| VA | SB1029 | Engross 50% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; procedure for responding to requests; charges; posting of notice of rights and responsibilities. Limits the fees charged for producing public records to the median hourly rate of pay of employees of the public bod... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-09 To House General Laws: Open Government/Procurement Committee |
| VA | SB1044 | Engross 50% | Elections; election results; reporting; provisional ballots. Requires the general registrar of each locality to report to the Department of Elections for each precinct in his locality the total number of provisional ballots cast, the number of those ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-09 To House Privileges and Elections: Election Administration Committee |
| VA | SB1415 | Engross 50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of testing kits during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat; exemption. Clarifies that the current exemption from the provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act for the p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-09 To House General Laws: Open Government/Procurement Committee |
| VA | SB1047 | Engross 50% | Department of Energy; demand response programs; evaluation and assessment; report. Directs the Department of Energy to evaluate and assess benefits, impacts, best practices, and implementation recommendations for demand response programs in the Commo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SB961 | Engross 50% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; Department of Veterans Services; Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; enrollment and eligibility data; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in coo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 10 @ 9:00 am] To House Education: Higher Education Committee |
| VA | SB1016 | Engross 50% | Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education and eligibl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 10 @ 9:00 am] To House Education: Higher Education Committee |
| VA | SB1118 | Engross 50% | Registration by localities of cemeteries on private property. Requires localities to adopt an ordinance setting forth a register of identified cemeteries, graveyards, or other places of burial located on private property not belonging to any memorial... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (18-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB917 | 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] | 2025-02-07 To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-02-07 Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-02-07 Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 10-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-02-07 Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 9-N) |
| VA | SB1428 | Engross 50% | 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." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am] To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SJR325 | Engross 50% | Celebrating the life of Thomas S. Whipple. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR336 | Engross 50% | Celebrating the life of Peter John Kemp, MD. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR340 | Engross 50% | Celebrating the life of Benjamin "Rod" Rodriguez. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR323 | Engross 50% | Commending Billy Wagner. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SB1019 | Engross 50% | Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) applica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1050 | Engross 50% | Campaign finance; contributions from corporations prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits any corporation from making any contribution to any committee organized under the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006 and prohibits any such ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Failed to pass |
| VA | SB1055 | Engross 50% | Interment rights; public property. Allows any immediate family member or descendant of a deceased person buried in an identified family cemetery located on public property owned by a county, city, town, or other locality or held in trust for such a l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1024 | Engross 50% | Voluntary contributions during electronic Department of Motor Vehicles transactions. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide a method by which an individual conducting an electronic Department transaction for the renewal of a driver's li... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 8:00 am] To House Transportation: Department of Motor Vehicles Committee |
| VA | SB1020 | Engross 50% | Department of Social Services; Restaurant Meals Program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; report. Directs the Department of Social Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the Restaurant Mea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB1018 | Engross 50% | Public institutions of higher education; Department of Social Services; SNAP eligibility, applications, and participation; guidance, resources, and education. Requires the Department of Social Services (the Department) to (i) develop, annually update... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB1289 | Engross 50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods; nutrition requirements; certain color additives prohibited. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from offering or making available to any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Education Committee |
| VA | SJR324 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Frank Miller Ruff, Jr. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR564 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | SB1326 | Engross 50% | Department of Emergency Management; work groups related to the Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to convene work groups to (i) study the reliance of the Commonwealth and its local... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1117 | Intro 25% | Income tax credit; braille labeling program. Creates a nonrefundable individual and corporate income tax credit, as applicable, for up to $50,000 of expenditures incurred in the development and implementation of a braille labeling program on products... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1003 | Intro 25% | School breakfasts; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1444 | Engross 50% | Charter; City of Manassas Park. Makes numerous technical and clarifying changes to the charter for the City of Manassas Park. The bill includes an updated boundary description, requires as a condition precedent to the issuance of a vehicle license th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To House Counties, Cities and Towns: Subcommittee #1 |
| VA | SJR267 | Pass | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ267ER) |
| VA | SB825 | Engross 50% | Seizure of moneys or other assets of value used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Permits a law-enforcement officer, an attorney for the Commonwealth, the Office of the Attorney General, or other interest... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1017 | Engross 50% | School boards; powers and duties; school meal policies; payment of school meal debt. Requires each school board, at the end of each school year, to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance, resulting from uncollected school meal debts on any stud... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Education Committee |
| VA | SJR337 | Intro 25% | Commending Ken Jessup. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR322 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ322ER) |
| VA | SB899 | Engross 50% | Zoning; data centers; water use. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance provisions for (i) requiring proposed data center developments to submit water use estimates and (ii) considering water use when making rezoning and special use... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N 1-A) |
| VA | HJR511 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR512 | Pass | Commending the Roanoke Star. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SB976 | Intro 25% | Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; performance agreement. Removes the authority to make commitments related to accelerated permitting, property tax classifications, and other such issues in an agreement between a qualified company and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1049 | Intro 25% | Electric utilities; approval required for construction of certain electrical transmission lines. Prohibits the construction of a new transmission line overhead unless the State Corporation Commission first determines that the construction of such tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N) |
| VA | SB1045 | Intro 25% | Siting of data centers; property classified for industrial use. Requires that any local government land use application for the siting of a data center shall only be approved if such application is for a data center located on property classified by ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| VA | SB1046 | Intro 25% | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 Failed to report from Local Government with substitute (5-Y 6-N 4-A) |
| VA | SJR280 | Engross 50% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1243 | Intro 25% | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB960-Perry) (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR252 | Intro 25% | Study; Department of Transportation; traffic congestion reduction on Virginia State Route 55; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study traffic reduction on Virginia State Route 55. The study shall include the identification of metho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (Voice Vote) |
| VA | SJR260 | Intro 25% | Study; JLARC; policies and funding allocations of the Department of Transportation for maintenance of transportation infrastructure; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to analyze policies and funding allocations... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (Voice Vote) |
| VA | SB1325 | Intro 25% | Department of Emergency Management; work groups related to the Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to convene work groups to (i) study the reliance of the Commonwealth and its local... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 Incorporated by Rules (SB1326-Perry) (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17 Bill text as passed Senate (SR210ER) |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| VA | SB318 | Intro 25% | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB285 | Intro 25% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |