Virginia Delegate Alex Askew [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB1695	Engross 50%	Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an athletic emergency action plan (EAP)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1695)
VA	HB1990	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-14 Senate substitute agreed to by House (50-Y 46-N)
VA	HB1988	Engross 50%	Local school boards; powers and duties; binding arbitration agreements. Permits any school board to enter into a written agreement to submit any existing controversy to binding arbitration and to execute a contract, including a collective bargaining ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
VA	HB1697	Engross 50%	Fishing with trawl nets and drag nets; shrimp and horseshoe crab; license fee; penalty. Allows the Marine Resources Commission to issue licenses or permits to any person to take or catch fish, shellfish, or marine organisms with a trawl net, drag net... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1694	Engross 50%	Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; annual report on eligibility and usage required. Requires the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to coordinate to report no later than D... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1989	Engross 50%	Medical cannabis program; product labels; delivery. Changes the requirements for what is included on medical cannabis product labels affixed by pharmaceutical processors to include (i) the total milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Committee substitute printed 25107286D-S1
VA	HJR446	Engross 50%	Zero Waste Awareness Week. Designates the first full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Zero Waste Awareness Week in Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
VA	HB1718	Engross 50%	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
VA	HB1614	Engross 50%	Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; postpartum doula care; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1844	Engross 50%	Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1726	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB2645	Engross 50%	Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N)
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]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-N)
VA	HB2618	Engross 50%	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 an inspection and evaluation prog... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618)
VA	HB1665	Engross 50%	Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any criminal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (26-Y 10-N)
VA	HB1597	Engross 50%	Secure storage of firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person who fails to securely store a firearm on any premises where such person knows, or reasonably should know, that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from posse... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
VA	HB2500	Engross 50%	Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB2631	Engross 50%	Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N)
VA	HB1973	Engross 50%	Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
VA	HB1736	Engross 50%	Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Jus... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 15-N)
VA	HB2277	Engross 50%	Elections administration; duties of local electoral board; certification of election; grounds for removal; civil penalty. Provides that the certification of the results of an election is a clear, ministerial duty of the local electoral boards and tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 14-N)
VA	HJR435	Engross 50%	Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
VA	HB2691	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1876	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 15-N)
VA	HB1977	Engross 50%	Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N)
VA	HJR437	Engross 50%	Study; reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding; report. Reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding, which sunset in 2023, to continue its work through the 2026 interim. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
VA	HB2783	Engross 50%	Placing swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
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]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
VA	SJR366	Engross 50%	Commending Leanne Eyler. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Laid on Speaker's table
VA	HJR659	Engross 50%	Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Laid on Clerk's Desk
VA	SJR370	Engross 50%	Commending Linda Ford. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Laid on Speaker's table
VA	SJR363	Engross 50%	Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Laid on Speaker's table
VA	HB1699	Enroll 75%	Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Signed by President
VA	HB1716	Engross 50%	Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to permit or sancti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 6-N)
VA	HB1793	Engross 50%	Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Interstate 264 over South Rosemont Road in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
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	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	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	HB1687	Engross 50%	Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach to reflect the City's transition to a city council consisting solely of single-member districts and the mayor. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Requires 27 affirmative votes for passage
VA	HJR580	Pass	Commending Ross A. Mugler. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HB1828	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-13 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1595	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107031D-S1
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	HB1635	Engross 50%	Certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; independent practice; organized medical staff. Permits licensed certified midwives who have completed 1,000 hours of practice under a practice agreement to practice without a practice agreement u... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
VA	HJR607	Pass	Commending Thomas Heilman. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HR591	Pass	Commending SUFF.Impact. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by House by voice vote
VA	HR593	Pass	Celebrating the life of William Eugene Goodman, Jr. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by House
VA	HR592	Pass	Celebrating the life of Demonté Lamont Tillery. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by House
VA	HB1693	Enroll 75%	Real estate appraisers; educational requirements for licensure; fair housing and appraisal bias course. Requires applicants for licensure as a certified residential real estate appraiser, a certified general real estate appraiser, or a licensed resid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1693)
VA	HB1698	Engross 50%	Retail sales and use tax; exemption for prescription medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2028, the exemption from sales and use tax available for the purchase by veterinarians of prescription medicines and drugs ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)