| VA | HJR497 | Engross
50% | Joint commission to oversee transition of the Commonwealth into a retail cannabis market established; report. Establishes a joint commission to oversee the transition of the Commonwealth into a retail cannabis market. The joint commission shall expir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2372 | Engross
50% | Joint Commission on Health Care; duty to study proposed health insurance mandates. Shifts the duty to assess, analyze, and evaluate the social and economic costs and benefits of any proposed mandated health insurance benefit or mandated provider that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR448 | Engross
50% | Study; Department of Environmental Quality; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2060 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR443 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2158 | Engross
50% | Department of Corrections; establishment of general system of schools for incarcerated individuals; Virginia Prison Education Task Force. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Department of Corrections (the Department) to oversee the operation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2466 | Engross
50% | Hampton Roads Interstate Highway Corridor Improvement Program and Fund; Hampton Roads Highway Coastal Resilience Program and Fund; Planning District 23. Creates (i) the Hampton Roads Interstate Highway Corridor Improvement Program for the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2720 | Engross
50% | School boards; transportation alternatives; two-year pilot in small school divisions. Permits certain school boards to pursue certain student transportation alternatives for the next two school years and requires such school boards to report certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2460 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning; incorporation of media literacy and digital citizenship. Requires the Board of Education to consider, during each regularly scheduled revision to the Standards of Learning and any associated curriculum frame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2757 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; sickle cell disease; feasibility of Medicaid benefit and Medicaid Health Homes; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to determine the feasibility of participating in an optional Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2435 | Engross
50% | Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; investigation; notification to prescriber. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for best practices for law-enforcement officers responding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2550 | Engross
50% | Noise abatement monitoring systems; local authority; civil penalties. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to place and operate noise abatement monitoring systems, defined in the bill, for the purpose of recording and enforci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2032 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; English language learner students; data collection on expenditures. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a data collection process related to English language learner expenditures and student English ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1995 | Engross
50% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; regulation of certain private and out-of-state institutions of higher education; exemption for certain courses of instruction. Exempts from the provisions of law that permit the State Council of Higher ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1972 | Engross
50% | Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2198 | Engross
50% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2088 | Engross
50% | Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council established; sexual assault forensic examiners; physical evidence recovery kits. Establishes the Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council (the Council), which consists of five members appointed by the Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1760 | Engross
50% | Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to convene a work group to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1804 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; application for medical assistance; eligibility for Medicaid Works. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2160 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Waivers; program rule amendments; direct support professionals. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals to amend the program rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2341 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2471 | Engross
50% | Expansion of Medicaid services for students at public schools; certain platforms, surveys, and analyses. Requires the Department of Education to enter into one or more statewide contracts with providers of a platform for Medicaid billing for reimburs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2539 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2102 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2278 | Engross
50% | School boards or division superintendents; review accessibility challenges in the local school division; report. Requires each school board or division superintendent, in consultation with the Virginia Disability Commission and such other stakeholder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1782 | Engross
50% | Newborn screening requirements; federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel; evaluation; rulemaking; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department) to determine whether testing for disorders included on the federal Recommended Uniform Scre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2590 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2152 | Engross
50% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officer training. Provides that any legal counsel for a public body who is also designated as the public body's FOIA officer shall complete a training session or online course offered or approved by the Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2149 | Engross
50% | Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program created; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives; report. Creates the Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. To be eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2091 | Engross
50% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; powers and duties. Requires the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to ensure that all state workforce development programs and state workforce education and training programs (i) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1935 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Income Qualified Energy Efficiency and Weatherization Task Force established; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish, in collaboration with the Department of E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2125 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; State Government Internship Coordinator. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to establish and employ a State Government Internship Coordinator to attract high quality interns to the service of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2541 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2163 | Engross
50% | Enterprise zone grant program; work group. Changes provisions related to enterprise zone real property investment grants by (i) creating an elevated grant tier on and after July 1, 2025, for major qualified zone investors, defined in the bill, and ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2039 | Engross
50% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; encrypted telecommunications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to, in consultation with the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Counci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2166 | Engross
50% | 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 ($0.0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2322 | Engross
50% | Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. Provides that in any case in which an indigent defendant is charged with any felony punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2162 | Engross
50% | Per diem compensation of a substitute judge of a district court. Increases from $200 to $350 the per diem compensation of each substitute judge of a district court. The bill also increases the per diem compensation for such judge from $100 to $175 if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1922 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1610 | Engross
50% | State debt collection; statute of limitations. Establishes a seven-year statute of limitations on the commencement of any action, other than certain actions upon contracts to collect medical debts, by a state agency or institution to collect past due...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1738 | Engross
50% | Deaths by suicide of veterans or military service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is filed and lists suicide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2594 | Engross
50% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; standards and training for security at nonprofit institutions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish statewide best practices, including training, for any law-enforcement officer, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1963 | Engross
50% | Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program; guidance and criteria for awarding grants; military community. Requires that the guidance and criteria developed by the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs for use in awarding grants und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
