| 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2769 | Engross
50% | Life insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2640 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2050 | Engross
50% | Drinking water; Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program established. Creates the Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program to reduce excessive levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in public drinking water derived from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2736 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2531 | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10]
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2495 | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2368 | Intro
25% | Toll relief; maximum charges. Limits to $200 per month the tolls charged to residents of the Commonwealth via electronic toll collection devices for the use of toll bridges, toll ferries, toll tunnels, or toll roads in the Commonwealth. The bill proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2413 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Makes various changes related to the content and process for an integrated resource plan (IRP) developed by an electric utility that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB1944 | Intro
25% | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on its website rather than in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2042 | Engross
50% | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1717 | Intro
25% | Earned income tax credit. Allows eligible low-income taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year by the taxpayer for the same taxable year. The bill also states that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2208 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2204 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR453 | Intro
25% | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2178 | Intro
25% | Regulation of discharging preproduction plastic; requirements. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a program to ensure zero discharge or release from point and nonpoint source at certain facilities that discharge to (i) a su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2175 | Intro
25% | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2490 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business set-asides; report. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study small business set-asides and their effectiveness in promoting the growth and econ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR466 | Engross
50% | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1619 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1958 | Intro
25% | School breakfasts; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR435 | Engross
50% | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HR583 | Intro
25% | Commending William Raybold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25105954D |
| VA | HJR446 | Engross
50% | Zero Waste Awareness Week. Designates the first full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Zero Waste Awareness Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HR581 | Intro
25% | Commending the Stafford County African American History driving tour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25105978D |
| VA | HJR584 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Dr. Golden Bethune-Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25101878D |
| VA | HB2393 | Engross
50% | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of human trafficking. Amends the procedure that allows victims of human trafficking, defined in the bill, to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2555 | Engross
50% | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2387 | Engross
50% | Death by wrongful act; suspension of limitations. Provides that the statute of limitations for an action for death by wrongful act shall be tolled during the pendency of any criminal prosecution that arises out of the same facts as such action. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2438 | Engross
50% | Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2352 | Engross
50% | Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) provide for a runoff election in the case of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR9 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| VA | HJR2 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read third time |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HR571 | Intro
25% | Commending Kevin Armstrong Paredes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25101716D |
| VA | HJR580 | Intro
25% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25104134D |
| VA | HB2083 | Engross
50% | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; special enrollment period for pregnancy. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to establish by January 1, 2026, a special enrollment period for a pregnant qualified individual to enroll in a qualified health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB1771 | Engross
50% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program.Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR512 | Pass | Commending the Roanoke Star.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR504 | Pass | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2361 | Intro
25% | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from five to six the maximum number of authorized general district court judges in the Thirty-first Judicial District. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2729-Hope) (Voice Vote) |
