| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10]
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2671 | Engross
50% | 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1677 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1971 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB1583 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2404 | Engross
50% | Real property tax; exemptions for disabled veterans and surviving spouses; driveways. Clarifies that any driveway used to access land otherwise exempt from real property taxes as being owned by a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, perma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2045 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB2621 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HJR473 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government 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 |
