| VA | HB2154 | Engross
50% | Professions and occupations; alternative to education requirement for licensure of architects. Requires the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects to adopt regulations estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2150 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract terms inconsistent with Virginia law. Provides that no public contract for information technology goods and services, as defined by the bill, may contain terms in conflict with Virginia law. The bill also pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2156 | Engross
50% | Public institutions of higher education; student exchange programs; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; conditions. Clarifies that tuition and mandatory fees may be waived for an inbound student enrolled in a public institution of higher education thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2153 | Engross
50% | Affordable housing; comprehensive plan; development by nonprofit organizations; Department of Housing and Community Development. Grants authority to localities to adopt a variety of strategies intended to encourage and facilitate the development of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2151 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2077 | Engross
50% | Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program; eligible recipients; federally recognized tribes and Virginia recognized tribes. Expands the type of eligible recipients for loans and grants from the Virginia Community Flood Prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Delegates: Krizek, Bulova, Hodges |
| VA | HB1722 | Engross
50% | Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Social Butterflies Foundation bearing the legend LUPUS AWARENESS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1649 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1649) |
| VA | HB1718 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1844 | Engross
50% | Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2002 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; cancellation of registration; sources of data. Requires that, except for a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled, the general registrar may not cancel the registration of any voter based on data or repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2096 | Engross
50% | Intelligent Speed Assistance Program established; penalty. Establishes the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program to be administered by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program. The bill authorizes enrollment in such Program as an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (33-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1928 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2027. The bill codifies the adjusted state hourly minimum wage of $12.41 per hour that is effective January 1, 2025 and increases the minimum wage to $13.50 per h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2500 | Engross
50% | Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1641 | Engross
50% | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1601 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined in the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Senate substitute rejected by House (Y-2 N-94 A-0) |
| VA | HB1736 | Engross
50% | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Jus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2691 | Engross
50% | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2034 | Engross
50% | Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; policy task force; report. Directs the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources to establish a policy task force to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2037 | Engross
50% | Land development; solar canopies in parking areas. Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas. Such provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (Y-62 N-34 A-0) |
| VA | HB2036 | Engross
50% | 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 or in an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1876 | Engross
50% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Permits the governing board of a public institution of higher education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB1973 | Engross
50% | Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2241 | Engross
50% | Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted of assault or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1607 | Engross
50% | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2515 | Engross
50% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure. Prohibits a supplier, in connection with a consumer transaction, from advertising or displaying a price for goods or services without clearly and conspic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2638 | Engross
50% | Conservation and replacement of trees during development process. Expands certain existing local government authority to conserve or replace trees during the development process by expanding such authority statewide. The bill allows localities to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2764 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2630 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (27-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HJR679 | Intro
25% | Commending United Methodist Family Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106984D |
| VA | HJR684 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106679D |
| VA | HJR659 | Engross
50% | Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR370 | Engross
50% | Commending Linda Ford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR363 | Engross
50% | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | HB1716 | Engross
50% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to permit or sancti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2160 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Waivers; program rule amendments; direct support professionals. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals to amend the program rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2161 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2158 | Engross
50% | Department of Corrections; establishment of general system of schools for incarcerated individuals; Virginia Prison Education Task Force. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Department of Corrections (the Department) to oversee the operation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2375 | Engross
50% | Prescription drug price transparency; pharmacy services administrative organizations. Requires pharmacy services administrative organizations to submit information on reimbursement rates and fees to the nonprofit data services organization that contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2083 | Engross
50% | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; special enrollment period for pregnancy. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to establish by January 1, 2026, a special enrollment period for a pregnant qualified individual to enroll in a qualified health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2341 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1828 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2550 | Engross
50% | Noise abatement monitoring systems; local authority; civil penalties. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to place and operate noise abatement monitoring systems, defined in the bill, for the purpose of recording and enforci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR580 | Pass | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR607 | Pass | Commending Thomas Heilman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR657 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of David Charles Gompert.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25100336D |
| VA | SJR382 | Intro
25% | Commending Children's Home Society of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR661 | Intro
25% | Commending Kimberley Ann Bobo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25104400D |
