| VA | SB1299 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation; compensation to dependents or beneficiaries of an employee killed. Provides that if an employee's death results from an accident compensable under the workers' compensation program, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SB1122 | Engross
50% | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SB798 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2281 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; municipal and state power aggregation; State Corporation Commission. Permits municipalities to aggregate the electric energy load of residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers within its boundaries on an opt-in or op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1875 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program; zero-carbon electricity. Amends the definition of renewable energy for purposes of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act to include energy derived from hydrogen and nuclear power...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2688 | Intro
25% | Labor and employment; protection of employees; restricting use of accrued leave for other employment prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer from prohibiting any employee from using accrued annual or vacation leave to work on behalf of anoth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2436 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; retail customer return to service. Changes from five years' advance written notice to one year's advance written notice the requirement for a retail customer of electric energy to return to service by an incumbent electric utility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2699 | Intro
25% | Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice; work group; report. Allows every person access to distribution service or retail natural gas from a natural gas utility authorized to provide natural gas service to the area where the service will be recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2101 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; data center cost allocation. Directs the State Corporation Commission to initiate proceedings to determine if the current allocation of costs among different customer classifications of electric utilities requires customers that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2274 | Intro
25% | Health benefit programs; discrimination; cause of action. Adds licensed outpatient facilities to the types of preferred providers that an insurer is required to establish terms and conditions for and is prohibited from discriminating against with reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2323 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; controlled environment agriculture facilities; time-of-use. Requires electric utilities, upon the request of a controlled environment agriculture facility, as defined in the bill, to advise such facility of available time-of-use r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2459 | Intro
25% | New solar generation facilities; certificate of convenience and necessity; bond required. Provides that the State Corporation Commission shall only issue a certificate of convenience and necessity for a public utility to construct, enlarge, or acquir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2112 | Intro
25% | Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act to regulate the practices of persons seeking to receive compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, adv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2126 | Intro
25% | Virginia Energy Facility Review Board established; localities; comprehensive plan and local ordinances related to siting of critical interconnection projects; planning district commissions; regional energy plans; Virginia Clean Energy Technical Assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2386 | Intro
25% | Public utilities; certificate of convenience and necessity for certain new transmission lines. Provides that for construction of any overhead transmission line of 230 kilovolts and associated facilities, a public utility shall demonstrate that either...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2329 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; prescription drug formularies. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for a generic drug or a biosimilar when the carrier provides coverage for the brand drug or product and the generic drug or biosimilar has a lower...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2144 | Intro
25% | Drug Control Act; manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and medical equipment suppliers; annual report. Requires a manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or medical equipment supplier that is licensed, permitted, or registered with the Board of Pharma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2773 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers; compensation and duties: civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1765 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for non-opioid prescription drugs. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from imposing any cost-sharing, prior authorization, step therapy, or other limitation on coverage of a covered non-opioid drug approved by the U.S. Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2106 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; pharmacy override for enrollee with sickle cell disease; prohibited. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from requiring a pharmacy to override a denial code or to request an override in order to dispense a prescription drug for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2107 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; pharmacies; freedom of choice; delivery of prescription drugs; penalties. Prohibits an insurer, health maintenance organization, corporation providing preferred provider subscription contracts, or pharmacy benefits manager from impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2233 | Intro
25% | Extreme Weather Relief Act established. Establishes the Extreme Weather Relief Program, administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, for the purpose of holding parties responsible for covered greenhouse gas emissions between the cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2027 | Intro
25% | State Corporation Commission; certificate of operation for high load facilities. Prohibits any person from operating a high load facility, defined in the bill as a facility whose electricity demand exceeds 25 megawatts that was not operating before J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2578 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax; exemption for data centers; reports. Requires a data center operator, in order to be eligible for the existing data center sales and use tax exemption to (i) beginning July 1, 2030, purchase a certain percentage of the data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2470 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; construction of certain transmission lines; notice required. Requires any electric utility that is responsible for the construction, operation, or maintenance of an electric transmission line of 138 kilovolts or more within a loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2684 | Intro
25% | Phase II Utility; plan for certain generation and transmission infrastructure costs. Directs a Phase II Utility, as defined in existing law, to develop and file with the State Corporation Commission every two years a plan for addressing the risk of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2035 | 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1633 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering. Requires health insurance carriers whose health care plans include coverage for habilitative services and rehabilitative services, as such terms are defined in the bill, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2133 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for breast examinations for high-risk individuals. Requires health insurance carriers to cover diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, based on sound medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2648 | Intro
25% | State Corporation Commission; time frame for completion of certain transmission lines proceedings. Requires the State Corporation Commission to complete proceedings regarding the approval of certain transmission lines of 138 kilovolts or more that ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2197 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources; zero-carbon electricity generating nuclear facilities. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include zero-carbon electricity genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2200 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable portfolio standard program; deficiency payments. Removes provisions requiring deficiency payments by certain electric utilities that are unable to meet the compliance obligation of the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2547 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregation of load. Provides, for retail competition for the purchase and sale of electric energy, that when two or more individual nonresidential retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1570 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; project labor agreements. Repeals the provision of the Virginia Public Procurement Act that authorizes any public body, including any state or local government, when engaged in procuring products or services or lettin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2687 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; presumption for certain cancers; sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2611 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for cancer follow-up testing; report. Requires health insurers and other carriers to provide coverage for cancer follow-up testing, as defined in the bill, and prohibits the imposition of deductibles, coinsurance, or any ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1670 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; cost-sharing for epinephrine injectors. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $60 for a two-pack of covered epinephrine injectors that a covered person is required to pay at the poi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1672 | Intro
25% | Retail electric energy; renewable energy certificates. Requires competitive service providers, as defined in the bill, to serve 100 percent of their customers' energy and capacity needs from electric generating units located within the PJM transmissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2443 | Intro
25% | Portable benefit accounts. Authorizes a Virginia resident who has worked as an independent contractor to establish a portable benefit account. Under the bill, a portable benefit account may be offered through and administered by a bank, investment ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2693 | Intro
25% | Regulation of electric utilities; development of renewable energy facilities; powers of State Air Pollution Control Board; powers of State Corporation Commission. Repeals provisions (i) requiring the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2442 | Intro
25% | Public utilities; certificate of convenience and necessity. Provides that, if a public utility has already received a certificate of convenience and necessity to furnish service within its territory, such utility may construct, enlarge, contract with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2510 | Intro
25% | Safety and Health Codes Board; THC impairment standard for certain work sites. Directs the Safety and Health Codes Board to promulgate regulations to establish a THC impairment standard and testing protocol to be used exclusively on manufacturing and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1851 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; presumption for certain cancers; sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1911 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2428 | Intro
25% | Classification of tangible personal property; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers; facilities housing systems used to engage in digital asset mining business activities. Provides that, for purposes of the separate tax classificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2073 | Intro
25% | Financial institutions; discrimination prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a financial institution from denying or cancelling its services to or otherwise discriminating against a person in making available services on the basis of factors including the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2185 | Intro
25% | Regulation of electric utilities; development of renewable energy facilities; powers of State Air Pollution Control Board; powers of State Corporation Commission. Repeals provisions (i) requiring the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2665 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; rate caps; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; utility rate reviews. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish capped rates for Appalachian Power. The bill requires the capped rates to be the rates in effect fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2320 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for lymphoma or myeloma. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five years of se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2676 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy definition and facilities. Amends the definition of "renewable energy" for the purposes of electric utility regulation to include fuel cells. The bill also adds any renewable energy generation facility located in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
