| VA | SB981 | Engross
50% | Certified community health workers; annual report. Directs the Department of Health to submit a report on certified community health workers to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Read second time |
| VA | SB738 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Senators: Pekarsky, Hashmi, and Pillion |
| VA | SB1101 | Engross
50% | Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. Establishes the Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to provide assistance to and advise the Department of Health on methods to support clinical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1064 | Engross
50% | Relocation, conversion, and addition of beds in medical care facilities; application for certificate of public need; expedited review. Expands the State Board of Health's procedures for expedited review of applications for certificates of public need...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Read second time |
| VA | SB1100 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various technology applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Read second time |
| VA | SJR261 | Engross
50% | Specialized Education School Week. Designates the first week of October, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Specialized Education School Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR280 | Engross
50% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB891 | Enroll
75% | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB891ER) |
| VA | SB1375 | Engross
50% | Study; Division of Purchases and Supply; development of dynamic stockpile strategy; report. Directs the Division of Purchases and Supply, in conjunction with the Department of Emergency Management, to study and recommend a dynamic stockpile strategy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1104 | Engross
50% | Public schools; interscholastic sports and athletics; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection; development and implementation. Requires the Board of Education to develop, biennially review and update as necessary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB1380 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR362 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Sergeant Floyd Hugo Miles, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SJR371 | Pass | Commending Hoda Kotb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR366 | Pass | Commending Leanne Eyler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SB1048 | Enroll
75% | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1048ER) |
| VA | SB917 | 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
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB917) |
| VA | SJR251 | Engross
50% | Study; JLARC; public school libraries; removal of certain books; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries in the Commonwealthafter July 1, 2020, on the basis ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Committee substitute printed 25107606D-H1 |
| VA | SB1465 | Engross
50% | Virginia State Crime Commission; review panel; cases involving Mary Jane Burton; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission (the Crime Commission) to designate a panel, consisting of members outlined in the bill, to review cases at the Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) |
| VA | SB1385 | Engross
50% | Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Health to study the makeup and composition of the emergency management regions, state health regions, and local health districts; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1374 | Engross
50% | Study; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; feasibility of establishing a centralized Continuity of Operations framework across all state agencies; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to conve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1081 | Enroll
75% | Optometry; TPA-Formulary; TPA-Formulary Committee; dissolution. Dissolves the TPA-Formulary and the TPA-Formulary Committee. The TPA-Formulary is the list of the therapeutic pharmaceutical agents that a TPA-certified optometrist may prescribe. The TP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-16
Signed by President |
| VA | SB740 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-16
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1105 | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed House with substitute (54-Y 41-N) |
| VA | SB780 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
House Amendment agreed to by Senate (24-Y 12-N) |
| VA | SB1106 | Engross
50% | Higher education; financial assistance; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; eligibility criteria. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1428 | Engross
50% | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1181 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
House substitute agreed to by Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SB1377 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; mental health first aid training program; development of plan to incentivize and facilitate participation. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR370 | Engross
50% | Commending Linda Ford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR363 | Engross
50% | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SB1348 | Engross
50% | Transportation network companies; publishing and disclosure requirements. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to (i) issue an annual report to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles containing the aggregate data regarding th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1348) |
| VA | SB1489 | Engross
50% | Authority of local governments; service employees. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | Pass | 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] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House (55-Y 42-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House (51-Y 46-N) |
| VA | SJR249 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Agreed to by House (58-Y 34-N) |
| VA | SR245 | Pass | Commending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR245ER) |
| VA | SR253 | Pass | Commending the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR253ER) |
| VA | SR251 | Pass | Celebrating the life of William Gerald Massengill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR251ER) |
| VA | SR247 | Pass | Commending Jon Phillip Lugbill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR247ER) |
| VA | SR254 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peggy Lynn Davis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR254ER) |
| VA | SR258 | Pass | Commending the United States Army.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Bill text as passed Senate (SR258ER) |
| VA | SB1098 | Engross
50% | Protected health care activities; prohibition on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged violati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SJR325 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thomas S. Whipple.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ325ER) |
| VA | SJR336 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peter John Kemp, MD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ336ER) |
| VA | SJR340 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Benjamin "Rod" Rodriguez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ340ER) |
| VA | SJR323 | Pass | Commending Billy Wagner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ323ER) |
| VA | SJR324 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Frank Miller Ruff, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ324ER) |
| VA | SB1133 | Engross
50% | Restaurants and catering operations; notice of food containing pork products. Requires all restaurants and catering operations in the Commonwealth to place a conspicuous notice next to or underneath food items that contain pork products on menus. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Human Services: Health Committee |
| VA | SB1178 | Intro
25% | Faith and housing; comprehensive plan; zoning; Department of Housing and Community Development. Grants authority to localities to adopt a variety of strategies intended to encourage and facilitate the development of affordable housing on property own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB978 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary education; Office of Mathematics Improvement established; mathematics improvement and advancement policies and programs. Establishes several new programs and policies for the purpose of improving mathematics instructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
