| 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 Virginia Disability Commission and such other stakeholder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 42-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 | HB2479 | Engross
50% | Elections; political campaign advertisements; synthetic media; penalty. Prohibits electioneering communications containing synthetic media, as those terms are defined in the bill, from being published or broadcast without containing the following con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (76-Y 22-N) |
| VA | HB1712 | Engross
50% | Arrest of certain persons with or without a warrant not required. Provides that no law-enforcement officer with the power to arrest is required to arrest an individual who is currently subject to an emergency custody order, temporary detention order,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (60-Y 39-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 | 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
Conference report agreed to by House (99-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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (49-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB2610 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2027, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-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] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2276 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the Department of Elections for list maintenance purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-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 | HB2401 | Engross
50% | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation be compensated by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2539 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2240 | Engross
50% | Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education and eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (74-Y 24-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 | 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 | HB1725 | Engross
50% | Medical Debt Protection Act; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Medical Debt Protection Act to prohibit a large health care facility or medical debt buyer, as those terms are defined in the bill, from charging interest or late fees on medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (53-Y 44-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 | 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 | 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 | HB2469 | Engross
50% | Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. Adds domestic workers, as defined in the bill, to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (50-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB2738 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders; generally accepted standards of care. Requires health insurance coverage, as defined in the bill, to provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 15-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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2482 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (51-Y 44-N) |
| 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 | HB2617 | Engross
50% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2371 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) |
| VA | HB1928 | Engross
50% | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2027. The bill codifies the adjusted state hourly minimum wage of $12.41 per hour that is effective January 1, 2025 and increases the minimum wage to $13.50 per h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1663 | Engross
50% | Guidelines, policies, and procedures on the prevention and management of heat illness in student-athletes. Requires the Board of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies and procedures to inform and edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N) |
| VA | HB1727 | Engross
50% | Establishment of parent and child relationship; persons who committed sexual assault. Provides that no parent and child relationship shall be established when a biological parent has been convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, or incest, or has been fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2328 | Engross
50% | Admission to bail; pregnant persons or persons who have recently given birth. Requires the court to consider any evidence a person provides indicating that such person (i) is currently pregnant, (ii) has recently given birth, or (iii) is currently nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2122 | Engross
50% | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; landlord obligations. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of any written rental agreement and the statement of tenant rights and responsibilities within 10 business days of the effective date of the written rental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (70-Y 27-N) |
| VA | HB1945 | Engross
50% | School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 43-N) |
| VA | HB1869 | Engross
50% | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to juvenile and domestic relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1869) |
| 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 | HB1872 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord; tenant remedies. Prohibits a residential landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, whet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB2769 | Engross
50% | Life insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2637 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; mental health first aid training program. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop a mental health first aid training program consist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2637) |
| 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 | HB2692 | Engross
50% | Custodial interrogations; false statements to a child prohibited; inauthentic replica documents. Prohibits law-enforcement officers from knowingly and intentionally making false statements about any material fact, including by use of inauthentic repl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (51-Y 46-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) |
