| 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 | HB2237 | Intro
25% | Public school employees; suspension; conditions for continued receipt of salary. Clarifies that, except in the case of a public school employee suspended because of being charged by summons, warrant, information, or indictment with the commission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2244 | Intro
25% | Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required. Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2240 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2415 | Intro
25% | Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106290D-H1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106422D-H1 |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106520D-H1 |
| VA | HB1723 | Intro
25% | Department of Social Services; establishment of Task Force on Improving Access to Food Assistance Programs. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Task Force on Imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106563D-H1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2539 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-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 | HB1758 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| VA | HB1934 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1759 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1759) |
| VA | HB1657 | Intro
25% | Voter registration, regular periodic review of registration records; 90-day quiet period before all primary and general elections. Requires the Department of Elections to complete not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106285D-H1 |
| VA | HB1661 | Engross
50% | Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that (i) if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court shall offer installment payments of $25 per month except that the defendant may choose to pay ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| VA | HB2617 | Intro
25% | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent, independently staffed commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106590D-H1 |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2165 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1794 | Intro
25% | Elections; primary dates; presidential year primaries. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2500 | Engross
50% | Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund established. Establishes the Florence Neal Cooper Smith Sickle Cell Research Endowment Fund to support medical and biomedical sickle cell disease research conducted in institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | HB2328 | Intro
25% | Admission to bail; pregnant persons or persons who have recently given birth. Requires the court to consider whether a person is currently pregnant or has recently given birth and is currently nursing such child when determining whether such person s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2631 | Intro
25% | Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least five days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB2469 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2675 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2446 | Intro
25% | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2346 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by House - committee substitute |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2089 | Intro
25% | Collective bargaining; individual home care providers. Establishes within the Department of Medical Assistance Services the Virginia Home Care Authority to ensure the effectiveness and quality of the services of home care programs in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB2087 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; electric vehicle charging stations; transportation electrification. Permits Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power Company to develop, own, maintain, and operate public-facing fast-charging stations, as defined in the bill, at or b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2654 | Intro
25% | Unlawful dissemination of intimate images of another; penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2201 | Intro
25% | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1954 | Engross
50% | Equity in public school funding and staffing; special education students; at-risk students; English language learner students; support services positions; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support special education students that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 34-N) |
| VA | HB2025 | Intro
25% | Wildlife corridors or crossings; action plan and programs; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan; Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; wildlife carcass removal tracking; report. Requires the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan created by the Department of Wildli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2640 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2356 | Intro
25% | Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements; renewable energy portfolio standard eligible source work; penalties. Requires each public service company, including its contractors and subcontractors, to ensure payment at the prevailing wage rate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
