| SB1151 | Intro
25% | Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Premium Assistance Program and Fund established. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Premium Assistance Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Affairs Committee |
| SB1204 | Intro
25% | Hunter education program personnel. Requires the Board of Wildlife Resources to staff the hunter education program with appropriate personnel to ensure that hunter education, training, workshops, and volunteer management are carried out across the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Affairs Committee |
| SB1127 | Intro
25% | Animal testing facilities; public notification. Requires any animal testing facility to (i) within 30 days of receiving a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report, make such inspection report publicly available along with any other rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Companion Animals Committee |
| SB1125 | Intro
25% | Department of Wildlife Resources; propagation of wildlife without a permit unlawful; premature separation; hybridization. Makes it unlawful to propagate wildlife unless authorized by a permit issued by the Department of Wildlife Resources and provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Companion Animals Committee |
| SB1051 | Intro
25% | Grooming and boarding establishments; inspections by animal control officers. Allows an animal control officer to inspect a grooming or boarding establishment upon receipt of a complaint or by animal control's own motion to ensure compliance with sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Companion Animals Committee |
| SB1323 | Intro
25% | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1413 | Intro
25% | Public school buildings; indoor air quality standards. Establishes several enumerated requirements for school boards to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including (i) identifying a designated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB968 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; support services personnel; annual collection of certain staffing data required; report. Requires (i) each school board to, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, annually collect and submit to the Department of Education a rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1245 | Intro
25% | Boxing and wrestling events; license requirements for examining physicians. Provides that a physician examining a boxer, martial artist, or professional wrestler prior to such athlete entering the ring must have been licensed to practice medicine in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1370 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; model memorandum of understanding; counseling from school counselors by way of telehealth. Provides that the model memorandum of understanding developed by the Department of Education for partnerships with community mental he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB859 | Intro
25% | School boards; policies relating to volunteer student life counseling and support services; guidelines and requirements. Permits any school board to adopt a policy permitting certain individuals or groups to provide, on a volunteer basis, student lif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1236 | Intro
25% | Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1230 | Intro
25% | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB889 | Intro
25% | Pari-mutuel wagering; historical horse racing; percentage retained for distribution. Provides that with respect to all authorized historical horse racing terminals, of the amount that a horse racing licensee retains from wagering on historical horse ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1287 | Intro
25% | Virginia Gaming Commission; established. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commission as an independent agency of the Commonwealth, exclusive of the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of government, to oversee and regulate all forms of legal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1104 | Intro
25% | Public schools; interscholastic sports and athletics; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection; development and implementation. Requires the Board of Education to develop, biennially review and update as necessary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1315 | Intro
25% | Horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering; satellite facilities; percentage retained by racetrack and locality. Reapportions the distribution of the retainage for pari-mutuel pools by increasing the percentage paid to the localities in which the satellit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1303 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; diabetes medical care and management in public schools; policies, procedures, and requirements. The bill makes several modifications relating to the provision of medical care and management for students diagno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1306 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1305 | Intro
25% | Local taxes; zoning; assessments; injunctions; ordinances. Provides that for purposes of real estate subject to a special tax assessment for land preservation by local ordinance, a change to the zoning ordinance shall only be effective following (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB1063 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program. Makes the following changes to the College and Career Ready Virginia Program and the duties of certain entities relating to the Program: (i) modifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1102 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; programs of instruction; Safety First Comprehensive Drug Education Pilot Program established. Establishes the Safety First Comprehensive Drug Education Pilot Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB862 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; set-off of debts to the Commonwealth from prizes. Directs the Virginia Lottery Board to adopt regulations to establish and implement a set-off debt collection program in accordance with the provisions of the Setoff Debt Collection Act,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1223 | Intro
25% | Historical horse racing; pari-mutuel wagering; certain localities. Prescribes the distribution of the breakage retained by any licensee in a locality that has not passed a referendum allowing pari-mutuel wagering on or after July 1, 2018, and in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1346 | Intro
25% | Public schools; Virginia Opportunity Scholarship Grant Program established. Establishes the Virginia Opportunity Scholarship Grant Program, to be administered and managed by the Department of the Treasury pursuant to guidelines developed by the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
25% | Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors; annual meetings at the University. Reduces from four to one the minimum number of annual meetings that the Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors is required to hold at the University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20]
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB864 | Intro
25% | Horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering; breakage. Amends the definition of "breakage" for the purposes of horse racing other than historical horse racing to mean the odd cents by which the amount payable on each dollar wagered exceeds one cent ($0.01)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 21]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
25% | Richard Bland College; governance. Removes the authority of the board of visitors of The College of William and Mary in Virginia to supervise, manage, and control Richard Bland College and establishes the nine-member board of visitors of Richard Blan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20]
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB767 | Intro
25% | Institutions of higher education; financial assistance; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard. Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the amount of grant funding that the Department of Military Affairs may use each year to recruit qualified applicants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB982 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; eligible host localities. Adds Fairfax County to the list of localities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth and provides that any proposed site for a casino gaming establishment considered by Fairfax County shall be (i) locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1262 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB791 | Intro
25% | Certain practical nursing programs; common curriculum; transferability to registered nursing programs. Requires the Virginia Community College System (the System), in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB827 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 21]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1106 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20]
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1280 | Intro
25% | Gaming; posting of problem gambling helpline information. Requires those legally authorized to sell Virginia lottery tickets or conduct charitable gaming, horse racing with pari-mutuel wagering, and casino gaming in the Commonwealth to post in a cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB1241 | Intro
25% | Charitable gaming; common interest communities; bingo. Allows common interest communities that serve residents age 55 or older to become a qualified organization for the purposes of conducting bingo in accordance with the rules and regulations of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB792 | Intro
25% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; publishing of certain institution-level data on website required. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to annually publish in an easily accessible format and location on its websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20]
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1343 | Intro
25% | Tax administration; award for tax underpayment detection assistance. Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to award monetary compensation to individuals who provide information that assists the Department of Taxation in the successful collection of delinqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
25% | Fantasy Contests Act; minimum age requirement. Increases from 18 years of age to 21 years of age the minimum age required to participate in fantasy contests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| SB797 | Intro
25% | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1240 | Intro
25% | School-connected overdoses; policies relating to parental notification and response; requirements. Expands current law relating to school-connected overdose parental notification and response policies by, in addition to requiring the Board of Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB953 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1099 | Intro
25% | Virginia Community College System; Solar Workforce Development Incentive Grant Program; established. Requires the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System to establish and implement the Solar Workforce Development Incentive Grant Program. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| SB1359 | Intro
25% | Prohibited conduct by health carriers and pharmacy benefits managers; civil penalty; enforcement. Prohibits any carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, or representative of a pharmacy benefits manager from (i) requiring that a covered individual purchase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1153 | Intro
25% | Department of Social Services; assisted living facilities; appointment of receiver. Specifies the circumstances under which the Commissioner of Social Services may petition the court to appoint a receiver for an assisted living facility, which is per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB908 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student discipline and codes of conduct; prevention of and response to cyberbullying; policies and procedures required. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1252 | Intro
25% | Financial institutions; loans and legal rate of interest. Provides that for the purposes of provisions governing usury and the legal rate of interest, (i) "loan" means a loan or forbearance of money lent at interest or for a fee or other charge and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1159 | Intro
25% | Motor vehicle insurance; underinsured motorist coverage; required notice. Revises the language of the notice required to be enclosed with all motor vehicle insurance policies issued, delivered, or renewed after July 1, 2025, in the Commonwealth. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB983 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax; dealer discount. Provides that the dealer discount deduction for state retail sales and use tax that the dealer accounts for in submitting his return and paying the amount due, beginning July 1, 2025, will be six percent of the fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1172 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
