations by December 1, 2024, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.
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Cousins (D) |
Continued
to 2025
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2/21/24 | ||
rights | SB 350 Support | Virginia Human Rights Act; right to sue.
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Permits a complainant who has not received a notice of the right to file a civil action from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Law or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as requested after 180 days have passed from the date the complaint was filed to commence a timely civil action in an appropriate general district or circuit court having jurisdiction over the person who allegedly unlawfully discriminated against the complainant. ...
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Perry (D) |
Passed
(85-Y 12-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled
by Senate
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Recommendations | 4/9/24 |
rights | SB 592 Support | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary; approval.
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Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to eliminate the requirement that a patient try and fail a drug from the Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary in the six months immediately prior to approval of a nonpreferred drug when such patient has previously tried the drug from the Preferred Drug List/Common Core Formulary and experienced harmful side effects.
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Salim (D) |
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Continued
to 2025
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2/21/24 |