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Virginia House Rules Committee
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committee members
Terry Austin (R)
Betsy Carr (D)
Carrie Coyner (R)
C.E. Hayes (D)
Vice Chair
Dan Helmer (D)
Charniele Herring (D)
Terry Kilgore (R)
Israel O'Quinn (R)
Chair
Don Scott (D)
Mark Sickles (D)
Marcus Simon (D)
Richard Sullivan (D)
Luke Torian (D)
Kathy Tran (D)
Jeion Ward (D)
Vivian Watts (D)
Michael Webert (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB19 | Atlantic menhaden; VIMS, et al., to study ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance. | Dead | 12/12/2023 |
| HB33 | Public drinking water; Commissioner of Health's work group to study occurrence of microplastics. | Dead | 12/18/2023 |
| HB80 | Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Advisory Council on; established, report. | Dead | 12/27/2023 |
| HB130 | Constitutional officers; dual office holding, prohibited for deputies and other persons. | Dead | 01/01/2024 |
| HB178 | Social Work Advisory Board; established, report, sunset date. | Dead | 01/03/2024 |
| HB286 | Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, Task Force on. | Dead | 01/05/2024 |
| HB357 | Tidal and nontidal wetlands; DEQ to establish work group to develop strategies to protect, report. | Dead | 01/06/2024 |
| HB369 | Sexual misconduct policies; SCHEV to convene task force on combating violence, civil penalty. | Dead | 01/06/2024 |
| HB492 | Fire and emergency medical services apparatuses and equipment; procurement, report. | Dead | 01/08/2024 |
| HB512 | Conservatorship; Judicial Council of Virginia to convene work group to study. | Dead | 01/08/2024 |
| HB556 | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; increases membership, training requirements, report. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB587 | Unaccompanied minor housing program; DSS & DHCD to study implementation of program. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB897 | Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; guidance to small businesses. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB910 | Data centers; energy usage. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB923 | Dulles Toll Road & Dulles Greenway; DOT to review tolls, fines, and penalties. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB927 | Substantial risk orders; recommendations for issuance. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB988 | Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HB1031 | Legislature Modernization, Commission on; established, report. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1049 | Firefighters and emergency medical services personnel; recruitment and professional development. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1091 | Public elementary schools; incorporation of career & technical education into curricula. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1233 | Unpaved secondary highway funds; improvements, enhanced maintenances, report. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1259 | Emergency medical services personnel; career fatigue and wellness program, report. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1293 | Behavioral health and nursing; revision of policies that hinder, etc., health care workforce. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1307 | Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; student application fees, report. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1316 | Va. State Crime Commission; benefits of violence interrupters, impact of barrier crime statutes. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HB1363 | Critical infrastructure sectors; Director of Dept. of Energy to convene a work group to evaluate. | Dead | 01/15/2024 |
| HB1463 | DGS, et al.; review of procurement process, employment services organizations. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HB1492 | Trauma-informed training and education; work group to study. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HB1494 | Length of Stay Guidelines & Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; DJJ's work group to study, report. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HB1497 | Pharmacy technician profession; Board of Pharmacy to review framework. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HB1537 | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual, report. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HB1565 | Governor; appointment of chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. | Dead | 12/16/2024 |
| HB1618 | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. | Dead | 01/03/2025 |
| HB1620 | Department of Labor and Industry; work group to evaluate workplace violence. | Dead | 01/03/2025 |
| HB1658 | Board of Housing and Community Development; USBC; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation. | Dead | 01/03/2025 |
| HB1691 | Study; JLARC to study Virginia's campaign finance system; independent agency; report. | Dead | 01/03/2025 |
| HB1739 | General Assembly Military and Veterans Commission established. | Dead | 01/04/2025 |
| HB1772 | Autism Advisory Council; name change, membership, repeals sunset date. | Dead | 01/05/2025 |
| HB1809 | K-12 schools and higher educational institutions; student participation in women's sports, etc. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HB1823 | Lynching Sites Memorialization, Virginia Commission on; established, report, sunset. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HB1843 | Legal holidays; replaces Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, with Indigenous Peoples' Day. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HB1847 | Admission to bail; creates rebuttable presumptions against bail. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HB1949 | Coastal storm risk management; Off. of Commonwealth Resilience to study cost of feasibility study. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HB1978 | Assisted living facility administrators; Joint Commission on Health Care to study licensure. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HB2001 | Eastern Daylight Time; Commonwealth shall observe year-round upon enactment by Congress, etc. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HB2030 | Environmental Justice Task Force; established, report. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| HB2192 | Enhanced earned sentence credits; repeals four-level classification system. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HB2207 | Higher educational institutions, public; material aid or support to terrorist activities, etc. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HB2285 | Autism Advisory Council; establishment of an autism data dashboard, report. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2325 | Local & Regional jails, St. Bd.; standards/regulations for pregnant/postpartum incarcerated person | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2366 | Public Safety & Homeland Security & HHR, Secretaries of; combat sale of illicit cannabis products. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2372 | Health Care, Joint Commission on; duty to study proposed health insurance mandates. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2380 | HHR, Secretary of; Pharmacy Benefits Manager & Third-Party Administrator Oversight Work Group. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2405 | Gender reassignment surgery; prohibition on individuals younger than 18 years of age. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2490 | Small business set-asides; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2521 | Virginia Institute of Marine Science & Marine Resources Commission; oyster stock assessment, report. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2529 | Higher educational institutions, public; endowments; certain divestment practices prohibited. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HB2564 | Homeland Security, Bureau of; established, powers and duties, report. | Dead | 01/12/2025 |
| HB2569 | Persons with mental illness; Va. State Crime Commission, et al., to study petty crimes committed. | Dead | 01/12/2025 |
| HB2571 | State of emergency; spending authority during budgetary lapse. | Dead | 01/12/2025 |
| HB2617 | Women's Health, Commission on; established, report. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB2624 | Local officers; removal of officer appointed for a certain term, etc. | Dead | 01/13/2025 |
| HB2666 | Attorney General; distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities w/ high crime & poverty rate. | Dead | 01/15/2025 |
| HB2713 | Atlantic menhaden; Marine Resources Commission, et al., to study ecology, fishery impacts, etc. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| HB2739 | Time zone; permanent standard time in Virginia. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| HB2776 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| HJR14 | Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly to extend state recognition. | Dead | 01/04/2024 |
| HJR15 | Dependents of public school personnel, etc.; SCHEV to study reduced in-state tuition rates. | Dead | 01/04/2024 |
| HJR21 | Higher educational institutions, public; SCHEV to study guaranteed first-year admission policy. | Dead | 01/08/2024 |
| HJR22 | Skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities; JLARC to study capacity & condition. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR24 | Dillon Rule; joint subcommittee to study. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR25 | Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR29 | Comprehensive community colleges; funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR32 | Secretariat of Rural Affairs; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR34 | Public schools; Jt. Com. on Health Care to study impact of cell phone possession & use on students. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR35 | Litter tax; Department of Taxation, et al., to study tax policy options for reforming. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR36 | Clean energy; Dept. of Energy to study barriers for local governments to purchase. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR39 | Comprehensive community colleges, certain; JLARC to study waiver of tuition and mandatory fees. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR40 | Land value; DHCD to study tax implications of local governing bodies implementing a tax. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR46 | Starr Alert Program; Department of State Police to study need for an alert program, etc. | Dead | 01/09/2024 |
| HJR51 | Employment service organizations; DGS, et al., to study procuring goods and services. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR61 | Higher ed. institutions, baccalaureate public; SCHEV to study $10,000 tuition per year degree. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR63 | Cannabis; Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to study creation of a retail market. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR64 | Localities hosting data center infrastructure; DHCD to study revenue sharing program. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR65 | Roads maintained/managed by VDOT & localities; JLARC to study rate of accidents that cause fatality. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR67 | Fair school funding reform; joint committee of various House and Senate committees to study. | Dead | 01/10/2024 |
| HJR82 | State park; DCR to study feasibility of establishing in Washington County. | Dead | 01/19/2024 |
| HJR434 | Coastal storm risk management studies; non-federal sponsor contributions by localities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/03/2025 |
| HJR435 | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day; designating as first Monday in March 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/03/2025 |
| HJR436 | Vehicle noise-monitoring devices; VSP to study feasibility and impact of implementing devices. | Dead | 01/03/2025 |
| HJR437 | Recurrent Flooding, Joint Subcommittee on; reestablished and its work continued. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/03/2025 |
| HJR440 | Public school libraries; JLARC to study removal of books. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/05/2025 |
| HJR441 | Elementary/secondary schools; Va. Com. on youth to study policies to support student mental health. | Dead | 01/05/2025 |
| HJR442 | Affordable housing; study on tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth & political subdivisions. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HJR443 | Consolidation and scheduling of general elections; joint subcommittee to study. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/06/2025 |
| HJR444 | Virginia's campaign finance laws; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study. | Dead | 01/06/2025 |
| HJR445 | Persons with disabilities; JLARC to study transportation options in rural areas. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR446 | Zero Waste Awareness Week; designating as first full week of Sept. 2025 & each succeeding year. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR447 | Statewide food desert mapping tool; Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish, report. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR448 | Litter tax; Department of Environmental Quality to study tax policy options for reforming. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR449 | Hybrid and electric trucks; Department of Transportation to study options for taxation. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR451 | Land value; DHCD to study tax implications of allowing localities to implement a tax. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR453 | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR454 | Automation of ports in the Commonwealth; JLARC to study economic and workforce impacts. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HJR458 | Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day; designating as April 24, 2025, & each succeeding year thereafter. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR460 | Washington County; DCR to study feasibility of establishing a state park in Holston River watershed. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR461 | Rural Affairs, Secretariat of; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR462 | Tractor-trailers; study of need for expansion of parking along the I-66 & I-95 | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR463 | Migration of individuals age 60 & older; JLARC to study causation and resulting impact. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR464 | Cardiovascular disease screening coverage; Health Insurance Reform Commission to study. | Dead | 01/08/2025 |
| HJR466 | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month; designating as May 2025 and in each succeeding year. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/12/2025 |
| HJR468 | Higher educational institutions, public; JLARC to study cost efficiency. | Dead | 01/13/2025 |
| HJR473 | Commercial Waterman Safety Week. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HJR497 | Retail cannabis market; joint commission established to oversee transition of the Commonwealth. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/16/2025 |
| HJR498 | Kindness Day; designating as April 6, 2025, and each succeeding year thereafter. | Dead | 01/16/2025 |
| HJR499 | Krabbe Disease Awareness Day; designating as February 28, 2025, and each succeeding year thereafter. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/16/2025 |
| HJR500 | Election Worker Appreciation Day. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/16/2025 |
| HJR502 | Governor; portrait. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HJR507 | Emergency Management Professionals Week. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HJR673 | Confirming appointments by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| HR454 | Reproductive freedom; Speaker of HOD to order study of legal effects & consequences, etc. | Dead | 01/07/2025 |
| HR487 | Israel, State of; reaffirming Commonwealth's support and commitment to its supporters. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| HR613 | Federal workforce in Virginia; opposition to downsizing. | Dead | 02/06/2025 |
| HR711 | Confirming nominations; House Ethics Advisory Panel. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| SB226 | Highway use fee; DMV to convene work group to determine tiered flat rate system, report. | Dead | 02/13/2024 |
| SB229 | Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Advisory Council on; placement of Council. | Dead | 02/13/2024 |
| SB280 | Health care; decision-making, definitions, medical aid in dying, penalties. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SB302 | Virginia First Manufacturing Incentive Program; Manufacturing Development Commission to create. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SB347 | VA Military Survivors & Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate, etc., Program. | Dead | 02/16/2024 |
| SB563 | Regional career and technical education program; establishing in Planning District 2. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SB594 | Emergency medical personnel; EMS Advisory Board to examine requirements to join program. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SB748 | Uniform Statewide Building Code; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB768 | School-based mental and behavioral health services; DOE to survey local education agencies, report. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB779 | Railroad safety; minimum train crew used in movement of freight, civil penalties. | Dead | 02/11/2025 |
| SB799 | School Health Services Committee; extends sunset date. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB878 | Unemployment Compensation, Commission on; increases membership, powers and duties. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB883 | Firearms; purchase, etc., assault and battery of family member or intimate partner, penalties. | Vetoed | 02/11/2025 |
| SB885 | Office of the State Inspector General; behavioral health and developmental services; required reports. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB886 | Trigger activator; definition does not include semi-automatic replacement trigger, etc., penalty. | Vetoed | 02/11/2025 |
| SB932 | Counties, cities, and towns; comprehensive plan may include tiny homes or accessory dwelling units. | Dead | 02/11/2025 |
| SB966 | Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission; increase membership. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB1011 | Affordable dwelling unit program; adds City of Falls Church to list. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB1019 | WIC applications; DH to provide information to food banks regarding providing assistance. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB1028 | New tow truck license plates; DMV, et al., to identify information needed to design & implement. | Dead | 02/04/2025 |
| SB1101 | Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council; established. | Dead | 02/06/2025 |
| SB1118 | Cemeteries on private property; registration by localities. | Vetoed | 02/11/2025 |
| SB1165 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB1184 | Va. Economic Development Partnership; evaluation of new economic development incentives. | Dead | 02/04/2025 |
| SB1217 | Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; intercollegiate athletics programs. | Dead | 02/06/2025 |
| SB1219 | Legislator Compensation Commission; established, appointment of members, report. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/03/2025 |
| SB1222 | Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. | Dead | 02/11/2025 |
| SB1239 | Cybersecurity; electric service by investor-owned electric utilities, report. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB1278 | Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement, Task Force on; quarterly meetings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| SB1326 | Core emergency management functions; DEM to study reliance on federal grants. | Dead | 02/06/2025 |
| SB1337 | Coastal storm risk mgmt.; Office of Commonwealth Resilience to study costs of feasibility studies. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB1374 | Continuity of Operations; Secretary of Public Safety & Homeland Sec. to study centralized framework. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB1375 | Dynamic stockpile strategy; Div. of Purchases & Supply, et al., to study use in times of emergency. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB1385 | Emergency management and state health regions, etc.; study of makeup and composition. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB1442 | Public Safety & Homeland Security & HHR, Secretaries of; combat sale of illicit cannabis products. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR19 | Roadway & pedestrian improvements in Gainesville; VDOT to study implementation in Prince Wm. County. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SJR21 | Secretariat of Rural Affairs; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. | Dead | 02/15/2024 |
| SJR22 | Virginia State Police, retired; TAX to study reducing economic stress. | Dead | 02/16/2024 |
| SJR26 | Drugs; JLARC to study scope and cost of penalizing possession as a felony. | Passed | 02/15/2024 |
| SJR250 | Women Veterans Day; designating as June 12, 2025, and each succeeding year thereafter. | Passed | 02/04/2025 |
| SJR251 | Public school libraries; JLARC to study removal of books. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR253 | General elections; joint subcommittee to study consolidation and scheduling. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR254 | Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Awareness Month; designating as May 2025 & each succeeding year thereafter. | Passed | 02/04/2025 |
| SJR255 | Virginia's campaign finance laws; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR258 | Virginia's manufacturing sector; JLARC to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR259 | Study; JLARC; methodology used to determine judicial allocations; report. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR261 | Specialized Education School Week; designating as first week of Oct. 2025 & each succeeding year. | Passed | 02/04/2025 |
| SJR262 | Rural Affairs, Secretariat of; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR263 | Surry County; DOT to study need for constructing bridge to James City County or Charles City County. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR264 | Virginia Private College Week; designating as week of July 13, 2025, & 3rd week of July each year. | Passed | 02/04/2025 |
| SJR269 | Persian Heritage Month. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR278 | Native Plant Month. | Passed | 02/05/2025 |
| SJR280 | Commending the 2025 House-Senate basketball game to benefit Massey Cancer Center. | Dead | 01/27/2025 |