| 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1598 | Engross
50% | First-time Homebuyer Grant Program. Establishes a First-time Homebuyer Grant Program for the purpose of assisting first-time homebuyers with first-time homebuyer expenses, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill provides that the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 1-N 2-A) |
| 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-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] | 2025-02-11
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2764) |
| 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2089 | Engross
50% | 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 Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2089) |
| VA | HB1954 | Engross
50% | Equity in public school funding and staffing; special education students; at-risk students; English language learner students; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support special education students that are calculated by multiply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2469 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB2675 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12]
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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1864 | Engross
50% | Poor debtor's exemption; depository institution account exemption. Allows a householder to hold exempt from creditor process up to $500 held in a depository institution. The bill provides that a depository institution shall, upon receipt of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Courts of Justice 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB2276 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the Department of Elections for list maintenance purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB1979 | Engross
50% | Wage garnishment; state or local tax debt. Provides that the maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek that is subject to garnishment to collect delinquent taxes and charges owed to the state or any local gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1701 | Engross
50% | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credit; sunset extended. Extends the housing opportunity tax credit sunset date from taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030. The bill also increases the aggregate credit cap across all calendar years from $255 mill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| VA | HB2630 | Engross
50% | Replacement of trees during development process in localities; tree canopy fund. Allows localities by ordinance to establish a tree canopy fund to collect, maintain, and distribute fees collected from developers that cannot provide for full tree cano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HJR603 | Engross
50% | Commending the Paris 2024 Team USA Olympians from the University of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR598 | Engross
50% | Commending Colette Sheehy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR597 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of Charles C. Pace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR580 | Engross
50% | Commending Ross A. Mugler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR607 | Engross
50% | Commending Thomas Heilman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HR661 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Warren Marcelous DePriest, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106651D |
| VA | HR663 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Dr. Wilbert L. Jenkins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106645D |
| VA | HJR630 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Bonnie Sue Neighbour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25104938D |
| 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
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 13 @ 8:30 am]
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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1934 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB1699 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-10
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1699ER) |
| 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | HB2341 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2029ER) |
