| 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1760 | Engross
50% | 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 convene a work group to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB2102 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; coverage for nursery services; certified nurse midwives; licensed certified midwives; nurse practitioners. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations on coverage for nursery services to (i) allow certified nurse m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1929 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; pregnancy mobile application. Directs the Department of Health to contract with a mobile developer to create a mobile application available to prenatal, pregnant, and postpartum individuals who are eligible for Medicaid. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB2237 | Engross
50% | Public school employees; suspension; conditions for continued receipt of salary. Clarifies that no school board employee shall be suspended without notice and, if applicable, an opportunity to be heard and that any individual who is so suspended, reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1972 | Engross
50% | Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1621 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB2055 | Engross
50% | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; provision of suicide prevention materials required. Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1679 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments; availability in commonly spoken languages other than English. Requires the Board of Education to prioritize the incorporation of Standards of Learning assessments in commonly spoken languages in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1694 | Engross
50% | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; annual report on eligibility and usage required. Requires the Department of Veterans Services and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to coordinate to report no later than D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| VA | HB2538 | Engross
50% | Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1757 | Engross
50% | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Clarifies that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no person found indigent or child's parents or other persons responsible for the care of a child found indigent and who is represented by a public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2415 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1623 | Engross
50% | 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 provides that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1723 | Engross
50% | Department of Social Services; establishment of Task Force on Improving Access to Food Assistance Programs. Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to evaluate methods to improve access and maximize participation in federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-07
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1649 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2018 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1699 | Engross
50% | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Passed Senate (21-Y 17-N) |
| VA | HB2029 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10]
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2198 | Engross
50% | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | HB2467 | Engross
50% | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; oversight of local and regional jails; powers and duties. Increases from 11 to 19 the membership of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) by requiring the appointment of (i) two members of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1617 | Engross
50% | Homeless youth; fees; certain government documents. Provides that when a homeless youth seeks to receive a certified copy of a vital record, including his birth record, or his DMV-issued learner's permit, driver's license, special identification card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1894 | Engross
50% | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities that are capable of controlling the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1892 | Engross
50% | Children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notice required; model notice. Requires, during the annual individualized education program (IEP) planning process prior t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1877 | Engross
50% | Barrier crimes; peer recovery specialists; screening requirements. Modifies the barrier crimes screening assessment requirements for peer recovery specialists applying for employment with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | HB1776 | Engross
50% | Claims; Marvin Leon Grimm, Jr.; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Marvin Leon Grimm, Jr., who was wrongly convicted in 1976 of murder, sodomy by force, and abduction with the intent to defile an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2485 | Engross
50% | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR616 | Intro
25% | Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25101169D |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2277 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
