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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | SB764 | Introduced | 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] | 2024-12-14 |
| #2 | SB757 | Introduced | Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of a contracted defense facility, def... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-10 |
| #3 | SB751 | Introduced | Protective orders; military protective orders. Permits a court to find good cause to issue a preliminary protective order when a petitioner has a Military Protective Order. The bill directs a law-enforcement officer to notify the agency that ente... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-04 |
| #4 | SB768 | Introduced | 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] | 2024-12-17 |
| #5 | HB1564 | Introduced | 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] | 2024-12-16 Committee Referral Pending |
| #6 | HB1563 | Introduced | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; emergency dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to emergency dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police, Capitol Police, and agencies who... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-16 Committee Referral Pending |
| #7 | SB749 | Introduced | 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 oth... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-01 |
| #8 | SB754 | Introduced | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; obtaining, disclosing, etc., reproductive or sexual health information without consumer consent. Provides that obtaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating personally identifiable reprodu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-05 |
| #9 | HB1567 | Introduced | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; operational plan submission. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to include in the annual report on its operational plan the most recent available audit report from the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-23 Committee Referral Pending |
| #10 | HB1560 | Introduced | Sales and use tax; accommodations for transients. Provides that the term "retail sale" shall include the sale of accommodations to transients for less than 30 days. Under current law, "retail sale" includes such sales to transients for less than 90 d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-14 Committee Referral Pending |
| #11 | HB1566 | Introduced | 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] | 2024-12-18 Committee Referral Pending |
| #12 | SB753 | Introduced | Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments in languages other than English; development and administration. Requires (i) the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning assessments in native languages other than English that a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-04 |
| #13 | SB758 | Introduced | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-10 |
| #14 | SB755 | Introduced | School safety; employment of school security officers; criteria. Modifies the criteria that an individual employed as a school security officer, as defined by applicable law, must satisfy in order to carry a firearm in the performance of his dutie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-10 |
| #15 | SB770 | Introduced | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; deaths of inmates in local, regional, and community correctional facilities; reports. Consolidates reports made by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails related to the Board's reviews of the deaths of in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-19 |
| #16 | SB752 | Introduced | Board of Psychology; prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists work group; report. Directs the Board of Psychology to convene a work group to assess the feasibility of authorizing clinical psychologists licensed in Virginia to obtain and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-04 |
| #17 | SB766 | Introduced | Museum of the Virginia National Guard established. Establishes the Museum of the Virginia National Guard as a state agency and educational institution for the dissemination of education concerning the history of the Virginia National Guard. The bill ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-17 |
| #18 | SB771 | Introduced | Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors; annual meetings. Reduces from four to one the minimum number of required annual meetings of the Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-20 |
| #19 | HB1568 | Introduced | Jurisdiction of corporate authorities; Frederick County. Grants law-enforcement officers of Frederick County jurisdiction over offenses committed in the City of Winchester within one mile from the county line. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-23 Committee Referral Pending |
| #20 | SB765 | Introduced | Incapacitated persons; finding of mental incompetence. Provides that a finding that a person is incapacitated in a proceeding for guardianship or conservatorship shall not be synonymous with a finding that such person is \\"mentally incompetent,\\" a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-16 |
| #21 | SB772 | Introduced | Department of Social Services; applications for public assistance; immigration status inquiry. Requires the director of a local department of social services or the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, whichever is applicable, to inquir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-23 |
| #22 | SB800 | Introduced | Budge Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-18 |
| #23 | HB1600 | Introduced | Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-18 |
| #24 | SB760 | Introduced | Elections; deadline for receipt of absentee ballots and certain other information; 5:00 p.m. on the third day after the election. Moves the deadline for receipt of absentee ballots, information required to cure an absentee ballot, or proof of iden... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-11 |
| #25 | SB761 | Introduced | Civil actions brought by warrant. Extends the date range during which a person against whom a civil claim is asserted is required to appear in court to answer the complaint from not more than 60 to not more than 90 days from the date the warrant is s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-12 |
| #26 | SB763 | Introduced | Income tax deduction; tips. Provides, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026, an income tax deduction for the amount of cash tips received during the taxable year that are included on statements furnished to the employer for federal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-13 |
| #27 | SB750 | Introduced | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-04 |
| #28 | HB1562 | Introduced | Income tax deduction; tips. Provides, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026, an income tax deduction for the amount of cash tips received during the taxable year that are included on statements furnished to the employer for federal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-15 Committee Referral Pending |
| #29 | SB759 | Introduced | Contracts assigning rights to earned wages; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2025, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-10 |
| #30 | HB1561 | Introduced | Classification of land and improvements for tax purposes; localities. Reclassifies improvements to real property as a separate class of real property and authorizes any locality to impose a real property tax on improvements to real property at a tax ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-14 Committee Referral Pending |
| #31 | HB1565 | Introduced | 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 Committee Referral Pending |
| #32 | SB767 | Introduced | Institutions of higher education; financial assistance; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard. Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the amount of grant funding that the Department of Military Affairs may use each year to recruit qualified applicants ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-17 |
| #33 | SB756 | Introduced | Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-10 |
| #34 | HB1570 | Introduced | Virginia Public Procurement Act; project labor agreements. Repeals the provision of the Virginia Public Procurement Act that authorizes any public body, including any state or local government, when engaged in procuring products or services or lettin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-23 Committee Referral Pending |
| #35 | SB762 | Introduced | Salaries of boards of supervisors for certain counties. Increases the statutory salary caps for boards of supervisors of counties that have adopted salary limits consistent with provisions in the Code of Virginia relating to alternative procedures fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-12 |
| #36 | HB1559 | Introduced | Renewal of concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence. Provides that a person who was previously issued a concealed handgun permit is not required to provide any proof of training or demonstration of competence to be issued a renewal permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-12 Committee Referral Pending |
| #37 | HJR429 | Introduced | General Assembly; 2026 Session prefiling schedule. Establishes a schedule for the prefiling period for the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-20 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103871D |
| #38 | HJR430 | Introduced | General Assembly; 2025 Session schedule. Establishes a schedule for the conduct of business coming before the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-20 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103228D |
| #39 | HB1569 | Introduced | Fees for concealed handgun permits. Reduces from $50 to $25 the total amount assessed for processing an application for a concealed handgun permit by reducing the total amount charged by the local law-enforcement agency from $35 to $10. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-23 Committee Referral Pending |
| #40 | SB769 | Introduced | Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-18 |
