| VA | HB2266 | Enroll
75% | State Corporation Commission; distribution cost sharing program; required distribution system upgrades. Directs the State Corporation Commission by July 1, 2026, to establish by regulation a distribution cost sharing program for Dominion Energy Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| 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 | 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 | HB2619 | Enroll
75% | Private companies providing public transportation services; employee protections. Requires the governing body or transportation district commission of any county or city that contracts with a private company to provide transportation services to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2346 | Enroll
75% | Electric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various technology applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1766 | Engross
50% | Unemployment compensation; increase weekly benefit amounts; report. For unemployment compensation claims effective on or after January 1, 2026, an eligible individual's weekly benefit amount shall be $100 higher than the current weekly benefit amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 13-N) |
| VA | HB1914 | Engross
50% | Compensation for wrongful incarceration; compensation for certain intentional acts. Provides that no person who is eligible to receive compensation for wrongful incarceration as the result of an intentional act committed by an officer or employee of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Amended by conference committee |
| 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 | HB2550 | Engross
50% | Noise abatement monitoring systems; local authority; civil penalties. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to place and operate noise abatement monitoring systems, defined in the bill, for the purpose of recording and enforci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (24-Y 16-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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR820 | Pass | Commending Magaly Perez-Rives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR839 | Pass | Commending Thelma R. Pemberton-Abbott.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR872 | Pass | Commending David S. Widzer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR865 | Pass | Commending Amanda Castellucci.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR854 | Pass | Commending Veronica Del Bagno.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR884 | Pass | Commending the Vietnamese American community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| 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 | HB2264 | Enroll
75% | Department of Taxation; free tax filing program. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File program and the related agreement with the Consortium for Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to develop and offer a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2746 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1726 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1726ER) |
| 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 | HB1597 | Engross
50% | Secure storage of firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person who fails to securely store a firearm on any premises where such person knows, or reasonably should know, that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law from posse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Feggans, Simon, Taylor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1922 | Engross
50% | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program established. Establishes the Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program with a statewide goal of 42 percent of certified small SWaM busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1736 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1736ER) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1607 | Enroll
75% | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1607) |
| VA | HB1977 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1977) |
| VA | HB1929 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; pregnancy mobile application. Directs the Department of Health to contract with a mobile developer to create a mobile application available to prenatal, pregnant, and postpartum individuals who are eligible for Medicaid. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (83-Y 13-N) |
| VA | HB2618 | Engross
50% | Public school buildings; indoor air quality standards. Establishes several enumerated requirements for school boards to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including an inspection and evaluation prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (57-Y 40-N) |
| VA | HB2221 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2221ER) |
| VA | HB2036 | Engross
50% | Reckless driving; exhibition driving; penalties. Expands reckless driving to include exhibition driving, defined in the bill. The bill prohibits (i) slowing or stopping traffic for a race or exhibition driving; (ii) riding as a passenger on or in an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (92-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1776 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1776) |
| VA | HB1876 | Enroll
75% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Permits the governing board of a public institution of higher education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1876) |
| 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 | HB2730 | Engross
50% | Virginia State Crime Commission; review panel; cases involving Mary Jane Burton; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission (the Crime Commission) to designate a panel, consisting of members outlined in the bill, to review the following type...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Hope, Herring, Gilbert |
