| HB1586 | Intro
Prefile | Claims; Michael Haas; compensation for wrongful inclusion on sex offender registry. Provides that any person receiving an award for wrongful incarceration for a felony conviction on and after January 1, 2023, shall receive, in addition to the compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1590 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; apprenticeship programs; minors. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act any personal information in a public record regarding the participation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1593 | Intro
Prefile | Access to minor's records; records contained in or made available through secure website. Specifies that for the purposes of allowing a parent to access the academic or health records of such parent's minor child such access includes access to a secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1587 | Intro
Prefile | Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1591 | Intro
Prefile | Tax credit; veterinary care for retired police canines. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 for costs directly incurred for the veterinary care, defined in the bill, of a retired police canine, also defined i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1589 | Intro
Prefile | Powers and duties of Parole Board; voting requirements; meetings. Increases the Parole Board from up to five members to 10 members. The bill provides that except for a public meeting convened for conducting the final deliberation and vote regarding w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1592 | Intro
Prefile | State Police Officers' Retirement System; membership for Department of Wildlife Resources conservation police officers. Provides membership in the State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) to conservation police officers in the Department of W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1588 | Intro
Prefile | Public utilities; rate increases during certain months prohibited. Prohibits the regulated operating revenues of certain public utilities from being increased in the months of November, December, January, or February. The bill's limitation does not a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB836 | Intro
Prefile | Charter; City of Poquoson. Amends the charter for the City of Poquoson to give the city council authority to expel, by a vote of four-sevenths of the whole city council, any person appointed to a city board or commission by the city council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1583 | Intro
Prefile | Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-01
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1584 | Intro
Prefile | Unlawful detainer actions; no rental agreement between owner and occupant; immediate execution of writ of possession. Provides that, at an emergency hearing on a summons for unlawful detainer filed by an owner of a residential single family dwelling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-01
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1585 | Intro
Prefile | Sale of certain weight loss and muscle building products to minors prohibited. Prohibits any person from selling or distributing an over-the-counter diet pill or dietary supplement for weight loss or muscle building to a person who is younger than 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-01
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB835 | Intro
Prefile | Commonwealth Savers Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund established; report. Establishes (i) the Endowment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing scholarships to students at eligible institutions, as defined in the bill; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB834 | Intro
Prefile | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exceptions. Removes certain provisions of the exceptions to the tied house limitations that state a manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler cannot require, by agreement or otherwise, a retailer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-01
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB831 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1578 | Intro
Prefile | Office of the State Inspector General; behavioral health and developmental services; required reports. Adds the Behavioral Health Commission to the list of entities to whom the Office of the State Inspector General is required to report on certain is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1582 | Intro
Prefile | Pharmacists; collaborative agreements; drug therapy. Specifies that collaborative agreements between pharmacists and other health care providers may include prescribing for the implementation, modification, continuation, or discontinuation of drug th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB833 | Intro
Prefile | Operation of the City of Hampton local health department. Allows the City of Hampton to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Currently, the local department of health is operated a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SJR251 | Intro
Prefile | Study; JLARC; public school libraries; removal of certain books; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries in the Commonwealth between July 1, 2020, and Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB828 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB826 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Department of Health Professions; predetermination for licensing eligibility; prior convictions. Prohibits the use of vague or arbitrary terms by a regulatory board or department within the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB829 | Intro
Prefile | Public school teachers; teacher compensation; Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program established. Establishes the Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program (the Program) for the purpose of addressing shortages of prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB825 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR432 | Intro
Prefile | Commending the Christiansburg High School softball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Prefiled and laid on Speaker's table; Offered 01-08-2025 25100095D |
| HB1579 | Intro
Prefile | License taxes; local gas road improvement and Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority tax; sunset. Extends from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2028, the expiration date for provisions permitting any county or city to impose a license tax at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB820 | Intro
Prefile | Public schools; Virginia School Improvement Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia School Improvement Grant Program for the purpose of providing additional support to public schools identified based on their school performance sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1581 | Intro
Prefile | Firearm safety device tax credit; defines commercial retailer. Redefines an "eligible transaction" for purposes of the firearm safety device tax credit as one in which a taxpayer purchases one or more firearm safety devices from a commercial retailer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB827 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Lottery; casinos; Internet gaming authorized; penalties. Authorizes Internet gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board. The bill permits the Board to issue an Internet gaming operator license to a casino gaming...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB824 | Intro
Prefile | State Corporation Commission; powers and duties. Provides that in proceedings before the State Corporation Commission relating to the regulation and oversight of utilities, the Commission shall consider public health and safety, the economy of the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB821 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. This bill defines "electronic monitoring" as video or audio monitoring or recording of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB832 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance voucher pilot program. Establishes the rental assistance voucher pilot program within the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of providing direct rental as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB818 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Social Services; children in foster care; federal benefits; notice of eligibility. Directs the Department of Social Services to provide written notice of a child in foster care's eligibility to receive certain federal benefits, specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB830 | Intro
Prefile | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; name change; general application; expiration repealed. Renames the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program as the Eviction Diversion Program, removes the July 1, 2025, expiration date from the Program, and makes the Program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB819 | Intro
Prefile | Referrals to community-based outpatient stabilization programs for voluntary treatment. Requires health care professionals and evaluators to consider whether a referral to a community-based outpatient stabilization program for voluntary treatment is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HJR431 | Intro
Prefile | Commending the Blacksburg High School girls' track and field team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Prefiled and laid on Speaker's table; Offered 01-08-2025 25100030D |
| SB823 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; construction of renewable energy facilities. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power, in constructing any renewable energy facility, to develop and submit a plan to the State Corporation Commission for review and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB822 | Intro
Prefile | Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1580 | Intro
Prefile | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Planning District 4. Adds Planning District 4 (New River Valley Region) to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-31
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1572 | Intro
Prefile | Tobacco products tax; cigars. Caps the statutory tax rate imposed on the selling or distributing of cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller at 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or 30 cents ($0.30) per cigar, whichever is lower. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB804 | Intro
Prefile | Limitation on prosecution of felony due to lapse of time after finding of probable cause; exceptions; competency evaluation. Provides that the speedy trial statute is tolled for an evaluation to determine a defendant's competency to stand trial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB813 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB814 | Intro
Prefile | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB807 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; recordkeeping by resellers. Removes the requirement under the Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act that, if contact information has been obtained by a reseller of a time-share from any source, such reseller and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB816 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB811 | Intro
Prefile | Alcoholic beverage control; third-party delivery licenses; repeal. Maintains alcoholic beverage control third-party delivery licenses, the repeal of which is set to go into effect July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB1574 | Intro
Prefile | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to primary election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person in a primary election to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
Committee Referral Pending |
| SB809 | Intro
Prefile | Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Fire Respons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB817 | Intro
Prefile | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required; CERP/EAP Grant Program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1573 | Intro
Prefile | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
Committee Referral Pending |
| HB1576 | Intro
Prefile | Campaign fundraising; legislative sessions; enforcement of civil penalty. Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General, who shall initiate civil proceedings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-30
Committee Referral Pending |
