| 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 | 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 | HB1923 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR843 | Pass | Commending Howard G. Adams, Ph.D., and Eloise Adams, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR845 | Pass | Commending the Southside Youth Football League, the Huntersville Wolverines Football and Cheer Organization, and the Park Place Kings Football and Cheer Organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR844 | Pass | Commending Stephanie Roble.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR853 | Pass | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR873 | Pass | Commending Liz Noto, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR875 | Pass | Commending the Ideaventions Academy Daedalus robotics team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR874 | Pass | Commending Emily Burrell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR876 | Pass | Commending Greg Duncan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1630 | Engross
50% | Discovery; electronic means. Provides that if discovery is requested by counsel of record for the accused, the Commonwealth shall provide such discovery by electronic means, defined in the bill, unless (i) such counsel of record requests a physical c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (87-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1628 | Enroll
75% | Fire insurance; assignment of claims prohibited. Prohibits a fire insurance policy or a fire insurance policy in combination with other coverages from assigning or otherwise transferring, in whole or in part, to any other person the duties, rights, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2115 | Enroll
75% | Summonses of a juvenile; custody, visitation, and support proceedings. Provides that the court may direct the issuance of a summons to a juvenile on its own motion or upon request of a party to a custody or visitation petition. The bill further provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2115) |
| VA | HB2116 | Enroll
75% | Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability. Adds non-apparent disabilities, defined in the bill, to the list of conditions that the Department of Motor Vehicles, when requested by an applicant and upon presentat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2130 | Enroll
75% | Juvenile respondent in protective order proceeding; certain orders. Provides that a court may, upon its own motion or the motion of an attorney or guardian ad litem representing a juvenile respondent in a protective order proceeding, enter an order t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2130ER) |
| VA | HB2136 | Engross
50% | 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 Office of the Publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (56-Y 42-N) |
| VA | HB2117 | Engross
50% | Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting an overdose or act of sexual violence. Provides that no individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol or marijuana, possessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2134 | Engross
50% | Definitions; American Indians; Virginia recognized tribes; federally recognized tribes; sovereignty. Establishes definitions for "American Indian," "federally recognized tribe," and "Virginia recognized tribe" and amends various sections throughout t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2647 | Enroll
75% | Restorative housing and isolated confinement; restrictions on use. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that before placing an incarcerated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2647) |
| 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 | HB1638 | Enroll
75% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Callsen, Carr, Wachsmann |
| 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 | 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 | HB2074 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| 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 | 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 | HB2054 | Enroll
75% | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to negotiate that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed d...
[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 | 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 | HB1642 | Enroll
75% | Use of artificial intelligence-based tool. Requires that the recommendations or predictions provided by any artificial intelligence-based tool, as such term is defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis for any decision related to pre-trial de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1642ER) |
| VA | HB1759 | Enroll
75% | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1759ER) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Favola, Boysko, Pillion |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1661 | Enroll
75% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court may offer installment payments of (i) $25 per month, or a higher amount, depending upon a defend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1661ER) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1780 | Enroll
75% | Claims; Gilbert Merritt III; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Gilbert Merritt III, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1780) |
| 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 | HB1824 | Engross
50% | High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits; certain substitutions permitted. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute the African American H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB1712 | Engross
50% | Arrest of certain persons with or without a warrant not required. Provides that no law-enforcement officer with the power to arrest is required to arrest an individual who is currently subject to an emergency custody order, temporary detention order,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges |
