| VA | SB821 | Intro
25% | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. This bill defines "electronic monitoring" as video or audio monitoring or recording of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB898 | Intro
25% | Teachers; employment and licensure; locally awarded subject matter expert teaching credentials. Establishes, enumerates criteria for, and permits a division superintendent or a comprehensive community college to issue a locally awarded subject matter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB951 | Intro
25% | Income tax; certain sunset repeals. Removes the sunset for the standard deduction in the amount of $8,500 for individuals and $17,000 for married individuals that is currently set to expire beginning in taxable year 2026, and revert back to $3,000 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB865 | Intro
25% | Taxable income; subtractions; military benefits. Removes the current cap of $40,000 of military benefits that may be subtracted from Virginia taxable income for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026, such that the total amount of milit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB942 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax; aircraft components. Removes the July 1, 2025, sunset for the retail sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any aircraft's avionics system,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB905 | Intro
25% | School boards; Internet safety education program; Internet Safety Advisory Council established. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Internet Safety Advisory Council and requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1084 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily before or after regular school hours, during the summe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB861 | Intro
25% | Escape from jail or custody; penalty. Specifies that the definition of law-enforcement officer that currently applies for the crime of assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer shall be used for the purposes of the crimes related to escaping f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB1086 | Intro
25% | HOT lanes; high-occupancy requirement; law-enforcement vehicles. Expands the currently permitted uses of high occupancy lanes by law-enforcement vehicles regardless of the number of occupants in the vehicle to include responding to a call for law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1323 | Intro
25% | Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Impact statement from VCSC (SB1323) |
| VA | SB749 | Intro
25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB922 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB996-Williams Graves) (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB934 | Intro
25% | Certain unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund. Provides that any funds or other property held or payable to a member of the Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB914 | Intro
25% | Sexual assault of a child; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Increases the penalty for the sexual assault of a child younger than 18 years of age to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB1089 | Intro
25% | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; operational plan submission. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to include in the annual report on its operational plan the most recent available audit report from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB764 | Intro
25% | Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB1070-Peake) (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB900 | Intro
25% | Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Authorizes localities by ordinance to provide a total exemption from real property taxes regardless of assessed value beginning in taxable yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB943 | Intro
25% | Income tax; subtraction; retirement income of certain federal employees. Establishes, beginning in taxable year 2025, an individual income tax subtraction for 20 percent of the retirement income of retirees covered under the federal Civil Service Ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1085 | Intro
25% | Income tax; alternative schooling and public school tax credits. Creates an alternative schooling tax credit as a refundable income tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029, for up to $5,000 in qualifying expenses, defined in the bill, incurred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB806 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB860 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 500 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB1301-McPike) (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1087 | Intro
25% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Authorizes a locality to require an owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purposes to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB984 | Intro
25% | Virginia Fire Personnel and Equipment Grant Program established. Establishes the Virginia Fire Personnel and Equipment Grant Program for the purpose of providing grants to localities to hire additional firefighters and to improve their firefighting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB937 | Intro
25% | Department of Social Services; Administrative Process Act; issuance of provisional licenses; exemption from appeal. Exempts the issuance by the Department of Social Services of a provisional license to operate facilities licensed by the Department fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| VA | SB948 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB809 | Intro
25% | Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Fire Respons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB946 | Intro
25% | Assault and battery; Virginia Marine Police officers; penalty. Adds Virginia Marine Police officers to the definition of "law-enforcement officer" as such definition relates to the Class 6 felony for any person who commits an assault or assault and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB926-Stuart) (11-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB952 | Intro
25% | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalty. Removes the requirement that a law-enforcement officer have the immediate physical ability to place a person under arrest in order for a person who flees from a law-enforcement officer to be guilty of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB763 | Intro
25% | Income tax deduction; tips. Provides, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026, an income tax deduction for the amount of cash tips received during the taxable year that are included on statements furnished to the employer for federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB746 | Intro
25% | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SJR267 | Intro
25% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
Prefiled and laid on Clerk's desk; Offered 01-10-2025 25104115D |
| VA | SB1297 | Intro
25% | Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; police power; primary law-enforcement agency for certain crimes against property and involving fraud. Provides that special agents of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall serve as the primary law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB936 | Intro
25% | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employment, compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB949 | Intro
25% | Definitions; American Indians; Virginia recognized tribes; federally recognized tribes; sovereignty. Establishes definitions for "American Indian," "federally recognized tribe," and "Virginia recognized tribe" and amends various sections throughout t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB802 | Intro
25% | Illegal drugs; venue for certain distribution offenses. Provides that a prosecution for an offense related to distribution of a Schedule I or II drug, where an overdose death occurred from such distribution, may be had in any county or city in which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-29
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB328 | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB548 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB662 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB661 | Intro
25% | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB126 | Intro
25% | Personal property tax relief; qualifying vehicles; reimbursement and appropriation. Provides for a portion of the general fund surplus at the close of the immediately preceding fiscal year to be appropriated for increased car tax relief. If more than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB61 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; firefighter benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year thereafter. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB170 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB197 | Intro
25% | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[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 | SB251 | Intro
25% | Content manufacturing tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
