| 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106520D-H1 |
| VA | SB996 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Passed Senate 40-Y 0-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] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB998) |
| VA | SB917 | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | SB779 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB780 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB780) |
| VA | SB1134 | Engross
50% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1134) |
| VA | SB1418 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1384 | Intro
25% | Childbirth; physiologic postpartum process; doulas. Requires health facilities providing services related to labor and childbirth to develop policies to (i) allow a companion or doula to be present during birth in addition to a partner or spouse; (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1384) |
| VA | SB1252 | Engross
50% | Financial institutions; loans and legal rate of interest. Provides that for the purposes of provisions governing usury and the legal rate of interest, (i) "loan" means a loan or forbearance of money lent at interest or for a fee or other charge and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1044 | Engross
50% | Elections; election results; reporting; provisional ballots. Requires the general registrar of each locality to report to the Department of Elections for each precinct in his locality the total number of provisional ballots cast, the number of those ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1270 | Engross
50% | Land records notification system; duties of real estate settlement agent; due diligence in ascertaining identity of seller. Requires localities to establish a property alert notification system in the local land records office responsible for accepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB921 | 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] | 2025-01-31
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1233 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SB1428 | Intro
25% | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1476 | Engross
50% | Sale of certain vacant and blighted or derelict property. Allows a locality where certain vacant and blighted or derelict property is located to petition the circuit court to appoint a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed or deeds to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB1219 | Engross
50% | General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emolumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB995 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-29
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB995) |
| 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] | 2025-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-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] | 2025-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB989 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-28
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB989) |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
Stricken at request of Patron in 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] | 2025-01-28
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB990) |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1122 | Engross
50% | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB991 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-27
Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1110 | 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 intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly possess in the building of any hospital tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-27
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB1436-Perry) (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-24
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB993) |
| VA | SB853 | Engross
50% | Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements; RPS-eligible source work; penalties. Requires each public service company, including its contractors and subcontractors, to ensure payment at the prevailing wage rate set by the Department of Labor a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1178) |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB825) |
| 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 | 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
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
