| SB935 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Chesapeake. Amends the charter for the City of Chesapeake to clarify the dates for (i) the election and terms of members of council and the mayor, (ii) when a sitting council member must resign when running for mayor, and (iii) the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:30 am]
Passed by for the day |
| SB1224 | Intro
25% | State Police Officers' Retirement System; membership for Department of Wildlife Resources conservation police officers. Provides membership in the State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) to conservation police officers in the Department of W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB876 | Intro
25% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; notice of public meetings; proposed agenda required. Requires public bodies subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to include a proposed agenda listing all items expected to be considered by the public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
25% | Opioid antagonists; dispensing and administration by person acting on behalf of an organization. Permits persons acting on behalf of an organization that provides services to individuals at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose or training in the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB821 | Intro
25% | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. This bill defines "electronic monitoring" as video or audio monitoring or recording of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB798 | Intro
25% | Retail franchise agreements; governing law; competition restrictions. Provides that retail franchise agreements shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth and prohibits any person from offering or entering into a franchise agreement that inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB798) |
| SB916 | Intro
25% | Local ordinances; regulation of pet shops. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to regulate or restrict by ordinance the acquisition, marketing, and sale of animals in a pet shop, provided that such ordinance is consistent with state law. Su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB819 | Intro
25% | Referrals to community-based outpatient stabilization programs for voluntary treatment. Requires health care professionals and evaluators to consider whether a referral to a community-based outpatient stabilization program for voluntary treatment is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB932 | Intro
25% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by for the day |
| SB1395 | Intro
25% | Possession of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person younger than 21 years of age from possessing any retail tobacco product or hemp product in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
25% | Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15]
Passed by for the day |
| SB1335 | Intro
25% | Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program; eligible recipients; federally recognized tribes. Expands the type of eligible recipients for loans and grants from the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund to include federall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB787 | Intro
25% | Department of Housing and Community Development reports; consolidation. Consolidates varying due dates for certain reports relating to the Department of Housing and Community Development to October 1 and requires such reports be submitted as part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1011 | Intro
25% | Affordable dwelling unit program; City of Falls Church. Adds the City of Falls Church to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by for the day |
| SB1176 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Roanoke. Amends the charter for the City of Roanoke to allow for the appointment of the City's director of real estate valuation by city council. Currently, the director of real estate valuation is appointed by the city manager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by for the day |
| SB805 | Intro
25% | Determination of child support. Updates the amounts in the schedule of basic child support obligations based upon gross monthly income and calculates such obligations for specific amounts up to a gross monthly income of $42,500. Under current law, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by for the day |
| SB812 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB836 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Poquoson. Amends the charter for the City of Poquoson to give the city council authority to expel, by a vote of four-sevenths of the whole city council, any person appointed to a city board or commission by the city council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by for the day |
| SB1396 | Intro
25% | Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB941 | Intro
25% | Robbery; air or gas operated weapon, etc.; penalty. Expands the crime of Class 3 felony robbery to include robbery committed by any person by using or displaying any air or gas operated weapon or any object similar in appearance, whether capable of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB987 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Norfolk. Amends the charter for the City of Norfolk to exempt the position of deputy fire chief from the classified service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:30 am]
Passed by for the day |
| SB1144 | Intro
25% | Commonwealth Rail Fund; Shortline Railway Preservation and Development Fund. Removes the $4 million cap on those Commonwealth Rail Fund (Fund) moneys distributed to the Department of Rail and Public Transportation that may be applied to the Shortline...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB780 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1372 | Intro
25% | Petitions for relief of care and custody of a child; investigation by local department of social services; Office of the Children's Ombudsman work group; report. Requires a local department of social services, as a part of its investigation after the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB801 | Intro
25% | Children's Services Act; state pool of funds. Makes a number of changes to the Children's Services Act state pool of funds for the provision of public or private nonresidential or residential services for troubled youth and families, including (i) re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB1350 | Intro
25% | Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required; civil penalty. Requires the State Health Commissioner to publish in multiple languages a notice containing procedures for restaurant staff to follow when a customer has a food allergy on the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1364 | Intro
25% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; boards; appointment requirements; years of experience. Lowers from at least five years to at least three years the years of experience required for the appointment of (i) home inspectors to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1337 | Intro
25% | Coastal storm risk management; Office of Commonwealth Resilience to study costs of feasibility studies; report. Directs the Office of Commonwealth Resilience to conduct a study to (i) examine the methodologies and criteria, if any, that other states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1271 | Intro
25% | Threats of death or bodily injury; penalty. Clarifies that for crimes involving communicating orally or in writing a threat to kill or do bodily injury, an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message includes an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1353 | Intro
25% | High-energy facilities; water and energy usage information reports; statewide clearinghouse established. Requires any owner or operator of a high-energy facility, as defined in the bill, to submit to the Department of Environmental Quality no later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1092 | Intro
25% | Department of Law; Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant; penalty. Permits the Office of the Attorney General to cancel a participant's certification in the Address Confidentiality Program if such Program participant (i) has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1375 | Intro
25% | Study; Division of Purchases and Supply; development of dynamic stockpile strategy; report. Directs the Division of Purchases and Supply, in conjunction with the Department of Emergency Management, to study and recommend a dynamic stockpile strategy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1370 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. Provides that the model memorandum of understanding developed by the Department of Education for partnerships with community mental he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1360 | Intro
25% | License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset on the current provision of law allowing the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination, a faculty license to teach dentistry in an ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1359 | Intro
25% | Prohibited conduct by health carriers and pharmacy benefits managers; civil penalty; enforcement. Prohibits any carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, or representative of a pharmacy benefits manager from (i) requiring that a covered individual purchase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1236 | Intro
25% | Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1355 | Intro
25% | Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such materials are prohibited from being distributed by law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB969 | Intro
25% | Mineral Mine Safety Act; definition of "surface mineral mine"; mine inspectors; certificate renewal; use of cyanide or cyanide compound. Amends the definition of "surface mineral mine" in the Mineral Mine Safety Act to exclude excavation or grading w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1347 | Intro
25% | Maternal Health Coordinator Program; purpose. Creates the Maternal Health Coordinator Program to serve preconception, pregnant, postpartum, and interconception women and their families within clinical, community, virtual, and home settings. Under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1385 | Intro
25% | Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Health to study the makeup and composition of the emergency management regions, state health regions, and local health districts; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1368 | Intro
25% | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees; authority to permit campus security officers to carry firearms in performance of official duties; conditions. Authorizes the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1338 | Intro
25% | Carbon-free energy or clean energy; fusion energy; definitions. Adds fusion energy, as defined in the bill, to the list of generation sources that qualify as carbon-free energy or clean energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1390 | Intro
25% | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1352 | Intro
25% | Certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; independent practice; organized medical staff. Permits licensed certified midwives who have completed 1,000 hours of practice under a practice agreement to practice without a practice agreement u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1383 | Intro
25% | Nursing homes; sanctions; civil penalty. Establishes procedures for the implementation of sanctions by the State Health Commissioner on any nursing home that is licensed pursuant to the laws regulating medical care facilities and services. The bill s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1339 | Intro
25% | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone solicitations by text message. Permits an individual receiving a telephone solicitation via text message to request not to receive telephone solicitations from a telephone solicitor by replying to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1361 | Intro
25% | Inhaling drugs or other noxious chemical substances or causing, etc., others to do so; distribution of nitrous oxide to persons under 18 prohibited; penalties. Prohibits the sale or distribution of nitrous oxide to persons under 18 years of age with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1380 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1287 | Intro
25% | Virginia Gaming Commission; established. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commission as an independent agency of the Commonwealth, exclusive of the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of government, to oversee and regulate all forms of legal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1342 | Intro
25% | Department of Energy; work group; barriers to reducing energy-related costs of living in low-income households; report. Directs the Department of Energy to convene a work group to identify existing barriers to reducing energy-related costs of living ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
