| VA | HB2134 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2134) |
| VA | HB1726 | Enroll
75% | Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1726) |
| VA | HB1736 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill states that the Center will serve a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1736) |
| 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] | 2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2520) |
| 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] | 2025-02-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2764) |
| VA | HB2034 | Enroll
75% | Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; policy task force; report. Directs the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources to establish a policy task force to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2033 | Enroll
75% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; alcoholic beverage control retail licensees and employees; training on human trafficking. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop an online course for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1601 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined in the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (55-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2235 | Enroll
75% | Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2533 | Enroll
75% | Local comprehensive plan; tiny homes; accessory dwelling units. Clarifies that the comprehensive plan prepared by a local planning commission and adopted by a local governing body may include the use of tiny homes and accessory dwelling units, define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2691 | Enroll
75% | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HJR717 | Pass | Commending the Lionsbridge Football Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR443 | Pass | Study; joint subcommittee to study the consolidation and scheduling of general elections in Virginia; report. Creates a two-year legislative study on the consolidation and scheduling of general elections in Virginia. A 13-member joint subcommittee is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate |
| 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 | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR823 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Beverly Hicks Diamonstein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR824 | Pass | Commending Natale Christian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR871 | Pass | Commending the Woodside High School theatre program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR853 | Pass | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR861 | Pass | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1827 | Enroll
75% | Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health. Encourages localities to utilize relevant and available data and research related to social determinants of health to consider how a locality's adopted comprehensive plan will impact the locality's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1828 | Enroll
75% | Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1833 | Engross
50% | Small Family Day Home Provider Incentive Pilot Program established. Establishes the four-year Small Family Day Home Provider Incentive Pilot Program whereby funds are provided to the Ready Region Chesapeake Bay lead to work in conjunction with public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2077 | Engross
50% | Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program; eligible recipients; federally recognized tribes and Virginia recognized tribes. Expands the type of eligible recipients for loans and grants from the Virginia Community Flood Prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2077) |
| VA | HB2782 | Enroll
75% | Board of Wildlife Resources; creel limits; blue catfish. Requires the Board of Wildlife Resources to amend regulations to remove the one-fish daily limit for blue catfish longer than 32 inches in the tidal waters of the James, Rappahannock, and York ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2782) |
| VA | HB1948 | Engross
50% | Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund and requires any eligible designated funds received under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be deposited into the Fund....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-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 | HB1606 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1723 | Enroll
75% | Department of Social Services; improving access to and maximizing participation in federal food assistance programs; work group; report. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access and maxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2094 | Engross
50% | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB2393 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2240 | 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (74-Y 24-N) |
| 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 | HB2560 | Enroll
75% | Notifying defendant of consequences criminal proceedings can have on immigration. Requires that upon the defendant's first appearance for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2560ER) |
| VA | HB1876 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1876) |
| VA | HB2482 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (51-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2531 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2736 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2743 | Engross
50% | Prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure works by public service companies. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to determine and make available the prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure work. Under the bill, each pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HR686 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| 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 | SJR434 | Pass | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR410 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR408 | Pass | Commending the United States Army.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR393 | Pass | Celebrating the life of His Highness Prince Karim Agakhan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR728 | Pass | Commending Heman Bekele.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB1830 | Engross
50% | School board policies; unpaid educational leave for certain employee association officers; purchase of service credit. Requires each school board to adopt a policy that requires the school board to approve unpaid educational leave for school board em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2328 | Engross
50% | Admission to bail; pregnant persons or persons who have recently given birth. Requires the court to consider any evidence a person provides indicating that such person (i) is currently pregnant, (ii) has recently given birth, or (iii) is currently nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
