| VA | HJR9 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HJR2 | Pass | 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] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1804 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; application for medical assistance; eligibility for Medicaid Works. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1679 | Intro
25% | Standards of Learning assessments; availability in native language for certain English language learners. Requires each Standards of Learning assessment to be made available in the most commonly spoken native language in the Commonwealth other than E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106397D-H1 |
| VA | HB1805 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; policies; individuals with disabilities; postsecondary transition planning and services; documentation or evidence; report. Requires any individualized education program (IEP) meeting for any student with a di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR1 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB1844 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1726 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106135D-H1 |
| VA | HB1698 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax; exemption for prescription medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2028, the exemption from sales and use tax available for the purchase by veterinarians of prescription medicines and drugs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2002 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB1641 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2645 | Intro
25% | Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1694 | Intro
25% | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; annual report on eligibility and usage required. Requires the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to coordinate to report no later than N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1972 | Intro
25% | Statewide, unified, universally accessible, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; online program. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1597 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Impact statement from VCSC (HB1597) |
| VA | HB2094 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106626D-H2 |
| VA | HB2102 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106395D-H1 |
| VA | HB2590 | Engross
50% | Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant Fund and Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Grant F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| VA | HB2641 | Intro
25% | Statewide housing targets for localities. Requires localities to increase their total housing stock by at least 7.5 percent over the five-year period beginning January 1, 2026. The bill provides that, in order to meet the 7.5 percent growth target, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2175 | 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Printed as engrossed 25102494D-E |
| VA | HB1802 | Intro
25% | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; employment services organizations. Amends provisions related to the powers and duties of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to reflect the Department's support of employment se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25106168D-H1 |
| VA | HB1680 | Intro
25% | Rights of persons with disabilities; definition of "place of public accommodation." Amends the definition of "place of public accommodation" as it relates to the rights of persons with disabilities to add that a place of public accommodation includes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1622 | Engross
50% | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such unattended motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 45-N) |
| VA | HB1621 | Engross
50% | Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; nonvoting, advisory representatives. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each local commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 45-N) |
| VA | HB1793 | Intro
25% | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on South Rosemont Road over Interstate 264 in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25105391D-H1 |
| VA | HB2501 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR511 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR512 | Pass | Commending the Roanoke Star.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2108 | Intro
25% | Motion picture production tax credit. Increases the aggregate cap on the motion picture production tax credit allocated in each fiscal year from $6.5 million to $8.5 million beginning in fiscal year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Appropriations: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HJR564 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106198D |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed House (91-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1978 | Intro
25% | Joint Commission on Health Care; licensure of assisted living facility administrators; study; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to conduct a study on licensure of assisted living facility administrators. The bill requires the Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Tabled in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1868 | Engross
50% | Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Clarifies that the exemption currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2278 | Engross
50% | School boards or division superintendents; review accessibility challenges in the local school division; report. Requires each school board or division superintendent, in consultation with the VirginiaDisability Commission and such other stakeholders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1988 | Engross
50% | Local school boards; powers and duties; binding arbitration agreements. Permits any school board to enter into a written agreement to submit any existing controversy to binding arbitration and to execute a contract, including a collective bargaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1958 | Intro
25% | School breakfasts; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR435 | Intro
25% | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2029 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2214 | Intro
25% | Trespass towing fees; State Corporation Commission to establish; report. Repeals the authority for localities to establish trespass towing fees, with exceptions, and requires the State Corporation Commission to establish such fees and adjust such fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1803 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; stakeholder advisory group; establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts; report. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to convene a stakeholder advisory group to provide advice to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1800 | Engross
50% | Rights of persons with disabilities; public places; playgrounds. Clarifies that persons with disabilities have the same rights as other persons to the full and free use of public playgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1606 | Engross
50% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. 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 natural perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1682 | Engross
50% | Surplus lines broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB1699 | Engross
50% | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1612 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; maximum reimbursement rate; vendors providing care outside of normal business hours. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations relating to the Child Care Subsidy Program to permit payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1757 | Engross
50% | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Clarifies that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no person found indigent or child's parents or other persons responsible for the care of a child found indigent and who is represented by a public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1890 | Intro
25% | Public school teachers; teacher compensation; Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program established. Establishes the Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program (the Program) for the purpose of addressing shortages of prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1806 | Engross
50% | Individualized education programs; individualized accommodations and supports during emergencies. Requires each individualized education program (IEP) implemented for a public school student with a disability, with the exception of such students who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
