Virginia Delegate Alfonso Lopez [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB2313	Engross 50%	Grooming and boarding establishments; inspections by animal control officers. Allows an animal control officer to inspect a grooming or boarding establishment, except for those establishments or facilities regulated by the Board of Veterinary Medicin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
VA	HB2560	Engross 50%	Notifying defendant of consequences criminal proceedings can have on immigration. Requires that at the initial court hearing for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal proceedings may... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
VA	HB2303	Engross 50%	State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
VA	HB1649	Enroll 75%	Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1649)
VA	HB1928	Engross 50%	Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2027. The bill codifies the adjusted state hourly minimum wage of $12.41 per hour that is effective January 1, 2025 and increases the minimum wage to $13.50 per h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
VA	HB2559	Engross 50%	Authority of local governments; service employees. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 15-N)
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	HB1657	Engross 50%	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]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 4-N)
VA	HJR473	Engross 50%	Commercial Waterman Safety Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Commercial Waterman Safety Week in Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
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	HB2002	Engross 50%	Voter registration; cancellation of registration; sources of data. Requires that, except for a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled, the general registrar may not cancel the registration of any voter based on data or repo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 15-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	HB2269	Engross 50%	Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence rep... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2269)
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	HB1766	Engross 50%	Unemployment compensation; increase weekly benefit amounts; report. For unemployment compensation claims effective on or after January 1, 2026, an eligible individual's weekly benefit amount shall be $100 higher than the current weekly benefit amount... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-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	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	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	HJR440	Engross 50%	Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Committee substitute printed 25107563D-S1
VA	HB2686	Engross 50%	Certain advanced or accelerated mathematics opportunities; policies and criteria for enrollment; data reporting. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that sets forth the criteria for students in grades five through eight to be eli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2686)
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	HB1797	Engross 50%	Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 14-N)
VA	HB2515	Engross 50%	Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure. Prohibits a supplier, in connection with a consumer transaction, from advertising or displaying a price for goods or services without clearly and conspic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
VA	HJR659	Engross 50%	Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Laid on Clerk's Desk
VA	HB1607	Engross 50%	Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N)
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	HB1679	Engross 50%	Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments; availability in commonly spoken languages other than English. Requires the Board of Education to prioritize the incorporation of Standards of Learning assessments in commonly spoken languages in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VA	HB2711	Engross 50%	Water utilities and wastewater utilities; eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement; cost recovery. Permits a water or wastewater utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for the approval of an eligible infrastructure replacemen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 [Hearing: Feb 17] To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
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	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	HB1904	Engross 50%	Department of Health; coverage for nursery services; certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; nurse practitioners. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations on coverage for nursery services to (i) allow certified nurse m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
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	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	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	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	HJR569	Pass	Commending Tammy Mann, Ph.D. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR570	Pass	Celebrating the life of Russ Adams. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate
VA	HJR571	Pass	Commending the Alexandria Historical Society. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR572	Pass	Commending ACT for Alexandria. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR575	Pass	Commending St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR573	Pass	Commending Computer CORE. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR567	Pass	Commending the Campagna Center. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR566	Pass	Commending Port City Brewing Company. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR574	Pass	Commending the Virginia chapter of the American Association of University Women. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VA	HJR568	Pass	Celebrating the life of Louis Peter Kokonis. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Agreed to by Senate
VA	HB2085	Engross 50%	Health insurance; carrier business practices; method of payment for claims. Requires a health insurance carrier, or entity completing a transaction on behalf of the carrier, prior to paying a claim using a credit card or electronic funds transfer pay... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1945	Engross 50%	School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107246D-S1
VA	HB1829	Engross 50%	Board of Education; certain add-on endorsements for mathematics teachers. Requires the Board of Education to (i) develop and approve a geometry add-on endorsement for teachers licensed by the Board to provide instruction in geometry for students in k... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)