| VA | HB1844 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1844) |
| VA | HB2596 | Pass | Office of the Executive Secretary; notification to guardian ad litems representing juveniles; child in need of services or supervision. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to send notification to attorneys ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
Approved by Governor-Chapter 96 (Effective 07/01/25 ) |
| VA | HB1912 | Pass | Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; Consumer Price Index adjustments. Increases various dollar amounts relating to wills, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, guardianships of minors, and guardianships of incapacitated persons to reflect the change in the Consu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
Approved by Governor-Chapter 148 (Effective 07/01/25 ) |
| VA | HB1641 | Pass | 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] | 2025-03-18
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | HB1606 | Pass | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator; emergency. 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 na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| VA | HB2371 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2371) |
| VA | HB1923 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1923) |
| VA | HB2520 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2520) |
| VA | HB1595 | Enroll
75% | Higher education; financial assistance; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; eligibility criteria. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1595) |
| VA | HB2501 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1961 | Enroll
75% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1928 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1625 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2548 | Enroll
75% | Certain practical nursing programs; common curriculum; transferability to registered nursing programs; pathway of stackable credentials. Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2546 | Enroll
75% | Obtaining records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service without a warrant. Provides that when disclosure of real-time location data or subscriber data is not prohibited by federal law, an investigative or law-enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2617 | Enroll
75% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1716 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2064 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2064) |
| VA | HB2136 | Enroll
75% | Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman; established. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish the Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman to protect the interests of residential customers of public utilities. The Office of the Public Uti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1853 | 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." This bill is identical to SB 1428.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2590 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1904 | Enroll
75% | Department of Health; coverage for nursery services; certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; pediatric nurse practitioners. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations on coverage for nursery services to (i) allow certifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2165 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2165) |
| VA | HB1922 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1675 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2055 | Enroll
75% | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; provision of suicide prevention materials required. Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2725 | Enroll
75% | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Adds any third-party service or third-party subscription that allows access to any form of surveillance technology or the data therefrom to the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2446 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1936 | Enroll
75% | Department of Education; index of required teacher training. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain an index of each training in which any public elementary and secondary school teacher in the Commonwealth is required to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2777 | Enroll
75% | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2610 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2721 | Enroll
75% | Special license plates; Washington Commanders. Updates provisions related to special license plates issued to supporters of the Washington Redskins to specify that such special license plates shall be issued to supporters of the Washington Commanders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2244 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1646 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1777 | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2240 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1793 | Enroll
75% | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Interstate 264 over South Rosemont Road in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1630 | Enroll
75% | Discovery. Requires the Commonwealth, upon request by counsel of record for the accused, to copy or photograph any discovery materials or evidence he is permitted to inspect and review, including relevant police reports, criminal records, and body-wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1657 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2134 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2134) |
| VA | HB1724 | Enroll
75% | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1918 | Enroll
75% | Women's Menstrual Health Program established; provision of education, training, and information. Directs the Commissioner of Health to establish the Women's Menstrual Health Program within the Department of Health. The bill directs the Department, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB1877 | Enroll
75% | Barrier crimes; peer recovery specialists; screening requirements. Modifies the barrier crimes screening assessment requirements for peer recovery specialists applying for employment with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 |
| VA | HB1616 | Enroll
75% | Department of Energy; workforce development in offshore wind industry. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to identify and develop training resources to advance workforce development in the offshore wind industry in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2736 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Values Veterans Program; military spouse eligibility. Provides that the comprehensive program developed by the Department of Veterans Services to reduce unemployment among veterans extends to military spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2686 | Enroll
75% | Certain advanced or accelerated mathematics opportunities; policies and criteria for enrollment. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that sets forth the criteria for students in grades five through eight to be eligible to enroll ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2050 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | HB2764 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-03-11
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| 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] | 2025-03-10
Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-03-10
Signed by President |
