| VA | SB879 | Pass | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| VA | SB881 | Veto | Manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB1449 | Veto | Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception application, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB880 | Veto | Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1051 | Pass | Grooming and boarding establishments; inspections by animal control officers. Allows an animal control officer to inspect a grooming or boarding establishment that is not regulated by the Board of Veterinary Medicine with the consent of the owner or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| VA | SB1052 | Veto | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of "employer." Reduces from 15 to five the number of employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year for the purposes of the definition of "employer."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1056 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; increase weekly benefit amounts; report. Provides that, for unemployment compensation claims effective on or after January 1, 2026, an eligible individual's weekly benefit amount shall be $52 higher than the current weekly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| VA | SB1058 | Pass | 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] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| VA | SB917 | Veto | Collective bargaining by public employees; exclusive bargaining representatives. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1450 | Veto | Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1009 | Veto | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; report. Makes the decision to conduct an election by ranked choice voting subject to a determination of feasibility by the State Board of Elections. The bill provides procedures for tabulating and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2113 | Veto | Solar Interconnection Grant Fund and Program; established; sunset. Establishes the Solar Interconnection Grant Program for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to public bodies to offset costs associated with the interconnection of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB1324 | Veto | Obstructing health care facility access; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person not authorized by the health care facility who knowingly obstructs, detains, hinders, impedes, blocks, or delays another person's entry to or exit from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HJR758 | Pass | Commending Geraldine Maskelony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ758ER) |
| VA | HJR757 | Pass | Commending Alexandria City Public Schools' recipients of The Posse Foundation or QuestBridge scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ757ER) |
| VA | SJR249 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| VA | HJR9 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| VA | SB878 | Pass | Commission on Unemployment Compensation; membership; compensation; powers and duties. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members to the membership of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation and transfers the powers and duties of the subcommittee on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| VA | SB1057 | Pass | Unemployment insurance; weekly benefit amount; increasing threshold for deduction of wages payable. Provides that each individual eligible for unemployment benefits shall be paid a weekly benefit amount less any part of the wages payable to such indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| VA | SB1042 | Pass | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| VA | SB1043 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| VA | 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
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| VA | SB1060 | Pass | Possession, etc., of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age; liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products license; prohibitions; enforcement. Prohibits any person younger than 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| VA | SB1416 | Pass | Drivers to stop for pedestrians; vulnerable road users; penalties. Makes it a traffic infraction if a driver operating a motor vehicle fails to stop for pedestrians and makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor if such traffic infraction results in the serious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| VA | SJR247 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| VA | SJR248 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| VA | SB1428 | Pass | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge." This bill is identical to HB 1853.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| VA | HJR686 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Olivia Eve Ter and Olesya Taylor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ686ER) |
| VA | HJR684 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ684ER) |
| VA | HJR727 | Pass | Commending Felipe Hernandez, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ727ER) |
| VA | HJR726 | Pass | Commending Carlos Cañas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ726ER) |
| VA | HJR756 | Pass | Commending Arlington Public Schools' recipients of The Posse Foundation or QuestBridge scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ756ER) |
| VA | HJR672 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Colonel Gerald William Hyland, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ672ER) |
| VA | HJR734 | Pass | Commending Washington-Liberty High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ734ER) |
| VA | HJR710 | Pass | Commending Barry Eugene DuVal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ710ER) |
| VA | HJR742 | Pass | Commending the Plumbers and Gasfitters of Local Union 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ742ER) |
| VA | HJR751 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thomas Cahill Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ751ER) |
| VA | HJR685 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ685ER) |
| VA | SB877 | Pass | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| VA | SB1280 | Pass | Gaming; posting of problem gambling helpline information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| VA | SB1283 | Pass | Corrections Private Management Act; name change; private management prohibited. Removes the authority of the Director of the Department of Corrections, pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (the Act), or a regional jail authority to ente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| VA | HJR630 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Bonnie Sue Neighbour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ630ER) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jimmie H. Barrett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ646ER) |
| VA | HJR632 | Pass | Commending Marymount University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ632ER) |
| VA | HJR636 | Pass | Commending the Honorable R. Frances O'Brien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ636ER) |
| VA | HJR633 | Pass | Commending the passage of the Older Americans Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ633ER) |
| VA | HJR648 | Pass | Commending Patricia Miller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ648ER) |
| VA | HJR634 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Robert Chiaverotti.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ634ER) |
| VA | HJR616 | Pass | Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ616ER) |
| VA | HJR564 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ564ER) |
