| VA | HB1716 | Intro
25% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1757 | Intro
25% | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Clarifies that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no person found indigent or child's parents or other persons responsible for the care of a child found indigent and who is represented by a public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read first time |
| VA | HB1912 | Intro
25% | Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; Consumer Price Index adjustments. Increases various dollar amounts relating to wills, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, guardianships of minors, and guardianships of incapacitated persons to reflect the change in the Consu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read first time |
| VA | HB2054 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to negotiate that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read first time |
| VA | HB1936 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; index of required teacher training. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain an index of each training in which any public elementary and secondary school teacher in the Commonwealth is required to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1915 | Intro
25% | Public school teachers; written notice of noncontinuation of continuing contract. Provides that written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing teacher contract by the teacher must be given by June 15 of each year; otherwise, the contract continues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2371 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #1 |
| VA | HB2539 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Human Services: Social Services Committee |
| VA | HB1678 | Engross
50% | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 41-N) |
| VA | HB2590 | Intro
25% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant Fund and Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR490 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB2520 | Intro
25% | Virginia military forces; Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program established. Establishes the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program (the Program) within the Department of Military Affairs. The bill also establishes the Sexual Offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety: Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1844 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1872 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord; tenant remedies. Prohibits a residential landlord from taking adverse action, as defined in the bill, against a prospective tenant due to the prospective tenant's history of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB1913 | Intro
25% | Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, including a recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2032 | Intro
25% | English language learner students; per-student funding add-on; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support English language learner students and requires such add-ons to be calculated by multiplying (i) a weight set forth in the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2553 | Intro
25% | Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties. Requires the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation to (i) review and comment on the budget for the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and (ii) per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee |
| VA | HB1594 | Intro
25% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2026 and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee |
| VA | HB2055 | Intro
25% | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; provision of suicide prevention materials required. Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To House Education: K-12 Committee |
| VA | HB2053 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; baseline audit of education preparation programs; student literacy instruction and the identification of students at risk for learning disabilities; report. Requires the Department of Education, no later than July 1, 2026, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To House Education: K-12 Committee |
| VA | HB2501 | 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] | 2025-01-18
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1823 | Intro
25% | Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the 15-member Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2736 | Intro
25% | Virginia Values Veterans Program; military spouse eligibility. Provides that the comprehensive program developed by the Department of Veterans Services to reduce unemployment among veterans extends to military spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HR486 | Intro
25% | Commending Ryan Alam and the Alam family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25100195D |
| VA | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB2679 | Intro
25% | School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures; parental notification of student determined to pose a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; provision of certain recognition and response materials required. Requires each divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HJR2 | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2056 | Intro
25% | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1945 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR9 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1662 | Intro
25% | Sale and distribution of plastic carryout bags by grocery stores prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits any grocery store, as defined in the bill, from selling or distributing any plastic carryout bag, as defined in the bill, to its customers on or aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:30 am]
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1597 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-14
To House Public Safety: Firearms Committee |
| VA | HB2617 | Intro
25% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent, independently staffed commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR441 | Intro
25% | Study; Virginia Commission on Youth; policies to support student mental health in Virginia's elementary and secondary schools; report. Directs the Virginia Commission on Youth to undertake a study on policies to support student mental health in Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-05
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB1657 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-03
To House Privileges and Elections 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 | HB677 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB360 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1284 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB1375 | Engross
50% | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1307 | Intro
25% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; student application fees; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to survey each baccalaureate public instituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB178 | Intro
25% | Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
