| VA | HB2520 | Engross 50% | Virginia military forces; Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program established. Establishes the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program (the Program) within the Department of Military Affairs. The bill also establishes the Sexual Offense... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2120 | Engross 50% | Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Establishes a procedure for seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1782 | Engross 50% | Newborn screening requirements; federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel; evaluation; rulemaking; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department) to determine whether testing for disorders included on the federal Recommended Uniform Scre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2158 | Engross 50% | Department of Corrections; establishment of general system of schools for incarcerated individuals; Virginia Prison Education Task Force. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Department of Corrections (the Department) to oversee the operation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2749 | Engross 50% | Department of Health; waterworks; mandatory reporting. Requires owners of waterworks to report any critical equipment failure or malfunction or contaminant release to the Virginia Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water (the Office) as soon a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1595 | 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] | 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR825 | Pass | Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the National Liberation Day of Korea. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR884 | Pass | Commending the Vietnamese American community. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SB1127 | Enroll 75% | Animal testing facilities; public notification. Requires any animal testing facility to (i) within 30 days of receiving a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report, make such inspection report publicly available along with any other rel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1127ER) |
| VA | HB2088 | Engross 50% | Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council established; sexual assault forensic examiners; physical evidence recovery kits. Establishes the Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council (the Council), which consists of five members appointed by the Gove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2085 | Enroll 75% | Health insurance; carrier business practices; method of payment for transactions. Requires a health insurance carrier to notify the provider in a provider contract if the carrier, or entity completing a transaction on behalf of the carrier, uses a pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB2084 | Engross 50% | State Corporation Commission regulatory proceeding; reasonable classifications of customers by public utilities. In an existing proceeding between January 1, 2025 and July 1, 2027, directs the State Corporation Commission to determine whether Dominio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Delegates: Shin, Ward, Kilgore |
| VA | HB2341 | Engross 50% | Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local schoo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2090 | Engross 50% | Multi-family shared solar program; minimum bill. Amends requirements for a shared solar facility for the purposes of the multi-family shared solar program to include facilities that are located on a rooftop of a commercial building that shares a comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2087 | Engross 50% | Electric utilities; electric vehicle charging stations; transportation electrification. Permits Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power Company to develop, own, maintain, and operate public-facing fast-charging stations, as defined in the bill, at or b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (60-Y 36-N) |
| VA | HB1894 | Enroll 75% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities that are capable of controlling the inte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB1606 | Enroll 75% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator; emergency. 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 na... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB1611 | Enroll 75% | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1611) |
| VA | HB1733 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB1934 | Engross 50% | Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1941 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1941ER) |
| VA | HB1915 | Engross 50% | Public school teachers; written notice of noncontinuation of continuing contract. Provides that written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing teacher contract by the teacher must be given by June 15 of each year; otherwise, the contract continues... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB2100 | Enroll 75% | Medicare supplement policies; annual open enrollment period. Requires an insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization issuing individual Medicare supplement policies or certificates in the Commonwealth to offer to an individual c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2743 | Engross 50% | Prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure works by public service companies. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to determine and make available the prevailing wage rate for underground infrastructure work. Under the bill, each pub... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB2094 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB1614 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1614) |
| VA | HB1725 | Engross 50% | Medical Debt Protection Act; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Medical Debt Protection Act to prohibit a large health care facility or medical debt buyer, as those terms are defined in the bill, from charging interest or late fees on medic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (53-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2264 | Enroll 75% | Department of Taxation; free tax filing program. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File program and the related agreement with the Consortium for Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to develop and offer a f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2691 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2691) |
| VA | HB1935 | Engross 50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Income-Qualified Energy Efficiency and Weatherization Task Force established; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish, in collaboration with the Department of E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (60-Y 35-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20 Senators: Surovell, Locke, Peake |
| VA | HB1960 | Enroll 75% | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB1617 | Enroll 75% | Homeless youth; fees; certain government documents. Provides that when a homeless youth seeks to receive a certified copy of a vital record, including his birth record, or his DMV-issued learner's permit, driver's license, special identification card... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB1616 | Engross 50% | Department of Energy; Offshore Wind Industry Workforce Program and Fund. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to identify and develop training resources to advance workforce development in the offshore wind industry in the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2241 | Engross 50% | Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted of assault or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (50-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB1833 | Engross 50% | Small Family Day Home Provider Incentive Pilot Program established. Establishes the four-year Small Family Day Home Provider Incentive Pilot Program whereby funds are provided to the Ready Region Chesapeake Bay lead to work in conjunction with public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2104 | Enroll 75% | Seizure rescue medications; administration by certain school employees; possession by certain students. Permits a prescriber to authorize an employee of (i) a school board, (ii) a school for students with disabilities, (iii) an accredited private sch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-02-20 Delegates: Shin, Mundon King, Ballard |
| VA | HB1828 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB2235 | Enroll 75% | Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in pos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2235) |
| VA | HB2222 | Enroll 75% | Use of restraints on juveniles in court prohibited; exceptions. Prohibits the use of instruments of restraint, as defined in the bill, on a juvenile appearing before the juvenile and domestic relations district court unless, upon motion of the attorn... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Signed by President |
| VA | HB2738 | Engross 50% | Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders; generally accepted standards of care. Requires health insurance coverage, as defined in the bill, to provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder benefits fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2539 | Engross 50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2631 | 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] | 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2631) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (64-Y 31-N) |
| VA | SB1009 | Engross 50% | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to appro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20 House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |