| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1614) |
| VA | HB1699 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Impact statement from TAX (HB1699) |
| VA | HB1657 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2501 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1641 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1606 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1606ER) |
| VA | HB1597 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1719 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2242 | Engross
50% | Arrest of probationer without a warrant; timeframe for service of process. Provides that upon the arrest of a probationer, the probation officer shall, within 24 hours but no later than three business days after the arrest of the probationer (i) subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 8:00 am]
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2046 | Engross
50% | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies; work group; report. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, as defined in the bill, by public bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1694 | Engross
50% | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; annual report on eligibility and usage required. Requires the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to coordinate to report no later than D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2531 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2531ER) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2240 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1955 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-15
Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendment (36-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendment (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2645 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1726 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2500 | Engross
50% | Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2754 | Engross
50% | Behavioral health services; exchange of medical and mental health information and records; correctional facilities. Permits the Department of Medical Assistance Services, the Department of Social Services, and any local department of social services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendments (27-Y 9-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 | HB1932 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity. Creates the Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity to study the misvaluation and undervaluation of real property owned by minority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2691 | Engross
50% | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1607 | Engross
50% | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2783 | Engross
50% | Placing swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1977 | Engross
50% | Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB1760 | Engross
50% | 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 convene a work group to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1972 | Engross
50% | Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2538 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
Committee substitute printed 25107038D-S1 |
| VA | HB2102 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | 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
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1635 | Engross
50% | Certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; independent practice; organized medical staff. Permits licensed certified midwives who have completed 1,000 hours of practice under a practice agreement to practice without a practice agreement u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1758 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
Committee substitute printed 25107283D-S1 |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1947 | Enroll
75% | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determine (i) how publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 am]
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1947) |
| VA | HB1874 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-12
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1874ER) |
| 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
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
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) |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
