2024 Priority Bills
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Cat | Number | Title | Patron | House | Senate | GA | Governor | updated |
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climate | HB 106 Support | Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia.
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Amends existing shared solar program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia (Phase II Utility). The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program means the resulting amount a customer must pay the utility after the bill credit, defined in relevant law, is deducted from the customer's monthly gross utility bill. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a minimum bill, below which a subscriber's net bill cannot go, that is calculated based on the amount of kilowatt-hours billed by the utility. The bill also changes the shared solar program capacity to at least 10 percent of each utility's adjusted Virginia peak load and requires the Commission's regulations to allow for program participation by all jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customer classes. ...
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Sullivan (D) |
Passed
(54-Y 44-N)
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Passed
22-17
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Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |
voting rights | HB 128 Support | Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; political parties exempted.
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Provides that local ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any person participating in certain specified political activities.
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Watts (D) |
Passed
(98-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/3/24 |
justice | HB 555 Support | Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, report.
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Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee), also created by the bill.
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Hope (D) |
Passed
(98-Y-0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
education | HB 626 Support | Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention.
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Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program and Fund 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 ...
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/3/24 |
education | HB 632 Support | Teachers; certain licenses and certificates.
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Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed;
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Rasoul (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
w substitute (39-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
campaign finance | HB 730 Support | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports; electronic filing required.
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Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
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Sickles (D) |
Passed
(99-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(39-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/25)
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4/2/24 |
governance | HB 894 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings.
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Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. ...
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Bennett-Parker (D) |
Passed
(74-Y 26-N)
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Passed
(32-Y 7-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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3/9/24 |
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 |
governance | HB 1040 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of 'caregiver;' remote participation in meetings.
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Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. ...
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Bennett-Parker (D) |
Passed
(100-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(26-Y 12-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
workers | SB 16 Support | Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited, definition.
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Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information.
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Favola (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 49-N)
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Passed
(22-Y 18-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/8/24 |
governance | SB 85 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definition of "caregiver;" remote participation in meetings by persons with disabilities and caregivers; remote voting.
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Provides that for purposes of determining whether a quorum is physically assembled, an individual member of a public body who is a person with a disability or a caregiver, defined in the bill, and uses remote participation counts toward the quorum as if the individual was physically present. ...
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Favola (D) |
Passed
(95-Y 3-N)
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Passed
(28-Y 11-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
climate | SB 253 Support | Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia.
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Amends existing shared solar program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia (Phase II Utility). The bill provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program means the resulting amount a customer must pay the utility after the bill credit, defined in relevant law, is deducted from the customer's monthly gross utility bill. ...
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Surovell (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 47-N)
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Passed
(23-Y 17-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |
education | SB 272 Support | Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students.
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Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: ...
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Hashmi (D) |
Passed
w. sub (57-Y 43-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/10/24 |
justice | SB 456 Support | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created.
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Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee), also created by the bill. The bill provides that the Committee is made up of four members of the General Assembly and 11 nonlegislative citizen members who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections (the Department). ...
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Marsden (D) |
Passed
(97-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(37-Y-2-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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4/9/24 |
campaign finance | SB 692 Support | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports; electronic filing required.
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Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing.
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Perry (D) |
Passed
(100-Y 0-N)
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Passed
(40-Y 0-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/25)
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4/2/24 |
governance | SB 734 Support | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings.
more...
Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. ...
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Marsden (D) |
Passed
(79-Y 20-N)
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Passed
(35 Y 4N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
(effective 7/1/24)
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3/29/24 |
climate | SB 737 Support | Energy efficiency programs.
more...
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Surovell (D) |
Passed
w. substitute (50-Y 46-N)
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Passed
w. substitute (21-Y 19-N)
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Enrolled |
Approved
Effective 7/1/24
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4/9/24 |