| VA | HB1602 | Engross
50% | Military leaves of absence for employees of the Commonwealth or political subdivisions; law-enforcement officers. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB1626 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]
Committee substitute printed 25104836D-H1 |
| VA | HB2026 | Intro
25% | Data centers; industrial zoning. Requires a locality to review and amend its zoning ordinance to (i) designate data centers as industrial uses for zoning purposes; (ii) review the locations of zones allowing data centers by right, and adjust the zoni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 7:30 am]
To House Counties, Cities and Towns: Subcommittee #2 |
| VA | HB2079 | Intro
25% | Board of Pharmacy; membership; emergency medical services agencies authorized to obtain controlled substance registration. Adds a career fire/emergency medical services (EMS) member and a volunteer fire/EMS member to the Board of Pharmacy for a total...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House Health and Human Services: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | HB1595 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-22
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB1601 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined in the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read first time |
| VA | HB1653 | Intro
25% | Real Estate Board; regulations related to fees charged to a licensee. Prohibits the Real Estate Board from charging a fee to a real estate licensee for the transfer of such licensee between offices within a licensed real estate firm, including from s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1627 | Intro
25% | Dissemination of criminal history record information. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to provide a copy of a person's criminal history record information, including criminal history record information maintained in the National Crime Inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22]
To House Courts: Criminal Committee |
| VA | HB1629 | Intro
25% | Health care records; fees; certain requests by a patient or his attorney. Prohibits a health care provider from charging a fee for a request by a patient, or his attorney, for such patient's health care records when such records are to be used for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22]
To House Courts: Civil Committee |
| VA | HB2028 | Intro
25% | School boards; entitlement to one-time fee from certain data centers. Provides that any school board that governs a school division that contains a public school located within three miles of a data center, as such term is defined in relevant law, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2078 | Intro
25% | Charitable gaming; common interest communities; bingo. Allows common interest communities that serve residents age 55 or older to become a qualified organization for the purposes of conducting bingo in accordance with the rules and regulations of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2071 | Intro
25% | Department of Veterans Services; powers and duties of Commissioner; identification of incarcerated veterans. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services shall utilize, in consultation with the Department of Corrections, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1737 | Intro
25% | Department of Veterans Services; powers and duties of Commissioner; online portal. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services shall develop and maintain an online portal to connect veterans, members of the Virginia National...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1693 | Intro
25% | Real estate appraisers; educational requirements for licensure; anti-discrimination training. Requires, in addition to successfully completing an examination, applicants for licensure as a certified residential real estate appraiser or a certified ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from General Laws with substitute (13-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1735 | Intro
25% | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read first time |
| VA | HB2495 | 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] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #2 |
| VA | HJR490 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1880 | Engross
50% | Public schools; enrollment of certain military children with disabilities; provision of special education services and accommodations. Provides that whenever a child of a service member who enrolls in a school division in accordance with applicable l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1881 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Requires each school board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2065 | Intro
25% | Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Emergency Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB1868 | Intro
25% | Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Clarifies that the exemption currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 22]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2027 | Intro
25% | State Corporation Commission; certificate of operation for high load facilities. Prohibits any person from operating a high load facility, defined in the bill as a facility whose electricity demand exceeds 25 megawatts that was not operating before J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR481 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR9 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR2 | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2657 | Intro
25% | Involuntary manslaughter; certain drug offenses. Provides that any person who, as a result of manufacturing, selling, or distributing with the intent to manufacture, sell, or distribute a controlled substance that contains a detectable amount of fent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2645 | 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] | 2025-01-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1624 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed prohibited for minors. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB1738 | Intro
25% | Deaths by suicide of veterans or active military, naval, and air service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1726 | Intro
25% | Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR447 | Intro
25% | Virginia Commission to End Hunger; statewide food desert mapping tool; report. Directs the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool, using geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic data to identify food des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB366 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the req...
[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 | 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 | HB1096 | Intro
25% | Housing opportunity tax credit. Increases, for calendar years 2023 through 2025, the amount of housing opportunity tax credits that may be claimed from $60 million per calendar year to $100 million per calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB33 | Intro
25% | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB286 | Intro
25% | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB273 | Intro
25% | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB240 | Intro
25% | Income tax; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan accounts; report. Increases the maximum individual income tax deduction for amounts paid or contributed to a prepaid tuition contract or college savings trust account entered into with the Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HJR36 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Income tax subtraction; professional firefighter pension. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2024, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2026 and each year t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
