| 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference substitute printed 25108019D-H2 |
| 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference substitute printed 25108076D-H1 |
| VA | HB2198 | Engross
50% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2610 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2027, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference substitute printed 25108043D-H3 |
| VA | HB2594 | Engross
50% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; standards and training for security at nonprofit institutions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish statewide best practices, including training, for any law-enforcement officer, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
| VA | HB2541 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2415 | Engross
50% | Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2482 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (51-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2469 | Engross
50% | Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. Adds domestic workers, as defined in the bill, to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (50-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB2240 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education and eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (74-Y 24-N) |
| VA | HB1921 | Engross
50% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (21-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB1013 | Engross
50% | Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for a neurocognitive disorder or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery against certain specified persons for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
House substitute agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB2083 | Engross
50% | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; special enrollment period for pregnancy. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to establish by January 1, 2026, a special enrollment period for a pregnant qualified individual to enroll in a qualified health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1660 | Engross
50% | Trigger activator definition; penalty. Defines "trigger activator" as a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device designed to alter the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or used to increase the rate of fire to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 46-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2617 | Engross
50% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1663 | Engross
50% | Guidelines, policies, and procedures on the prevention and management of heat illness in student-athletes. Requires the Board of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies and procedures to inform and edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N) |
| VA | HB1867 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (58-Y 39-N) |
| VA | HB1945 | Engross
50% | School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 43-N) |
| VA | HB1869 | Engross
50% | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to juvenile and domestic relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1869) |
| VA | HB2371 | 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] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB1844 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2679 | Engross
50% | School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures; parental notification of student determined to pose a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; provision of certain recognition and response materials required. Requires each divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
