| 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 | HB1888 | Engross
50% | Immunity of persons for tort actions based on statements made in connection with certain proceedings. Adds to the tort actions for which an individual shall be immune pursuant to applicable law any tort action based solely on a statement made at or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (55-Y 42-N) |
| VA | HB2039 | Engross
50% | Department of Criminal Justice Services; Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; Virginia Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee; encrypted telecommunications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to, in consultation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (61-Y 35-N) |
| VA | HB2137 | Enroll
75% | Affordable dwelling unit program; City of Falls Church. Adds the City of Falls Church to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2396 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Housing Development Authority; evaluate prevalence of deed fraud. Directs the Virginia Housing Development Authority to convene a technical advisory group to (i) evaluate the prevalence of deed fraud, including notary fraud, seller impersona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2396) |
| VA | HB2660 | Enroll
75% | Subdivision ordinance; local approvals. Shortens the timeframes for various local government approvals of subdivision plats and site plans. Additionally, the bill calls on the Virginia Code Commission to convene a work group consisting of various sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2675 | Enroll
75% | Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions; sunset. Extends from 2025 to 2028 the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for certain printed materials purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| 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 | HB2783 | Enroll
75% | Placing Nazi swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who, with intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, places a Hakenkreuz, hooked cross, or Nazi symbol or emblem, some...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2783ER) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-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] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Locke, Carroll Foy, Head |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2531 | Enroll
75% | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Surovell, Locke, Peake |
| VA | HJR684 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | SJR434 | Pass | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR410 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR440 | Pass | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Senate substitute agreed to by House |
| VA | HB1889 | Engross
50% | Electronic notarial acts. Specifies that, for the purposes of notarial acts being performed outside the Commonwealth for use in the Commonwealth, a \"notarial act\" means an act, wither performed with respect to a tangible or electronic document, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2110 | Enroll
75% | Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; prohibition on requiring purchaser's name. Prohibits any association from requiring a purchaser's name prior to preparing the resale certificate or requiring such information to be set out on a completed res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2110) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2668 | Enroll
75% | Elections; procedures for removal of electoral board members and general registrars. Allows the State Board of Elections to remove any member of an electoral board or general register by a recorded two-thirds majority vote of all its members after a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2668) |
| VA | HB2680 | Enroll
75% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; regulation of ear-piercers and ear-piercing salons and schools. Provides for the licensure of ear-piercing salons, ear-piercing schools, and ear-piercers by the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2680) |
| 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 | HB2277 | Enroll
75% | Elections administration; duties of local electoral board; certification of election; grounds for removal; civil penalty. Provides that the certification of the results of an election is a clear, ministerial duty of the local electoral boards and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2277) |
| VA | HJR627 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Robert Arthur Young, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate |
| 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 | HJR510 | Pass | Commending the Gloucester County Branch of the NAACP.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR634 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Robert Chiaverotti.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR600 | Pass | Commending Christian Tabash.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR672 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Colonel Gerald William Hyland, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB1871 | Enroll
75% | Transfer on death deeds; inter vivos deed conveying real property to another; emergency.Provides that an inter vivos deed is effective to revoke a recorded transfer on death deed if such inter vivos deed conveys real property to another so the transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| 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 | HJR473 | Pass | Commercial Waterman Safety Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Commercial Waterman Safety Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HR755 | Pass | Commending Rick S. Judd.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR756 | Pass | Commending Stephen Rau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR757 | Pass | Commending Gary Fuller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR759 | Pass | Commending Juan Salguero.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR749 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR754 | Pass | Commending Curtis O. Porter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR753 | Pass | Commending Penelope Nowell-Shortt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR751 | Pass | Commending the Omicron Chi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1761 | Engross
50% | Public campaign financing; counties and cities may establish for certain offices. Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to establish by ordinance a system of public campaign financing for elected local offices. The bill specifies certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HR629 | Pass | Commending Marshall Jarrett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR658 | Pass | Commending the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
