| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2134 | Veto | Definitions; American Indians; Virginia recognized tribes; federally recognized tribes; sovereignty. Establishes definitions for "American Indian," "federally recognized tribe," and "Virginia recognized tribe" and amends various sections throughout t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| 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 | HB1934 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | HB1723 | Pass | Department of Social Services; improving access to and maximizing participation in federal food assistance programs; work group; report. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access to and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| 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 | HB1699 | Veto | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2328 | Pass | Admission 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| 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 | HB2002 | Veto | Voter registration; cancellation of registration; sources of data. Requires that, except for a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled, the general registrar may not cancel the registration of any voter based on data or repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| 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 | HB2346 | Pass | Electric 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| VA | HB1614 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; postpartum doula care; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| VA | HB2087 | Veto | Electric utilities; electric vehicle charging stations; transportation electrification. Permits Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power Company to develop, own, maintain, and operate public-facing fast-charging stations, as defined in the bill, at or b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2158 | Veto | Department of Corrections; functional literacy program for inmates; data sharing and tracking; salary schedules for teachers; Virginia Prison Education Task Force established; report. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Director of Correction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1929 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; pregnancy mobile application. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to partner with a mobile pregnancy application to promote awareness of state government maternal and infant health programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR856ER) |
| VA | HR859 | Pass | Commending Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR859ER) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1928 | Veto | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override 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 | 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 | HB1642 | Pass | Use of artificial intelligence-based tool. Requires that the recommendations or predictions provided by any artificial intelligence-based tool, as such term is defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis for any decision related to pre-trial det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| VA | HB1638 | Veto | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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 | HB1922 | Veto | 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] | 2025-04-02
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 | HB1794 | Veto | Elections; primary dates; presidential year primaries. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2764 | Veto | 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] | 2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1621 | Veto | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; nonvoting, advisory representatives. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each local commun...
[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 | HB2469 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. Adds domestic workers, as defined in the bill, to provisions related to overtime pay. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1665 | Pass | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, and other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| VA | HB1797 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether other states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia ...
[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 | HB2341 | Veto | Department 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1719 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto |
