Virginia Delegate Rodney Willett [D]

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VAHB1905Enroll
75%
Compounded drugs; exceptions for distribution within health systems under common ownership. Allows for the distribution of compounded drugs within health systems under common ownership when such drugs will be administered only to patients within the ...
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2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1905)
VAHB1901Engross
50%
Virginia Sports Tourism Grant Program. Creates the Virginia Sports Tourism Grant Program, to be Administered by the Virginia Tourism Authority, to provide grants to sports tourism activity sponsors, defined in the bill, in order to develop and attrac...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
VAHB1899Enroll
75%
License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset on the current provision of law allowing the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination, a faculty license to teach dentistry in an ac...
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2025-02-14
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1899)
VAHB1940Engross
50%
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; international licensure and certification; regulations. Directs the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to promulgate regulations allowing the iss...
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2025-02-14
Passed by for the day
VAHB1928Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
VAHB1815Engross
50%
Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB2630Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate (27-Y 9-N)
VAHB2501Engross
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 ...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB1977Engross
50%
Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N)
VAHB1844Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
VAHJR502Engross
50%
Governor; portrait. Establishing a committee for the purpose of commissioning a portrait of Governor Glenn Youngkin for display in the Capitol.
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2025-02-14
Reported from Rules (Voice Vote)
VAHB2610Engross
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 ...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
VASB838Engross
50%
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; recovery residences; certification required; penalty; work group. Changes the existing civil penalty for a violation of law related to the operation of recovery residences to a Class 1 misde...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
VAHB2637Engross
50%
Department of Education; mental health first aid training program. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop a mental health first aid training program consist...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB2037Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (Y-62 N-34 A-0)
VAHB2122Engross
50%
Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; landlord obligations. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of any written rental agreement and the statement of tenant rights and responsibilities within 10 business days of the effective date of the written rental ...
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2025-02-14
Passed by for the day
VAHB2165Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB1736Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 15-N)
VAHB2253Engross
50%
Nursing homes; sanctions; civil penalty. Establishes procedures for the implementation of sanctions by the State Health Commissioner on any nursing home that is licensed pursuant to the laws regulating medical care facilities and services in response...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB2255Engross
50%
Hospitals and nursing homes; licensure and inspection fees; Hospital and Nursing Home Licensure and Inspection Program Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to require in its regulations the establishment of fees for the issuance, chang...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB2277Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate (21-Y 14-N)
VAHB2094Engross
50%
High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-N)
VAHB1641Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
VAHJR440Engross
50%
Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, ...
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2025-02-14
Committee substitute printed 25107563D-S1
VAHB1726Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N)
VAHB2515Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Passed by for the day
VAHB1791Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 6-N)
VAHB2764Engross
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...
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2025-02-14
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
VASJR370Engross
50%
Commending Linda Ford.
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2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table
VASJR363Engross
50%
Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
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2025-02-14
Laid on Speaker's table
VAHB1902Engross
50%
Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report patient level data on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Health Professions for use in ...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1897Engross
50%
Board of Social Work; Board of Counseling; master's social worker; scope of practice; regulations. Expands the scope of practice of master's social workers to allow the provision of clinical services under the supervision of a licensed clinical socia...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1900Engross
50%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; rapid whole genome sequencing; emergency. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to add a provision to the state plan for medical assistance service...
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2025-02-13
Committee substitute printed 25107308D-S1
VAHB1898Engross
50%
Optometry; TPA-Formulary; TPA-Formulary Committee; dissolution. Dissolves the TPA-Formulary and the TPA-Formulary Committee. The TPA-Formulary is the list of the therapeutic pharmaceutical agents that a TPA-certified optometrist may prescribe. The TP...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
VAHB1904Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1895Engross
50%
Involuntary temporary detention orders; definition of \"psychiatric emergency department.\" Amends the definition of \"psychiatric emergency department\" as it relates to involuntary temporary detention orders to remove the requirement that a psychia...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
VAHB1945Engross
50%
School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st...
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2025-02-13
Committee substitute printed 25107246D-S1
VAHB2539Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1716Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 6-N)
VAHB1621Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
VAHB1860Engross
50%
Board of Nursing; faculty supervision of direct client care; faculty-to-student ratio. Directs the Board of Nursing to allow nursing education programs to apply for a waiver of the student-to-faculty ratios for direct client care. Under the bill, suc...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1877Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB2590Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB2119Engross
50%
State Health Commissioner; State Health Services Plan Task Force; certificate of public need; expedited application and review process. Requires the State Health Commissioner to direct the State Health Services Plan Task Force to develop recommendati...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
VAHB1923Engross
50%
Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed ce...
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2025-02-13
Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
VAHB1679Engross
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 ...
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2025-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1828Engross
50%
Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
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2025-02-13
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
VAHB1880Engross
50%
Public schools; enrollment of certain military children with disabilities; provision of special education services and accommodations. Provides that whenever a child of a service member who enrolls in a school division in accordance with applicable l...
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2025-02-13
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1595Engross
50%
Higher education; financial assistance; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; eligibility criteria. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relatin...
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2025-02-13
Committee substitute printed 25107031D-S1
VAHB1929Engross
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...
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2025-02-13
Committee substitute printed 25107193D-S1
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