| VA | HB1606 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-18
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1606) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2046 | Engross
50% | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies; work group; report. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, as defined in the bill, by public bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1723 | Enroll
75% | Department of Social Services; establishment of Task Force on Improving Access to Food Assistance Programs. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access and maximize participation in federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1723) |
| VA | HB2074 | Enroll
75% | Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles. Authorizes certain towing, traffic management, and highway maintenance vehicles to be equipped with a portable changeable message sign that may be used without prior authorization from the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2074) |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1867 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2222 | Enroll
75% | Use of restraints on juveniles in court prohibited; exceptions. Prohibits the use of instruments of restraint, as defined in the bill, on a juvenile appearing before the juvenile and domestic relations district court unless, upon motion of the attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2222ER) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Impact statement from TAX (HB1699) |
| VA | HB2501 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2245 | Enroll
75% | Real property tax; assessment of affordable rental housing. Directs the Department of Taxation to develop a uniform income and expense reporting form that may be provided by duly authorized assessors and completed by the owners of affordable rental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Impact statement from TAX (HB2245) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1609 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage option for fertility services; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission to consider such coverage in its 2025 review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2116 | Enroll
75% | Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability. Adds non-apparent disabilities, defined in the bill, to the list of conditions that the Department of Motor Vehicles, when requested by an applicant and upon presentat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2116ER) |
| VA | HB2721 | Engross
50% | Special license plates; Washington Commanders. Updates provisions related to special license plates issued to supporters of the Washington Redskins to specify that such special license plates shall be issued to supporters of the Washington Commanders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2229 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1641 | Engross
50% | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1617 | Enroll
75% | Homeless youth; fees; certain government documents. Provides that when a homeless youth seeks to receive a certified copy of a vital record, including his birth record, or his DMV-issued learner's permit, driver's license, special identification card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1617) |
| VA | HB2064 | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1853 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2240 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education and eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2362 | Engross
50% | Sale of real estate for delinquent taxes; procedure; enforcement of liens; orders of publication. Amends certain procedures relating to the sale of real estate to recover delinquent real estate taxes, including the enforcement of liens for taxes asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2446 | Engross
50% | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2242 | Engross
50% | Arrest of probationer without a warrant; timeframe for service of process. Provides that upon the arrest of a probationer, the probation officer shall, within 24 hours but no later than three business days after the arrest of the probationer (i) subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2415 | Engross
50% | Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Committee substitute printed 25107198D-S1 |
| VA | HB2610 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2027, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1923 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N) |
| VA | HB2040 | Engross
50% | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2531 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2531ER) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2018 | Enroll
75% | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-15
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2029 | Enroll
75% | Real property tax; exemption for elderly and disabled individuals. Revises various provisions of the local real property tax exemption and deferral program for elderly and disabled individuals. The bill allows a locality to require that an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-15
Impact statement from TAX (HB2029) |
| VA | HB2022 | Engross
50% | Registration of aircraft; fees. Increases fees for registrations of aircraft and creates multiyear registrations for aircraft for a period not to exceed three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1735 | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-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 | 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 | HB2235 | Engross
50% | Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N) |
| 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 | 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 | 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) |
