Absentee voting; absentee voting in person;available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availabilityof absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Undercurrent law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to the election.
Absentee voting in person; available beginningon the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation.Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately precedingan election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee voting in person be available Monday through Saturday, from 7:00a.m. to 7:00 p.m. each day.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibitionon boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employsmore than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase orderin excess of $10,000 a provision that states that during the performanceof the contract, neither the contracting business nor any of itsaffiliates shall engage in a boycott of Israel.
Disabled Veteran's Passport; service-connecteddisability. Entitles any veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces witha service-connected disability to a Disabled Veteran's Passport forfree entry into state parks and discounted services. Current lawlimits such passport to veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces with a service-connected disability rating of 100 percent.
Tangible personal property tax relief; rateof taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personalproperty tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth.The bill requires, for tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter,each county, city, or town to reduce its local tax rate on qualifyingvehicles to no greater than $0.000001 per $100 of assessed value of the qualifying vehicle.
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservationand Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1,2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to serviceearned on or after July 1, 2025.
Eligible educator income tax deduction; homeschool instruction income tax credit. Increases from $500 to$1,500 for tax years 2024 through 2026 the amount of income tax deductioncertain eligible educators may deduct for qualifying expenses. The bill also creates a nonrefundable taxcredit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for amounts paid by anindividual or married couple filing jointly for their child receivinghome instruction for (i) instruction-related materials, includingtextbooks, workbooks, and supplies, or (ii) courses or programs used in home instruction. The bill provides that the credit equalsthe lesser of the amount actually paid during the year for such costsor $3,000.
Law-enforcement officers; Internet publicationof personal information; exemption. Prohibits publication ofthe personal information of active and retired law-enforcement officerson the statewide geographic information system (GIS) if a requestto redact such information is made by the officer to the entity that manages the GIS in the officer's locality. Current law prohibitsthe Commonwealth from publishing personal information on the Internetof public officials only if a petition has been granted by the circuitcourt.
Fees for resident concealed handgun permits.Eliminates the fees that may be charged for the processing of anapplication for or issuing of a resident concealed handgun permit, including any costs associated with the clerk's consultation withlaw-enforcement agencies, which under current law is $10; a fee notto exceed $35 to the law-enforcement agency conducting the backgroundinvestigation; and a fee not to exceed $5 to the State Police tocover its costs associated with processing the application.
Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election;absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in personavailability; return of absentee ballots. Requires presentationof a form of identification containing a photograph in order to voteand provides that a voter who does not have one of the required formsof identification is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. The bill repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualifiedto register to vote to do so in person up to and including the dayof the election and limits the persons who are entitled to registerto vote after the close of registration records to members of a uniformedservice on active duty, persons who are residing temporarily outsideof the United States, and their spouses and dependents. The billlimits the period during which absentee voting in person is availablefrom 45 days preceding the date of the election to the 14 days precedingthe date of the election. The bill requires that absentee ballotsreturned by mail be returned to the office of the general registrarby the close of polls on election day and be postmarked on or beforethe Saturday preceding the date of the election. The bill eliminatesthe use of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.The bill requires absentee ballot applications to contain the lastfour digits of the applicant's social security number.
