| VA | SB875 | Engross
50% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2026, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve as the state pharmacy benefits m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 2-N 0-A) |
| VA | SB1307 | Enroll
75% | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for public school capital projects, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1142 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1076 | Engross
50% | Phase I Utilities; securitized asset costs. Authorizes Appalachian Power to petition the State Corporation Commission for a financing order for securitized asset costs, as defined in the bill. The bill creates the securitized asset cost charge and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-22
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB921 | Engross
50% | State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2199 | Enroll
75% | Charter; Town of Richlands. Amends the charter for the Town of Richlands in Tazewell County by requiring that proposed ordinances be presented, rather than read, at two regular meetings prior to adoption. The bill also requires the town manager to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1248 | Enroll
75% | Fire Prevention Code; prohibition on permit fees for fire departments and emergency medical services agencies in certain localities. Prohibits the State Fire Marshal from charging a fee for the approval and administration of permits issued to fire de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1270 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Housing Development Authority; technical advisory group; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Development Authority to convene a technical advisory group to (i) evaluate the prevalence of deed fraud, including notary fraud, seller impersonat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB1428 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | SB873 | Engross
50% | Charter; Town of Richlands. Amends the charter for the Town of Richlands in Tazewell County by requiring that proposed ordinances be presented, rather than read, at two regular meetings prior to adoption. The bill also requires the town manager to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed House (97-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1059 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Increases from $20,000 to $30,000 per claim the individual limit of claims against the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund based upon an unpaid judgment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 |
| VA | SB929 | Intro
25% | Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund and requires any eligible designated funds received under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be deposited into the Fund....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2665 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; rate caps; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; utility rate reviews. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish capped rates for Appalachian Power. The bill requires the capped rates to be the rates in effect fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1762 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid; Social Security Disability Insurance. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authorization to provide Medicaid coverage, regardless of income or assets, to individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1180 | Intro
25% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; powers and duties. Requires the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to ensure that all workforce development programs and workforce education and training programs (i) address an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1423 | Intro
25% | Taxation; rate of interest. Provides that (i) the rate of interest on omitted taxes and assessments is equal to the Underpayment Rate established by the Internal Revenue Code and (ii) the rate of interest on refunds is equal to the Overpayment Rate f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N) |
| VA | SB1091 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources; zero-carbon electricity generating nuclear facilities. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include zero-carbon electricity genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB1022 | Intro
25% | State Corporation Commission; time frame for completion of certain transmission lines proceedings. Requires the State Corporation Commission to complete proceedings regarding the approval of certain transmission lines of 138 kilovolts or more within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1281 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; retail competition. Authorizes a customer who is a customer of a Phase I Utility that had a typical residential customer bill for a residential customer using 1,000 kWh per month that exceeded 125 percent of the statewide average ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB749 | 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] | 2025-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB973 | Intro
25% | Pilot program; electric generation from captured waste mine methane; renewable portfolio standard. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program for American Electric Power and Dominion Energy to submit proposals to deploy ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB806 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards that apply for vehicles with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB874 | Intro
25% | Local sales and use tax; capital projects for schools; Pulaski County. Adds Pulaski County to the list of localities that are authorized to levy an additional general retail sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent to provide revenue sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (SB1307-McPike) (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB163 | Intro
25% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1070 | Engross
50% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB563 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB226 | Engross
50% | Department of Motor Vehicles; highway use fee; tiered flat rate system; work group; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB557 | Intro
25% | Renewable energy portfolio standard; eligibility of hydrogen and nuclear resources. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include (i) hydrogen resources that are produced from zero-carbon generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB562 | Intro
25% | Pilot program for captured coal mine methane; renewable energy portfolio standard. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program for American Electric Power (Phase I Utility) and Dominion Energy (Phase II Utility) to submit pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
