| VA | HB1701 | Engross
50% | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credit; sunset extended. Extends the housing opportunity tax credit sunset date from taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030. The bill also increases the aggregate credit cap across all calendar years from $255 mill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Read third time and passed House (94-Y 3-N 0-A) |
| VA | HB1738 | Engross
50% | Deaths by suicide of veterans or military service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is filed and lists suicide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1635 | Engross
50% | Certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; independent practice; organized medical staff. Permits licensed certified midwives who have completed 1,000 hours of practice under a practice agreement to practice without a practice agreement u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1876 | Engross
50% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Permits the governing board of a public institution of higher education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Read third time and passed House (52-Y 46-N 0-A) |
| VA | HB2060 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) |
| VA | HB2050 | Engross
50% | Drinking water; Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program established. Creates the Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program to reduce excessive levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in public drinking water derived from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) |
| 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 N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2531 | Engross
50% | Paid 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N 0-A) |
| VA | HB2468 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-03
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2468) |
| VA | HB2489 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2018 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1617 | Engross
50% | Homeless youth; fees; certain government documents. Provides that when a homeless youth seeks to receive a certified copy of a vital record, including his birth record, or his DMV-issued learner's permit, driver's license, special identification card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HJR466 | Engross
50% | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1853 | Engross
50% | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Railroad Drive in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1643 | Engross
50% | Dismissal of certain traffic violations for proof of compliance with law. Provides that a court may, in its discretion, dismiss a violation for driving without a license if such person can prove to the court compliance with the law on or before the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1945 | Engross
50% | School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1646 | Engross
50% | Vitamins, minerals, and food supplements; practice of chiropractic; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of chiropractic" to include recommending or directing patients on the use of vitamins, minerals, or food supplements. The bill also all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR502 | Engross
50% | Governor; portrait. Establishing a committee for the purpose of commissioning a portrait of Governor Glenn Youngkin for display in the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1867 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N) |
| VA | HJR544 | Intro
25% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Passed by for the day until February 23, 2025 |
| VA | HR558 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Roxane Gatling Gilmore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB1796 | Engross
50% | Corporations; decentralized autonomous organizations. Creates a regulatory framework for decentralized autonomous organizations, defined in the bill as a distinct legal entity that operates through blockchain-based governance frameworks, incorporatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2500 | Engross
50% | Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2029 | Engross
50% | Real property tax; exemption for elderly and disabled individuals. Revises various provisions of the local real property tax exemption and deferral program for elderly and disabled individuals. The bill allows a locality to require that an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1719 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (50-Y 48-N) |
| VA | HB1687 | Engross
50% | Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach to reflect the City's transition to a city council consisting solely of single-member districts and the mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HJR435 | Engross
50% | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1758 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HJR465 | Intro
25% | Commending Shenandoah University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Passed by for the day until February 17, 2025 |
| VA | HB2042 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-03
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1954 | Engross
50% | Equity in public school funding and staffing; special education students; at-risk students; English language learner students; support services positions; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support special education students that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980) |
| VA | HB2555 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2393 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 5]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR9 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| VA | HJR2 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| VA | HB2476 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2477 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1759 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1928 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2064 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| VA | HB1913 | Engross
50% | Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, unless the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2222 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2352 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:15 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB2025 | Intro
25% | Wildlife corridors or crossings; action plan and programs; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan; Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; wildlife carcass removal tracking; report. Requires the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan created by the Department of Wildli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2350 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1661 | Engross
50% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that (i) if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court shall offer installment payments of $25 per month except that the defendant may choose to pay ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2362 | Engross
50% | Sale of real estate for delinquent taxes; procedure; enforcement of liens; orders of publication. Amends certain procedures relating to the sale of real estate to recover delinquent real estate taxes, including the enforcement of liens for taxes asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
