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Hi Jack,
Most of the laws passed by the General Assembly during the 2024 legislative session will take effect today, July 1, 2024! I am proud to say that seven are bills I sponsored, and many more are bills I co-sponsored. Below is a list of new laws that you might find interesting!
✨Highlights✨
HB 48/SB 46. Public institutions of higher education, admissions applications, legacy admissions, and admissions based on donor status are prohibited. The law prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant based on such student's legacy status, defined in the law, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution.
HB 78/SB 16 . Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other processes; menstrual health data prohibited. The law prohibits the issuance of a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other process for the purpose of the search and seizure or production of menstrual health data, as defined in the law, including data stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information.
HB 238. Health insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. The law requires health insurers to provide coverage for examinations and laboratory tests related to colorectal cancer screening in accordance with the most recently published recommendations.
HB 266. Custodial interrogation of a child; failure to comply with section; inadmissibility of statement. The law provides that if a law-enforcement officer knowingly fails to comply with existing law regarding parental notification and contact before a custodial interrogation of a child, any statements made by such child shall be inadmissible in any delinquency proceeding or criminal proceeding against such child, unless the attorney for the Commonwealth proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the statement was made knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily.
HB 282 . Moving violations; highway work zones. The law creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a highway work zone punishable by a fine of not less than $300 for the first offense and not less than $500 for any subsequent offense. The law provides that for any subsequent offense that occurs within the same 12-month period as another such offense, the fine shall not be less than $750.
HB 474 Restroom Access Act . The law requires a retail establishment that does not have a public restroom but has an employee toilet facility to allow any customer with an eligible medical condition, as defined in the law, to use such an employee toilet facility during regular business hours if certain conditions are met. A customer who suffers a loss due to a violation may bring an action to recover damages not exceeding $100.
HB 558/SB 4 . Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. The law provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would expand the real property tax exemption that is currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action to be available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense.
HB 611. Civilian deaths in custody; report. The law requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional adult correctional facility to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated, or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctional facility. Read more here. [[link removed].]
HB 926. Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. The law expands the current categories of images that are unlawful to disseminate or sell to include any videographic or still images that depict another person whose genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast are not exposed. However, such videographic or still images are obscene, as the law defines.
HB 994 . Legal age for marriage. The law establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age. It eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated based on the intent to marry.
HB 1388/SB 201 . Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. The law creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child.
SB 498 . Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. The law requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local school boards in implementing such policies.
I hope you found this summary helpful! You can read through a complete list of all enacted legislation here:
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Please reach out with any questions. As always, it is an honor and a privilege to represent you in Richmond, and I am grateful for your ongoing support!
Yours in Service,
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Atoosa Reaser (she/her)
Virginia House of Delegates
District 27 (Eastern Loudoun)
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