Constitutional amendment; tax exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. [HJR-457]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for personal, noncommercial use, provided that for the first year following the effective date of such law, the exemption shall be equal to 20 percent of the tax rate imposed by a locality on tangible personal property, and shall increase by an additional 20 percent of such rate for each year thereafter until
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HJR-457: Constitutional amendment; tax exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/05/2025
Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. [HB-2015]
Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentence for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. [HB-1583]
Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (ii) who communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, discharging of a firearm within or at, or damage
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HB-1583: Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Approved By Governor-chapter 368 (effective 07/01/25) on 03/24/2025
Building permit and certificate of occupancy processes; work group to identify certain changes. [HB-2682]
Board of Housing and Community Development; work group to identify certain changes related to the building permit and certificate of occupancy processes. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to establish a work group to identify changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to streamline the processes for reviewing and issuing building permits and certificates of occupancy and to develop recommendations for maximum timelines for review of applications and revised applications.
HB-2682: Building permit and certificate of occupancy processes; work group to identify certain changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Milde
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/04/2025
Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. [HB-2434]
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
HB-2434: Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required.
Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/05/2025
Atlantic menhaden; Marine Resources Commission, et al., to study ecology, fishery impacts, etc. [HB-2713]
Marine Resources Commission; Virginia Institute of Marine Science; study of ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of Atlantic menhaden; report. Directs the Marine Resources Commission in collaboration with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and certain stakeholders, as provided in the bill, to conduct a three-year study of the ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of the Atlantic menhaden population in the waters of the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Commission to provide a report on its findings and recommendations
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HB-2713: Atlantic menhaden; Marine Resources Commission, et al., to study ecology, fishery impacts, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Milde
Left In Rules on 02/04/2025
Health insurance; cost-sharing, pharmacy benefits managers, compensation and duties, civil penalty. [HB-2773]
Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers; compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "pharmacy benefits management services," and "price protection rebates." The bill requires that an enrollee's defined cost-sharing for each prescription drug be calculated at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 80 percent of all rebates received or expected to
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HB-2773: Health insurance; cost-sharing, pharmacy benefits managers, compensation and duties, civil penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Milde
Left In Labor And Commerce on 02/05/2025