| VA | HB1777 | Engross
50% | Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1778 | Engross
50% | Insurance agents; appointments and terminations. Amends the process for the appointment of insurance agents and agencies by insurers as administered by the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission. The bill also revises certain require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Reported from Commerce and Labor (10-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1791 | Engross
50% | Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund created. Creates the Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1775 | Engross
50% | Divorce; adultery; filing; parties living separate and apart. Specifies that a divorce may be decreed on the grounds of adultery, provided that such adultery occurred prior to the final separation of the parties. The bill further allows for a divorce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2537 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; energy storage requirements; Department of Energy and Department of Environmental Quality to develop model ordinances; work groups; reports. Increases the targets for energy storage capacity that Appalachian Power and Dominion Ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2537) |
| VA | HB1933 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation; throat cancer. Provides that for the purposes of the workers' compensation presumption as to death or disability from certain types of cancer, throat cancer includes cancer that forms in the tissues of the pharynx, larynx, aden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2438 | Engross
50% | Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2346 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various technology applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Senate substitute agreed to by House (68-Y 27-N 1-A) |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (7-Y 6-N 2-A) |
| VA | HB1973 | Engross
50% | Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HJR634 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of Matthew Robert Chiaverotti.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Agreed to by House |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Passed by for the day |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1780 | Engross
50% | Claims; Gilbert Merritt III; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Gilbert Merritt III, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1914 | Engross
50% | Compensation for wrongful incarceration; compensation for certain intentional acts. Provides that no person who is eligible to receive compensation for wrongful incarceration as the result of an intentional act committed by an officer or employee of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1914) |
| 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 | HB1736 | Engross
50% | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Jus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2037 | Engross
50% | Land development; solar canopies in parking areas. Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas. Such provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (Y-62 N-34 A-0) |
| 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 | HB1876 | Engross
50% | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Permits the governing board of a public institution of higher education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1607 | Engross
50% | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-14
Passed Senate (27-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB1782 | Engross
50% | Newborn screening requirements; federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel; evaluation; rulemaking; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department) to determine whether testing for disorders included on the federal Recommended Uniform Scre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1779 | Engross
50% | Carbon-free energy or clean energy; fusion energy; definitions. Adds fusion energy, as defined in the bill, to the list of generation sources that qualify as carbon-free energy or clean energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1628 | Engross
50% | Fire insurance; assignment of claims prohibited. Prohibits a fire insurance policy or a fire insurance policy in combination with other coverages from assigning or otherwise transferring, in whole or in part, to any other person the duties, rights, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2550 | Engross
50% | Noise abatement monitoring systems; local authority; civil penalties. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to place and operate noise abatement monitoring systems, defined in the bill, for the purpose of recording and enforci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2125 | Engross
50% | Department of Human Resource Management; State Government Internship Coordinator. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to establish and employ a State Government Internship Coordinator to attract high quality interns to the service of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2736 | Engross
50% | Virginia Values Veterans Program; military spouse eligibility. Provides that the comprehensive program developed by the Department of Veterans Services to reduce unemployment among veterans extends to military spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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 | 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 | 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
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2495 | Engross
50% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB109 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HJR67 | Engross
50% | Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1284 | Engross
50% | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
