| VA | HB1659 | Intro
25% | Local Foundation and Soil Management Fund. Authorizes a locality by ordinance to create a local Foundation and Soil Management Fund consisting of appropriated local moneys for the purpose of granting funds to an owner of private property or a common ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1874 | Intro
25% | Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-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] | 2025-01-17
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2204 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Appropriations: Compensation & Retirement Committee |
| VA | HB1928 | Intro
25% | 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 h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Committee substitute printed 25105161D-H1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1735 | Intro
25% | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1735) |
| VA | HB2781 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing; county executive form of government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB1716 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-16
Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB1710 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Public Safety Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1614 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1893 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of care provided at certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1617 | Intro
25% | Homeless youth; fees; certain government documents. Provides that when a homeless youth seeks to receive any (i) copies of vital records; (ii) copies of health records; or (iii) DMV-issued learner's permits, driver's licenses, special identification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR9 | Engross
50% | Constitutional 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR2 | Engross
50% | Constitutional 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-15
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HJR1 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2489 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Health Professions; expanding scope of practice for physician assistants; report. Directs the Department of Health Professions to conduct a study on expansion of the scope of practice for physician assistants in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2489) |
| 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] | 2025-01-14
To House Public Safety: Firearms Committee |
| VA | HB2201 | Intro
25% | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HJR490 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25100573D |
| 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] | 2025-01-13
To House Education: Early Childhood Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-13
To House Health and Human Services: Behavioral Health Committee |
| VA | HB2640 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2555 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2554 | Intro
25% | Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act established. Requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems made available in the Commonwealth to ensure that any generative artificial intelligence system that produces audio, images, text,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-11
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB1594 | Intro
25% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2026 and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-11
To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee |
| VA | HB2469 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2476 | Intro
25% | Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office; automatic substitution. Provides that certain provisions providing for the dismissal of an action where a party fails to make a motion for substitution of parties when such motion is nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2467 | Intro
25% | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; oversight of local and regional jails; powers and duties. Increases from 11 to 19 the membership of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) by requiring the appointment of (i) two members of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2477 | Intro
25% | Property under common ownership; creation of easements. Provides that a private appurtenant easement may be created for any purposes by the owner of the dominant and servient estate by the recordation of an instrument that grants or reserves such eas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2490 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business set-asides; report. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study small business set-asides and their effectiveness in promoting the growth and econ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2484 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; coordination and required independent expenditure committee disclosure; civil penalties. Provides a more detailed definition of the term "coordinated" or "coordination" in the context of campaign finance than current law. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HJR463 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; causation and resulting impact of the migration of individuals age 60 and older out of the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to identify causes of the migration of individuals age 60...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2468 | Intro
25% | Advanced registered medication aides; administration of drugs. Specifies that advanced registered medication aides may administer drugs to long-term care residents who do not have a clinical condition that requires evaluation by a registered nurse or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HJR462 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Transportation; needs and capacity for expanded tractor-trailer parking near and along the I-66 and I-95 corridors; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the needs and capacity for expanded tractor-trailer pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| 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] | 2025-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB2064 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-07
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-07
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB2195 | Intro
25% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; licensure of mold inspectors and mold remediators; emergency. Renames the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors as the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspecto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1892 | Intro
25% | Children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notification required. Requires, during the annual individualized education program (IEP) planning process prior to any ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-06
To House Education Committee |
