| VA | HJR9 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HJR2 | 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] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106520D-H1 |
| VA | HB1892 | Intro
25% | Children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notification required. Requires, during the annual individualized education program (IEP) planning process prior to any ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1894 | Intro
25% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities so that a temperature of not less than 65 degree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2042 | Engross
50% | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2042) |
| VA | HB2040 | Engross
50% | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR1 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB2691 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2371 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 3-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2094 | Intro
25% | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106626D-H2 |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2136 | Intro
25% | Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman; established. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish the Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman to protect the interests of residential customers of public utilities. The bill requires the Office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2647 | Intro
25% | State correctional facilities; use of restorative housing or isolated confinement; restrictions. Prohibits the use of restorative housing or isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2590 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| VA | HB2641 | Intro
25% | Statewide housing targets for localities. Requires localities to increase their total housing stock by at least 7.5 percent over the five-year period beginning January 1, 2026. The bill provides that, in order to meet the 7.5 percent growth target, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2024 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no public body in any procurement policy, bid, request for proposal, public contract, or other document shall prohibit or otherwise exclude from use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25105045D-H1 |
| VA | HB2041 | Intro
25% | Speed safety cameras; placement and operation. Changes the terms "photo speed monitoring device" to "speed safety camera" and "high-risk intersection segment" to "high-risk speed corridor" in provisions related to vehicle speed violations. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25106605D-H1 |
| VA | HB1928 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2027. The bill codifies the adjusted state hourly minimum wage of $12.41 per hour that is effective January 1, 2025 and increases the minimum wage to $13.50 per h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (50-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB1733 | Engross
50% | Petitions for relief of care and custody of a child; investigation by local department of social services; Office of the Children's Ombudsman work group; report. Requires a local department of social services, as a part of its investigation after the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (96-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
Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (50-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HJR511 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR530 | Pass | Commending Emily Ann Fox.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| 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 | HB2116 | Engross
50% | Driver's licenses, identification cards, and learner's permits; indication of non-apparent disability; indication of a disability that can impair communication. Adds non-apparent disabilities, defined in the bill, to the list of conditions that the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1893 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of care provided at certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 1-N) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2049 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax exemption; motor vehicle child restraint device. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for the purchase of a child restraint device for personal use in a passenger car beginning July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1372 | Engross
50% | Petitions for relief of care and custody of a child; investigation by local department of social services; Office of the Children's Ombudsman work group; report. Requires a local department of social services, as a part of its investigation after the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-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 | HB2611 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for cancer follow-up testing; report. Requires health insurers and other carriers to provide coverage for cancer follow-up testing, as defined in the bill, and prohibits the imposition of deductibles, coinsurance, or any ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2021 | Intro
25% | Fair Voice Purchasing Act established; penalties. Prohibits a virtual assistant licensee or virtual assistant licensor, as such terms are defined in the bill, from providing voice purchasing on a smart speaker device or smart display device unless su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (9-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2542 | Intro
25% | Common interest communities; amateur radio antennas permitted. Prohibits certain common interest community associations from prohibiting the installation of an amateur radio antenna on the roof of the unit owned by the unit owner or on a roof appurte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB2074 | Engross
50% | Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles. Authorizes certain towing, traffic management, and highway maintenance vehicles to be equipped with a portable changeable message sign that may be used without prior authorization from the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB2096 | Engross
50% | Intelligent Speed Assistance Program established; penalty. Establishes the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program to be administered by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program. The bill authorizes enrollment in such Program as an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| 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 | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1944 | Intro
25% | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on its website rather than in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB775 | Engross
50% | License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1405 | Engross
50% | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 | HB158 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice 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 | HB1490 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR21 | Intro
25% | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
