| VA | HJR440 | Pass | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR510 | Pass | Commending the Gloucester County Branch of the NAACP.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR370 | Pass | Commending Linda Ford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ370ER) |
| VA | SJR363 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ363ER) |
| VA | HB2679 | Engross
50% | School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures; parental notification of student determined to pose a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; provision of certain recognition and response materials required. Requires each divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR600 | Pass | Commending Christian Tabash.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR371 | Pass | Commending Hoda Kotb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ371ER) |
| VA | HB1803 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; stakeholder advisory group; establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts; report. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to convene a stakeholder advisory group to provide advice to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1678 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1800 | Enroll
75% | Rights of persons with disabilities; public places; playgrounds. Clarifies that persons with disabilities have the same rights as other persons to the full and free use of public playgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1802 | Engross
50% | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; employment services organizations. Amends provisions related to the powers and duties of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to allow the Department to implement any remediation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) |
| VA | HB1805 | Engross
50% | Public institutions of higher education; policies; individuals with disabilities; postsecondary transition planning and services; documentation or evidence; report. Requires any individualized education program (IEP) meeting for any student with a di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1699 | Enroll
75% | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| 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] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (23-Y 17-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] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1621 | Engross
50% | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; nonvoting, advisory representatives. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each local commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1757 | Enroll
75% | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Clarifies that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no person found indigent or child's parents or other persons responsible for the care of a child found indigent and who is represented by a public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2645 | Engross
50% | Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1793 | Engross
50% | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Interstate 264 over South Rosemont Road in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2029 | Enroll
75% | Real property tax; exemption for elderly and disabled individuals. Revises various provisions of the local real property tax exemption and deferral program for elderly and disabled individuals. The bill allows a locality to require that an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HJR435 | Pass | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| 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] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1864 | Engross
50% | Poor debtor's exemption; depository institution account exemption. Allows a householder to hold exempt from creditor process up to $500 held in a depository institution. The bill provides that a depository institution shall, upon receipt of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2055 | Engross
50% | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; provision of suicide prevention materials required. Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR749 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR754 | Pass | Commending Curtis O. Porter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR753 | Pass | Commending Penelope Nowell-Shortt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR751 | Pass | Commending the Omicron Chi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR750 | Pass | Commending Virginia Union University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR752 | Pass | Commending Shaboozey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1972 | Engross
50% | Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2102 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2060 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (12-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HJR659 | Pass | Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HR674 | Pass | Commending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1988 | Engross
50% | Local school boards; powers and duties; binding arbitration agreements. Permits any school board to enter into a written agreement to submit any existing controversy to binding arbitration and to execute a contract, including a collective bargaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| 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 | HB1679 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments; availability in commonly spoken languages other than English. Requires the Board of Education to prioritize the incorporation of Standards of Learning assessments in commonly spoken languages in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR580 | Pass | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2641 | Engross
50% | Statewide housing targets for localities. Requires localities to increase their total housing stock by at least 7.5 percent over the five-year period beginning January 1, 2027. The bill provides that, in order to meet the 7.5 percent growth target, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2485 | Engross
50% | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HJR584 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dr. Golden Bethune-Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB1622 | Engross
50% | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such unattended motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2495 | Engross
50% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR564 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HR585 | Pass | Commending Grant Holloway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1807 | Intro
25% | Virginia Preschool Initiative; Kindergarten Readiness Fund established. Establishes the Kindergarten Readiness Fund and provides that all balances of state general funds intended for the provision of services to families through the Virginia Preschoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1808 | Intro
25% | Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; kindergarten readiness funding proposal; report. Requires the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education to develop a proposal to increase funding for kindergarten readiness programs with a focu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
