| HB1534 | Intro
Prefile | School service providers; deletion of student and family personal information. Requires, unless otherwise required by state or federal law or regulation, each school service provider, defined in the bill as a provider, pursuant to a contract with a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-16
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB843 | Intro
Prefile | Data centers; state permitting; local approval; moratorium; sunset. Prohibits a locality from granting final approval on or after July 1, 2027, of any application for a rezoning, special exception, special use permit, site plan, or plan of developmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-09
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB842 | Intro
Prefile | High school student athletes; eligibility; enrollment. Requires any nonprofit corporation founded in Virginia in 1913 that currently organizes and governs interscholastic activities among the public high schools to develop, implement, and enforce rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB840 | Intro
Prefile | Director of the Department of Corrections; placement of inmates; Red Onion State Prison. Directs the Director of the Department of Corrections to continue accepting and reviewing applications for the confinement of inmates from a state that is a part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-08
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB841 | Intro
Prefile | Data centers; public hearing and notice requirements. Provides additional requirements for local land use decisions regarding zoning changes for data center development. The bill requires, in addition to existing requirements for public advertisement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-08
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB839 | Intro
Prefile | Members of local governing bodies; nondisclosure agreements prohibited. Prohibits members of local governing bodies from signing or executing a nondisclosure agreement that prohibits them from discussing matters of public concern related to the perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-08
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB838 | Intro
Prefile | Surveillance pricing practices; civil penalties. Prohibits an entity or a service provider, as those terms are defined in the bill, from using certain surveillance pricing practices, defined in the bill, in connection with a consumer transaction. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-10-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1532 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; emergency dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to emergency dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police, Capitol Police, and agencies who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-09-23
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1533 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-09-23
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB837 | Intro
Prefile | Admissibility of statements by individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities in certain cases. Prohibits admission of any evidence from an individual with developmental disabilities or intellectual disabilities, as defined in relevant l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-09-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Energy Grant Fund. Increases from $100 per kilowatt of nameplate capacity from renewable energy sources that are located on brownfields to $200 per kilowatt of nameplate capacity from renewable energy sourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1192 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia-Ireland Advisory Board established; report. Creates the Virginia-Ireland Advisory Board to advise the Governor and General Assembly on ways to improve economic and cultural links between Virginia and Ireland, with a focus on the areas of com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Prefile | Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies and interrogation practices; forensic laboratory accreditation. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to establish a comprehensive framework for the use of generativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| HB1249 | Engross
Prefile | Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; Creative Economy Task Force established; strategic plan; report; sunset. Establishes within the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority the Creative Economy Task Force for the purpose of developing a strat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB863 | Intro
Prefile | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement for certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB203 | Intro
Prefile | Middle Eastern and North African Advisory Board established. Establishes the Middle Eastern and North African Advisory Board in the executive branch for the purpose of advising the Governor on ways to develop economic, professional, cultural, educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SB155 | Engross
Prefile | Official emblems and designations; state native pollinator; brown-belted bumblebee. Designates the brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis) as the official state native pollinator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1132 | Intro
Prefile | Data center tax revenue; local residential renewable energy incentive program; tangible personal property tax reimbursement; penalty. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town that collects real or personal property taxes for any rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB869 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programs for local farm or food products. Directs all state agencies to implement a purchase program for local farm or food products, defined in the bill, in order to reach a goal by 2035 of 20 percent of all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB166 | Intro
Prefile | Noise ordinances; industrial property; civil penalties. Removes the exemption for noise generated in connection with the business being performed on industrial property from being subject to civil penalties for violations of local noise ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1502 | Engross
Prefile | Department of Environmental Quality; standby generators study; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct a one-year study of all standby generators used by a commercial facility with an air permit in the Commonwealth. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Prefile | State correctional facilities; required education or vocational training; earned sentence credits classification levels. Requires a prisoner in a state correctional facility, as a part of his reentry plan developed and implemented by the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB606 | Engross
Prefile | General funds, bonds, and capital outlay. Removes the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Secretary of Finance from the Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee. The bill also provides that the Six-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB57 | Engross
Prefile | Fees for vehicles designed and used for transportation of passengers; funds returned to a locality; permitted uses. Expands the permitted use of funds returned to a locality from certain vehicle fees to include the purchase or maintenance of necessar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB935 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Clean Energy and Battery Storage Promotion Program established; report. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to establish the Virginia Clean Energy and Battery Storage Promotion Program. The purpose of the Program is to (i) promo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB617 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry; performance bond. Removes the requirement for a Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program (VESMP) authority to have a performance bond with surety, cash escrow, le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Prefile | Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; At-Risk Program established. The bill establishes (i) the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at-risk, including programs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1003 | Intro
Prefile | Transportation network companies; minimum compensation; civil penalty. Establishes minimum compensation rates for TNC partners. The bill also prohibits gratuities from passengers from being included in TNC partner compensation calculations, authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB302 | Intro
Prefile | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; operation in the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Expands the authorized operation of all-terrain vehicles to include (i) operation on highways in all localities embraced by the Southwest Regiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Emergency Management; emergency services and disaster preparedness programs; inclusion of federally recognized tribes. Requires the Department of Emergency Management to administer certain emergency services in coordination with federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
Prefile | Veterans' Services Protection Act; prohibited practices; penalty. Creates the Veterans' Services Protection Act to prohibit any person from receiving compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB326 | Engross
Prefile | Disposition of Fort Whitworth. Authorizes the Governor to convey Fort Whitworth to the Petersburg Battlefields Foundation. The conveyance shall be made without consideration and in as-is condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB28 | Engross
Prefile | Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records. Requires the Department of Elections to complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election, any program the purpose of which is to systematically re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB61 | Intro
Prefile | Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program established; incorporation into National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund. Establishes the Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program and incorporates such program into the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB365 | Intro
Prefile | Fostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act established. Establishes the Fostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act (FAIR AI Act) that requires a developer of a base artificial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB376 | Engross
Prefile | Motor vehicle collisions; preservation and collection of certain mobile telephone data; collision reports. Allows an attorney who has certified that he represents a party involved in a motor vehicle collision to request in writing that the mobile tel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB503 | Intro
Prefile | Phase II Utility; rates, terms, and conditions of services; certain customers. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to establish rates, terms, and conditions for the provision of generation and distribution services for its customers within the GS-5 rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Prefile | Consumer Data Protection Act; prohibitions and duties relating to minors. Prohibits a controller of an online service, product, or feature from entering into certain agreements with a known minor, unless such controller obtains verified consent from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1171 | Engross
Prefile | Board of Education; development of alternative graduation pathways to earn a Standard Diploma; report. Directs the Board of Education to develop alternative graduation pathways to earn a Standard Diploma that are designed to expand opportunities for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
Continued from last session |
| SB604 | Intro
Prefile | Charitable gaming; common interest communities; bingo. Allows common interest communities that qualify for deductions pursuant to § 277 of the Internal Revenue Code and that are solely available to residents age 55 or older to become qualified org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Energy; Virginia Solar Energy and Battery Energy Storage Systems Program and tax credit; solar energy and battery energy storage projects. Establishes the Virginia Solar Energy and Battery Energy Storage Systems Program, to be administe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB707 | Engross
Prefile | State government; transaction of public business; prohibited website domains. Prohibits a public body, defined in the bill, from maintaining an official website for public use with a domain other than a .gov, .edu, or .museum domain. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB244 | Engross
Prefile | Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes include: (i) limiting to the three higher degrees of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1238 | Engross
Prefile | Local ordinances; regulation of pet shops. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to, by ordinance, regulate or prohibit the sale of animals in a pet shop. Such ordinance may distinguish between certain types of pet shops and include provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB856 | Intro
Prefile | Official emblems and designations; state pet; shelter pets. Designates shelter pets as the official state pet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1142 | Engross
Prefile | Deferred or installment payment agreements; outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth or the clerk of the circuit court shall not require any defendant sentenced to an active term of inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Virginia Public Procurement Act; certification for service disabled veteran-owned businesses and veteran-owned businesses; participation requirements; penalty. Provides that the Director of the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB412 | Intro
Prefile | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused; (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused; (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB175 | Engross
Prefile | Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the Armed Forces who died in the line of duty. Authorizes localities by ordinance to provide a total exemption from real property taxes regardless of assessed value beginning in taxable yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1473 | Intro
Prefile | Public institutions of higher education; students and campus; restrictions on student speech; limitations. Clarifies the requirements for and limitations on the ability of a public institution of higher education to impose restrictions on the time, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-07-21
To House Education Committee |
