| VA | SB742 | Intro
25% | Richard Bland College; governance. Removes the authority of the board of visitors of The College of William and Mary in Virginia to supervise, manage, and control Richard Bland College and establishes the nine-member board of visitors of Richard Blan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| VA | SB757 | Intro
25% | Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of a contracted defense facility, define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB830 | Intro
25% | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; name change; general application; expiration repealed. Renames the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program as the Eviction Diversion Program, removes the July 1, 2025, expiration date from the Program, and makes the Program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB777 | Intro
25% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Low-Income Energy Efficiency and Weatherization Task Force established; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish, in consultation with the Department of Energy, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB777) |
| VA | SB778 | Engross
50% | Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1928 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB827 | Intro
25% | Virginia Lottery; casinos; Internet gaming authorized; penalties. Authorizes Internet gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board. The bill permits the Board to issue an Internet gaming operator license to a casino gaming...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1132 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1134 | Intro
25% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | SB1122 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 23]
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1181 | Intro
25% | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | SB758 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 3:30 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 4:30 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB832 | Intro
25% | Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance voucher pilot program. Establishes the rental assistance voucher pilot program within the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of providing direct rental as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 4:30 pm]
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB832) |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB882 | Intro
25% | Board of Medicine; licensure of anesthesiologist assistants. Establishes criteria for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants and directs the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations governing the practice of anesthesiologist assistants. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1934 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SB740 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | SB831 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 4:30 pm]
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB831) |
| VA | SB829 | Intro
25% | Public school teachers; teacher compensation; Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program established. Establishes the Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program (the Program) for the purpose of addressing shortages of prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SJR268 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Captain Jerome A. Sheppard, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SB741 | Intro
25% | Definition of public aircraft; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2030, the sunset of changes made to the definition of "public aircraft" by the 2018 Session of the General Assembly. The sunset was previously extended from September 1, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB739 | Intro
25% | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB826 | Intro
25% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Department of Health Professions; predetermination for licensing eligibility; prior convictions. Prohibits the use of vague or arbitrary terms by a regulatory board or department within the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | HB1926 | Intro
25% | Traffic control device and traffic light signal violation monitoring systems; issuance of summons. Increases from 10 business days to 30 business days the deadline for a locality to execute a summons for a traffic control device or traffic light sign...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB917 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Bill text as passed Senate (SR210ER) |
| VA | HB1922 | Intro
25% | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of certified small SWaM busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House General Laws: Open Government/Procurement Committee |
| VA | SJR282 | Intro
25% | Commending Leo C. Bowers, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR281 | Intro
25% | Commending the Honorable G. Glenn Oder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR283 | Intro
25% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB1460 | Intro
25% | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of human trafficking. Amends the procedure that allows victims of human trafficking, defined in the bill, to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SJR280 | Intro
25% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB759 | Intro
25% | Contracts assigning rights to earned wages; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2025, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB756 | Intro
25% | Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB833 | Intro
25% | Operation of the City of Hampton local health department. Allows the City of Hampton to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Currently, the local department of health is operated a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 4:30 pm]
Committee substitute printed 25104344D-S1 |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| VA | HJR470 | Engross
50% | Commending program partners for the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission's Fincastle Resolutions events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB1129 | Intro
25% | National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB828 | Intro
25% | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credit; sunset extended. Extends the housing opportunity tax credit sunset date from taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030. The bill also increases the aggregate credit cap across all calendar years from $255 mill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SR187 | Pass | 2025 Senate operating resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR187ER) |
| VA | HB1921 | Intro
25% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #2 |
| VA | SJR267 | Intro
25% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
Prefiled and laid on Clerk's desk; Offered 01-10-2025 25104115D |
| VA | SB1192 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2526 | Intro
25% | Board of Housing and Community Development; members. Expands from 14 to 15 the number of members serving on the Board of Housing and Community Development by adding another Director of Regulatory Compliance of the Virginia Building and Code Officials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1016 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | SJR251 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; public school libraries; removal of certain books; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries in the Commonwealth between July 1, 2020, and Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SJR1 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
