| VA | HB1598 | Intro
25% | Individual income tax; first-time homebuyer tax credit. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable individual income tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for up to $10,000 in first-time homebuyer expenses, defined in the bill, incurred by a first-tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1667 | Intro
25% | Board for Barbers and Cosmetology; employment prohibition exceptions; children 16 years of age or older. Allows children 16 years of age or older to serve in a licensed barbershop or cosmetology salon, provided that (i) the child is an apprentice; (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read first time |
| VA | HB1860 | Intro
25% | Board of Nursing; faculty supervision of direct client care; faculty-to-student ratio. Directs the Board of Nursing to amend its regulations to allow faculty supervising direct client care by nursing students to supervise up to 15 students per facult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read first time |
| VA | HB1665 | Engross
50% | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, penalties, other costs; criminal and traffic cases; itemized statement. Requires the clerk of the court to provide an itemized statement to any defendant convicted of a traffic infraction or a violation of any criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB1759 | Intro
25% | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1606 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Read first time |
| 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] | 2025-01-23
Read third time and passed House (53-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB2196 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB2235 | Intro
25% | Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1867 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2195 | Intro
25% | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; licensure of mold inspectors and mold remediators; emergency. Renames the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors as the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspecto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House General Laws: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process Committee |
| VA | HB1623 | Intro
25% | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; name change; general application; expiration repealed. Renames the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program as the Eviction Diversion Program, removes the July 1, 2025, expiration date from the Program, and makes the Program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read first time |
| VA | HB1915 | Intro
25% | Public school teachers; written notice of noncontinuation of continuing contract. Provides that written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing teacher contract by the teacher must be given by June 15 of each year; otherwise, the contract continues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1886 | Engross
50% | Payment of costs when proceedings deferred and defendant placed on probation. Allows a circuit or district court that has deferred proceedings pursuant to relevant law discretion to impose costs upon the defendant but prohibits the court from requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Read third time and passed House (53-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB1758 | Intro
25% | Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. Requires the Department of General Services to determine whether, following an offer of surplus property to the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2158 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 9:00 am]
To House Education: K-12 Committee |
| VA | HB1869 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1947 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1947) |
| VA | HB1923 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1760 | Intro
25% | Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to establish several progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1666 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Allows a locality to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of a photo speed monitoring device by the law-enforcement agency of such locality for the purposes of recording vehicle speed violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1661 | Intro
25% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; universal minimum payments. Requires the court to offer universal minimum payments of no more than $25 per month to any defendant whose most recent completed personal annual tax filing was at or below the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1663 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1660 | Intro
25% | Trigger activator definition; penalty. Defines "trigger activator" as a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device designed to alter the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or used to increase the rate of fire to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Public Safety: Firearms Committee |
| VA | HB1673 | Intro
25% | Pedestrian crossing violation monitoring systems and stop sign violation monitoring systems; violation enforcement; civil penalty. Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1936 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; index of required teacher training. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain an index of each training in which any public elementary and secondary school teacher in the Commonwealth is required to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105145D-H1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1894 | Intro
25% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities so that a temperature of not less than 65 degree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations: Transportation & Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB2198 | Intro
25% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provides a link in the continuum of ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health and Human Services: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1928 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1625 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2213 | Intro
25% | School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1771 | Intro
25% | Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program.Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1621 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-22
Committee substitute printed 25105278D-H1 |
| VA | HB1710 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2221 | Intro
25% | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification; report. Requires the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Registrar of Vital Records, and any other relevant governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety: Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB2691 | Intro
25% | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Appropriations: General Government & Capital Outlay Committee |
| VA | HB2208 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1893 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of care provided at certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 24]
To House Appropriations: Health & Human Resources Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1638 | Engross
50% | Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, with input from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2222 | Intro
25% | Use of restraints on juveniles in court prohibited; exceptions. Prohibits the use of instruments of restraint, as defined in the bill, on a juvenile appearing before the juvenile and domestic relations district court unless the court makes a finding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 24]
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 7:30 am]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2223 | Intro
25% | Abolition of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Eliminates the fees for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation for persons who are determined to be indigent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1913 | Intro
25% | Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, including a recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 24]
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2229 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB2067 | Intro
25% | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee |
| VA | HB1717 | Intro
25% | Earned income tax credit. Allows eligible low-income taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year by the taxpayer for the same taxable year. The bill also states that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1672 | Intro
25% | Retail electric energy; renewable energy certificates. Requires competitive service providers, as defined in the bill, to serve 100 percent of their customers' energy and capacity needs from electric generating units located within the PJM transmissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #3 |
| VA | HB1664 | Intro
25% | Photo speed monitoring devices; placement and operation by certain localities. Allows localities without a law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices. The bill requires such localities to authorize by ordinance officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Transportation: Innovations (Ad Hoc) Committee |
