| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB848 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1947) |
| VA | HB1921 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1165 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no public body in any procurement policy, bid, request for proposal, public contract, or other document shall prohibit or otherwise exclude from use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Committee substitute printed 25105273D-S1 |
| VA | SB1170 | Intro
25% | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; disclosure of digital assets. Directs the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to require the disclosure of digital assets on the Statement of Economic Interests form. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate General Laws and Technology 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] | 2025-01-23
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee |
| VA | HB2040 | Intro
25% | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1132 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | SB1134 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1122 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1181 | Intro
25% | 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, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1178 | Intro
25% | Faith and housing; comprehensive plan; zoning; Department of Housing and Community Development. Grants authority to localities to adopt a variety of strategies intended to encourage and facilitate the development of affordable housing on property own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1178) |
| VA | HB2501 | Intro
25% | 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 with a disability that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Transportation: Department of Motor Vehicles Committee |
| VA | SB1166 | 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1306 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Printed as engrossed 25104451D-E |
| VA | SJR292 | Engross
50% | Commending Kate G. Doyle Feingold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR291 | Engross
50% | Commending Jeffrey C. Greenfield.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR289 | Engross
50% | Commending So Lim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR290 | Engross
50% | Commending D. Thomas Ross.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR280 | Engross
50% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SB1356 | Engross
50% | Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HJR544 | Intro
25% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25104232D |
| VA | SB1110 | Intro
25% | 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 intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly possess in the building of any hospital tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1832 | Intro
25% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends incorporating into HB2533-Sewell (Voice Vote) |
| VA | SB920 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1002 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Privileges and Elections 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Transportation & Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1796 | Intro
25% | Corporations; decentralized autonomous organizations. Creates a regulatory framework for decentralized autonomous organizations, which are a form of limited liability company, and provides that an entity seeking to become a decentralized autonomous o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Labor and Commerce (9-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1167 | Intro
25% | Transportation network companies; minimum compensation. Establishes minimum compensation rates for TNC partners. The bill also prohibits gratuities from passengers from being included in TNC partner compensation calculations, authorizes TNC partners ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Transportation 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] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105051D-H1 |
| VA | HB2041 | Intro
25% | Speed safety cameras; placement and operation. Changes the terms "photo speed monitoring device" to "speed safety camera" and "high-risk intersection segment" to "high-risk speed corridor" in provisions related to vehicle speed violations. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1161 | 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | SB1406 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| VA | HB1686 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 9:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends incorporating into HB2165-Cole (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HB2590 | Intro
25% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant Fund and Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee |
| VA | HB2165 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 9:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB825 | Engross
50% | Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Permits a law-enforcement officer investigating the financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult to seek a warrant from a judicial officer to sei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB825) |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105686D-H1 |
| VA | SB1009 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2520 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety: Public Safety 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] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB916 | Engross
50% | Local ordinances; regulation of pet shops. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to regulate or restrict by ordinance the acquisition, marketing, and sale of animals in a pet shop, provided that such ordinance is consistent with state law. Su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
