| VA | HB1642 | Engross
50% | Use of artificial intelligence-based tool for criminal justice purpose. Requires that the recommendations or predictions provided by any artificial intelligence-based tool utilized for criminal justice purpose, as those terms are defined in the bill,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1649 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1649) |
| VA | HB2196 | Engross
50% | Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2201 | Engross
50% | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2201) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2631 | Engross
50% | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2753 | Engross
50% | Maternal health; protocols and resources for hospitals and outpatient providers. Requires all hospitals with an emergency department or labor and delivery, freestanding emergency departments, and birthing centers to implement standardized protocols f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2753) |
| VA | HB1614 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1660 | Engross
50% | Trigger activator definition; penalty. Defines "trigger activator" as a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device designed to alter the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or used to increase the rate of fire to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1844 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1915 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1915) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-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 | HB2618 | Engross
50% | Public school buildings; indoor air quality standards. Establishes several enumerated requirements for school boards to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including an inspection and evaluation prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618) |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HR714 | Intro
25% | Commending Clint Mitchell, Ed.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106784D |
| VA | HJR659 | Engross
50% | Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR370 | Engross
50% | Commending Linda Ford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR363 | Engross
50% | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | HB1632 | Enroll
75% | Office of Data Governance and Analytics; oversight; Chief Data Officer; duties. Changes oversight of the Office of Data Governance and Analytics from the Office of the Secretary of Administration to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1632) |
| VA | HB1638 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (Y-53 N-44 A-0) |
| VA | HB1646 | Engross
50% | Vitamins, minerals, and food supplements; practice of chiropractic; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of chiropractic" to include recommending or directing patients on the use of vitamins, minerals, or food supplements. The bill also all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1675 | Engross
50% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2213 | Engross
50% | School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2198 | Engross
50% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1881 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Permits anyschool board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1880 | Engross
50% | Public schools; enrollment of certain military children with disabilities; provision of special education services and accommodations. Provides that whenever a child of a service member who enrolls in a school division in accordance with applicable l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2590 | Engross
50% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program for the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR588 | Pass | Commending Lonnie Andrews III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| 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] | 2025-02-13
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR589 | Pass | Commending the Oscar Smith High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR580 | Pass | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR607 | Pass | Commending Thomas Heilman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HR591 | Pass | Commending SUFF.Impact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR593 | Pass | Celebrating the life of William Eugene Goodman, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR592 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Demonté Lamont Tillery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB1645 | Engross
50% | Charter; City of Chesapeake. Amends the charter for the City of Chesapeake to clarify the dates for (i) the election and terms of members of council and the mayor, (ii) when a sitting council member must resign when running for mayor, and (iii) the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1634 | Engross
50% | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Amends the charter for the City of Portsmouth by authorizing the City Manager to require city departments to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law wherever there exists (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1606 | 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] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1617 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1610 | Engross
50% | State debt collection; statute of limitations. Establishes a seven-year statute of limitations on the commencement of any action, other than certain actions upon contracts to collect medical debts, by a state agency or institution to collect past due...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2520 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2485 | Engross
50% | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
