Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 137)

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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB613

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
1/30/24  
Engrossed
2/2/24  
Refer
2/6/24  
Report Pass
2/23/24  
Enrolled
3/4/24  
Chaptered
4/2/24  
Henrietta Lacks Commission; sunset date. Changes the sunset of the Henrietta Lacks Commission from July 1, 2026, to July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB543

Introduced
1/9/24  
Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regards to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemployment compensation for purposes of child support obligations is final. The bill contains a number of technical amendments related to the Commission's appeals proceedings. The bill also repeals provisions related to appeal tribunals and the Commission-appointed Board of Review and contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB528

Introduced
1/8/24  
Property Owners' Association Act; managed conservation landscaping; unreasonable restrictions prohibited. Provides that no association shall prohibit an owner from installing managed conservation landscaping, defined in the bill, upon such owner's property unless such prohibition was recorded in the declaration for the association. The bill allows associations to establish reasonable restrictions concerning the management, design, and aesthetic guidelines for managed conservation landscaping features.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB547

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
1/29/24  
Refer
1/29/24  
Report Pass
2/7/24  
Internet Safety Advisory Council; school boards; Internet safety education program. Extends from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for the Internet Safety Advisory Council. The bill requires each school board, after considering the model policy, instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources that are developed, recommended, or designed by the Internet Safety Advisory Council, to adopt policies (i) requiring all elementary and secondary schools in the local school division to provide an Internet safety education program to each student in grades three through 12 at least once each school year but (ii) permitting the parent of any such student to opt his child out of participating in such program.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB179

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Report Pass
1/25/24  
Report Pass
2/6/24  
Engrossed
2/8/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
Report Pass
2/20/24  
Enrolled
2/28/24  
Chaptered
3/26/24  
State hospitals; discharge planning; report. Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after admission, the appropriate community services board shall implement the discharge plan developed by the state facility and (ii) when an individual is to be discharged from any other state facility in 30 days or less after admission, or from a state hospital more than 30 days after admission, the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority shall be responsible for the individual's discharge planning. Under current law, community services boards and behavioral health authorities provide discharge planning for all individuals discharged from state hospitals, regardless of the duration of their stay. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to make certain annual reports by August 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly and to provide the General Assembly with a one-time evaluation of the impacts of the changes to discharge planning implemented by the bill by November 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB577

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
2/6/24  
Engrossed
2/9/24  
Refer
2/13/24  
Report Pass
2/22/24  
Enrolled
2/29/24  
Chaptered
3/20/24  
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; slot-retention requests; Developmental Disability waivers; sunset. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend their regulations to allow for support coordinators to request and subsequently obtain approval of consecutive waiver slot-retention requests for a period of up to 365 calendar days for individuals who have been assigned a Developmental Disability waiver slot. Current regulations allow for four consecutive 30-day slot-retention extensions. The bill sunsets on June 30, 2026, and is identical to
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB571

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
2/7/24  
Engrossed
2/12/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
Report Pass
2/22/24  
Enrolled
2/29/24  
Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB174

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Report Pass
1/22/24  
Engrossed
1/25/24  
Refer
2/13/24  
Report Pass
2/20/24  
Engrossed
2/23/24  
Engrossed
2/27/24  
Enrolled
3/4/24  
Chaptered
4/5/24  
Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons whom such financial institution or financial institution staff, as defined in the bill, may contact in the case of the suspected financial exploitation of such adult. The bill also permits a financial institution to conduct a training to instruct its staff on how to identify and report the suspected financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult internally at such financial institution, to a designated trusted contact, and to various other authorities. The bill directs the Bureau of Financial Institutions of the State Corporation Commission to develop and publish guidelines for such training by January 1, 2026. The bill provides that no financial institution staff that have received such training shall be liable in any civil or administrative proceeding for disclosing the suspected financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult pursuant to the bill's provisions if such disclosure was made in good faith and with reasonable care. The bill provides that no financial institution that has provided such training shall be liable for any such disclosure by financial institution staff.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR27

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
2/1/24  
Engrossed
2/6/24  
Refer
2/7/24  
Report Pass
2/23/24  
Enrolled
2/27/24  
Coach Appreciation Week. Designates the week of October 6, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Coach Appreciation Week in Virginia.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB619

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Refer
1/24/24  
Report Pass
2/2/24  
Engrossed
2/7/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Report Pass
2/21/24  
Enrolled
2/28/24  
Chaptered
4/2/24  
Military centered community zones; local designation. Allows localities to establish, by ordinance, one or more military centered community zones, defined in the bill as a community that has a significant presence of military personnel living or working in the designated area and where such presence drives, or has the potential to drive, significant economic activity. The bill provides that a locality, or another political subdivision acting on behalf of the locality, may offer unique benefits to businesses looking to locate within a zone for the purpose of serving the needs of the military personnel, including reduction of certain fees and taxes. In addition, the bill provides that local governing bodies are authorized to enter into agreements for the payment of economic development incentive grants to such businesses. The bill also allows a governing body to provide for certain regulatory flexibility and incentives and provides that the establishment of a military centered community zone shall not preclude the area from also being designated as an enterprise zone or from receiving support under the Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB659

Introduced
1/9/24  
Refer
1/9/24  
Report Pass
2/7/24  
Engrossed
2/12/24  
Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several topics enumerated in the bill. Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several topics enumerated in the bill.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB162

Introduced
1/6/24  
Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill provides that a child is eligible to participate in the Program if the local board determines that (i) the child is at imminent risk of being removed from his home and a preliminary protective order is insufficient to address the child's immediate safety concerns and (ii) the child's parent or guardian consents to the placement of the child with a relative pursuant to an agreement with the local board developed in accordance with the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB210

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Report Pass
1/22/24  
Report Pass
1/31/24  
Engrossed
2/2/24  
Refer
2/13/24  
Report Pass
2/16/24  
Engrossed
2/21/24  
Engrossed
2/23/24  
Enrolled
2/28/24  
Chaptered
3/26/24  
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB197

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in cases involving a violation of criminal sexual assault or commercial sex trafficking when such crimes are committed against children.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR2

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Engrossed
1/10/24  
2024 Session operating resolution. 2024 Session operating resolution.