| VA | HB1764 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Read third time and passed House (52-Y 45-N) |
| VA | HB2040 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2196 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1759 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1947 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1947) |
| VA | HB2384 | Intro
25% | State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board to adopt regulations related to emergency medical vehicle restrictions and specifications. Directs the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board to adopt a regulation allowing certain Emergency Me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Transportation: Highway Safety and Policy Committee |
| VA | HB2438 | Intro
25% | Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2350 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1760 | Intro
25% | 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 establish several progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 7:00 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2446 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Health and Human Services: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1915 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1915) |
| VA | HB2240 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education: K-12 Committee |
| VA | HB1886 | Engross
50% | Payment of costs when proceedings deferred and defendant placed on probation. Allows a circuit or district court that has deferred proceedings pursuant to relevant law discretion to impose costs upon the defendant but prohibits the court from requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read third time and passed House (53-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2235 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1766 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1770 | Engross
50% | Uniform Trust Code; definitions. Adds "electronic" to the definitions in the Uniform Trust Code. The bill also amends the definition of "trust instrument."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB1767 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1660 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Public Safety: Firearms Committee |
| VA | SB891 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-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 creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2213 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1661 | Intro
25% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; universal minimum payments. Requires the court to offer universal minimum payments of no more than $25 per month to any defendant whose most recent completed personal annual tax filing was at or below the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1768 | Intro
25% | Possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of nonhuman primates prohibited; penalties. Prohibits the possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of nonhuman primates and controls the ownership of such primates already in the Commonwealth. The bill exempts f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2198 | Intro
25% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provides a link in the continuum of ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health and Human Services: Health Committee |
| VA | HB2041 | Intro
25% | Speed safety cameras; placement and operation. Changes the terms "photo speed monitoring device" to "speed safety camera" and "high-risk intersection segment" to "high-risk speed corridor" in provisions related to vehicle speed violations. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2238 | Intro
25% | Preservation of existing trees during development; certain localities. Allows a locality with a population of at least 75 people per square mile or a locality located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, when assessing the adequacy of existing trees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1941 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105051D-H1 |
| VA | HB1894 | Intro
25% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities so that a temperature of not less than 65 degree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Transportation & Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1663 | Intro
25% | Guidelines, policies, and procedures on the prevention and management of heat illness in student-athletes. Requires the Board of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies and procedures to inform and edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1912 | Engross
50% | Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; Consumer Price Index adjustments. Increases various dollar amounts relating to wills, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, guardianships of minors, and guardianships of incapacitated persons to reflect the change in the Consu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| VA | HB1625 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1758 | Intro
25% | Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. Requires the Department of General Services to determine whether, following an offer of surplus property to the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee |
| VA | HB2393 | 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2054 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2617 | Intro
25% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent, independently staffed commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1972 | Intro
25% | Statewide, unified, universally accessible, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; online program. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1936 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; index of required teacher training. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain an index of each training in which any public elementary and secondary school teacher in the Commonwealth is required to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105145D-H1 |
| VA | HB2018 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathways. Requires the Board of Education to establish additional pathways to renewable licensure as a teacher with an endorsement in the area of career and technical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105686D-H1 |
| VA | HB2032 | Intro
25% | English language learner students; per-student funding add-on; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support English language learner students and requires such add-ons to be calculated by multiplying (i) a weight set forth in the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105299D-H1 |
| VA | HB2352 | Intro
25% | 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) provide for a runoff election in the case of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1686 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 9:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends incorporating into HB2165-Cole (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HB2074 | Engross
50% | Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles. Authorizes certain towing, traffic management, and highway maintenance vehicles to be equipped with a portable changeable message sign that may be used without prior authorization from the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Passed House (97-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1641 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2383 | Intro
25% | Transient occupancy tax; administration. Provides that an accommodations provider shall not be required to transmit a transient occupancy tax return to a locality if (i) all retail sales of accommodations owned by the accommodations provider are faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Finance (20-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2545 | Intro
25% | Gas pipeline safety; regulations. Requires that for pipeline facilities used in the interstate transport of gas, as defined in federal regulations, any gas transported in transmission lines in the Commonwealth shall be adequately odorized, with an ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1771 | Intro
25% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program.Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1765 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for non-opioid prescription drugs. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from imposing any cost-sharing, prior authorization, step therapy, or other limitation on coverage of a covered non-opioid drug approved by the U.S. Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1606 | Intro
25% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. 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 natural perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2208 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #1 |
| VA | HB1689 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; Real Estate Board; residential property disclosure statement form. Requires the residential property disclosure statement form developed by the Real Estate Board and maintained on its website to include a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Stricken from docket by General Laws (21-Y 0-N) |
