| 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 | HB2008 | Pass | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry. Removes the restriction on localities that operate regulated municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4) to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2350 | Veto | Department of Emergency Management; powers and duties; development and implementation of standardized guidelines and training programs. Provides for the Department of Emergency Management (the Department) to consult with the Department of Behavioral ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2235 | Pass | Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| VA | HB2415 | Pass | Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR856ER) |
| VA | HR884 | Pass | Commending the Vietnamese American community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR884ER) |
| VA | HR853 | Pass | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR853ER) |
| VA | HR861 | Pass | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR861ER) |
| VA | HB1764 | Veto | Disposable plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Provides that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax shall receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB891 | 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
Senate 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 | HB1766 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; increase weekly benefit amounts; report. Provides that, for unemployment compensation claims effective on or after January 1, 2026, an eligible individual's weekly benefit amount shall be $52 higher than the current weekly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| VA | HB1769 | Veto | Chronic Absenteeism Task Force; examination of chronic student absenteeism; report. Directs the Chronic Absenteeism Task Force convened by the Department of Education, in consultation with such interested stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to (i) ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB1894 | Veto | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities that are capable of controlling the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2064 | Veto | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | HB1936 | Pass | Department of Education; index of required teacher training. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to establish and maintain an index of each training in which any public elementary and secondary school teacher in the Commonwealth is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2393 | Pass | 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] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| 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 | HB2352 | Pass | Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) reference general law for procedures for rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2413 | Veto | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Makes various changes related to the content and process for an integrated resource plan (IRP) developed by an electric utility that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2221 | Pass | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification; report. Requires that prior to the release or discharge into the community of any prisoner who has been confined for at least 90 days and does not possess a government-issued identification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| VA | HB2237 | Veto | Public school employees; suspension; conditions for continued receipt of salary. Clarifies that no school board employee shall be suspended without notice and, if applicable, an opportunity to be heard and that any individual who is so suspended, reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2229 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1886 | Veto | Payment of costs when proceedings deferred and defendant placed on probation. Provides that a circuit or district court that has deferred proceedings pursuant to relevant law and imposed costs shall not enter a judgment of guilty against a defendant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2244 | Veto | Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required. Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
