| VA | HB1758 | Intro
25% | Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. Requires the Department of General Services to determine whether, following an offer of surplus property to the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read first time |
| VA | HB2093 | Intro
25% | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate; contact preference form. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. The bill allows a birth parent to indicate whether they would like to be contacted by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read first time |
| VA | HB1972 | Intro
25% | Statewide, unified, universally accessible, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; online program. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1972) |
| VA | HJR1 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-30
Reading waived (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR2 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-30
Reading waived (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1793 | Intro
25% | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on South Rosemont Road over Interstate 264 in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2501 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1760 | Intro
25% | Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to establish several progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1759 | Engross
50% | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Printed as engrossed 25100720D-E |
| VA | HB1823 | Intro
25% | Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the 15-member Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1955 | Engross
50% | Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited; penalties. Removes the distinction between cocaine, which refers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2025 | Intro
25% | Wildlife corridors or crossings; action plan and programs; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan; Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; wildlife carcass removal tracking; report. Requires the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan created by the Department of Wildli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2350 | Engross
50% | Department of Emergency Management; powers and duties; development and implementation of standardized guidelines and training programs. Provides for the Department of Emergency Management (the Department) to consult with the Department of Behavioral ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Read second time and engrossed |
| 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] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education and Health 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] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2645 | Intro
25% | Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2754 | Intro
25% | Behavioral health services; exchange of medical and mental health information and records; correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2754) |
| VA | HB1844 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-29
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1947 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HJR548 | Engross
50% | Commending the Virginia Electoral Board Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB1641 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2538 | Intro
25% | Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (15-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB2467 | Intro
25% | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; oversight of local and regional jails; powers and duties. Increases from 11 to 19 the membership of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) by requiring the appointment of (i) two members of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB2102 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2590 | Intro
25% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant Fund and Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Read first time |
| VA | HB1941 | Engross
50% | Invasive plant species; retail sales. Requires, for the retail sale of certain invasive plant species for outdoor use, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous manner on the property located in proximity to each invasive plant signage identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1654 | Engross
50% | Short-term rental properties; human trafficking awareness training. Mandates every accommodations intermediary to require its accommodations providers to complete certain training on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1654) |
| VA | HB2752 | Intro
25% | Behavioral health services; exchange of medical and mental health information and records; correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Incorporated by Health and Human Services (HB2754-Singh) (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HJR9 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-28
Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-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] | 2025-01-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HJR511 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR512 | Engross
50% | Commending the Roanoke Star.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB1726 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31]
[Hearing: Jan 31]
To House Courts: Criminal Committee |
| VA | HB1708 | Intro
25% | Access to Housing Task Force; report. Establishes the Access to Housing Task Force for the purpose of evaluating short-term and long-term access to housing in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Task Force to report its findings and conclusions to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30]
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB1699 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1657 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:00 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1710 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1612 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; maximum reimbursement rate; vendors providing care outside of normal business hours. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations relating to the Child Care Subsidy Program to permit payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N) |
| 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 creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1874 | Engross
50% | Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR490 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1594 | Intro
25% | Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2026 and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1709 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord obligations; access of tenant to broadband services. Prohibits the landlord of a multifamily dwelling unit from accepting payment from a provider of broadband service for granting such provider m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 30]
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1597 | Intro
25% | Secure storage of firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person who fails to securely store a firearm on any premises where such person knows, or reasonably should know, that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from posse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:00 am]
To House Public Safety: Firearms Committee |
| VA | HB1284 | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1375 | Engross
50% | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB33 | Intro
25% | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1537 | Intro
25% | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
