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Legislator > Kelly Convirs-Fowler
State Delegate
Kelly Convirs-Fowler
(D) - Virginia
Virginia House District 096
In Office - Started: 01/10/2024
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Richmond, VA 23219
201 N. 9th St.
Richmond, VA 23219
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| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB1716 | Contraception; establishes right to obtain, applicability, enforcement. | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as such terms are defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to permit or sanction the performance of any sterilization procedure without a patient's voluntary and informed consent. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringes on such right. This bill is identical to SB 1105. | Vetoed |
| HB1844 | Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. | Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bill requires a manufacturer of a baby food product to meet certain testing requirements and include certain information related to toxic heavy metals on the manufacturer's website and on the baby food product. The bill requires a consumer to report a baby food product to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services if the consumer reasonably believes that the baby food is being sold in the Commonwealth with toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by the FDA. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. The bill also directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on the current enforcement of laws related to the presence of toxic heavy metals in baby food products and any further action needed to address the issue of toxic heavy metals in baby food products. The bill requires the work group to report on its findings and recommendations by the first day of the 2026 Regular Session. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1923 | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners, etc. | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to provide equal coverage for such services. The bill requires the reimbursement for a service provided by a licensed certified midwife or licensed midwife to be in the same amount as the reimbursement paid under the policy to a certified nurse midwife performing such service in the area served, subject to certain conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1989 | Medical cannabis program; changes requirements for product labels, dispensing cannabis products. | Medical cannabis program; product labels; delivery. Changes the requirements for what is included on medical cannabis product labels affixed by pharmaceutical processors to include (i) the total milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol included in the edible cannabis product or topical cannabis product, both defined in the bill; (ii) the number of milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol in each serving of the edible cannabis product or topical cannabis product; and (iii) the total percentage of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol included in the inhalable cannabis product, defined in the bill. Under current law, the product label of any medical cannabis product is required to include the total percentage and milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol included in the product and the number of milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol in each serving.The bill also allows a pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility to dispense or deliver cannabis products in person to a patient or such patient's registered agent, parent, or legal guardian at any residence, including a temporary residence, or business. However, the bill prohibits dispensing or delivering cannabis products to (a) any military base, child day center, school, or correctional facility; (b) the State Capitol; or (c) any public gathering places, including sporting events, festivals, fairs, races, concerts, and terminals of public transportation companies. The bill also specifies that all transportation or delivery of usable cannabis, botanical cannabis, cannabis oil, or cannabis products, whether by an employee or delivery agent, shall comply with all relevant laws and regulations and provides that the Board of Directors of the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority may suspend or revoke the privileges of any employee or delivery agent to transport or deliver such products for failure to comply. | Vetoed |
| HB2018 | Teachers; career and technical education, alternative pathway to provisional licensure. | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education who has a high school diploma or a high school equivalency certificate and an industry-recognized credential, certification, or license in the area in which such person seeks an endorsement but has not completed all requirements specified in the Board's regulations for licensure to allow time for such person to complete, in lieu of the outstanding requirements specified in the Board's regulations for licensure, coursework in three areas specified in the bill. The bill directs the Board to amend its regulations as necessary in accordance with the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 879. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2087 | Electric utilities; transportation electrification, definitions. | Electric utilities; electric vehicle charging stations; transportation electrification. Permits Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power Company to develop, own, maintain, and operate public-facing fast-charging stations, as defined in the bill, at or beyond a radial distance from privately owned fast-charging stations, which radial distance shall be determined by the Commission in a rulemaking proceeding initiated by June 1, 2027, with a final order entered no later than December 31, 2027. The bill repeals current law related to the recovery of costs associated with investment in transportation electrification on December 31, 2027, to coincide with such final order. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2030. | Vetoed |
| HB2371 | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for contraceptive drugs and contraceptive devices, as defined in the bill, including those available over-the-counter. The bill prohibits a health insurance carrier from imposing upon any person receiving contraceptive benefits pursuant to the provisions of the bill any copayment, coinsurance payment, or fee, except in certain circumstances. This bill is identical to SB 780. | Vetoed |
| HB2446 | Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign. | Postpartum Depression Education Act; report. Directs the Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign, develop and distribute educational materials, and create an online resource hub focused on perinatal and postpartum depression. The bill requires the Department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the bill, with the first annual report due by November 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2415 | Public housing authorities; indigent parties, unlawful detainer. | Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to (i) prohibit any landlord that is a public housing authority from requiring a tenant to pay any fees for the maintenance or repair of a dwelling unit unless such repair is necessitated by the tenant's action or omission and (ii) require, if a public housing authority issues a notice of nonpayment of rent to a tenant, such public housing authority to provide the tenant certain information printed on pink or orange paper explaining how the tenant may recertify the tenant's income in accordance with federal law and policy. This bill is identical to SB 1221. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2520 | Virginia military forces; preliminary protective orders, etc. | 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 Prevention and Response Officer (the Officer) to perform victim advocacy services, including helping victims of certain criminal sexual assault offenses make either a restricted report or an unrestricted report, as those terms are defined in the bill. Restricted and unrestricted reports may be made (i) by a person who is a member of the Virginia military forces, defined in the bill as the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force, or (ii) against a member of the Virginia military forces. The bill directs the Adjutant General, in coordination with the Officer, to submit an annual report to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the chairmen of both the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice. The annual report shall include relevant information enumerated in the bill, including implementation and effectiveness of the Program's policies and procedures, as well as statistical information about restricted reports and unrestricted reports. | Vetoed |
| HB2610 | State pharmacy benefits manager; DMAS to select & contract with a third-party administrator to serve | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager; independent evaluation. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services, by July 1, 2026, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve as the state pharmacy benefits manager to administer all pharmacy benefits for Medicaid recipients, including recipients enrolled in a managed care organization. The bill enumerates requirements for the Department's contract with the state pharmacy benefits manager. In addition, the bill directs the Department to engage an independent consultant to evaluate the implementation of a contract with a third-party pharmacy benefits manager pursuant to the bill. This bill incorporates HB 2209 and is identical to SB 875. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2777 | Public schools; definitions, textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary school student instruction, including (i) requiring each local school board to adopt and implement textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials in English language arts for grades six through 12 and mathematics, science, and history and social studies for grades kindergarten through 12 and requiring the Department of Education to support such local adoption and implementation in several ways and (ii) requiring each education preparation program offered by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education or alternative certification program that provides training for any student seeking initial licensure by the Board of Education with certain endorsements to include a program of coursework and clinical experience and require all such students to demonstrate mastery in identifying and implementing textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. The provisions of the bill, with the exception of a provision that requires a study of and report on the textbook review and approval process by November 1, 2025, have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill incorporates HB 2291 and HB 2772 and is identical to SB 955. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2611 | Health insurance; coverage for cancer follow-up testing, report. | Health insurance; coverage for cancer follow-up testing; report. Requires health insurers and other carriers to provide coverage for cancer follow-up testing, as defined in the bill, and prohibits the imposition of deductibles, coinsurance, or any other cost-sharing requirements specifically on cancer follow-up testing. The bill directs the Bureau of Insurance to annually report to the General Assembly on (i) the number of individuals benefiting from the removal of copayments for cancer follow-up testing, (ii) the financial impact on health insurance premiums as a result of the provisions of the bill, and (iii) recommendations for further policy adjustments. | Dead |
| HR853 | Commending Khadijeh Aslankhani. | Commending Khadijeh "Malieh" Aslankhani. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR884 | Commending the Vietnamese American community. | Commending the Vietnamese American community. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR861 | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S. | Commending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2501 | Driver communication improvement program; DMV to develop and implement program. | Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide to a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of easing communication during a traffic stop or upon such law-enforcement officer's arrival at the scene of a traffic accident. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2764 | Collective bargaining by public employees; exclusive bargaining representatives. | 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 bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. The bill requires public employers and employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representatives to meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. The bill repeals a provision that declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vote by secret ballot is a fundamental right that shall be guaranteed from infringement. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 917. | Vetoed |
| HB2769 | Life or health insurances; unfair discrimination, pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of HIV. | Life insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life insurance or accident and sickness insurance coverage available to an individual or charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage based solely on the status of such individual as having received pre-exposure prophylaxis for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. | Vetoed |
| HB2613 | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation, possession or consumption of authorized substances. | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based only on the fact that the child's parent or other person responsible for his care, or the person petitioning for custody or visitation of the child, possessed or consumed legally authorized substances. The bill directs the Board of Social Services to amend its regulations, guidance documents, and other instructional materials to ensure that such regulations, documents, and materials comply with, and that investigations and family assessments are conducted by local departments of social services in accordance with, the provisions of the bill. | Vetoed |
| HB2237 | Public school employees; suspension, notice and opportunity for a hearing. | Public school employees; suspension; conditions for continued receipt of salary. Clarifies that no school board employee shall be suspended without notice and, if applicable, an opportunity to be heard and that any individual who is so suspended, regardless of the length of such suspension, shall continue to receive his then applicable salary unless and until the school board, after a hearing, determines otherwise. | Vetoed |
| HB2479 | Political campaign advertisements; synthetic media, penalty. | Elections; political campaign advertisements; synthetic media; penalty. Prohibits electioneering communications containing synthetic media, as those terms are defined in the bill, from being published or broadcast without containing the following conspicuously displayed statement: "This message contains synthetic media that has been altered from its original source or artificially generated and may present conduct or speech that did not occur." The bill creates a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000 for a violation of such prohibition and, for a willful violation, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill permits any registered voter who receives an electioneering communication in violation of this requirement to institute an action for preventative relief to prohibit the publication or dissemination of such electioneering communication, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction. This bill is identical to SB 775. | Vetoed |
| HB2485 | Cannabis control; establishes framework for creating retail market, penalties. | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all marijuana licenses on September 1, 2025, but provides that no retail sales may occur prior to May 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 970. | Vetoed |
| HB2393 | Human trafficking; issuance of writ of vacatur for victims. | Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of human trafficking. Amends the procedure that allows victims of human trafficking, defined in the bill, to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and court records expunged for such convictions. This bill incorporates HB 2227 and is identical to SB 1460. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2469 | Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. | Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. Adds domestic workers, as defined in the bill, to provisions related to overtime pay. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 897. | Vetoed |
| HB2241 | Firearms, etc.; possession, etc., by person convicted of hate crime. | Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted, on or after July 1, 2025, of assault or assault and battery if it appears on the face of the warrant upon such conviction that such person intentionally selected the person against whom the offense was committed because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or ethnic or national origin from knowingly and intentionally possessing or transporting any firearm or ammunition for a firearm, any stun weapon, or any explosive material or carrying a concealed weapon, a violation of which is a Class 1 misdemeanor. | Vetoed |
| HB2277 | Elections administration; duties of local electoral board, certification of election, civil penalty. | Elections administration; duties of local electoral board; certification of election; grounds for removal; civil penalty. Provides that the certification of the results of an election is a clear ministerial duty of the local electoral boards and that a member of the local electoral board who neglects or refuses to perform such duty in accordance with law shall be subject to removal proceedings by the State Board of Elections and assessed a penalty not exceeding $1,000. The bill also authorizes the State Board of Elections to intervene and carry out the duties related to election certification in the event a local electoral board fails or refuses to do so. | Vetoed |
| HB2229 | Virginia Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord, rent escrow. | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental agreement. The bill requires the tenant, during the pendency of the action, to pay into escrow the amount of rent that becomes due within five days of the date due under the rental agreement, unless or until such amount is modified by a subsequent order of the court. The bill also provides that a failure of the tenant to make timely payments into escrow shall not be grounds for dismissal of the underlying action but may be considered by the court when issuing an order. | Vetoed |
| HB2356 | Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements, RPS-eligible source work, penalties. | Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements; RPS-eligible source work; penalties. Requires each public service company, including its contractors and subcontractors, or third-party developer to ensure payment at the prevailing wage rate set by the Department of Labor and Industry for any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform construction, maintenance, or repair work for certain electricity generating sources. The bill requires each public service company to (i) ensure that 15 percent of the total labor hours of such work is performed by qualified apprentices and (ii) employ at least one qualified apprentice if four or more individuals are employed to perform such work. Under the bill, a public service company that fails to meet the requirements of its provisions is required to make penalty payments to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. This bill is identical to SB 853. | Vetoed |
| HB2221 | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification, report. | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification; report. Requires that prior to the release or discharge into the community of any prisoner who has been confined for at least 90 days and does not possess a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or social security card, the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Registrar of Vital Records, and any other relevant government agency, shall provide such prisoner with a certified copy of his birth certificate, his social security card, or a government-issued identification card, unless such provision of a government-issued identification card is not possible, in which case, the Department of Corrections shall provide the prisoner with a Department of Corrections Offender Identification form. The bill also specifies what identifying information must be included on such form and provides that such form shall be verified by the Department of Corrections and provided to the Department of Motor Vehicles in a secured format and by a means mutually agreed upon by both and shall serve as proof of identity and proof of Virginia residency and may serve as proof of legal presence in the United States or proof of a social security number, if one is available, as required to obtain a government-issued identification card for the 120 days immediately following the release or discharge of the prisoner identified on such form. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections and the Department of Motor Vehicles to cooperatively establish procedures for verifying a Department of Corrections Offender Identification form and all information contained therein and prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from accepting such form if the form or any of the information contained on the form cannot be verified. These provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. The bill also directs the Department of Corrections, in coordination with the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the State Registrar of Vital Records, to (i) identify the number of prisoners released with and without identification cards; (ii) review the processes involved in assisting a prisoner in applying for and obtaining a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or social security card; (iii) identify any obstacles that may interfere with a prisoner obtaining such identification or documents prior to such prisoner's release or discharge; and (iv) issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2136 | Public Utility Ombudsman,Office of the; established, effective date. | Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman; established. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish the Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman to protect the interests of residential customers of public utilities. The Office of the Public Utility Ombudsman shall serve (i) residential customers of public utilities that are jurisdictional or of limited jurisdiction and (ii) residential customers who cannot be assisted by other Commission staff due to a potential conflict of interest. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Vetoed |
| HB2244 | Standards of Quality; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement. | Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required. Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department of Education (the Department), to establish and implement standards for determining and recognizing student educational performance and academic achievement in the form of a weighted proportionality score for each school, to account for no less than five percent of such school's accreditation rating score or metric under the current school accountability system, for the purpose of identifying, accounting for in determining accreditation ratings, and addressing disparities in access to educational resources across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in public schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department to (i) develop a metric for calculating the weighted proportionality score for each school using certain variables calculated by the Department; (ii) develop a metric for calculating the improvement of a school's proportionality score received year over year; (iii) assign for each school based on such school's proportionality score a proportionality designation of "highly proportional," "proportional," "somewhat disproportional," and "highly disproportional"; and (iv) require any school board that contains within the school division a school assigned a proportionality designation of "highly disproportional" to develop and submit to the Department a remediation plan detailing the actions such school board will take to reduce disparities in access to education resources. The bill directs the Board to (a) amend its regulations to include as a school quality indicator the weighted proportionality score developed in accordance with the bill and (b) submit to the U.S. Department of Education within 90 days of the effective date of the bill any amendments necessary to its state plan pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended, that are necessary to implement the provisions of the act. Finally, the bill requires its provisions to be implemented beginning with the 2025–2026 school year. | Vetoed |
| HB2040 | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice. | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The bill also establishes qualifications, scope of practice, and supervision requirements for speech-language pathology assistants. The bill directs the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology to adopt regulations governing the speech-language pathology assistant profession by July 1, 2026, and specifies that the provisions governing the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2094 | High-risk artificial intelligence; definitions, development, deployment, and use, civil penalties. | High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncompliance, to be enforced by the Attorney General. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Vetoed |
| HB2056 | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices, days and hours of operation. | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of operation for such offices. The bill requires the governing body to provide notice to the general registrar of the county or city at least two weeks prior to the enactment of any such ordinance. | Vetoed |
| SB1009 | Elections; conduct of election, ranked choice voting, report. | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; report. Makes the decision to conduct an election by ranked choice voting subject to a determination of feasibility by the State Board of Elections. The bill provides procedures for tabulating and reporting results of elections conducted using ranked choice voting, including procedures for duplicating damaged or defective ballots. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to approve vote tabulating software for use with existing voting systems in elections conducted by ranked choice voting and to produce generalized voter education materials on ranked choice voting. The bill permits the State Board of Elections to create and modify recount procedures to the extent necessary to accommodate a recount of an election conducted by ranked choice voting. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Elections to review the testing and approval framework for voting equipment in the Commonwealth and submit a report of such review no later than the first day of the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly. | Vetoed |
| HB2024 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities. | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities. Prohibits state and local agencies from including a provision in any request for proposal, procurement agreement, contract, ordinance, policy, permit, or accompanying document that directs the exclusion from use of any materials contained in or products associated with solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities that are manufactured in the United States. This bill is identical to SB 1165. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1990 | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert one or more at-large members of such body to single-member districts. The bill provides that members of such governing body in office on the effective date of such ordinance shall complete their terms of office. | Vetoed |
| HB1973 | Affordable housing; preservation, definitions, civil penalty. | Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localities to implement an ordinance that requires an owner to accept a right of first refusal offer by the locality or qualified designee, defined in the bill, in order to preserve affordable housing for at least 15 years. The bill requires that any locality adopting such an ordinance to preserve affordable housing submit an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to existing law. | Vetoed |
| HB1928 | Minimum wage. | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2027. The bill codifies the adjusted state hourly minimum wage of $12.41 per hour that is effective January 1, 2025, and increases the minimum wage to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2026, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2027. The bill requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to establish an adjusted state hourly minimum wage by October 1, 2027. | Vetoed |
| HB1894 | State correctional facilities; cell and facility conditions, temperature monitoring. | State correctional facilities; cell conditions; temperature monitoring; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to require that heat and air conditioning be provided in all state correctional facilities that are capable of controlling the interior temperature of such facilities so that a temperature of not less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit or more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit is maintained in each such facility. The bill also directs the Department of Corrections to evaluate the implementation of remote temperature monitoring and to report its findings to the General Assembly by October 1, 2025. | Vetoed |
| HB1869 | Firearms; purchase, etc., assault and battery of family member or intimate partner, penalties. | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to juvenile and domestic relations district court, a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill as an individual who, within the previous 12 months, was in a romantic, dating, or sexual relationship with the person as determined by the length, nature, frequency, and type of interaction between the individuals involved in the relationship. The bill also adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to a person's purchase, possession, or transportation of a firearm following an assault and battery of a family or household member, any individual who cohabits or who, within the previous 12 months, cohabitated with the person. Finally, the bill provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally purchases, possesses, or transports any firearm following a misdemeanor conviction for an offense that occurred on or after July 1, 2025, for the offense of assault and battery against an intimate partner or an offense substantially similar under the laws of any other state or of the United States is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to SB 883. | Vetoed |
| HB1736 | Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention, Va. Center for; created, etc. | 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 as the primary resource for research, best practices, and strategies for the implementation of firearm violence intervention, community-based intervention, and group violence intervention programs designed to reduce violence in communities. The bill also requires that the Center evaluate state and community based violence intervention programs and policies that receive funding through the Center, apply for and accept federal grants, and provide technical assistance. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Vetoed |
| HB1657 | Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records. | Voter registration, regular periodic review of registration records; 90-day quiet period before all primary and general elections. Requires the Department of Elections to complete not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the voter registration system. This restriction is not to be construed to preclude (i) the removal of names from the voter registration system at the request of the registrant or as provided by existing law by reason of criminal conviction or mental incapacity or the death of the registrant or (ii) the correction of registration records pursuant to existing law. Under current law, such restriction only applies to federal primaries and federal general elections. The bill also extends (a) the period of time registrars have to cancel registrations from 30 days to 60 days after notification of the need to cancel by the Department of Elections and (b) the period of time a registered voter has to respond to a notice of cancellation related to citizenship status from 14 days to 28 days. This bill is identical to SB 813. | Vetoed |
| HB1625 | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. | Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers. | Vetoed |
| HR749 | Celebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston. | Celebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR760 | Commending Angie's Bakery. | Commending Angie's Bakery. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR752 | Commending Shaboozey. | Commending Shaboozey. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR750 | Commending Virginia Union University. | Commending Virginia Union University. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR796 | Commending Captain Michelle M. Williams, USN. | Commending Captain Michelle M. Williams, USN. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR686 | Commending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid. | Commending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR674 | Commending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard. | Commending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR552 | Commending Comic Kings. | Commending Comic Kings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR759 | Commending Dr. Heisung Lee. | Commending Dr. Heisung Lee. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR684 | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342. | Celebrating the lives of Loudoun County community members aboard American Airlines Flight 5342. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR735 | Commending Aslin Beer Company. | Commending Aslin Beer Company. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR659 | Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr. | Commending Mekhi Becton, Sr. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1595 | Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; changes to eligibility criteria. | Higher education; financial assistance; Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program; eligibility criteria. Makes several changes to the Virginia National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, including (i) making the provisions relating to the requirements and conditions for eligibility for and award of grants under the Program subject to regulations as prescribed by the Adjutant General, (ii) eliminating the requirement to satisfy financial obligations with the institution of higher education at the beginning of each semester, (iii) simplifying the requirements relating to academic performance and good standing, and (iv) providing that, upon acceptance of an application for a grant, grant funds are to be disbursed to the applicable institution of higher education for credit against the recipient student's account. This bill is identical to SB 1106. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1663 | Public schools; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection. | Public schools; interscholastic sports and athletics; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection; development and implementation. Requires the Board of Education to develop, biennially review and update as necessary, and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies relating to extreme heat safety and protection for student-athletes. The bill requires each school board to develop and update, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Board of Education, policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection that (i) are consistent with any heat guidelines based on Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) levels developed by an organization or entity whose purpose it is to regulate or govern interscholastic athletics programs in the Commonwealth; (ii) establish tiered heat-acclimatization and modification procedures for outdoor athletics practices or games based on the WBGT levels to reduce the risks associated with extreme heat faced by student-athletes; (iii) require student-athletes to be given unhindered access to hydration at all times; (iv) include procedures relating to preventing, recognizing, and addressing heat-related illnesses; and (v) establish a process for reporting and investigating any instance in which a student-athlete experiences a heat-related illness requiring emergency medical treatment or resulting in death. This bill is identical to SB 1104. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1611 | Human Resource Management, Department of; hiring on the basis of direct experience. | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The bill provides an exception to such prohibition if the knowledge, skills, or abilities required for the position for which an applicant is applying can only reasonably be obtained, as determined by the appointing authority, through a course of study in pursuit of, and culminating in the award of, a baccalaureate degree. This bill is identical to SB 1014. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR9 | Constitutional amendment; marriage between two adult persons. | Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 3, 2024 Proposing an amendment to Section 15-A of Article I of the Constitution of Virginia, relating to marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR2 | Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote. | \r\n\r\n | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR1 | Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference). | Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled November 20, 2023 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 11-A, relating to the fundamental right to reproductive freedom. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1735 | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. | Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before special elections that are not called by the Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates, or President pro tempore of the Senate. This bill is identical to SB 991. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1793 | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge; designates bridge over I-264 in VA. Beach. | Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Interstate 264 over South Rosemont Road in Virginia Beach the "Captain Matthew "Chevy" Chiaverotti Memorial Bridge." | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1955 | Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited; penalties. | Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited; penalties. Removes the distinction between cocaine, which refers to powder cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers and a mixture or substance that contains cocaine base, which refers to crack cocaine, for the offense of manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance. This bill is identical to SB 888. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1941 | Invasive plant species; retail sales, penalty, delayed effective date January 1, 2027. | Invasive plant species; retail sales. Requires, for the retail sale of certain invasive plant species for outdoor use, a retail establishment to post in a conspicuous manner on the property located in proximity to each invasive plant signage identifying such plant as invasive, educating consumers regarding invasive plant species, and encouraging consumers to ask about alternatives. The bill requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to designate the format, size, and content of such signage no later than October 1, 2025, and requires the Commissioner to issue a stop sale order and mark or tag a plant in a conspicuous manner when an invasive plant is for sale at a retail establishment without appropriate signage. In such case, the bill requires the Commissioner to give written notice of a finding made to the owner, tenant, or person in charge of such retail establishment and requires the stop sale order issued to remain in effect until the required signage is posted. Certain provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. This bill is identical to SB 1166. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1828 | Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. | 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 insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in the Commonwealth on and after January 1, 2026. The bill provides that such examinations include examinations using diagnostic mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, or breast ultrasound. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill incorporates HB 2133 and is identical to SB 1436. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2213 | School boards; driver education behind-the-wheel training to be offered before or after school. | School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a driver's license and cultivating well-educated teen drivers, to offer as part of its program of driver education behind-the-wheel training either during school hours or before or after school hours, including on weekends. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2240 | Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program; established, report. | Institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education and eligible private institutions of higher education, as defined by the bill. The bill provides that the Program shall be managed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and available for participation by public institutions of higher education and eligible private institutions of higher education; however, participation in the Program is optional for such institutions. Under the bill, if a public institution of higher education or eligible private institution of higher education satisfies certain criteria set out in the bill, including creating initiatives on campus to address student food insecurity, it will receive a "Hunger-Free Campus Food Pantry" designation and the Council will award a grant to such institution. Any such institution that receives a grant under the bill is required to utilize the funds to support on-campus efforts and initiatives to eliminate student food insecurity at such institution through the maintenance and operation of the on-campus food pantry established pursuant to the Program. The bill requires the Council to submit a report to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education no later than two years after the establishment of the Program. This bill is identical to SB 1016. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2055 | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide. | Student health and safety; responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; provision of suicide prevention materials required. Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Education (the Board) and employed by a local school board who in the scope of his employment has reason to believe, as a result of direct communication from a student, that such student is at imminent risk of suicide to, in addition to contacting at least one of such student's parents to provide notice of the student's mental state, provide to the parent materials on suicide prevention that (i) shall include information on the requirements set forth in current law relating to the safe storage of firearms in the presence of minors and (ii) may include guidance on best practices and strategies for limiting a student's access to lethal means, including firearms and medications. The bill requires any such materials on suicide prevention to be selected in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Board pursuant to applicable law and to include materials that have been pre-approved for such use by the Board. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2042 | Certified public accountant; educational requirements to qualify for CPA licensure. | Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual must have a license in good standing in another jurisdiction and have passed the CPA examination. The bill directs the Board of Accountancy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to SB 1042. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2384 | State Bd. of Health; regulations related to emergency medical vehicle restrictions & specifications. | State Board of Health to adopt regulations related to emergency medical vehicle restrictions and specifications. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt a regulation allowing certain Emergency Medical Services (EMS) vehicles belonging to a combination fire and EMS agency to have the fire department logo and lettering appear larger than the lettering identifying the EMS agency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2201 | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers, rules and requirements, extension of time limitation. | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 teaching days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as defined in relevant law, to fill a teacher vacancy, with certain conditions and restrictions. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to SB 1230. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2198 | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure, regulation. | Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum of care for medically dependent or technologically dependent children. The bill establishes the scope of services offered by such centers and requirements for operation, management, staffing, facilities, and maintenance and directs the Board to promulgate emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2617 | Women's Health, Commission on; established, report. | Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's and maternal health. The Commission consists of 15 members, 10 of whom are legislative members and five of whom are nonlegislative citizen members with significant experience or expertise in women's or maternal health policy. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2539 | Dental care services for pregnant women; state plan for medical assistance services, report. | Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; dental care services for pregnant women; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment for comprehensive dental care services for pregnant women. The bill requires the Department to report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on the implementation and outcomes of the provision, and requires the first such report to be submitted by November 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2640 | Virtual or online learning; development of guidelines and information, public health emergencies. | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning. Such guidelines and information shall include (i) statewide policies relating to virtual learning, (ii) the availability of online or virtual learning options and pertinent information on such options, and (iii) guidelines for educators and schools relating to online or virtual learning policies and best practices. In addition, the bill requires each K-12 school in the Commonwealth to include as a component of its annual safety audit a review of the school's plan for school closures during public health emergencies. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth and is identical to SB 1380. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2679 | School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures, etc. | School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures; parental notification of student determined to pose a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; provision of certain recognition and response materials required. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to provide materials on recognition of and strategies for responding to behavior indicating that a student poses a threat of violence or physical harm to himself or others to the parent or legal guardian of any student who, according to a preliminary determination from a threat assessment team, poses such a threat. The bill specifies that the provision of such materials shall occur either in the initial attempt to immediately notify such student's parent or legal guardian pursuant to applicable law or through a separate communication to such student's parent or legal guardian made as soon as practicable thereafter. The bill (i) requires such materials to be selected in accordance with the criteria and guidelines developed by the Board of Education pursuant to the provisions of the bill; (ii) requires such materials to include information on the requirements set forth in applicable law relating to the safe storage of firearms in the presence of minors; and (iii) permits such materials to include guidance on best practices and strategies for limiting a student's access to lethal means, including firearms and medications. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2721 | License plates, special; supporters of Washington Commanders. | Special license plates; Washington Commanders. Updates provisions related to special license plates issued to supporters of the Washington Redskins to specify that such special license plates shall be issued to supporters of the Washington Commanders. The bill allows special license plates issued to supporters of the Washington Redskins prior to July 1, 2025, to be used until their expiration and renewed if the proper fee is paid, except that $15 from such fee formerly paid to the Washington Redskins Leadership Council Fund is to be paid to the Washington Commanders Foundation Fund. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2691 | Relief; Duffy, Keshawn Clarence, compensation for wrongful incarceration. | Claims; Keshawn Clarence Duffy; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Grants relief in an amount to be appropriated to Keshawn Clarence Duffy, who was wrongly convicted of and subsequently incarcerated for two counts of forcible sodomy. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2736 | Virginia Values Veterans Program; military spouse eligibility. | 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2590 | Virginia STEP Grant Program; established. | 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 purpose of facilitating opportunities for any student enrolled in the eleventh or twelfth grade at a public high school in the Commonwealth or enrolled at a comprehensive community college or historically black college or university in the Commonwealth who enters into an agreement with an entity located in the relevant local school division or region that has a procurement contract with the federal government whereby such entity agrees to provide assistance to the student to obtain, prior to graduation, any federal security clearance at the public trust or national security level and any other education, training, or credential that is necessary for the student to be prepared for employment with such entity upon graduation in exchange for a commitment from the student to accept and remain in such an employment position for an agreed-upon period of time after graduation. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB2195 | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation and inspections, report. | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; mold remediation; emergency. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwelling without holding a mold remediation certification from a nationally or internationally recognized certifying body for mold remediation. The bill also requires such professionals to comply with pertinent standards in conducting remediation. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to study the state of the mold inspection and mold remediation workforce in the Commonwealth to determine whether the licensure or certification of mold inspectors and remediators would benefit the public health, safety, and welfare and submit a report by January 1, 2026. This bill incorporates HB 2355 and contains an emergency clause. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1947 | Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. | 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 determine (i) how public schools governed by such LEA currently grant access to local departments of social services and community services boards and other community-based providers of mental and behavioral health services and (ii) what school-based mental and behavioral health services are made available by such LEA. The bill requires the Department to utilize the results of and feedback from the survey to inform the continued development and improvement of guidelines for school professionals to support students and families by connecting them with community resources that provide mental and behavioral health services. The bill requires the Department to report to the Commission on Youth by November 1, 2025, any findings and recommendations that result from the survey. This bill is identical to SB 768. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1759 | Post-release job search assistance services; DOC, et al., to provide. | 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 provide post-release job search assistance services to assist individuals in finding employment upon release from incarceration and refer such individuals to case management services where eligible from such funds as are available. The bill also requires the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to coordinate implementation and delivery of such post-release job search assistance services with Virginia Workforce System partners, including local workforce development boards. This bill is identical to SB 877. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR616 | Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle. | Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR634 | Celebrating the life of Matthew Robert Chiaverotti. | Celebrating the life of Matthew Robert Chiaverotti. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR564 | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III. | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR600 | Commending Christian Tabash. | Commending Christian Tabash. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR607 | Commending Thomas Heilman. | Commending Thomas Heilman. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1892 | Children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notification required. | Children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notice required; model notice. Requires, during the annual individualized education program (IEP) planning process prior to any year in which a child with a disability who is enrolled at a public high school is entering the eleventh grade or twelfth grade, the IEP team to provide to the parent of such student written notice of the student's rights and obligations relating to dual enrollment courses, consistent with a model notice developed and made available by the Board of Education, including detailed information on the process for ensuring that the student is receiving both a free and appropriate public education pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as a student enrolled in a public high school and the necessary educational accommodations pursuant to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as a student enrolled in a comprehensive community college. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1690 | Eminent domain; documents provided to landowner. | Eminent domain; documents provided to landowner. Provides that a report showing all matters that affect the current ownership, existing liens, encumbrances, and other matters affecting title as of the date of the title report shall be provided by the condemnor to a landowner in a condemnation action. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1606 | Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. | 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 natural person and the sole owner of such property, the apparent owner has been identified by the State Treasurer or his designee, and the amount to be paid does not exceed $5,000. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to SB 996. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1641 | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) that includes payment for treatment using antimicrobials, medication, and behavioral therapies to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms, immunomodulating medicines, plasma exchange, and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy.The bill also requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to provide coverage for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment of PANDAS and PANS. The bill requires such coverage to include coverage for treatment using antimicrobials, medication, and behavioral therapies to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms, immunomodulating medicines, plasma exchange, and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy.The bill prohibits an insurer, corporation, or organization from (i) denying or delaying the coverage of PANDAS or PANS because the enrollee previously received treatment or because the enrollee was diagnosed with or received treatment for his condition under a different diagnostic name, including autoimmune encephalopathy; (ii) limiting coverage of immunomodulating therapies for the treatment of PANDAS or PANS in a manner that is inconsistent with the treatment guidelines developed by a consortium convened for the purposes of researching, identifying, and publishing best practice standards for diagnosis and treatment of PANDAS or PANS that are accessible for medical professionals and are based on evidence of positive patient outcomes; (iii) requiring a trial of therapies that treat only neuropsychiatric symptoms before authorizing coverage of immunomodulating therapies for the treatment of PANDAS or PANS; or (iv) denying coverage for out-of-state treatment if the service is not available within the Commonwealth. This bill is a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR502 | Governor; portrait. | Governor; portrait. Establishing a committee for the purpose of commissioning a portrait of Governor Glenn Youngkin for display in the Capitol. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR511 | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni. | Celebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR466 | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month; designating as May 2025 and in each succeeding year. | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in Virginia. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR437 | Recurrent Flooding, Joint Subcommittee on; reestablished and its work continued. | Study; reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding; report. Reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding, which sunset in 2023, to continue its work through the 2026 interim. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR435 | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day; designating as first Monday in March 2025. | Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HJR446 | Zero Waste Awareness Week; designating as first full week of Sept. 2025 & each succeeding year. | Zero Waste Awareness Week. Designates the first full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Zero Waste Awareness Week in Virginia. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR481 | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder. | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SJR434 | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D. | Commending the Honorable William Ferguson Reid, M.D. | Passed |
| SJR410 | Commending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce. | Commending the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce. | Passed |
| SJR408 | Commending the United States Army. | Commending the United States Army. | Passed |
| SJR443 | Commending Tara Dower. | Commending Tara Dower. | Passed |
| SJR445 | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain. | Celebrating the life of Matthew Charles Obenshain. | Passed |
| SJR366 | Commending Leanne Eyler. | Commending Leanne Eyler. | Passed |
| SJR370 | Commending Linda Ford. | Commending Linda Ford. | Passed |
| SJR371 | Commending Hoda Kotb. | Commending Hoda Kotb. | Passed |
| SJR363 | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority. | Commending the Virginia Spaceport Authority. | Passed |
| HB1972 | Early childhood care & education; statewide unified public-private system, capacity & family choice. | Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be established with the goal of increasing and maintaining capacity systemwide to provide each family with meaningful access to high-quality and affordable choices among publicly funded, federally funded, mixed delivery, and private providers. | Dead |
| HB2102 | Pregnant individuals; DMAS to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility, etc. | Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals, in addition to the existing hospital presumptive eligibility program and, if the Department receives such authority, allows the Department to authorize qualified entities to make determinations of presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals. The bill directs qualified entities to provide (i) the necessary applications for medical assistance on the day in which the presumptive eligibility decision is made and (ii) assistance with completing such applications through available modalities. Under the bill, qualified entities are authorized to make determinations of presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals who meet eligibility criteria for certain medical assistance programs and have not had a presumptive eligibility period during the current pregnancy. The bill also sets forth certain performance standards that qualified entities must meet to remain a qualified entity, described in the bill. | Dead |
| HB2112 | Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. | Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act to regulate the practices of persons seeking to receive compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a violation of its provisions constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. | Dead |
| HB1959 | Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. | Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a seventh priority group to the Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list that consists of any family that meets all other Program eligibility criteria and includes a parent who is employed for at least 30 hours per week by a publicly funded child care provider in the Commonwealth that serves children from birth to age five, excluding employment by a local school division but including employment by a Head Start program that is located within a public school building. The bill also directs the Department of Education to require local departments of social services to target a maximum of 30 days for moving priority group families from the waiting list into services; regularly assess, in coordination with the Department of Social Services, the length of time it takes for priority groups to be assigned slots; and provide quarterly updates, beginning October 1, 2025, to the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education on such timeline and any other barriers experienced by families in priority groups on the waiting list in accessing services. | Dead |
| HB1758 | Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. | Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. Requires the Department of General Services to determine whether, following an offer of surplus property to the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the surplus property is located, as well as to any economic development entity for such locality, such surplus property is suitable for the development of affordable housing, as defined by the bill. If the Department so determines, the bill provides that such property shall be offered for at least 90 days exclusively to eligible organizations, as defined by the bill, for the purpose of developing affordable housing, provided that the terms of the disposition include a recorded covenant to provide affordable housing for at least 30 years.The bill also requires the governing body of each locality to prepare an inventory list of all real property within its jurisdiction to which the locality or any dependent special district within its boundaries holds fee simple title that is suitable for the development of affordable housing. If the governing body of a locality chooses to dispose of such a property, such property shall be offered for at least 90 days exclusively to eligible organizations, as defined by the bill, for the purpose of developing affordable housing, through purchase, lease, exchange, or donation in return for a recorded covenant to provide affordable housing for at least 30 years. | Dead |
| HB1711 | Mass Violence Care Fund; definitions, established. | Mass Violence Care Fund established. Creates within the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund the Mass Violence Care Fund as a subfund for the purpose of reimbursing victims or claimants of mass violence, defined in the bill, for unreimbursed medical expenses related to a mass violence event, defined in the bill. The bill directs the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to promulgate guidelines and criteria for the payment of claims from the Fund within one year of the effective date of the bill. | Dead |
| HB2196 | Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established, report, effective date. | Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the purpose of addressing school discipline issues and promoting evidence-based restorative practices, as that term is defined in the bill, in public schools in the Commonwealth by awarding grants to a school division in each superintendent's region in the Commonwealth to be used in developing and implementing a comprehensive plan to integrate evidence-based restorative practices in such school divisions in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill directs the Department to (i) develop the application process by which a school board may apply to receive funds pursuant to the Program; (ii) establish criteria for the selection and award of grants pursuant to the Program; and (iii) develop a process for evaluating the progress and performance of each school division selected to receive a grant pursuant to the Program in implementing such evidence-based restorative practices and satisfying the Program requirements set forth in the bill. The bill requires any such school division to (a) establish a learning collaborative for the purpose of developing a comprehensive plan for implementing evidence-based restorative practices in accordance with the provisions of the bill and (b) submit to the Department by July 1 of each year immediately following any year for which it receives a grant a report on its progress in implementing such evidence-based restorative practices for the preceding school year. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2041 | Speed safety cameras; placement and operation. | Speed safety cameras; placement and operation. Changes the terms "photo speed monitoring device" to "speed safety camera" and "high-risk intersection segment" to "high-risk speed corridor" in provisions related to vehicle speed violations. The bill authorizes localities to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of a speed safety camera by the law-enforcement agency of such locality in certain locations. The bill authorizes any locality without its own law-enforcement agency to, by ordinance, authorize officers of the law-enforcement agency with jurisdiction within such locality to issue a summons and swear to or affirm a certificate for a vehicle speed violation. For any new speed safety camera placed, the bill provides for a warning by mail instead of a summons and no civil penalty for alleged vehicle speed violations within the first 30 days of such camera's operation. The bill makes various other changes to the requirements for the use of speed safety cameras, including changes related to signs indicating the use of such cameras; the use of funds collected from civil penalties; requirements for private vendors; the periodic review of the use of such cameras; the provision of information to the public related to the use and placement of such cameras; the creation of advisory groups; and consultation with certain entities prior to placement and operation of such cameras. | Dead |
| HB1687 | Charter; City of Virginia Beach. | Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach to reflect the City's transition to a city council consisting solely of single-member districts and the mayor. | Dead |
| HB2772 | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. | Dead |
| HB1954 | Public school funding and staffing; special education students, support services positions. | Equity in public school funding and staffing; special education students; at-risk students; English language learner students; report. Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support special education students that are calculated by multiplying weights set forth in the general appropriation act by the relevant basic aid per-pupil amount for each such student. The bill establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required pursuant to relevant law, teacher recruitment programs and initiatives, programs for English language learners, the hiring of additional school counselors and other support staff, and other programs relating to increasing the success of disadvantaged students in completing a high school degree and providing opportunities to encourage further education and training. The bill also contains provisions relating to certain funding requirements for the At-Risk Program. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a data collection process related to English language learner expenditures and student English proficiency levels and identify other options to support English language learners and provide a status report to the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding on its implementation and data collection efforts by September 1, 2025. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or any other relevant stakeholders with expertise in special education as the Department of Education deems appropriate, to develop a plan for revised special education staffing requirements that addresses the staffing needs of each special education program in each school division as determined by the specific educational and behavioral support needs of students who receive special education and aims to improve special education teacher recruitment and retention and to report its findings to the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding by November 1, 2025. The bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. This bill incorporates HB 1831. | Dead |
| HB1598 | First-time Homebuyer Grant Program; established. | First-time Homebuyer Grant Program. Establishes a First-time Homebuyer Grant Program for the purpose of assisting first-time homebuyers with first-time homebuyer expenses, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall award eligible first-time homebuyers a grant in an amount equal to five percent of such expenses incurred during a calendar year, not to exceed $10,000. Any grant awarded pursuant to the Program shall be repaid to the Commonwealth if the property for which expenses were incurred is sold within three years from the purchase date, unless the sale is made following a natural disaster or other act of God. | Dead |
| HB2089 | Collective bargaining; individual home care providers. | Collective bargaining; individual home care providers. Establishes within the Department of Medical Assistance Services the Virginia Home Care Authority to ensure the effectiveness and quality of the services of home care programs in the Commonwealth. The bill authorizes individual providers, as defined in the bill, to select an exclusive bargaining representative and to collectively bargain with the Virginia Home Care Authority regarding matters including wages, benefits, and all terms and conditions of employment that are within the Authority's control. The bill's provisions do not become effective until July 1, 2026, and unless legislation is enacted in the Commonwealth authorizing public employees to engage in collective bargaining. | Dead |
| HB2495 | Firefighters and emergency medical services providers; collective bargaining. | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor organizations or other designated representatives. The bill establishes the Fire Service Cooperation Board to administer its provisions. The bill provides for the appointment of a three-member board of arbitration regarding any dispute arising between an employer and firefighters or emergency medical services providers. Under the bill, determinations made by such board of arbitration are final on a disputed issue and are binding on the parties involved. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2467 | Local and Regional Jails, State Board of; oversight of local and regional jails, powers and duties. | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; oversight of local and regional jails; powers and duties. Increases from 11 to 19 the membership of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) by requiring the appointment of (i) two members of the Senate and two members of the House of Delegates and (ii) four additional nonlegislative citizen members, including (a) one representative of a nonprofit organization that provides training or rehabilitation programs for incarcerated inmates; (b) one male citizen and one female citizen who were formerly incarcerated within the Commonwealth; and (c) one person who is a grandparent, parent, child, sibling, or spouse or domestic partner of a person currently incarcerated within the Commonwealth.The bill also adds numerous additional duties for the Board, including to (1) provide information, as appropriate, to inmates, family members, representatives of inmates, and local, regional, and community correctional facility employees and contractors and others regarding the rights of inmates; (2) establish policies for a statewide uniform reporting system to collect and analyze data related to complaints received in or about local, regional, and community correctional facilities; (3) monitor, document, review, and report on the operation of stores and commissaries in local correctional facilities and systems for providing electronic visitation and messaging and telephone calls; and (4) review, monitor, and report and make recommendations on policies related to (A) attorney access to clients for calls and visitation; (B) access to voting for incarcerated individuals who are eligible to vote; and (C) the collection of data on suicides, suicide attempts, and self-harm in custody. The bill also specifies additional information to be included in the Board's currently required annual report to the General Assembly and the Governor and requires such report to be made available to the public online.The bill enumerates certain items for assessment that may be included in the Board's annual inspection of each local correctional facility, as required by current law, and also specifies the Board's authority and right to access such facilities, interview persons, and access certain information and documents. Upon completion of an inspection, the bill requires the Board to produce a report, including information enumerated in the bill, to be made available to the public online and to be delivered to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the sheriff in charge of the local correctional facility or superintendent of the regional correctional facility.Finally, the bill allows the Board to initiate and attempt to resolve an investigation upon its own initiative, or upon receipt of a complaint from an inmate, a family member or representative of an inmate, or a local, regional, or community correctional facility employee or contractor, or others, regarding various concerns as enumerated in the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2233 | Extreme Weather Relief Act; established. | Extreme Weather Relief Act established. Establishes the Extreme Weather Relief Program, administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, for the purpose of holding parties responsible for covered greenhouse gas emissions between the covered period of January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2024, for the parties' share of the Commonwealth's costs due to climate change. The bill defines responsible parties as fossil fuel extractors or crude oil refiners causing emissions of one billion metric tons or more of covered greenhouse gases during the covered period. Under the bill, responsible parties are strictly liable for cost recovery payments to the Commonwealth. The bill requires the State Treasurer to conduct an assessment of the costs to the Commonwealth and its residents of the emissions of covered greenhouse gases during the covered period. The bill establishes the Extreme Weather Relief Fund into which the cost recovery payments from responsible entities are deposited and used to pay for extreme weather relief projects, as defined in the bill. | Dead |
| HB2758 | Electric utilities; rate increases during certain months, biennial rate reviews. | Electric utilities; rate increases during certain months; biennial rate reviews. Provides that Appalachian Power Company shall not be required to file a case for fuel recovery in 2025 and that commencing in 2026, it shall make annual filings by January 15 with interim rates effective March 1 of each year. The bill prohibits certain rate adjustments from being applied during the months of November through February. The bill also changes from March 31 to April 30 the date on which biennial rate review proceedings shall commence each biennial review year, from November 20 to December 31 the date for final orders to be granted, and from no later than January 1 of the subsequent year to no later than March 1 of the subsequent year the date by which any rate revisions shall take effect. | Dead |
| HB2775 | Hemp product; clarifies definition. | Definition of hemp product; Revitalize Hemp Act. | Dead |
| HB2608 | History Education Advisory Board; established, report. | History Education Advisory Board established. Establishes the 32-member History Education Advisory Board to advise the Governor, his cabinet members, the Board of Education, and the General Assembly on the current ways in which African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, Indigenous, Women's, and LGBTQ+ history are described in the relevant Standards of Learning and associated curriculum frameworks; how that content is taught in classrooms; and strategies to develop African American history and social studies elective courses, Asian American and Pacific Islander history and social studies elective courses, Latino history and social studies elective courses, Indigenous history and social studies elective courses, Women's history and social studies elective courses, and LGBTQ+ history and social studies elective courses. | Dead |
| HB2368 | Toll relief; maximum charges. | Toll relief; maximum charges. Limits to $200 per month the tolls charged to residents of the Commonwealth via electronic toll collection devices for the use of toll bridges, toll ferries, toll tunnels, or toll roads in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits misusing, sharing, or transferring an electronic toll collection device for the purpose of (i) generating tolls to reach the toll charges limit or (ii) obtaining toll-free use of toll facilities in the Commonwealth. The bill authorizes the free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth for drivers who are recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. | Dead |
| HB2180 | Child tax credit; Virginia adjusted gross income. | Child tax credit; Virginia adjusted gross income. Creates a one-time tax credit in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for taxpayers whose households include dependents younger than 12 years of age and whose family Virginia adjusted gross income, defined in the bill, does not exceed $100,000. Such credit shall be in an amount equal to $300 for each such dependent and only one credit may be claimed for each such dependent. The bill provides that if the taxpayer is a resident of the Commonwealth for the full taxable year, the credit is refundable. Otherwise, the credit is nonrefundable. | Dead |
| HB2223 | Legal representation of indigent defendant; abolition of fees. | Abolition of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Eliminates the fees for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation for persons who are determined to be indigent. | Dead |
| HJR453 | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth. | Dead |
| HB2286 | School board employees, certain; paid parental and family leave program. | Department of Education; paid parental and family leave program for certain school board employees. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to establish and administer a paid parental and family leave program in which school boards may opt to participate and by which any individual employed full time for at least the immediately preceding three months by such a participating school board shall, after submitting to the school board an application form approved by the Department and with such supporting documentation as may be required by the Department, receive six weeks of paid leave at 50 percent of the employee's regular salary to care for a family member facing a serious health condition or emergency or six weeks of paid leave at 100 percent of the employee's regular salary following the birth, adoption, or foster placement of such employee's child, with certain terms and conditions set forth in the bill. The bill provides that the program shall be funded with such funds as may be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act and that the Department shall reimburse participating school boards for paid parental leave and paid family leave provided pursuant to the program. | Dead |
| HB2288 | Unlawful dissemination of intimate images of another; creates a tiered system of penalties. | Unlawful dissemination of intimate images of another; penalties. Creates a tiered system of penalties for the unlawful dissemination of intimate images of another person, an offense formerly known as the unlawful dissemination or sale of videographic or still images of another person. | Dead |
| HB2049 | Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for purchase of motor vehicle child restraint device. | Retail sales and use tax exemption; motor vehicle child restraint device. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for the purchase of a child restraint device for personal use in a passenger car beginning July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB2021 | Fair Voice Purchasing Act; established, penalties. | Fair Voice Purchasing Act established; penalties. Prohibits a virtual assistant licensee or virtual assistant licensor, as such terms are defined in the bill, from providing voice purchasing on a smart speaker device or smart display device unless such licensee or licensor obtains consent from the user of such device. | Dead |
| HB2175 | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlords who are under the ordinance may be required to give at least two months' written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's calculated allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord can increase a tenant's rent during any 12-month period, in effect at the time of the increase. The bill sets such allowance as equal to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index or seven percent, whichever is less, states that such allowance is effective for a 12-month period beginning July 1 each year, and requires the locality to publish such allowance on its website by June 1 of each year. Certain facilities, as outlined in the bill, are exempt from such ordinance. The bill also requires a locality to establish an anti-rent gouging board that will develop and implement rules and procedures by which landlords may apply for and be granted exemptions from the rent increase limits set by the ordinance. Finally, the bill provides that a locality shall establish a civil penalty for failure to comply with the requirements set out in its ordinance. | Dead |
| HB2490 | Small business set-asides; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study. | Study; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business set-asides; report. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study small business set-asides and their effectiveness in promoting the growth and economic development of small businesses through participation in government contracting. For purposes of the study, \"small business\" includes women-owned and minority-owned businesses. | Dead |
| HB2208 | Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors, report. | 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 to individuals who (i) have a diagnosis of hypertension, (ii) are at risk of developing hypertension, or (iii) have been recommended for at-home blood pressure monitoring by a licensed health care provider. The coverage provided under the bill shall not be subject to any copayment or fees for an at-home blood pressure monitor. The bill directs the Bureau of Insurance, in consultation with the Department of Health, to establish guidelines for implementing the coverage required by the bill, to monitor compliance of such requirements by health care providers, and to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2178 | Discharging preproduction plastic; regulation, requirements. | Regulation of discharging preproduction plastic; requirements. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a program to ensure zero discharge or release from point and nonpoint source at certain facilities that discharge to (i) a surface water under a Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the Department or (ii) a publicly owned treatment works under an industrial pretreatment program permit or other written authorization issued by a local permit control authority and to require the prompt and environmentally responsible containment and cleanup of discharged or released preproduction plastic. The bill requires the Department to adopt and implement certain requirements in order to reduce and control the discharge or release of preproduction plastic from such facilities. The bill allows the Department to exempt a facility from the requirements of the program if a facility satisfies the criteria for a no exposure certification and complies with inspection requirements administered by the Department. The bill also allows the Department to establish additional requirements regarding the regulation of discharges and releases of preproduction plastic from certain facilities into water or onto land in the Commonwealth. | Dead |
| HB2609 | Transportation network companies; minimum compensation. | Transportation network companies; minimum compensation. Establishes minimum compensation rates for TNC partners. The bill also prohibits gratuities from passengers from being included in TNC partner compensation calculations, authorizes TNC partners to collect gratuity in cash or electronically, and prohibits transportation network companies from limiting the amount that can be paid as gratuity through such companies' digital platforms. | Dead |
| HB2204 | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to the payment of certain benefits. Under current law, such beneficiary shall be entitled to such payment if the deceased person's death (i) arose out of and in the course of his employment or (ii) was within five years from his date of retirement. | Dead |
| HB1619 | Va. Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers, delayed effective date. | 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 retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2026, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2026, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB1612 | Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; maximum reimbursement rate; vendors providing care outside of normal business hours. | Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; maximum reimbursement rate; vendors providing care outside of normal business hours. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations relating to the Child Care Subsidy Program to permit payment over the maximum reimbursable rate for any vendor that provides child care outside of normal business hours, provided that such rate may not exceed twice the maximum reimbursable rate for child care provided within normal business hours. | Dead |
| HB1615 | Transportation infrastructure and projects; noise analysis. | Transportation infrastructure and projects; noise analysis. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board or the Department of Transportation to begin a noise analysis within one year of receipt of a valid petition for a noise analysis. The bill also requires a noise analysis for any retrofit noise abatement project undertaken or considered by the Board or the Department. | Dead |
| HB1709 | Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; landlord obligations, access of tenant to broadband services. | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord obligations; access of tenant to broadband services. Prohibits the landlord of a multifamily dwelling unit from accepting payment from a provider of broadband service for granting such provider mere access to the landlord's tenants or giving such tenants mere access to such service. The bill also prohibits a landlord from demanding or accepting payment from tenants in exchange for such a service unless the landlord itself is the provider of the service. | Dead |
| HB1991 | Domestic and Sexual Assault Conviction Database; established. | Domestic and Sexual Assault Conviction Database. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Domestic and Sexual Assault Conviction Database that would include information on persons who were convicted of certain offenses against a family or household member, defined in the bill. The Database will be available to the public on the Department of State Police website. Persons whose information is on the Database may petition for removal of their information from the Database if certain requirements are met, and the State Police shall include such petition information on the Database website. Under the bill, the Superintendent of State Police is required to complete the Database by July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB2017 | Public schools; student support services, student personal information and data security, report. | Public schools; student support services; student personal information and data security; registration; requirements; grants; report. Requires any student support agency, as defined by the bill, to register with the Department of Education (the Department) in order to provide any student support programs, as defined by the bill, to students enrolled in any public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth. The bill establishes several requirements for the registration of any student support agency relating to the protection of any student personal information collected by the student support agency, including (i) requiring such agencies to adopt certain policies, procedures, and protocols designed to ensure the continued security, integrity, and confidentiality of student personal information; (ii) requiring the Department to ensure any student support agency obtains informed consent from the parent of any student or, if such student is 18 years of age or older, the student prior to collecting or using any student personal information; (iii) requiring the Department to develop a standard memorandum of understanding and each student support agency and school board to execute a memorandum of understanding establishing authorizations and limitations relating to the transmission, collection, and use of student personal information; (iv) requiring the Department to establish and administer a grant program for the purpose of awarding grants to certain student support agencies for data security upgrades, training for staff, and third-party audits; (v) prohibiting any student support agency from using or sharing student personal information for certain purposes set forth in the bill, including sharing any such student personal information for use in targeted advertising; (vi) requiring the Department to establish certain programs and provide certain resources to support certain registered student support agencies and school boards in effectively and efficiently providing student support programs in compliance with the provisions of the bill; and (vii) requiring the Department to conduct an annual audit of a certain percentage of registered student support agencies to ensure compliance with the provisions of the bill and establishing provisions relating to consequences for failure of the audit or otherwise being found in violation of the provisions of the bill. | Dead |
| HB1893 | State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. | State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of care provided at certain recovery residences for individuals diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The bill also directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to (i) convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to (a) establish a monitoring and evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness and impact of recovery residences on long-term recovery outcomes and (b) study the economic impact of recovery residences on the Commonwealth and (ii) in consultation with such work group, promulgate regulations to ensure recovery residences are operating in compliance with American Society of Addiction Medicine standards. The bill directs the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB1944 | Legal notices; advertisement on website. | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on its website rather than in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality. | Dead |
| HB1717 | Earned income tax credit. | Earned income tax credit. Allows eligible low-income taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year by the taxpayer for the same taxable year. The bill also states that individuals who would have been entitled to the federal equivalent of this credit but for the fact that the individual, the individual's spouse, or one or more of the individual's children does not have a valid social security number are eligible to claim this credit. Under current law, taxpayers may choose to claim either a nonrefundable tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year or a refundable tax credit equal to 15 percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed that year. | Dead |
| HB1708 | Access to Housing Task Force; report. | Access to Housing Task Force; report. Establishes the Access to Housing Task Force for the purpose of evaluating short-term and long-term access to housing in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Task Force to report its findings and conclusions to the Governor and General Assembly no later than November 1, 2025, regarding its activities and recommendations. | Dead |
| HB1688 | Short-term rentals; compliance; civil penalty. | Short-term rentals; compliance; civil penalty. Authorizes localities to notify an accommodations intermediary that a short-term rental on its platform is not lawfully authorized to be offered on its platform. The accommodations intermediary shall remove any such listing from its platform within seven days of receiving notice and shall provide a refund to any customer reserving such listing. Under the bill, any accommodations intermediary who does not remove such a listing from its platform shall be subject to a civil penalty of $1,000, to be paid into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. Any such listing required to be removed shall remain unlisted until the accommodations intermediary has been notified by the locality that the short-term rental has been brought into compliance. Once the locality determines that a delisted short-term rental has been brought into compliance, the locality shall have seven days to notify the accommodations intermediary of the change in status. | Dead |
| HB1823 | Lynching Sites Memorialization, Virginia Commission on; established, report, sunset. | Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization established; report. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Lynching Sites Memorialization as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the 15-member Commission is to acknowledge the history of racial violence in Virginia through the placement of historical markers at the sites of lynchings. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028. | Dead |
| HB1710 | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. | Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to assess and make recommendations related to reimbursement rates for the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HJR444 | Virginia's campaign finance laws; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study. | Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, technical, and staffing shortcomings in the current election and campaign finance laws relating to (a) reporting and investigating violations, (b) enforcing legal and regulatory requirements, and (c) implementing directions from state government at the local level and (ii) determine whether current budgetary allocations are sufficient to effectively carry out such aspects of the campaign finance system. To that end, JLARC is directed to analyze how existing campaign finance and election laws can be modernized by creating a new independent agency to increase transparency and accountability using best practices from other jurisdictions across the United States and to produce a report of clear recommendations and best practices for creating such an independent agency for improving the current system. | Dead |
| HB2545 | Gas pipeline safety; regulations. | Gas pipeline safety; regulations. Requires that for pipeline facilities used in the interstate transport of gas, as defined in federal regulations, any gas transported in transmission lines in the Commonwealth shall be adequately odorized, with an exception for certain pipelines in operation before May 5, 1975. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to promulgate regulations related to the provisions of the bill. | Dead |
| HB1620 | Department of Labor and Industry; work group to evaluate workplace violence. | Department of Labor and Industry; work group to evaluate workplace violence. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group for the purpose of evaluating the prevalence of workplace violence in the Commonwealth, including its effects on the workplace and measures to address workplace violence. The bill requires the work group to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor no later than December 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB158 | Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm. | Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any firearm to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer unless the transferee is provided with a locking device for that firearm and the firearm is accompanied by a warning, in conspicuous and legible type in capital letters printed on a separate sheet of paper included within the packaging enclosing the firearm, that firearms should be locked and kept away from children and that there may be civil and criminal liability for failing to do so. The bill provides exceptions for law-enforcement and governmental agencies. This bill incorporates HB 12. | Dead |
| HB1686 | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's dependent care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections. This bill was incorporated into HB 2165. | Dead |
| HB1689 | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; Real Estate Board; residential property disclosure statement form. | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; Real Estate Board; residential property disclosure statement form. Requires the residential property disclosure statement form developed by the Real Estate Board and maintained on its website to include a statement to be signed by the parties to a real estate transaction acknowledging that the purchaser has been advised of the disclosures listed in such form. Under current law, such statement is not required to be included in the residential property disclosure statement form. | Dead |
| HB721 | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlords who are under the ordinance may be required to give at least two months' written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's calculated allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord can increase a tenant's rent during any 12-month period, in effect at the time of the increase. The bill sets such allowance as equal to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index or seven percent, whichever is less, states that such allowance is effective for a 12-month period beginning July 1 each year, and requires the locality to publish such allowance on its website by June 1 of each year. Certain facilities, as outlined in the bill, are exempt from such ordinance. The bill also allows a locality to establish an anti-rent gouging board that will develop and implement rules and procedures by which landlords may apply for and be granted exemptions from the rent increase limits set by the ordinance. Finally, the bill provides that a locality may establish a civil penalty for failure to comply with the requirements set out in the ordinance. | Dead |
| SB518 | Public high schools; college and career specialist required. | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provides that each such individual shall be employed in addition to and not as a replacement for the required school counselor positions, specialized student support positions, or support services positions. | Dead |
| SJR11 | Constitutional amendment; marriage between two individuals. | \r\n\r\n | Dead |
| HJR25 | Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc. | \r\n\r\n | Dead |
| HB386 | Public schools; increase staffing ratios for specialized student support positions. | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions. | Dead |
| HB38 | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. | 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 retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB130 | Constitutional officers; dual office holding, prohibited for deputies and other persons. | Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any persons serving in such officer's absence until a special election to fill the vacancy is held. | Dead |
| HJR14 | Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly to extend state recognition. | \r\n\r\n | Dead |
| HB864 | Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. | Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bill as children who have a mental illness diagnosis and have experienced functional limitations due to emotional disturbance, including experiencing a school shooting or the loss of a loved one in a school setting, over the past 12 months on a continuous or intermittent basis. Under the bill, "therapeutic day treatment services" are treatment programs that combine psychotherapeutic interventions with education and mental health and may include evaluation; medication education and management; opportunities to learn and use daily living skills and to enhance social and interpersonal skills; and individual, group, and family counseling. The bill applies to plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after January 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB573 | Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents. | Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to prepare in writing and provide to the principal or his designee and the division superintendent a report on (i) any suspected offense, offense for which any charge has been filed, or offense that is subject to investigation that was committed or is suspected to have been committed by a student enrolled at the school if the offense would be (a) a felony if committed by an adult, (b) a violation of the Drug Control Act and occurred on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, or (c) an adult misdemeanor involving certain enumerated incidents and (ii) whether the student is released to the custody of his parent or, if 18 years of age or older, is released on bond. The bill requires division superintendents to report all such incidents to the Department of Education in an annual report that is made available to the public. Current law does not require such reports to be in writing and only applies to student offenses but does not specify whether such reports are required to be made for student offenses that are suspected, charged, or subject to investigation. | Dead |
| HB1311 | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment. | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment by either party. The bill also repeals the provision allowing for a divorce from bed and board on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment. The provisions of the bill apply to suits for divorce filed on or after July 1, 2024. | Dead |
| HB33 | Public drinking water; Commissioner of Health's work group to study occurrence of microplastics. | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water and develop recommendations for the reduction of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Education and Health by December 1, 2024. | Dead |
| HB240 | Income tax, state; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan accounts, report. | 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 Virginia College Savings Plan from $4,000 to $7,500 in taxable year 2024, $11,000 in taxable year 2025, and $15,000 for taxable year 2026 and thereafter. Such amount shall be adjusted for changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) beginning in taxable year 2024. The deduction is limited to $4,000 for taxpayers with federal adjusted gross income that is greater than $100,000 for an individual or $200,000 for married persons filing a joint return. The bill also creates an individual or corporate deduction, as applicable, of up to $4,000 for the amount a child day center or child day program paid or contributed to a customer's or client's prepaid tuition contract or college savings trust account entered into with the Virginia College Savings Plan. The bill also provides a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 for 35 percent of expenses incurred by a business during the taxable year for contributions into a Virginia College Savings Plan account owned by an employee of the business. If the employee receiving the contribution is a qualified employee, as defined in the bill, the bill specifies that the credit shall not exceed $500 annually for each such employee. If the employee receiving the contribution is a qualified employee who is not highly compensated, as defined in the bill, the bill specifies that the credit shall not exceed $1,000 annually for each such employee. The bill provides that the total amount of tax credits available for a calendar year shall not exceed $5 million and that any unused tax credit may be carried over for five years. | Dead |
| HB582 | Public high schools; each school board to employ at least one career coach. | Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing internships, externships, and credentialing opportunities as required by the Profile of a Virginia Graduate, providing students with information on apprenticeship programs, and connecting students to career opportunities. The bill provides that each such individual shall be employed in addition to and not as a replacement for the required school counselor positions, specialized student support positions, or support services positions. | Dead |
| HB535 | Early childhood care and education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations. | Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of Early Childhood Care and Education of the Department of Education, in consultation with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to (i) conduct a comprehensive review of the findings and recommendations contained in the 2017 report of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Improving Virginia's Early Childhood Development Programs, to determine what barriers, gaps, and deficiencies continue to exist in the provision of high-quality early childhood education and care in the Commonwealth, with a particular focus on gaps and deficiencies in the ongoing monitoring of Virginia Preschool Initiative program quality, including the collection and analysis of data relating to outcomes and kindergarten readiness, and (ii) report its findings and any associated policy recommendations to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024. | Dead |
| HB1490 | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices, days and hours of operation. | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of operation for such offices. The bill prohibits any reduction in the dates or hours of operation of such offices to be enacted within 60 days of any general election. | Dead |
| HB406 | Clean Water Act; cooling water intakes at power plants. | Department of Environmental Quality; enforcement of regulations; Clean Water Act; cooling water intakes at power plants. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to promptly enforce federal regulations implementing a provision of the federal Clean Water Act for cooling water intakes at power plants to reduce negative impacts on fish populations in the waters of the Commonwealth. | Dead |
| HB1492 | Trauma-informed training and education; work group to study. | Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, adoption, and implementation of trauma-informed training and education for judges, magistrates, and court personnel. The bill requires the work group to submit its recommendations by December 1, 2024, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice. | Dead |
| HB1537 | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual, report. | JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as it relates to the Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice. The bill requires that JLARC evaluate the effectiveness of such procedures and report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology and the House Committee on General Laws by November 1, 2024. | Dead |
| HB408 | Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. | Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollment but provides that if any such enrolled child is absent from the provider for 10 or more days during one month, the Department shall periodically reimburse such provider on the basis of such child's attendance. | Dead |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB738 | Public elementary & secondary schools; bell-to-bell student cell phone & smart device possession. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 2-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| SB742 | Richard Bland College; governance. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1600 | Budget Bill. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation #`s 15, 17, 20, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 51, 55, 62, 67, 82, 88, 91, 99, 101, 112, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 156, 158, 164, 171, 173, 175, 181, 191, 200, 201, 204 (95-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1589 | Virginia Parole Board; powers and duties, membership, voting requirements, etc. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (9-Y 86-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| SB838 | Recovery residences; certification required penalty, report. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (93-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1601 | Data centers; site assessment for high energy use facility. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (51-Y 44-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1601 | Data centers; site assessment for high energy use facility. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (11-Y 85-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1649 | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1607 | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1630 | Discovery materials or evidence; allows accused to request the Commonwealth to copy or photograph. | VOTE: Pass by for the day - Adoption (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1614 | Postpartum doula care; DMAS to amend state plan for medical assistance services. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1642 | Artificial intelligence-based tool; definition, use of tool. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1609 | Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment. | Passed in enrolled form (64-Y 31-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1609 | Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 67-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1657 | Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1675 | Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. | VOTE: Pass by for the day - Adoption (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1665 | Fines, restitution, forfeiture, etc.; criminal and traffic cases, itemized statement. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1716 | Contraception; establishes right to obtain, applicability, enforcement. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (Y-55 N-41 A-0) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1716 | Contraception; establishes right to obtain, applicability, enforcement. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (42-Y 54-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1796 | Corporations; creates a regulatory framework for decentralized autonomous organizations. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (28-Y 68-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1791 | Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund; established and created. | House sustained Governor's veto (51-Y 45-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1766 | Unemployment compensation; increases weekly benefit amounts, report. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (Y-63 N-33 A-0) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1725 | Medical Debt Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (51-Y 45-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1725 | Medical Debt Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (33-Y 63-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1712 | Law-enforcement agencies and officers; establishing training curriculum on certain arrests. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 5-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1699 | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (52-Y 42-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1699 | Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (20-Y 74-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1721 | Condemnation of conservation or open-space easement; compensation, Uniform Easement Relocation Act. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1723 | Assistance w/food access, etc.; methods to improve participation in fed. public assistance programs. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1730 | Personal injury or death by wrongful act; liability of employer to vulnerable victims. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (54-Y 41-N 1-A) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1730 | Personal injury or death by wrongful act; liability of employer to vulnerable victims. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N 1-A) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1833 | Small Family Day Home Provider Incentive Pilot Program; established, sunset. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (35-Y 60-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1876 | Capitol Sq. or building owned/leased by the Commonwealth, carrying firearm/explosive material, etc. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1869 | Firearms; purchase, etc., assault and battery of family member or intimate partner, penalties. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1821 | Electric utilities; accelerated renewable energy buyers, zero-carbon electricity. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1888 | Tort actions; immunity of persons based on statements made at a Title IX hearing. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 1-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1844 | Baby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1824 | High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits, etc. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (51-Y 45-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1824 | High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits, etc. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 70-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1835 | Geologists; regulation, licensure, penalty. | Passed by for the day | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1883 | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (29-Y 67-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| SB903 | Dogs; sale and procurement by pet shops, pet shop regulations. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 1-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| SB866 | Real Estate Board; membership, qualifications. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| SB936 | Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction, effective clause, report. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (62-Y 34-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1923 | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners, etc. | Passed in enrolled form (70-Y 24-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1923 | Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners, etc. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 81-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1961 | Public elementary & secondary schools; bell-to-bell student cell phone & smart device possession. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1957 | SOL assessments & related student assessment methods; assessment development, etc., reform. | House rejected Governor's recommendation #1 (33-Y 61-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1957 | SOL assessments & related student assessment methods; assessment development, etc., reform. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation #'s 2-12 (88-Y 5-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1924 | School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 2-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1928 | Minimum wage. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1929 | Pregnancy mobile application; promoting awareness of gov't. maternal & infant health programs, etc. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1934 | Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1918 | Women's Menstrual Health Program; established, information collection, etc. | Passed in enrolled form (94-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1918 | Women's Menstrual Health Program; established, information collection, etc. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (16-Y 80-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB1936 | Teacher training; Department of Education to establish and maintain an index of each training, etc. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1970 | Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning, provisions are declaratory of existing law. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1977 | Weapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health or developmental services. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2024 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; solar photovoltaic equipment and facilities. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 4-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2002 | Voter registration; cancellation of registration, sources of data. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB1989 | Medical cannabis program; changes requirements for product labels, dispensing cannabis products. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2008 | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 80-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2018 | Teachers; career and technical education, alternative pathway to provisional licensure. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (58-Y 36-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2018 | Teachers; career and technical education, alternative pathway to provisional licensure. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (22-Y 73-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2036 | Reckless driving; definition of "exhibition driving," penalties. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2034 | Tidal and nontidal wetlands; policy task force to evaluate policies regarding protection, etc. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2096 | Intelligent Speed Assistance Program; established, penalty. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (86-Y 9-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2109 | Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, Task Force on; State Health Commissioner to reestablish. | VOTE: Pass by for the day - Adoption (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2082 | Medical Assistance Services, Department of; appeals of agency determinations. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2050 | Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program; established. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2103 | Regulations Governing Allowable Credit for Teaching Experience; etc. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (45-Y 50-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2087 | Electric utilities; transportation electrification, definitions. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2040 | Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 3-N) | 04/02/2025 | Absent |
| SB999 | Appeals; procedure on appeal, payment of expenses. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2056 | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices, days and hours of operation. | House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 44-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2161 | VCU Health System Authority; changes relating to board of directors and chief executive officer. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2158 | DOC; functional literacy program for inmates, etc. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2157 | Richard Bland College; governance. | VOTE: Pass by for the day - Adoption (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2153 | Comprehensive plan; housing development by nonprofit organizations. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (84-Y 12-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2134 | American Indians, Va. recognized tribes, and federally recognized tribes; definitions, sovereignty. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2360 | High School diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2210 | Real Estate Board; membership, qualifications. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2313 | Boarding establishments; work group to consider whether to propose state license, etc. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (79-Y 15-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2351 | Civil litigation; suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit upon appeal. | VOTE: Pass by for the day - Adoption (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2350 | Emergency Management, Department of; powers & duties, development & implementation of guidelines. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (20-Y 75-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2458 | Vehicles used for agricultural purposes; reflectors/reflectorized material on rear end of trailers. | House rejected Governor's amendments #'s 2-7 (46-Y 50-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2458 | Vehicles used for agricultural purposes; reflectors/reflectorized material on rear end of trailers. | House rejected Governor's amendment #1 (45-Y 51-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2218 | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 4-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2426 | Small renewable energy projects; amends definition, permit by rule. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (27-Y 69-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2371 | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (59-Y 37-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2371 | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 78-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2346 | Virtual power plant pilot program; each Phase II Utility shall petition SCC for approval to conduct. | Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (53-Y 41-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2346 | Virtual power plant pilot program; each Phase II Utility shall petition SCC for approval to conduct. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (10-Y 85-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2352 | Dumfries, Town of; amending charter, town powers, etc. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2446 | Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign. | Passed in enrolled form (93-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2446 | Postpartum Depression Education Act; Department of Health to establish a public awareness campaign. | House rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 78-N) | 04/02/2025 | Nay |
| HB2454 | Public school accountability system; Three "E" Readiness Framework. | Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2302 | Real property tax; exemption for religious buildings, rebuilding structure. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2266 | Electric utilities; distribution cost sharing program established, etc. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (85-Y 9-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| HB2221 | Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification, report. | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N) | 04/02/2025 | Yea |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA | Virginia House District 096 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/10/2024 | |
| VA | Virginia House District 021 | House | Democrat | Out of Office | 01/10/2018 | 01/12/2024 |