| VA | SB991 | Intro
25% | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:30 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB993 | Engross
50% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions; emergency. Clarifies that the provisions related to real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB986 | Engross
50% | Assault and battery; sports official; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to commit an assault or assault and battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such individual is a sports official, defined in the bill, fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1110 | Intro
25% | 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 intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly possess in the building of any hospital tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 9:00 am]
Impact statement from VCSC (SB1110) |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB998 | Intro
25% | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation be compensated by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Incorporates SB840(VanValkenburg) |
| 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] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1111 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student support services; student personal information and data security; registration; requirements; grants; report. Requires any student support agency, as defined by the bill, to register with the Department of Education in order t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Education and Health 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] | 2025-01-18
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SJR280 | Intro
25% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB917 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB744 | Engross
50% | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB825 | Engross
50% | Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Permits a law-enforcement officer investigating the financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult to seek a warrant from a judicial officer to sei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) |
| VA | SB987 | Engross
50% | Charter; City of Norfolk. Amends the charter for the City of Norfolk to exempt the position of deputy fire chief from the classified service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB992 | Engross
50% | Civil penalties for certain repeat zoning violations in Planning District 23; appeals. Provides an enhanced level of civil penalties in Planning District 23 (Hampton Roads) for repeat violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses, defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB988 | Intro
25% | Elections; general provisions; prohibited area; within 40 feet of the curbside voting area. Adds the 40 feet beyond any area designated for voting outside the polling place to the prohibited area where campaigning and certain other activities are unl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB996 | Intro
25% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a natural perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 21]
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB997 | Engross
50% | Local officers; oath of office. Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of any local government charter, or any other provision of law, every elected county, city, town and district officer, on or before the day on which his term of office begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| VA | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SB779 | Intro
25% | Railroad safety; minimum train crew; movement of freight; civil penalties. Requires railroad companies to comply with federal requirements for minimum train crews on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Rereferred from Transportation to Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB994 | Intro
25% | Elections; general provisions; prohibited area; 100 feet. Increases from 40 feet to 100 feet the areas around polling places, certain electoral board meetings, and recount locations within which certain activities or conduct are prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB985 | Intro
25% | Short-term rental properties; human trafficking awareness training. Mandates every accommodations intermediary to require its accommodations providers to complete certain training on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 7:30 am]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB1393 | Intro
25% | Department of Health; pregnancy mobile application. Directs the Department of Health to contract with a mobile developer to create a mobile application available to prenatal, pregnant, and postpartum individuals who are eligible for Medicaid. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SJR267 | Intro
25% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
Prefiled and laid on Clerk's desk; Offered 01-10-2025 25104115D |
| VA | SB1238 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1233 | Intro
25% | Pedestrian crossing violation monitoring systems and stop sign violation monitoring systems; violation enforcement; civil penalty. Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB1274 | Intro
25% | Witness Impeachment Evidence Designation; review process. Prohibits a police officer from being discharged, disciplined, or threatened with discharge or discipline solely due to the designation of such police officer as a witness with a Witness Impea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB989 | Intro
25% | Declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee; definition. Amends the definition of "declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee" to specify that a declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee, when offered by a seller, shall not exceed 25 percent of the preneed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB995 | Intro
25% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity. Creates the Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity to study the misvaluation and undervaluation of real property owned by minority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SJR258 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations on Virginia's manufacturing sector; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations on Virginia's manufacturing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | SJR1 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB91 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB518 | Intro
25% | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB519 | Intro
25% | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB623 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB689 | Intro
25% | Exemptions to article; cruise ship gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB520 | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SJR11 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
50% | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB593 | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1311 | Intro
25% | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; professional firefighter pension. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
