| VA | HB1630 | Veto | Discovery. Requires the Commonwealth, upon request of the accused or his counsel, to copy or photograph any discovery materials or evidence the accused is permitted to inspect and review, including relevant police reports, criminal records, and body-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1716 | Veto | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as such terms are defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2134 | Veto | Definitions; American Indians; Virginia recognized tribes; federally recognized tribes; sovereignty. Establishes definitions for "American Indian," "federally recognized tribe," and "Virginia recognized tribe" and amends various sections throughout t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1678 | Veto | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2158 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1844 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| VA | HB2002 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2520 | Veto | Virginia military forces; Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program established. Establishes the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program (the Program) within the Department of Military Affairs. The bill also establishes the Sexual Offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2610 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services, by July 1, 2026, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve as the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| VA | HB2018 | 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 (CHAP0676) |
| VA | HB1934 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | HB1923 | Pass | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| VA | HB2515 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| VA | HB1675 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2446 | Pass | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| VA | HB1649 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1614 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| VA | HB2328 | Pass | Admission to bail; pregnant persons or persons who have recently given birth. Requires the judicial officer to consider any evidence a person provides indicating that such person (i) is currently pregnant, (ii) has recently given birth, or (iii) is c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| VA | HB2371 | Veto | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1824 | Veto | High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits; certain substitutions permitted. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute the African American H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2109 | Pass | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| VA | HB2746 | Veto | Incapacitated persons; finding of lack of capacity to understand act of voting. Provides that a finding that a person is incapacitated in a proceeding for guardianship or conservatorship shall not be synonymous with a finding that such person is "men...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HR843 | Pass | Commending Howard G. Adams, Ph.D., and Eloise Adams, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR843ER) |
| VA | HR845 | Pass | Commending the Southside Youth Football League, the Huntersville Wolverines Football and Cheer Organization, and the Park Place Kings Football and Cheer Organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR845ER) |
| VA | HR844 | Pass | Commending Stephanie Roble.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR844ER) |
| VA | HR853 | Pass | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR853ER) |
| VA | HR873 | Pass | Commending Liz Noto, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR873ER) |
| VA | HR875 | Pass | Commending the Ideaventions Academy Daedalus robotics team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR875ER) |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR856ER) |
| VA | HR874 | Pass | Commending Emily Burrell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR874ER) |
| VA | HR876 | Pass | Commending Greg Duncan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR876ER) |
| VA | HR861 | Pass | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR861ER) |
| VA | HB2136 | Veto | Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman; established. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish the Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman to protect the interests of residential customers of public utilities. The Office of the Public Uti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1660 | Veto | Trigger activator definition; penalty. Defines "trigger activator" as a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device designed to alter the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or used to increase the rate of fire to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1657 | Veto | Voter registration, regular periodic review of registration records; 90-day quiet period before all primary and general elections. Requires the Department of Elections to complete not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2647 | Veto | Restorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | 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] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1638 | Veto | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2024 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities. Prohibits state and local agencies from including a provision in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, policy, permit, or accompanying docum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| VA | HB1915 | Veto | Public school teachers; written notice of noncontinuation of continuing contract. Provides that written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing teacher contract by the teacher must be given by June 15 of each year; otherwise, the contract continues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2040 | Pass | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| VA | HB2631 | 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] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1869 | Veto | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to juvenile and domestic relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1928 | Veto | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2501 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers diagnosed with autism s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| VA | HB1625 | Veto | 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] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2054 | Veto | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to negotiate that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1642 | Pass | 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] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| VA | HB2056 | Veto | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2555 | Veto | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
