| VA | SJR250 | Intro
25% | Women Veterans Day. Designates June 12, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Women Veterans Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | SB780 | 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] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB897 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB966 | Engross
50% | Membership of Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission. Adds the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee to the membership of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission. This bill is a recommendation of the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | SB965 | Engross
50% | Recording of proceedings in district courts. Allows an audio recording of proceedings in a district court, which includes both general district court and juvenile and domestic relations district court, to be made by a party or his counsel. Under curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1184 | Engross
50% | Virginia Economic Development Partnership; evaluation of new economic development incentives for companies engaging in the microchip and semiconductor and related equipment and material supplies sector; report. Directs the Virginia Economic Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1184) |
| VA | SB1186 | Intro
25% | Donor human milk banks; health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty. Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health Commissione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | SB758 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB962 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB968 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; support services personnel; annual collection of certain staffing data required; report. Requires (i) each school board to, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, annually collect and submit to the Department of Education a rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB740 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | SB1208 | Intro
25% | Current and Mature Semiconductor Technology Grant Fund. Establishes the Current and Mature Semiconductor Technology Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 15 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60 million, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 22]
Rereferred from Commerce and Labor to Finance and Appropriations to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB970 | Intro
25% | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Impact statement from VCSC (SB970) |
| VA | SB1109 | Intro
25% | Firearm purchases; permit to purchase a firearm required; penalties. Requires any person purchasing a firearm from a firearms dealer to present a valid permit issued by the Department of State Police that allows the holder to purchase a firearm. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Bill text as passed Senate (SR210ER) |
| VA | SB917 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1457 | Intro
25% | Department of Health; Maternal Health Monitoring Pilot Program; pregnancy mobile application; report. Directs the Department of Health to contract with a mobile application developer to create a membership-based mobile application to deliver educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SJR280 | Intro
25% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB825 | Engross
50% | Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Permits a law-enforcement officer investigating the financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult to seek a warrant from a judicial officer to sei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) |
| VA | SB779 | Intro
25% | Railroad safety; minimum train crew; movement of freight; civil penalties. Requires railroad companies to comply with federal requirements for minimum train crews on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Rereferred from Transportation to Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB781 | Engross
50% | Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB743 | Intro
25% | Reproductive health care services; prohibitions 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 viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
Rereferred from Education and Health to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB847 | Intro
25% | Improper driving as a lesser included offense of reckless driving. Permits a jury, in its discretion, to find an accused, where the degree of culpability is slight, not guilty of reckless driving but guilty of improper driving. Current law only permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Rereferred from Transportation to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| VA | SB1427 | Intro
25% | Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB967 | Intro
25% | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| VA | SJR267 | Intro
25% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
Prefiled and laid on Clerk's desk; Offered 01-10-2025 25104115D |
| VA | SB1185 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; coordination and required independent expenditure committee disclosure; civil penalties. Provides a more detailed definition of the term "coordinated" or "coordination" in the context of campaign finance than current law. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1189 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Development Infrastructure Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Residential Development Infrastructure Program and Fund to provide financial assistance to localities for expanding or improving public infrastructure needed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB1238 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB963 | Intro
25% | Discovery. Allows the accused to request the Commonwealth to copy or photograph any discovery materials or evidence he is permitted to inspect and review, including relevant police reports, criminal records, and body-worn camera footage, and requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB964 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining; individual home care providers. Establishes within the Department of Medical Assistance Services the Virginia Home Care Authority to ensure the effectiveness and quality of the services of home care programs in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SJR1 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB647 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; required criteria in invitations to bid. Requires all public bodies to include in any Invitation to Bid criteria that will be used in determining whether a bidder who is not prequalified by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB633 | Intro
25% | Court fines and fees; indigent defendant; waiver of fees. Provides that in any criminal or traffic case, the court may waive the assessment of certain fees specified in the bill, either wholly or in part, if the court determines the defendant to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB623 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB507 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB140 | Intro
25% | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB648 | Intro
25% | Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
25% | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB500 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans; grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors. Requires an electric utility to include in an integrated resource plan a comprehensive assessment of the application of grid-enhancing technologies an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SJR22 | Engross
50% | Study; Department of Taxation; reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to study tax policy solutions for reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB593 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB485 | Intro
25% | Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB332 | Engross
50% | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB427 | Engross
50% | Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
