| VA | HB1721 | Engross
50% | Uniform Easement Relocation Act. Creates the Uniform Easement Relocation Act, which allows the owner of real estate burdened by an easement to obtain a court order to relocate the easement if the relocation does not materially impair, among other imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1743 | Engross
50% | License taxes; deduction for out-of-state receipts; work group; report. Provides that, for purposes of the license tax deduction for out-of-state receipts, such receipts shall be determined based upon the facts and circumstances of the taxpayer's bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1601 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined in the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 13-N 1-A) |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR445 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR856 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR884 | Pass | Commending the Vietnamese American community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1712 | Engross
50% | Arrest of certain persons with or without a warrant not required. Provides that no law-enforcement officer with the power to arrest is required to arrest an individual who is currently subject to an emergency custody order, temporary detention order,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Watts, Hope, Hodges |
| VA | HB1713 | Enroll
75% | Jurisdiction of district courts in felony cases; specialty dockets; Behavioral Health Docket Act. Authorizes a general district court and a juvenile and domestic relations district court to retain jurisdiction over a felony offense for the purpose of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1713) |
| VA | HB1970 | Engross
50% | Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning; emergency. Clarifies that institutions licensed by the Department of Education that provide services pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or any school that is li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Deeds, Locke, Pillion |
| VA | HB2036 | Engross
50% | Reckless driving; exhibition driving; penalties. Expands reckless driving to include exhibition driving, defined in the bill. The bill prohibits (i) slowing or stopping traffic for a race or exhibition driving; (ii) riding as a passenger on or in an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (92-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1969 | Engross
50% | Taxation; extension of expiring sunsets. Extends to taxable year 2026:1. The exemption for discharged loans for eligible veterans currently set to expire January 1, 2026;2. The credit for amounts paid to another state for income taxes of a pass-throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Lucas, Deeds, McDougle |
| VA | HB1606 | Enroll
75% | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator; emergency. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2663 | Enroll
75% | Electricity consumption tax; rate adjustments. Increases the electric utility consumption tax's special utility tax rates for commercial and industrial consumer electricity consumed per month (i) in excess of 2,500 kWh but not in excess of 50,000 kWh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2245 | Enroll
75% | Real property tax; assessment of affordable rental housing. Directs the Department of Taxation to develop a uniform income and expense reporting form that may be provided by duly authorized assessors and completed by the owners of affordable rental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB2631 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2631) |
| VA | HB2162 | Engross
50% | Per diem compensation of a substitute judge of a district court. Increases from $200 to $350 the per diem compensation of each substitute judge of a district court. The bill also increases the per diem compensation for such judge from $100 to $175 if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1760 | Engross
50% | Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Act; report. Directs the Department of Health (the Department), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Education, to convene a work group to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (64-Y 31-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] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1828 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1736 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill states that the Center will serve a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1736ER) |
| VA | HB2531 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Signed by President |
| VA | HB1759 | Enroll
75% | Department of Corrections; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; post-release job search assistance services. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall work with the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1759ER) |
| VA | HB1977 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1977) |
| VA | HB2738 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders; generally accepted standards of care. Requires health insurance coverage, as defined in the bill, to provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 15-N) |
| VA | HB2560 | Enroll
75% | Notifying defendant of consequences criminal proceedings can have on immigration. Requires that upon the defendant's first appearance for any misdemeanor or felony, the court shall advise the defendant of the following: The outcome of criminal pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2560ER) |
| VA | HB2744 | Engross
50% | Electric utilities; energy efficiency upgrades; report. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to reduce, wherever feasible and cost-effective, heating-related costs of living for low-income residents. The bill requires Dominion Energy and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (70-Y 27-N) |
| VA | HB1876 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1876) |
| VA | HB2610 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Delegates: Callsen, Carr, Wachsmann |
| VA | HB2482 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Senate Amendment agreed to by House (51-Y 44-N) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Passed Senate (39-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] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Marsden, Boysko, Stuart |
| VA | HB1607 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1607) |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Senators: Surovell, Locke, Peake |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
Senate substitute agreed to by House (56-Y 40-N) |
| VA | HJR727 | Pass | Commending Felipe Hernandez, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR726 | Pass | Commending Carlos Cañas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR728 | Pass | Commending Heman Bekele.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR758 | Pass | Commending Geraldine Maskelony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR406 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR751 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thomas Cahill Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR684 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | SJR387 | Pass | Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR379 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Walter Benjamin Keister, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SJR434 | Pass | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR441 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR680 | Pass | Commending the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR410 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SJR408 | Pass | Commending the United States Army.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
