| VA | HB2576 | Intro
25% | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Expands the list of offenses that prohibit a person from petitioning the Parole Board for conditional release as a geriatric prisoner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1677 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Martinsville. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville by making a technical clarification to the qualifications required for the city attorney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1971 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Danville. Establishes a new charter for the City of Danville and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1982. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the city's government and contains powers typically granted to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2363 | Intro
25% | Department of Corrections; designated employees with same power as sheriff or law-enforcement officer. Allows the Department of Corrections to designate employees to have the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2363) |
| VA | HB2672 | Intro
25% | Elections; administration; electoral board appointments; up to five party recommendations. Allows the political party entitled to the appointment of an electoral board member to make recommendations of up to five qualified voters for each appointment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Privileges and Elections (19-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1583 | Intro
25% | Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2045 | Intro
25% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; publishing of certain institution-level data on website required. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to annually publish in an easily accessible format and location on its websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2540 | Engross
50% | Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund. Establishes the Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 20 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60.597 million...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2540) |
| VA | HB2671 | Intro
25% | Septic system inspectors; minimum requirements. Adds a definition of "inspection" for the purposes of septic system inspections in connection with real estate transactions. The bill also adds minimum requirements for septic system inspectors in condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25105481D-H1 |
| VA | HB1826 | Intro
25% | Vacant building registration; civil penalty. Increases from $100 to $500 the maximum annual registration fee a locality may charge the owners of certain vacant buildings to defray the cost of processing such registration. The civil penalty for failur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Subcommittee recommends incorporating into HB2745-O'Quinn (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HB1588 | Intro
25% | Public utilities; rate increases during certain months prohibited. Prohibits the regulated operating revenues of certain public utilities from being increased in the months of November, December, January, or February. The bill's limitation does not a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce (HB2621-Ballard) (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HJR472 | Pass | Commending the American Friends of Lafayette.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2101 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; data center cost allocation. Directs the State Corporation Commission to initiate proceedings to determine if the current allocation of costs among different customer classifications of electric utilities requires customers that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR511 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR512 | Pass | Commending the Roanoke Star.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2621 | Intro
25% | Phase I Utilities; securitized asset costs. Authorizes Appalachian Power to petition the State Corporation Commission for a financing order for securitized asset costs, as defined in the bill. The bill creates the securitized asset cost charge and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Incorporates HB1588(Williams) |
| VA | HJR564 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106198D |
| VA | HJR473 | Intro
25% | Commercial Waterman Safety Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Commercial Waterman Safety Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2011 | Intro
25% | Voter registration; cancellation of registration by voter; effective for the immediately proceeding election. Provides that any valid authorization for cancellation submitted by a registered voter prior to the day of the immediately proceeding electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2011) |
| VA | HR558 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Roxane Gatling Gilmore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25100199D |
| VA | HB1707 | Engross
50% | Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Increases from $20,000 to $30,000 per claim the individual limit of claims against the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund based upon an unpaid judgment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2297 | Intro
25% | School boards; employment of school resource officers in each public elementary and secondary school. Requires each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency to employ at least one school resource offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2674 | Intro
25% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; publishing of certain institution-level data on website required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2673 | Intro
25% | Sales and use tax; dealer discount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2434 | 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] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2741 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; bids for small purchases. Requires local public bodies to issue an invitation to bid for all goods and services over $500,000. The bill provides that a civil action may be brought in a court of co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House General Laws: Open Government/Procurement Committee |
| VA | HB2778 | Intro
25% | Direct the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the efficacy of expanding the School of Dentistry of Virginia Commonwealth University; report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HR493 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Hunter Dakota Reedy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB1676 | Engross
50% | GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset repeal. Removes the July 1, 2025, sunset date of the program allowing a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2349 | Intro
25% | Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2499 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive plan; subdivision ordinance; local approvals. Provides that a locality's comprehensive plan shall not constitute the basis, in whole or in part, whether directly or through incorporation into any zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2128 | Engross
50% | Derelict buildings; civil penalties. Expands the authority of localities to impose civil penalties not exceeding $500 per month on the owners of certain derelict buildings to include non-residential property. Current law limits such civil penalties t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB1558 | Intro
25% | Possession of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person younger than 21 years of age from possessing any retail tobacco product or hemp product in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Tabled in Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1551 | Intro
25% | Virginia taxable income; standard deduction; sunset. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that is scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance: Subcommittee #3 |
| VA | HJR467 | Pass | Commending Ray Reynolds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR490 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2480 | Intro
25% | Zoning; traffic studies. Provides that no locality shall require a traffic study as a condition for approval of a rezoning application that involves either a single-family or multifamily residential use of fewer than 50 residential units. The bill fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2069 | Intro
25% | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes; Aid to Localities Grant Program. Increases the assessment on certain insurance companies from one percent to 1.5 percent. The bill provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Committee substitute printed 25104713D-H1 |
| VA | HJR494 | Pass | Commending the Historic St. John's Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2365 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program; zero-carbon electricity. Amends the definition of renewable energy for purposes of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act to include energy derived from hydrogen and nuclear power...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1910 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods; nutrition requirements; certain color additives prohibited. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from offering or making available to any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1577 | Intro
25% | Centralized local government reporting system; unfunded mandates on localities. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to establish a centralized electronic reporting system for all locality reporting requirements, including those required by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns: Subcommittee #3 |
| VA | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB2665 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; rate caps; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; utility rate reviews. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish capped rates for Appalachian Power. The bill requires the capped rates to be the rates in effect fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1445 | Engross
50% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
