| VA | HB2061 | Intro
25% | Department of Forestry; Cumberland State Forest; boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest; acceptance of conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to enter into a boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest in and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1549 | Intro
25% | Vehicle operation; unlicensed minor; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly authorizing the operation of a motor vehicle by a minor who such person knows has no operator's license or who has a learner's permit but who such person knows would op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106657D-H1 |
| VA | HB1815 | Intro
25% | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB1583 | Intro
25% | Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2452 | Intro
25% | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; livestreaming, recording, and archiving of boards of visitors meetings; closed sessions; guidelines. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Read first time |
| VA | HB2067 | Intro
25% | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2771 | Intro
25% | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; penalty. Authorizes the use of all-terrain vehicles on secondary state highways if (i) such operation is approved by action of the governing body of a locality for operation on the secondary state highwa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2771) |
| VA | HB2633 | Intro
25% | Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products. Provides that a food is misbranded if it purports to be or is represented as a meat food product and such food product (i) bears or contains a manufactured-protein food product, as defined in the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB2062 | Intro
25% | Income tax exclusion; veteran student loan forgiveness. Eliminates the sunset date and expands eligibility for the income tax exclusion for any income received by a disabled veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States from the discharge of feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2076 | Intro
25% | Virginia taxable income; subtractions; volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services personnel. Provides a state income tax subtraction of $2,000 beginning in taxable year 2026 for bona fide volunteers who perform qualifying service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB2770 | Intro
25% | School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training; safety grants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2297 | Intro
25% | School boards; employment of school resource officers in each public elementary and secondary school. Requires each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency to employ at least one school resource offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HJR452 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); right to food choice. Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that declares the right of the people to acquire the food of their choice from the source of their choice shall not be infringed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2434 | Intro
25% | Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2478 | Intro
25% | Elections; absentee voting; drop-off locations for return of absentee ballots; 24-hour video surveillance requirement. Requires 24-hour video surveillance of all absentee ballot drop-off locations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1558 | Intro
25% | Possession of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person younger than 21 years of age from possessing any retail tobacco product or hemp product in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
Tabled in Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1551 | Intro
25% | Virginia taxable income; standard deduction; sunset. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that is scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance: Subcommittee #3 |
| VA | HB2069 | Intro
25% | Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes; Aid to Localities Grant Program. Increases the assessment on certain insurance companies from one percent to 1.5 percent. The bill provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Committee substitute printed 25104713D-H1 |
| VA | SB1493 | Intro
25% | Contraception; right to access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2081 | Intro
25% | Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discrimination. Prohibits any state agency or political subdivision in the Commonwealth from supporting, implementing, recognizing, or utilizing any program, process, or procedure that conveys or denies a benefit, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1809 | Intro
25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2072 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Standards of Quality; Standards of School Safety. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to establish pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2073 | Intro
25% | Financial institutions; discrimination prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a financial institution from denying or cancelling its services to or otherwise discriminating against a person in making available services on the basis of factors including the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2066 | Intro
25% | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2070 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; service credit for career and technical education teachers. Provides that a member of the Virginia Retirement System shall be eligible for additional years of service credit for service earned as a teacher in the field of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1566 | Intro
25% | Elections; absentee ballot security measures; watermark. Requires that any ballot mailed to an absentee voter must be printed on security paper that incorporates a visible watermark that identifies the ballot as an official ballot in a manner that pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2068 | Intro
25% | Local land use decision authority. Provides that the authority for a locality's planning and land use decisions belong solely to the locality and shall not be ceded to any state agency or state-sanctioned body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2015 | Intro
25% | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentence for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB2075 | Intro
25% | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for sexual abuse of a child who is 13 or 14 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1573 | Intro
25% | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1574 | Intro
25% | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to primary election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person in a primary election to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1619 | Intro
25% | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-11
To House Appropriations: Compensation & Retirement Committee |
| VA | HB2279 | Intro
25% | Authority of Attorney General; criminal cases; human and sex trafficking. Authorizes the Attorney General to prosecute violations of criminal law relating to human and sex trafficking offenses in connection with racketeering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR457 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1565 | Intro
25% | Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Provides that no chief of staff appointed by the Governor and no Secretary appointed by the Governor shall be members of each other's immediate family when each is serving in his appointed capacity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-16
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
25% | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB492 | Intro
25% | Department of Fire Programs; statewide contract language for procurement of fire and emergency medical services apparatuses and equipment; work group; report. Directs the Department of Fire Programs, the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB486 | Intro
25% | Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
