| VA | HB2042 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1611 | Enroll
75% | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2024 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision in the Commonwealth in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2520 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (49-Y 47-N) |
| VA | SB1169 | Enroll
75% | Marine Resources Commission; encroachment on subaqueous beds; permitting requirements. Increases the maximum total value of projects eligible for a permit to trespass upon or over or encroach upon a subaqueous bed belonging to the Commonwealth from $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2195 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; mold remediation; emergency. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HJR544 | Intro
25% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Failed to pass |
| VA | SB917 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SJR337 | Intro
25% | Commending Ken Jessup.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Failed to pass |
| VA | HB2779 | Enroll
75% | Office of New Americans Advisory Board; increase in membership. Increases from 18 to 21 the number of nonlegislative citizen members of the Office of New Americans Advisory Board and adds the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2594 | Engross
50% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; standards and training for security at nonprofit institutions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish statewide best practices, including training, for any law-enforcement officer, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (83-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB2764 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB775 | Engross
50% | Elections; election offenses; dissemination of artificial audio or artificial visual media to influence an election; penalty. Prohibits any person from disseminating artificial audio or artificial visual media, as defined in the bill, intended to inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HJR670 | Pass | Commending The Roanoker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SB1166 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1166ER) |
| VA | SB1016 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SR298 | Pass | Commending Felix Maurizio.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate (SR298ER) |
| VA | SB920 | Enroll
75% | Workers' compensation; throat cancer. Provides that for the purposes of the workers' compensation presumption as to death or disability from certain types of cancer, throat cancer includes cancer that forms in the tissues of the pharynx, larynx, aden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | SB891 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | SB1011 | Engross
50% | Affordable dwelling unit program; City of Falls Church. Adds the City of Falls Church to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed House (67-Y 31-N) |
| VA | SB848 | Enroll
75% | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing an assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, jail off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | SB939 | Enroll
75% | Mail theft; penalty. Creates the offense of mail theft, punishable as a Class 6 felony, for any person who (i) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to deprive, injure, damage, or defraud another (a) takes, destroys, hides, or embezzles mail or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1894 | Enroll
75% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities that are capable of controlling the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1009 | Engross
50% | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (85-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB1941 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1941ER) |
| VA | HB1921 | Engross
50% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (21-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB1165 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities; national environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision of the Commonwealth in any request for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed House (63-Y 35-N) |
| VA | HB2213 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1132 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1132ER) |
| VA | SB1134 | Enroll
75% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | SB1181 | Enroll
75% | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1306 | Enroll
75% | Department of Taxation; free tax filing program. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File program and the related agreement with the Consortium for Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to develop and offer a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1428 | Enroll
75% | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1406 | Enroll
75% | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2590 | Engross
50% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program for the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1110 | Enroll
75% | Weapons; 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2241 | Engross
50% | Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted of assault or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (50-Y 47-N) |
| VA | SB1348 | Enroll
75% | Transportation network companies; publishing and disclosure requirements. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to (i) issue an annual report to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles containing the aggregate data regarding th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2087 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (60-Y 36-N) |
| VA | HJR681 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Meghan Rose Hinger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR684 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR727 | Pass | Commending Felipe Hernandez, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR726 | Pass | Commending Carlos Cañas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR758 | Pass | Commending Geraldine Maskelony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR406 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR388 | Pass | Commending Voices for Virginia's Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SR268 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph Woodrow Snavely, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR268ER) |
| VA | SJR434 | Pass | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR757 | Pass | Commending Alexandria City Public Schools' recipients of The Posse Foundation or QuestBridge scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
