| VA | SB891 | 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] | 2025-02-12
Passed House (50-Y 47-N) |
| VA | SB848 | Engross
50% | Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing an assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, jail off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed House (50-Y 47-N) |
| VA | SB939 | Engross
50% | Mail theft; penalty. Creates the offense of mail theft, punishable as a Class 6 felony, for any person who (i) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to deprive, injure, damage, or defraud another (a) takes, destroys, hides, or embezzles mail or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Read second time |
| VA | SB916 | Engross
50% | Sale of dogs and cats by pet shops; consumer education; work group; report. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) to convene a work group to analyze and evaluate currently collected data on the sale of dogs and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:30 am]
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (10-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
Passed Senate (24-Y 14-N) |
| VA | HB1947 | Enroll
75% | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1947) |
| VA | HB2042 | Engross
50% | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2024 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision in the Commonwealth in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2520 | Engross
50% | Virginia military forces; Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program established. Establishes the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program (the Program) within the Department of Military Affairs. The bill also establishes the Sexual Offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1134 | Engross
50% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed House (50-Y 47-N) |
| VA | SB1122 | Engross
50% | Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SB1181 | Engross
50% | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Impact statement from VCSC (SB1181) |
| VA | SB1166 | Engross
50% | Invasive plant species; retail sales. Requires, for the retail sale of certain invasive plant species for outdoor use, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous manner on the property located in proximity to each invasive plant signage identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (17-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1306 | Engross
50% | Department of Taxation; free tax filing program. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File program and the related agreement with the Consortium for Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to develop and offer a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Read second time |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SJR248 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2779 | Engross
50% | Office of New Americans Advisory Board; increase in membership. Increases from 18 to 21 the number of nonlegislative citizen members of the Office of New Americans Advisory Board and adds the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1110 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Passed House (51-Y 46-N) |
| VA | HB2018 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2018) |
| VA | SB1483 | Engross
50% | Regulated hemp product retail facility registration; fee. Changes the requirement that a regulated hemp product retail facility registration be required for each location that offers for sale or sells at retail regulated hemp products to instead requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:30 am]
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (10-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR584 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dr. Golden Bethune-Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2241 | Engross
50% | Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted of assault or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1016 | 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Committee substitute printed 25106932D-H1 |
| VA | SJR367 | Intro
25% | Commending the 100th Infantry (Century) Division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SJR368 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of Grover C. Wilson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SR262 | Intro
25% | Commending the Arab America Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB920 | 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] | 2025-02-11
Passed House (94-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB932 | Engross
50% | Local comprehensive plan; tiny homes; accessory dwelling units. Clarifies that the comprehensive plan prepared by a local planning commission and adopted by a local governing body may include the use of tiny homes and accessory dwelling units, define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1011 | Engross
50% | Affordable dwelling unit program; City of Falls Church. Adds the City of Falls Church to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Rules 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 | HB1941 | Engross
50% | Invasive plant species; retail sales. Requires, for the retail sale of certain invasive plant species for outdoor use, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous manner on the property located in proximity to each invasive plant signage identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendments (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB1165 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities; national environmental protection and product safety standards. Provides that no state agency, locality, or political subdivision of the Commonwealth in any request for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1132 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 13]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1356 | Engross
50% | Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 13]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1428 | Engross
50% | Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Transportation (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1406 | 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] | 2025-02-11
Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR325 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thomas S. Whipple.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ325ER) |
| VA | SJR336 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peter John Kemp, MD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ336ER) |
| 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 | SJR340 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Benjamin "Rod" Rodriguez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ340ER) |
| 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 | HB2595 | Enroll
75% | Firearm safety device tax credit; definitions. Redefines an \\"eligible transaction\\" for purposes of the firearm safety device tax credit as one in which a taxpayer purchases one or more firearm safety devices from a commercial retailer, as defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Impact statement from TAX (HB2595) |
| VA | SJR323 | Pass | Commending Billy Wagner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ323ER) |
| 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 | SB1348 | Engross
50% | Transportation network companies; publishing and disclosure requirements. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to (i) issue an annual report to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles containing the aggregate data regarding th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Reported from Transportation (13-Y 7-N) |
