| VA | HJR9 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-13
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HJR2 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-13
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1605 | Intro
25% | Uniform Trust Code; qualified trustee; definition. Expands the definitions of "independent qualified trustee" and "qualified trustee" to authorize additional entities to serve as an independent qualified trustee or a qualified trustee of a qualified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2610 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2025, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve as the state pharmacy benefits m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2536 | Intro
25% | Exemption from jury service; clerk of circuit court; circuit court clerk deputies. Automatically exempts the elected clerk of any circuit court and such clerk's deputies from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2426 | Intro
25% | Small renewable energy projects; permit by rule. Amends the definition of "small renewable energy project" for the purposes of obtaining a permit by rule from the Department of Environmental Quality to include interconnection facilities, as defined i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2431 | Intro
25% | Attorneys; preliminary proof of education required of applicant for Virginia Bar examination; graduates of foreign universities; emergency. Allows individuals who have received a bachelor's degree or higher from a foreign university verified by an ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2242 | Intro
25% | Arrest of probationer, parolee, or felon serving a period of postrelease supervision without a warrant; timeframe for service of process. Provides that upon the arrest of a probationer, parolee, or felon serving a period of postrelease supervision, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2217 | Intro
25% | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB2245 | Intro
25% | Real property tax; assessment of affordable housing. Provides that the duly authorized real estate assessor charged with determining the fair market value of real property operated in whole or in part as affordable rental housing shall use the income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | HB1876 | Intro
25% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1865 | Intro
25% | Virginia Access to Justice Act. Establishes a public defender office in each judicial circuit. Currently, public defender offices have been established in certain localities. The bill also establishes an appellate defender office to represent indigen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1877 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1873 | Intro
25% | Release of accused on secured or unsecured bond. Removes the conditions requiring that any person arrested for a felony (i) who has previously been convicted of a felony or (ii) who is on probation or parole be released only upon a secure bond. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1870 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; algorithmic device services or products prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale of algorithmic device services or products, as defined in the bill, for the purpose of setting or recommending the amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1883 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements; power purchase agreements. Amends certain renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements for Dominion Energy Virginia, including the annual percentage of program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
50% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[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 | HB386 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1311 | 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 | 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 | HB178 | Intro
25% | Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR51 | Intro
25% | Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, poten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB721 | Intro
25% | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB864 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1320 | Intro
25% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1031 | Intro
25% | Commission on Legislature Modernization; report. Establishes the Commission on Legislature Modernization in the legislative branch for the purpose of studying the operation and functionality of the General Assembly and identifying ways to make the le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
