| 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 | SB786 | Intro
25% | Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program established; incorporation into National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund. Establishes the Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program and incorporates such program into the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB831 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB930 | Intro
25% | Virginia Institute of Marine Science; study of the cumulative impacts of surface water intakes on aquatic fauna and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its major Virginia tributaries; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1148 | Intro
25% | Crime victim rights; notification. Requires notification through the Virginia Statewide VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday) System or other similar electronic or automated system to a victim regarding the commitment or release of a de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1196 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1353 | Intro
25% | High-energy facilities; water and energy usage information reports; statewide clearinghouse established. Requires any owner or operator of a high-energy facility, as defined in the bill, to submit to the Department of Environmental Quality no later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1103 | Intro
25% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1264 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; career and technical education courses, pathways, and credentials; biennial review; report. Requires the Board of Education and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, with the assistance of the Department of Workforce Develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1414 | Intro
25% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program.Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1213 | Intro
25% | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; autopsy protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1232 | Intro
25% | Autism Advisory Council; name change; membership; staffing; powers and duties. Provides for the Autism Advisory Council to be reconstituted as a permanent, independently staffed agency in the legislative branch of state government. Currently, the Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB990 | Intro
25% | Mattress Stewardship Program established; report; civil penalties. Establishes the Mattress Stewardship Program that allows certain industry associations to administer the Program as a mattress recycling organization with the approval and certificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB855 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments and related student assessment methods; assessment development, implementation, and administration reform. Modifies provisions relating to assessment methods for determining the level of achieveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1347 | Intro
25% | Maternal Health Coordinator Program; purpose. Creates the Maternal Health Coordinator Program to serve preconception, pregnant, postpartum, and interconception women and their families within clinical, community, virtual, and home settings. Under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1003 | Intro
25% | School breakfasts; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1178 | Intro
25% | Faith and housing; comprehensive plan; zoning; Department of Housing and Community Development. Grants authority to localities to adopt a variety of strategies intended to encourage and facilitate the development of affordable housing on property own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1276 | Intro
25% | Labor and employment; portable benefit accounts; income tax; deduction. Authorizes a Virginia resident who has worked as an independent contractor to establish a portable benefit account. Under the bill, a portable benefit account offered through and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1189 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Development Infrastructure Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Residential Development Infrastructure Program and Fund to provide financial assistance to localities for expanding or improving public infrastructure needed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1390 | Intro
25% | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1227 | Intro
25% | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1328 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid waivers; consumer-directed services; employer of record. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to modify the program rules for consumer-directed services available through cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB895 | Intro
25% | Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Authorizes localities by ordinance to provide a total exemption from real property taxes regardless of assessed value beginning in tax years b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB980 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; work group; state plan amendment; reimbursement for services by certified community health workers. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to (i) design a state plan am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1083 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1294 | Intro
25% | Regional emergency medical services councils. Provides that 55 percent of certain funds distributed to the Department of Health from motor vehicle registration fees shall be distributed to the designated regional emergency medical services councils f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1296 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public-Private Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Public-Private Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund (the Fund), to be managed by the Virginia Resources Authority, for the purpose of making...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1301 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1322 | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1179 | Intro
25% | Motion picture production tax credit; renamed as content manufacturing tax credit; sunset. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1286 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; auxiliary police officers and volunteer deputy sheriffs. Adds auxiliary police officers and volunteer deputy sheriffs to the list of individuals eligible for benefits under the Line of Duty Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1321 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax; exemptions; gold, silver, or platinum bullion; sunset. Extends to June 30, 2032, the exemption from the retail sales and use taxation for gold, silver, or platinum bullion and legal tender coins. The exemption is currently s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1288 | Intro
25% | Highway maintenance; Town of New Market. Adds the Town of New Market to the list of localities authorized to receive state funds for the performance of certain highway maintenance projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB929 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1112 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1242 | Intro
25% | Watershed general permits for nutrients; priority projects; compliance schedule; emergency. Amends the compliance schedule for three priority projects for additional nitrogen and phosphorus removal under the Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1265 | Intro
25% | 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 with a disability that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1113 | Intro
25% | Income tax credit; adaptive repurposing of underutilized structures; Affordable Dwelling Units. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for eligible expenses, defined in the bill, incurred in converting office bui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB977 | Intro
25% | Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs associated with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1424 | Intro
25% | Prohibited acquisition and ownership of single-family homes; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any partnership, corporation, or real estate investment trust that manages funds pooled from investors and has $50 million or more in net value or ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB972 | Intro
25% | Emergency Response Exposure Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Emergency Response Exposure Grant Fund and Program to award grants to localities to support certain emergency responders who were exposed to a qualifying emergency, defined in the bill. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1001 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax; exemption for electric utility equipment. Exempts from the retail sales and use tax, beginning July 1, 2025, and ending July 1, 2030, tangible personal property used directly in the initiation, production, generation, transmission,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
