| HB246 | Veto | Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for mental illness, neurocognitive disorder, or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of a person for assault or assault and battery against certain specified p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB872 | Pass | Possession of portable electronic device in district or circuit court. Requires the chief judge of each general district court, juvenile and domestic relations district court, and circuit court to set a policy regarding the use and possession of port...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1130) |
| HB5 | Pass | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties; civil actions. Requires one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for all employees of private employers and state and local governments, with certain exceptions. The bill requires that employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1128) |
| SB352 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings; exceptions; penalty. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer, defined in the bill, from wearing a facial covering, defined in the bill, while engaged in the performance of his offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1132) |
| SB351 | Veto | Prohibiting certain acts in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement in certain protected areas; exceptions; penalties. Prohibits certain federal civil immigration enforcement activities in certain protected areas including any courthouse, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1482 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; restrictions on wearing of facial coverings; exceptions; penalty. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer, defined in the bill, from wearing a facial covering, defined in the bill, while engaged in the performance of his offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1131) |
| HB650 | Veto | Prohibiting certain acts in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement in certain protected areas; exceptions; penalties. Prohibits certain federal civil immigration enforcement activities in certain protected areas including any courthouse, wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB199 | Pass | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties; civil actions. Requires one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for all employees of private employers and state and local governments, with certain exceptions. The bill requires that emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-20
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1129) |
| HB1385 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; membership and duties; work groups. Revises the membership and duties of the governing board of each public institution of higher education by, among other things, increasing from four years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB542 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill provides that no retail sales may occur pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB111 | Veto | Voter registration; cancellation of registration, sources of data. Requires that, except on the basis of (i) a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled or (ii) a certified or authenticated copy of a death certificate purporti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB335 | Veto | Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for mental illness, neurocognitive disorder, or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of a person for assault or assault and battery against certain specified p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB271 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Advisory Panel established; maximum fair price; annual reports; civil penalties. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish the Prescription Drug Affordability Advisory Panel to conduct data analy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1392 | Veto | Powers and duties for operation of local and regional correctional facilities and courthouse security; attorney access to courthouses and communication and visitation with incarcerated clients; penalty. Provides that if a sheriff allows courthouse em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Governor's Veto Received by House |
| HB1173 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; menopause or perimenopause; discrimination prohibited; report. Prohibits discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act on the basis of menopause or perimenopause for purposes of nondiscrimination in government programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB218 | Veto | Director of the Department of Corrections; placement of inmates. Directs the Director of the Department of Corrections to continue accepting and reviewing applications for the confinement of inmates from a state party to the Interstate Corrections Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB449 | Veto | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions; violations of Virginia Consumer Protection Act; award of damages. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB639 | Veto | Elections; administration; acceptance of certain gifts and funding; approval required. Removes the prohibition on accepting property and services provided by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Governor's Veto Received by House |
| HB642 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill provides that no retail sales may occur pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB258 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; menopause or perimenopause; discrimination prohibited; report. Prohibits discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act on the basis of menopause or perimenopause for purposes of nondiscrimination in government programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB83 | Veto | Security policies for courthouses and local or regional correctional facilities; penalty. Adds several provisions relating to courthouse and courtroom security. The bill requires the chief judge of each general district court, juvenile and domestic r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB494 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; membership and duties; work groups. Revises the membership and duties of the governing board of each public institution of higher education by, among other things, increasing from four yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1222 | Veto | Local departments of social services; child abuse and neglect; recorded interviews. Requires local departments of social services, unless otherwise demonstrated by good cause shown, to record any child welfare interview, defined in the bill. Under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB229 | Veto | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions; violations of Virginia Consumer Protection Act; award of damages. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB61 | Veto | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of certified small SWaM busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB483 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Advisory Panel established; maximum fair price; annual reports; civil penalties. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish the Prescription Drug Affordability Advisory Panel to conduct data anal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB128 | Pass | Covenants not to compete; health care professionals; civil penalty. Adds health care professionals as a category of employee with or upon whom no employer shall enter into, enforce, or threaten to enforce a covenant not to compete. The bill defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1114) |
| SB253 | Pass | Electric utilities; pilot programs for energy assistance and weatherization for certain individuals. Amends annual funding commitments for the purposes of the annual pilot program for energy assistance and weatherization for low-income, elderly, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1124) |
| SB225 | Pass | Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established; report. Creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank to finance clean energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects, and other qualified projects through the strategic deployment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1126) |
| HB1444 | Pass | Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established; report. Creates the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank to finance clean energy projects, greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects, and other qualified projects through the strategic deployment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1125) |
| HB229 | Pass | Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1108) |
| HB26 | Pass | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which a person adjudicated delinquent or convicted of certain felony offenses involving, or violations of probation or community supervision related to, the possession, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1103) |
| HB848 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1118) |
| HB329 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited. Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text |
| HB95 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1105) |
| SB230 | Pass | Expungement of police and court records. Permits the expungement of police and court records relating to an initial charge when a person is arrested, charged, summonsed, or indicted for the commission of an infraction, a crime, or a civil offense and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1127) |
| HB627 | Pass | Covenants not to compete; health care professionals; civil penalty. Adds health care professionals as a category of employee with or upon whom no employer shall enter into, enforce, or threaten to enforce a covenant not to compete. The bill defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1113) |
| HB290 | Pass | Department of Education; compliance with and enforcement of prohibition on false statements as to school division or attendance zone residency; evaluation; report. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Virginia State Crime Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1110) |
| HB217 | Pass | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1106) |
| HB834 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage; termination by landlord. Requires a landlord, prior to giving a tenant 21 days' notice of his intention to terminate the rental agreement for a dwelling unit that has been damaged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1117) |
| SB749 | Pass | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1107) |
| SB62 | Pass | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which a person adjudicated delinquent or convicted of certain felony offenses involving, or violations of probation or community supervision related to, the possession, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1104) |
| SB378 | Veto | Collective bargaining by public employees; individual home care providers; Virginia Home Care Council established; Public Employee Relations Board established; exclusive bargaining representatives. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB226 | Pass | Local competitive bidding for compost and other products containing organic soil amendments; waste disposal infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows the governing body of a locality to give preference to compost or other products containing organic soil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1122) |
| HB1011 | Pass | Local competitive bidding for compost and other products containing organic soil amendments; waste disposal infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows the governing body of a locality to give preference to compost or other products containing organic soil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1121) |
| HB925 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discriminatory practices; civil actions; statute of limitations. Provides that a complaint alleging discrimination in employment in violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act shall be filed no later than two years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1119) |
| HB768 | Pass | Custody and visitation arrangements for minor; custody evaluation; report. Provides that a circuit or district court may order a custody evaluation to assist with determining the custody or visitation arrangements for a minor. Current law provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1116) |
| HB675 | Pass | Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer, including the Commonwealth and its agencies and political subdivisions, from using coercion or issuing a threat to an employee based on imm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1115) |
| HB972 | Pass | Voter registration; list maintenance activities, cancellation procedures, required record matches. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the Department of Elections (the Department) for list ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1120) |
| SB173 | Pass | Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1109) |
