| SB894 | Enroll
75% | Civil actions; liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death by wrongful act brought by a vulnerable victim, defined in the bill, against an employee, a finding that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB894S3) |
| SB1058 | Enroll
75% | State Corporation Commission; distribution cost sharing program; required distribution system upgrades. Directs the State Corporation Commission by July 1, 2026, to establish by regulation a distribution cost sharing program for Dominion Energy Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1058S2) |
| SB1259 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; board of directors; chief executive officer. Makes several changes relating to the board of directors and the chief executive officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1259S1) |
| SB1192 | Enroll
75% | Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1192S1) |
| SB1318 | Enroll
75% | Board of Pharmacy; emergency medical services providers; work group. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group to advise the Board on issues related to emergency medical services providers. The bill requires the Board to staff the work gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1318S1) |
| HB2218 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. Requires, with certain exceptions outlined in the bill, landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to accept payment of periodic rent and any security de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1316 | Enroll
75% | Renewable energy portfolio standard eligible sources; geothermal electric generating resources. Provides that geothermal electric generating resources, as defined in the bill, located in the Commonwealth or physically located within the PJM region ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1316S2) |
| SB1418 | Enroll
75% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; postpartum doula care; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| SB891 | Veto | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1730 | Enroll
75% | Civil actions; liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death by wrongful act brought by a vulnerable victim, defined in the bill, against an employee, a finding that the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (HB1730H2) |
| SB1394 | Enroll
75% | Electric utilities; energy storage requirements; Department of Energy and Department of Environmental Quality to develop model ordinances; work groups; reports. Increases the targets for energy storage capacity that Appalachian Power and Dominion Ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1394S2) |
| SB1336 | Enroll
75% | Electricity consumption tax; rate adjustments. Increases the electric utility consumption tax's special utility tax rates for commercial and industrial consumer electricity consumed per month (i) in excess of 2,500 kWh but not in excess of 50,000 kWh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1336S1) |
| SB955 | Enroll
75% | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB955S4) |
| SB1332 | Enroll
75% | Charges for towing and storage of certain vehicles. Increases the maximum hookup and initial towing fee of a passenger car from $150 to $210 and repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset of provisions that authorize a towing and recovery operator to charge a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Governor's substitute printed (SB1332S3) |
| HB1803 | Veto | Department of Human Resource Management; stakeholder advisory group; establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts; report. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to convene a stakeholder advisory group to provide advice to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1961 | Enroll
75% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2122 | Veto | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; landlord obligations. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of any written rental agreement and the statement of tenant rights and responsibilities within 10 business days of the effective date of the written rental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1053 | Pass | Synthetic digital content; penalty; work group. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic digital content, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 407 (Effective - see bill) |
| SB1413 | Enroll
75% | Public school buildings; indoor air quality; inspection and evaluation. Establishes several enumerated requirements for local school divisions to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB2724 | Enroll
75% | Use of automatic license plate recognition systems; reports; penalty. Requires the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services (the Division) to determine and approve the automatic license plate recognition systems, defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2630 | Pass | Replacement of trees during development process in localities; tree canopy fund. Allows localities by ordinance to establish a tree canopy fund to collect, maintain, and distribute fees collected from developers that cannot provide for full tree cano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1721 | Enroll
75% | Condemnation of conservation or open-space easement; compensation; Uniform Easement Relocation Act. Provides that if a person takes by condemnation proceedings any land or right-of-way or similar interest therein that is subject to a conservation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1197 | Pass | Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand. Permits electric cooperatives, through one or more of their affiliates, to make unregulated sales of electric power to certain customers that contract for electric utility s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB2094 | Veto | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1827 | Veto | Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health. Encourages localities to utilize relevant and available data and research related to social determinants of health to consider how a locality's adopted comprehensive plan will impact the locality's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB801 | Pass | 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] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 503 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| SB968 | Pass | Board of Education; support services personnel; annual collection of certain staffing data required; report. Requires (i) each school board to, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, annually collect and submit to the Department of Education a rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 578 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB2201 | Pass | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 teaching days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB2559 | Veto | Authority of local governments; service employees. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2152 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officer training. Provides that any legal counsel for a public body who is also designated as the public body's Freedom of Information Act officer (FOIA officer) shall complete a training session or online co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 533 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1642 | Enroll
75% | Use of artificial intelligence-based tool. Requires that the recommendations or predictions provided by any artificial intelligence-based tool, as such term is defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis for any decision related to pre-trial det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2723 | Enroll
75% | Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records. Amends numerous statutes related to the expungement and sealing of criminal records that are scheduled to become effective on July 1, 2025. In addition, the bill requires (i) the Department of Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB1583 | Pass | Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 368 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1734 | Pass | Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator; name change. Renames the Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator as the Human Trafficking Response Coordinator within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill also changes related references from "sex t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 375 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1724 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2266 | Enroll
75% | State Corporation Commission; distribution cost sharing program; required distribution system upgrades. Directs the State Corporation Commission by July 1, 2026, to establish by regulation a distribution cost sharing program for Dominion Energy Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2177 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft systems by public bodies; employees. Allows a law-enforcement officer or an employee of a law-enforcement agency to deploy an unmanned aircraft system without a warrant (i) following an accident where a report is required pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 400 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1935 | Veto | Department of Housing and Community Development; Income-Qualified Energy Efficiency and Weatherization Task Force established; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish, in collaboration with the Department of E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1830 | Veto | School board policies; unpaid educational leave for certain employee association officers; purchase of service credit. Requires each school board to adopt a policy that requires the school board to approve unpaid educational leave for school board em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2242 | Pass | Arrest of probationer without a warrant; timeframe for service of process. Provides that upon the arrest of a probationer, the probation officer shall forthwith, but in all cases no later than three business days after the arrest of the probationer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1921 | Veto | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2036 | Enroll
75% | Reckless driving; exhibition driving; penalties. Expands reckless driving to include exhibition driving, defined in the bill. The bill prohibits (i) slowing or stopping traffic for a race or exhibition driving; (ii) riding as a passenger on the hood ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB1718 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1881 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Permits any school board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB2401 | Enroll
75% | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation be compensated by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2119 | Pass | Certificate of public need; expedited application and review; medical deserts. Instructs the State Health Commissioner to direct the State Health Services Plan Task Force to develop recommendations for establishing an expedited application and review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 397 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB2158 | Enroll
75% | Department of Corrections; functional literacy program for inmates; data sharing and tracking; salary schedules for teachers; Virginia Prison Education Task Force established; report. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Director of Correction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1370 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-24
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB1627 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to provide a physical or electronic copy of a person's criminal history record information, including criminal history record information maintained in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (Effective 07/01/25) |
| HB1735 | Pass | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor-Chapter 548 (Effective 07/01/25) |
