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VAHB1716VetoContraception; 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...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2351VetoCivil litigation; suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit upon appeal. Increases the cap currently in place for suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit for appellants during the pendency of an appeal of a civil action from $25 m...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2346PassElectric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various technology applicatio...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)
VAHB2328PassAdmission to bail; pregnant persons or persons who have recently given birth. Requires the judicial officer to consider any evidence a person provides indicating that such person (i) is currently pregnant, (ii) has recently given birth, or (iii) is c...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717)
VAHB2537VetoElectric utilities; energy storage requirements; Department of Energy and Department of Environmental Quality to develop model ordinances; work groups; reports. Increases the targets for energy storage capacity that Appalachian Power and Dominion Ene...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1844PassBaby 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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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)
VAHB2371VetoHealth 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...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2446PassPostpartum 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...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700)
VAHB2520VetoVirginia 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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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2610PassDepartment 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...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701)
VAHB2515PassVirginia 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...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685)
VAHR851PassCommending the Larchmont-Edgewater Civic League.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR851ER)
VAHR855PassCommending Marjorie Mayfield Jackson.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR855ER)
VAHR866PassCommending Keyshawn Davis.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR866ER)
VAHR857PassCommending Tarrallton Elementary School.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR857ER)
VAHR860PassCommending Honeysuckle Cafe.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR860ER)
VAHR856PassCelebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR856ER)
VAHR853PassCommending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR853ER)
VAHR861PassCommending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR861ER)
VAHB1657VetoVoter 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...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB1872VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord; tenant remedies. Prohibits a residential landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, whet...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1625VetoMinimum 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.
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1928VetoMinimum 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 ...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2501PassDepartment 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...
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2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665)
VAHB1977VetoWeapons; 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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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2094VetoHigh-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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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1718VetoVirginia 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...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB2341VetoDepartment of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local schoo...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1724VetoPrescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB1009VetoElections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; report. Makes the decision to conduct an election by ranked choice voting subject to a determination of feasibility by the State Board of Elections. The bill provides procedures for tabulating and...
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2025-04-02
Senate sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1610VetoDepartment of Taxation; accounts receivable; collection. Directs the Department of Taxation, Department of Accounts, and Office of the Attorney General to analyze the pervasiveness of outstanding accounts receivable due to the Commonwealth and collec...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1736VetoVirginia 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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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1616VetoDepartment of Energy; workforce development in offshore wind industry. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to identify and develop training resources to advance workforce development in the offshore wind industry in the Commonwealth.
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB2531VetoPaid 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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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2764VetoCollective 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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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHR827PassCommending the Hermitage Museum and Gardens.
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2025-04-02
Bill text as passed House (HR827ER)
VAHR816PassCommending the Washington Commanders.
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2025-04-02
Bill text as passed House (HR816ER)
VAHB2647VetoRestorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHR749PassCelebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR749ER)
VAHR750PassCommending Virginia Union University.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR750ER)
VAHR752PassCommending Shaboozey.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR752ER)
VAHR667PassCommending the Virginia Union University football team.
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2025-03-31
Bill text as passed House (HR667ER)
VAHR674PassCommending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard.
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2025-03-31
Bill text as passed House (HR674ER)
VAHR686PassCommending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
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2025-03-31
Bill text as passed House (HR686ER)
VAHR585PassCommending Grant Holloway.
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2025-03-28
Bill text as passed House (HR585ER)
VAHR591PassCommending SUFF.Impact.
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2025-03-28
Bill text as passed House (HR591ER)
VAHR593PassCelebrating the life of William Eugene Goodman, Jr.
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2025-03-28
Bill text as passed House (HR593ER)
VAHR592PassCelebrating the life of Demonté Lamont Tillery.
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2025-03-28
Bill text as passed House (HR592ER)
VAHJR9PassConstitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; 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 as...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602)
VAHJR2PassConstitutional 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 ...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601)
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