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VAHB1726Enroll
75%
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains o...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726)
VAHB1597Engross
50%
Secure storage of firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person who fails to securely store a firearm on any premises where such person knows, or reasonably should know, that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from posse...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1597)
VAHB1736Enroll
75%
Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill states that the Center will serve a...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1736)
VAHB2520Engross
50%
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...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2520)
VAHB2764Engross
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...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2764)
VAHB2783Enroll
75%
Placing Nazi swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who, with intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, places a Hakenkreuz, hooked cross, or Nazi symbol or emblem, some...
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2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2783)
VAHB2002Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1694Engross
50%
Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; annual report on eligibility and usage required. Requires the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to coordinate to report no later than D...
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2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
VAHB2278Engross
50%
School boards or division superintendents; review accessibility challenges in the local school division; report. Requires each school board or division superintendent, in consultation with the Virginia Disability Commission and such other stakeholder...
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2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 42-N)
VAHB1610Engross
50%
State debt collection; statute of limitations. Establishes a seven-year statute of limitations on the commencement of any action, other than certain actions upon contracts to collect medical debts, by a state agency or institution to collect past due...
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2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (59-Y 39-N)
VAHB1607Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1977Enroll
75%
Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1698Enroll
75%
Retail sales and use tax; exemption for prescription medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2028, the exemption from sales and use tax available for the purchase by veterinarians of prescription medicines and drugs ...
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2025-02-21
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges
VAHB2158Engross
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 ...
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2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
VASJR445PassCelebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House
VAHR872PassCommending David S. Widzer.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR876PassCommending Greg Duncan.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR856PassCelebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House
VAHR853PassCommending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR861PassCommending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR874PassCommending Emily Burrell.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR875PassCommending the Ideaventions Academy Daedalus robotics team.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR873PassCommending Liz Noto, Ph.D.
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2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHB1682Enroll
75%
Surplus lines broker taxes; certain insurance policies. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insu...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1804Engross
50%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; application for medical assistance; eligibility for Medicaid Works. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services t...
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2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
VAHB1806Enroll
75%
Individualized education programs; individualized accommodations and supports during emergencies. Permits, if deemed appropriate by the individualized education program (IEP) team, including the parent, each IEP implemented for a public school studen...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1868Engross
50%
Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Clarifies that the exemption currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determi...
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2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
VAHB2590Engross
50%
Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program for the purpos...
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2025-02-20
Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)
VAHB1606Enroll
75%
Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator; emergency. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a na...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2094Engross
50%
High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
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2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N)
VAHB1828Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2736Engross
50%
Virginia Values Veterans Program; military spouse eligibility. Provides that the comprehensive program developed by the Department of Veterans Services to reduce unemployment among veterans extends to military spouses.
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2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
VAHB1876Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1876)
VAHJR684PassCelebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate
VAHB2531Enroll
75%
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2746Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2240Engross
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...
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2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (74-Y 24-N)
VASJR434PassCommending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR410PassCommending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR408PassCommending the United States Army.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VASJR404PassCommending South County High School.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR686PassCommending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHJR728PassCommending Heman Bekele.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VAHJR751PassCelebrating the life of Thomas Cahill Johnson.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate
VAHJR735PassCommending Aslin Beer Company.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VAHJR736PassCommending Northern Virginia Veterinary Medical Association.
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2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VAHB1844Engross
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...
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2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
VAHB2501Engross
50%
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 with a disability that ...
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2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
VAHB1933Engross
50%
Workers' compensation; throat cancer. Provides that for the purposes of the workers' compensation presumption as to death or disability from certain types of cancer, throat cancer includes cancer that forms in the tissues of the pharynx, larynx, aden...
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2025-02-19
Senate substitute with amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N 0-A)
VAHB2769Engross
50%
Life insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life i...
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2025-02-19
Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N)
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