| VA | SB1198 | Intro
25% | Department of Conservation and Recreation; Virginia Land Conservation Fund; land conservation goals and needs assessment. Establishes as a goal of the Commonwealth the achievement of permanent conservation of 20 percent of the land area of Virginia b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Affairs Committee |
| VA | SB1195 | 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] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB892 | Engross
50% | Medical malpractice; certification of expert witness; written opinion. Provides that at the time of service of process of every motion for judgment, counter claim, third party claim, or warrant in debt in a medical malpractice action or every motion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1201 | Intro
25% | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill provides that such member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 9:00 am]
Impact statement from VCSC (SB1182) |
| VA | SB1194 | Intro
25% | Arrest of certain persons with or without a warrant not required. Provides that no law-enforcement officer with the power to arrest is required to arrest an individual who is currently subject to an emergency custody order, temporary detention order,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1142 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1122 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Committee substitute printed 25105558D-S1 |
| VA | SB1200 | Intro
25% | Victims of crime; compensation; awards from Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Extends the timeline for filing a claim by a victim from one to three years after the occurrence of the crime upon which such claim is based. The bill clarifies that no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Committee substitute printed 25105421D-S1 |
| VA | SB1196 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1181 | Intro
25% | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 9:00 am]
Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181) |
| VA | SB1199 | Intro
25% | Medicare supplement policies; annual open enrollment period. Requires an insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization issuing Medicare supplement policies or certificates in the Commonwealth to offer to an individual currently in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (3-Y 11-N) |
| VA | SB1202 | Intro
25% | Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning; emergency. Clarifies that institutions licensed by the Department of Education that provide services pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or any school that is li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1928 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 22]
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB1134 | Intro
25% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1470 | Intro
25% | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; submission of annual report. Provides that the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission shall submit its annual report to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice and to any other mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1471 | Intro
25% | Department of Veterans Services; powers and duties of Commissioner; online portal. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services shall develop and maintain an online portal to connect veterans, members of the Virginia National...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB917 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1469 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $5,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1190 | Intro
25% | Virginia Energy Facility Review Board established; localities; comprehensive plan and local ordinances related to siting of critical interconnection projects; planning district commissions; regional energy plans; Virginia Clean Energy Technical Assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1224 | Intro
25% | State Police Officers' Retirement System; membership for Department of Wildlife Resources conservation police officers. Provides membership in the State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) to conservation police officers in the Department of W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1002 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 am]
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1192 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1197 | Intro
25% | Electric cooperatives; unregulated sale of electric power to certain customers. Permits electric cooperatives, through one or more of their affiliates, to make unregulated sales of electric power to certain customers that contract for electric utilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1191 | Intro
25% | Collection and reporting of data related to adults charged with a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or a term of imprisonment; Virginia Longitudinal Data System. Allows the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to contribute the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1217 | Intro
25% | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; intercollegiate athletics programs; athletics revenue and subsidy requirements; report. Amends provisions relating to intercollegiate athletics programs and athletics revenue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB1183 | Intro
25% | Virginia Access to Justice Act. Establishes a public defender office in each judicial circuit. Currently, public defender offices have been established in certain localities. The bill also establishes an appellate defender office to represent indigen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1193 | Intro
25% | Dissemination of criminal history record information. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to provide a copy of a person's criminal history record information, including criminal history record information maintained in the National Crime Inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22]
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1290 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose accident and sickness insurance policies or subscription contracts cover services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1016 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB633 | Intro
25% | Court fines and fees; indigent defendant; waiver of fees. Provides that in any criminal or traffic case, the court may waive the assessment of certain fees specified in the bill, either wholly or in part, if the court determines the defendant to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB578 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB427 | Engross
50% | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB590 | Engross
50% | Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB567 | Intro
25% | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB346 | Intro
25% | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB745 | Intro
25% | Mattress stewardship program established; civil penalty. Prohibits the disposal of a mattress, as defined in the bill, in a landfill or an incinerator beginning January 1, 2028, and requires producers of mattresses sold at retail in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
