| VA | HB1764 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1766 | Engross
50% | Unemployment compensation; increase weekly benefit amounts; report. For unemployment compensation claims effective on or after January 1, 2026, an eligible individual's weekly benefit amount shall be $100 higher than the current weekly benefit amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (52-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB1767 | Engross
50% | Unemployment benefits; maximum duration. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, for claims effective on or after July 1, 2025, an eligible individual's weekly unemployment compensation benefit amount shall be paid for a maximum duration of 26 weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Failed to pass |
| VA | HB1611 | Enroll
75% | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2042 | Enroll
75% | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2008 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2198 | Engross
50% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2024 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision in the Commonwealth in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2520 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (49-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB2195 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; mold remediation; emergency. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2056 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2387 | Enroll
75% | Death by wrongful act; suspension of limitations. Provides that the statute of limitations for an action for death by wrongful act shall be tolled during the pendency of any criminal prosecution that arises out of the same facts as such action. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2553 | Enroll
75% | Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties. Requires the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation to (i) review and comment on the budget for the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and (ii) per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2235 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2631 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1597 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Failed to Pass from conference |
| VA | HB2022 | Enroll
75% | Registration of aircraft; fees. Increases fees for registrations of aircraft and creates multiyear registrations for aircraft for a period not to exceed three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2691 | Enroll
75% | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2555 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2610 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2027, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1595 | Engross
50% | Higher education; financial assistance; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; eligibility criteria. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) |
| VA | HB1607 | Enroll
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1977 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1694 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2764 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HJR670 | Pass | Commending The Roanoker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB1698 | Enroll
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges |
| VA | HB1923 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR379 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Walter Benjamin Keister, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ379ER) |
| VA | SJR377 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Boden.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ377ER) |
| VA | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR884 | Pass | Commending the Vietnamese American community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR853 | Pass | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR861 | Pass | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1661 | Enroll
75% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court may offer installment payments of (i) $25 per month, or a higher amount, depending upon a defend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1661ER) |
| VA | SB891 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2213 | Engross
50% | School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1769 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; School Performance and Support Framework; readiness indicator; chronic absenteeism calculation; certain excused student absences excluded. Provides that in any case in which the parent of a student notifies the student's school in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (55-Y 43-N) |
| VA | HB1824 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB1894 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1941 | Enroll
75% | Invasive plant species; retail sales. Requires, for the retail sale of certain invasive plant species for outdoor use, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous manner on the property located in proximity to each invasive plant signage identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1941ER) |
| VA | HB1606 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2350 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2350ER) |
| VA | HB2539 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1759 | Enroll
75% | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1759ER) |
| VA | HB1760 | Engross
50% | Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to convene a work group to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N) |
| VA | HB1915 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB2222 | Enroll
75% | Use of restraints on juveniles in court prohibited; exceptions. Prohibits the use of instruments of restraint, as defined in the bill, on a juvenile appearing before the juvenile and domestic relations district court unless, upon motion of the attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2393 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
