| VA | SB909 | Intro
25% | Advertising alcoholic beverages, liquid nicotine, and nicotine vapor products; motor sports facility. Provides an exception to the prohibition on advertising about or concerning alcoholic beverages for advertisements of any alcoholic beverage within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 5-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB903 | Engross
50% | Sale and procurement of animals by pet shops; pet shop regulations. Expands the provisions relating to the restriction on a pet shop to only sell dogs procured from certain sources to apply for all animals sold or offered for sale by a pet shop. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| VA | SB905 | Engross
50% | School boards; Internet safety education program; Internet Safety Advisory Council established. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Internet Safety Advisory Council and requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB905) |
| VA | SJR267 | Engross
50% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SB1293 | Intro
25% | School board employees; health care professionals; professional development and continuing education; optional programs; children with autism spectrum disorder. Directs the Board of Education to provide guidance on and each school board to provide ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
Committee substitute printed 25106504D-S1 |
| VA | SB1458 | Intro
25% | Display of single license plate; fee. Authorizes any owner of a passenger car that is otherwise required to display two license plates to display, upon payment of an additional annual fee of $100 at the time of vehicle registration or renewal of vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2208 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Committee substitute printed 25106297D-H1 |
| VA | SB1127 | Intro
25% | Animal testing facilities; public notification. Requires any animal testing facility to (i) within 30 days of receiving a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report, make such inspection report publicly available along with any other rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR511 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR512 | Pass | Commending the Roanoke Star.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) |
| VA | SB1428 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR324 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Frank Miller Ruff, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB1284 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; presence of or material aid or support to terrorist activities, organizations, and states prohibited. Prohibits from accessing, occupying, or otherwise having a physical presence on any campus of a public inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1478 | Intro
25% | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; School of Dentistry of Virginia Commonwealth University; efficacy of expanding facilities; study; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to, in consultation with the entities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB915 | Intro
25% | School boards; private institutions of higher education; industry and trade dual-enrollment, education, and training opportunities; partnerships permitted. Permits any school board, upon approval of a plan submitted to the Board of Education (the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB904 | Intro
25% | Medical malpractice; limitation on recovery; certain actions. Eliminates the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred on or after July 1, 2025, and occurred aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB907 | Engross
50% | Animal testing facility operated by a state agency; nonhuman primates. Requires any animal testing facility operated by a state agency that no longer has need for a nonhuman primate in its possession to offer for release such nonhuman primate to a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB906 | Intro
25% | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB908 | Engross
50% | Public schools; student discipline and codes of conduct; prevention of and response to cyberbullying; policies and procedures required. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1481 | Intro
25% | Animal testing facilities operated by public institutions of higher education; report. Requires each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth that operates an animal testing facility to publish an annual report that includes specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB1227 | Intro
25% | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1227) |
| VA | SB1256 | Intro
25% | Counties, cities, and towns; comprehensive plan; 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 accessory dwelling units, defined in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Incorporated by Local Government (SB932-Salim) (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SJR280 | Engross
50% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1076 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 3]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1246 | Intro
25% | Virginia Emergency Management Preparedness and Capabilities Grant Program and Fund established; work group; report. Establishes the Virginia Emergency Management Preparedness and Capabilities Grant Program and Fund for the purpose of awarding grants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | SB914 | Intro
25% | Sexual assault of a child; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Increases the penalty for the sexual assault of a child younger than 18 years of age to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB1399 | Intro
25% | Lobbyist registration; definition of "lobbyist"; representatives of public institutions of higher education. Amends the definition of "lobbyist" to include individuals who represent public institutions of higher education for the purpose of lobbying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB913 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of imported goods; forced and child labor prohibition. Prohibits public bodies from awarding contracts to acquire imported goods from a business whose products are on the list of products produced by force...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-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 | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Bill text as passed Senate (SR210ER) |
| VA | SB910 | Intro
25% | Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-01-15
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | SB911 | Intro
25% | Aerial pesticide application; Virginia Pollinator Protection Strategy; civil penalty. Requires any commercial or private pesticide applicator performing an aerial pesticide application, as defined in the bill, to submit certain relevant information t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB902 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable portfolio standard program; deficiency payments. Removes provisions requiring deficiency payments by certain electric utilities that are unable to meet the compliance obligation of the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB912 | Intro
25% | Safety and Health Codes Board; THC impairment standard for certain work sites. Directs the Safety and Health Codes Board to promulgate regulations to establish a THC impairment standard and testing protocol to be used exclusively on manufacturing and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| 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 | SB694 | Intro
25% | Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB96 | Intro
25% | Special education; Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program (the Pilot Program), to be developed and administered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB31 | Intro
25% | Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund established. Establishes the Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB684 | Intro
25% | Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB492 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of electric vehicles; forced and child labor prohibition. Prohibits public bodies from awarding contracts to acquire an electric vehicle or electric vehicle component from a business unless such business p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB62 | Intro
25% | New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB286 | Intro
25% | Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR14 | Intro
25% | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB240 | Intro
25% | Income tax; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan accounts; report. Increases the maximum individual income tax deduction for amounts paid or contributed to a prepaid tuition contract or college savings trust account entered into with the Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Finance Committee |
