Virginia Delegate Karen Keys-Gamarra [D] | House | Enrolled

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VAHB2115Enroll
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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...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2647Enroll
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 ...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2042Enroll
75%
Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2691Enroll
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.
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2024Enroll
75%
Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision in the Commonwealth in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, pol...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2002Enroll
75%
Voter registration; cancellation of registration; sources of data. Requires that, except for a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled, the general registrar may not cancel the registration of any voter based on data or repo...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2631Enroll
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...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2195Enroll
75%
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; mold remediation; emergency. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwell...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2022Enroll
75%
Registration of aircraft; fees. Increases fees for registrations of aircraft and creates multiyear registrations for aircraft for a period not to exceed three years.
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2056Enroll
75%
Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2555Enroll
75%
Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed ...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2500Enroll
75%
Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1780Enroll
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...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2277Enroll
75%
Elections administration; duties of local electoral board; certification of election; grounds for removal; civil penalty. Provides that the certification of the results of an election is a clear, ministerial duty of the local electoral boards and tha...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1776Enroll
75%
Claims; Marvin Leon Grimm, Jr.; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Marvin Leon Grimm, Jr., who was wrongly convicted in 1976 of murder, sodomy by force, and abduction with the intent to defile an...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2596Enroll
75%
Office of the Executive Secretary; notification to guardian ad litems representing juveniles; child in need of services or supervision. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to send notification to attorneys ...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1977Enroll
75%
Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB2630Enroll
75%
Replacement of trees during development process in localities; tree canopy fund. Allows localities by ordinance to establish a tree canopy fund to collect, maintain, and distribute fees collected from developers that cannot provide for full tree cano...
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2025-02-22
Signed by President
VAHB1628Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2116Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2130Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2130ER)
VAHB1828Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1638Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2074Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2054Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1606Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1642Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1642ER)
VAHB1759Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1759ER)
VAHB1614Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1614)
VAHB1894Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1661Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1661ER)
VAHB1941Enroll
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...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1941ER)
VAHB1736Enroll
75%
Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill states that the Center will serve a...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1736ER)
VAHB2221Enroll
75%
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification; report. Requires the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Registrar of Vital Records, and any other relevant government agency to provid...
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2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2221ER)
VAHB2531Enroll
75%
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB2746Enroll
75%
Incapacitated persons; finding of lack of capacity to understand act of voting. Provides that a finding that a person is incapacitated in a proceeding for guardianship or conservatorship shall not be synonymous with a finding that such person is "men...
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2025-02-20
Signed by President
VAHB1912Enroll
75%
Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; Consumer Price Index adjustments. Increases various dollar amounts relating to wills, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, guardianships of minors, and guardianships of incapacitated persons to reflect the change in the Consu...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB1678Enroll
75%
School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB2018Enroll
75%
Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an e...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB1955Enroll
75%
Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited; penalties. Removes the distinction between cocaine, which refers...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB1632Enroll
75%
Office of Data Governance and Analytics; oversight; Chief Data Officer; duties. Changes oversight of the Office of Data Governance and Analytics from the Office of the Secretary of Administration to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The b...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB1649Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
VAHB2029Enroll
75%
Real property tax; exemption for elderly and disabled individuals. Revises various provisions of the local real property tax exemption and deferral program for elderly and disabled individuals. The bill allows a locality to require that an individual...
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2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
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