Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords, unlessimpractical to do so, to provide a tenant with 72 hours' notice within14 days of routine maintenance. Current law requires a landlord togive at least 72 hours' notice for such maintenance but does notprovide a maximum window of time for such notice.
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to SB 159.
Early childhood care and education; publiclyfunded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child dayprograms. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any childcare subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesfrom the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day programas a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and usedin relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. Thebill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of PublicInstruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a militarybase or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child careprovider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States andprovides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesor its agent, including an installation commander of a military baseon which a child day program is located, may assume responsibilityfor approving or determining which children may be served by theprogram that is so exempted from licensure.
Small claims court; representation of certainentities. Adds limited liability companies and other legal orcommercial entities to those parties that may have representationby an owner, a general partner, an officer, a member, or an employeeof such company or entity in small claims court. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. 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. Current law limits the number of all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. The bill also provides that with respect to all-virtual public meetings, when audio-visual technology is available, a member of a public body shall, for purposes of a quorum, be considered absent from any portion of the meeting during which visual communication with the member is voluntarily disconnected or otherwise fails or during which audio communication involuntarily fails. This bill is identical to SB 734.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; job order contracting; limitations. Increases from $6 million to $15 million the maximum threshold above which the sum of all jobs performed in a one-year job order contract term shall not exceed. The bill also increases the maximum threshold amount for any individual job order from $500,000 to $1.5 million. Finally, the bill increases from two to four the number of additional one-year terms for which job order contracts may be renewable, and the bill only applies to contracts entered into on or after the bill's effective date.
Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule. This bill incorporates HB 1450 and is identical to SB 111.
Virginia Rap Back Service; criminal history record monitoring. Changes the time frame for which a participating entity in the Virginia Record of Arrest and Prosecution (Rap) Back Service is required to disenroll any individual who is deceased or no longer qualifies as an individual for the purposes of the Virginia Rap Back Service from within 30 days to within five business days. The bill also removes the provision stating that an individual who moves from one participating entity in the Virginia Rap Back Service to another need not be refingerprinted. The bill contains technical amendments and is identical to SB 169.
Department of General Services; Division ofPurchases and Supply; disposition of surplus materials; technological equipment. Permits the Department of General Services to establish procedures for a buy-back or trade-in agreement with a purchasingvendor for surplus technological equipment.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exemptionfor complainant personal contact information. Amends an existingexemption from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for names, addresses, and phone numbers of complainantsfurnished in confidence with respect to an investigation of individualzoning enforcement complaints or complaints relating to the UniformStatewide Building Code or the Statewide Fire Prevention Code madeto a local governing body to exempt personal contact informationof such complainants as defined in the bill.
Common interest communities; foreclosure remedy. Prohibits certain bills to enforce a lien from being entertainedif the real estate is the judgment debtor's primary residence andthe judgment is for assessments levied by certain common interestcommunity associations if the amount secured by one or more judgmentsexclusive of interest and costs does not exceed $5,000. The billalso requires such common interest community associations to maintainindividual assessment account records and restricts access to such records to the unit owner of the property subject to such assessments,the governing body of the association, the management agent, if thereis one, and any legal counsel for such association. Finally, thebill requires such associations to maintain records of any recordedlien during the effective duration of such lien. This bill is a recommendationof the Virginia Housing Commission.
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; expiration. Extends the expiration of the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program to July 1, 2025. Currently, the Program is set to expire on July 1, 2024. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to SB 50.
