| 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 report agreed to by Senate (21-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] | 2025-02-22
Failed to Pass from conference |
| 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 report agreed to by Senate (23-Y 17-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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (59-Y 39-N) |
| 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 House (52-Y 47-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 | 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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (49-Y 47-N) |
| 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 House (83-Y 16-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 House (53-Y 45-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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| VA | HB1921 | Engross
50% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state and local governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (21-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB2269 | Engross
50% | Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2219 | Engross
50% | Students who need or use augmentative and alternative communication; documentation of needs on individualized education program; staff training. Requires each school division to document on the individualized education program of a student with a dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1844 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2501 | Engross
50% | Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers with a disability that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1867 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (58-Y 39-N) |
| VA | HB2083 | Engross
50% | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; special enrollment period for pregnancy. Requires the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to establish by January 1, 2026, a special enrollment period for a pregnant qualified individual to enroll in a qualified health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2430 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement an itemization of all charges to the ten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (81-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB2153 | Engross
50% | Affordable housing; comprehensive plan; development by nonprofit organizations; Department of Housing and Community Development. Grants authority to localities to adopt a variety of strategies intended to encourage and facilitate the development of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 45-N) |
| VA | HB2165 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, etc. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2686 | Engross
50% | Certain advanced or accelerated mathematics opportunities; policies and criteria for enrollment; data reporting. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that sets forth the criteria for students in grades five through eight to be eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (84-Y 11-N) |
| VA | HB2265 | Engross
50% | Certain individuals to be deemed licensed as teachers with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birth-age five years). Provides that any individual who has been employed in the Commonwealth as a preschool special education teacher lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 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 clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to permit or sancti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1718 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) |
| VA | HB2064 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1973 | Engross
50% | Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1719 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1932 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity. Creates the Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity to study the misvaluation and undervaluation of real property owned by minority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1864 | Engross
50% | Poor debtor's exemption; depository institution account exemption. Allows a householder to hold exempt from creditor process up to $500 held in a depository institution. The bill provides that a depository institution shall, upon receipt of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; coverage for nursery services; certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; nurse practitioners. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations on coverage for nursery services to (i) allow certified nurse m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1877 | Engross
50% | Barrier crimes; peer recovery specialists; screening requirements. Modifies the barrier crimes screening assessment requirements for peer recovery specialists applying for employment with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1635 | Engross
50% | Certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; independent practice; organized medical staff. Permits licensed certified midwives who have completed 1,000 hours of practice under a practice agreement to practice without a practice agreement u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2756 | Engross
50% | Transportation network companies; publishing and disclosure requirements. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to (i) issue an annual report to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles containing the aggregate data regarding th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
