| VA | HB2029 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-15
Impact statement from TAX (HB2029) |
| VA | HB2244 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244) |
| VA | HB2243 | Engross
50% | Uniform Trust Code; specific powers of trustee. Expands certain specific powers conferred to a trustee, including the power to guarantee loans, the power to pledge trust property to guarantee loans, the exercise of certain powers with respect to an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2229 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2691 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2221 | Engross
50% | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-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 government agency to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendments (20-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2235 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1641 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1625 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (32-Y 2-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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1657 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 4-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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rules with amendment (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1642 | Engross
50% | Use of artificial intelligence-based tool for criminal justice purpose. Requires that the recommendations or predictions provided by any artificial intelligence-based tool utilized for criminal justice purpose, as those terms are defined in the bill,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1649 | Enroll
75% | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1649) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1663) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendment (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2196 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HJR447 | Engross
50% | Virginia Commission to End Hunger; statewide food desert mapping tool; report. Directs the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool, using geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic data to identify food des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rules (Voice Vote) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1614 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; postpartum doula care; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1726 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2002 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1794 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2631 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (26-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB1797 | Engross
50% | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 14-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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2446 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2064 | Engross
50% | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2087 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 17]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB1611 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2136 | Engross
50% | Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman; established. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish the Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman to protect the interests of residential customers of public utilities. The Office of the Publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2201 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2201) |
| VA | HB2515 | Engross
50% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure. Prohibits a supplier, in connection with a consumer transaction, from advertising or displaying a price for goods or services without clearly and conspic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2356 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HJR435 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rules (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HJR466 | Engross
50% | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Reported from Rules (Voice Vote) |
| VA | HB1660 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2218 | Engross
50% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. Requires, with certain exceptions outlined in the bill, landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to accept payment of periodic rent and any security de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2195 | Engross
50% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; mold remediation; emergency. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed by for the day |
