Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 128)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1804

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Engrossed
1/30/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Medical Assistance Services; application for medical assistance; eligibility for Medicaid Works. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend its application for medical assistance to gather all necessary information to determine an applicant's eligibility for the Medicaid Works program.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1747

Introduced
1/4/25  
Motor vehicle safety inspection approval sticker; armed services grace period. Increases the grace period for motor vehicle safety inspection from 14 calendar days to 30 calendar days for members of the armed services following their return to Virginia from active duty.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1743

Introduced
1/4/25  
Refer
1/4/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
License taxes; deduction for out-of-state receipts; work group; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group to review the policies, methods, existing laws, and potential impacts of the local license tax deduction in Virginia for receipts attributable to out-of-state business and to submit a report of the findings and recommendations, if any, of the work group to the Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy and to the Chairs of the House Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1768

Introduced
1/5/25  
Possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of nonhuman primates prohibited; penalties. Prohibits the possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of nonhuman primates and controls the ownership of such primates already in the Commonwealth. The bill exempts from the prohibition certain institutions, qualified transporters passing through the Commonwealth, those in possession of a state or federal exhibitor's license, and those in lawful possession of a nonhuman primate prior to July 1, 2026, subject to certain conditions. The bill also provides a procedure for the seizure of a primate in certain circumstances. Any violation of the provisions of the bill is a Class 1 misdemeanor or, for a willful act or omission in the care, control, or containment of a nonhuman primate, a Class 6 felony.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1796

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Engrossed
1/30/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Corporations; decentralized autonomous organizations. Creates a regulatory framework for decentralized autonomous organizations, defined in the bill as a distinct legal entity that operates through blockchain-based governance frameworks, incorporating self-executing smart contracts and decentralized decision-making mechanisms. The bill provides that an entity seeking to become a decentralized autonomous organization must file its articles of organization with the State Corporation Commission in order to seek a certificate of organization and requires such articles of organization to designate an operator of record. The bill permits a limited liability company to elect to become a decentralized autonomous organization with management vested in its members or smart contracts and contains requirements for its articles of organization and operating agreements. The bill also contains provisions governing the relationships and rights of members of a decentralized autonomous organization and for the dissolution of a decentralized autonomous organization. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2026 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB826

Introduced
12/31/24  
Refer
12/31/24  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Department of Health Professions; predetermination for licensing eligibility; prior convictions. Prohibits the use of vague or arbitrary terms by a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation or Department of Health when refusing a person a license, certificate, or registration to practice, pursue, or engage in any regulated occupation or profession. The bill requires such regulatory board denying a registration, license, or certificate based on information in the applicant's criminal history record to notify the applicant in writing of (i) the specific offense or offenses that contributed to such denial; (ii) how the criminal history directly relates to the occupation for which the registration, license, or certificate applies; and (iii) how the regulatory board weighed rehabilitation factors when making its decision.The bill further allows an applicant to request a written predetermination from a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation concerning whether his criminal record would disqualify him from obtaining a license, certificate, registration, or other authority to engage in a particular occupation, trade, or profession in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1582

Introduced
12/31/24  
Refer
12/31/24  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Pharmacists; collaborative agreements; drug therapy. Specifies that a collaborative agreement between pharmacists and other health care providers may include prescribing, modification, continuation, or discontinuation of drug therapy after proof of such signed collaborative agreement is submitted to and authorized by the Board of Pharmacy.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB834

Introduced
1/1/25  
Refer
1/1/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Enrolled
2/10/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exceptions. Removes certain provisions of the exceptions to the tied house limitations that state a manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler cannot require, by agreement or otherwise, a retailer to exclude from sale at his establishment alcoholic beverages of other manufacturers, bottlers, importers, brokers, or wholesalers in order for the exception to apply. However, the bill retains the general prohibition that no manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler of alcoholic beverages shall make an agreement, or attempt to make an agreement, with a retail licensee pursuant to which any products sold by a competitor are excluded in whole or in part from the premises on which the retail licensee's business is conducted. This bill is identical to HB 1703.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SJR251

Introduced
12/31/24  
Refer
12/31/24  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Study; JLARC; public school libraries; removal of certain books; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries in the Commonwealth between July 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024, on the basis of such books containing sexually explicit content or other content deemed objectionable for the purpose of identifying each book removed and, for each book removed, (i) the purported reason for its removal, (ii) the processes and procedures by which each book was identified as containing content necessitating its removal and for removing each book, and (iii) whether applicable state law directing the Department of Education to adopt model policies and each school board to adopt policies consistent with such model policies was used by any school division to justify the identification, removal, or process and procedures by which each book was identified or removed. The bill requires JLARC to complete its meetings by August 1, 2025, and directs the chairman to submit an executive summary of its findings and recommendations by October 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1589

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
Powers and duties of Parole Board; voting requirements; meetings. Removes various references to postrelease supervision and instead includes such references and related procedures in the provisions that govern probation so that such procedures, including revocation hearings, will be overseen and conducted by the sentencing court. The bill provides that except for a public meeting convened for conducting the final deliberation and vote regarding whether the Parole Board will grant parole to a prisoner, a meeting of the Parole Board members, regardless of whether such members invite staff or other guests to participate in such meeting, shall not be deemed a meeting subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.The bill also provides that the final deliberation and vote of whether to grant parole to a person serving life imprisonment for murder in the first degree shall be attended by four or more members of the Parole Board, and a decision to grant such person discretionary parole shall require the concurrence of four or more members present. A final deliberation and vote of whether to grant parole to a person not sentenced to life imprisonment requires the attendance of a panel of no fewer than three members of the Parole Board and a concurrence of the majority of members present for such final deliberation and vote.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1587

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB512

Introduced
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/24  
Report Pass
2/1/24  
Judicial Council of Virginia; work group to study conservatorship; report. Directs the Judicial Council of Virginia to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to study issues relating to conservatorship in the Commonwealth and to develop recommendations for a best practices model. The bill requires the work group to submit its findings and recommendations by November 1, 2024, to the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB274

Introduced
1/5/24  
Refer
1/5/24  
Report Pass
1/23/24  
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability of infertility for firefighters. Provides that firefighters who suffer from infertility are presumed to have developed infertility during the course and scope of employment as a firefighter in certain instances. The bill provides that such infertility is compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if diagnosed by a medical professional and that such compensation may include medical treatment, temporary total incapacity benefits, and temporary partial incapacity benefits for a maximum period of 52 weeks from the date of diagnosis. The bill also requires each employer of firefighters to refer a firefighter seeking infertility health care services to a licensed medical professional after January 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB740

Introduced
9/25/24  
Refer
9/25/24  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Enrolled
2/13/25  
Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. The bill specifies requirements for the training and requires the Board of Medicine to report the number of licensees who have successfully completed such training to the Department of Health and the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative. This bill is identical to HB 1649.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB753

Introduced
12/4/24  
Refer
12/4/24  
Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments in languages other than English; development and administration. Requires (i) the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning assessments in native languages other than English that are most commonly spoken in the Commonwealth; (ii) each school board to make available any such native language assessment to any English language learner student who speaks any such language natively and is identified as having limited English proficiency; (iii) the English language learner faculty at any such student's school to make the final determination as to whether administration of any such native language assessment is appropriate; and (iv) the provisions of the bill to be implemented by the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Education to submit to the U.S. Department of Education by August 1, 2025 any amendments to its consolidated plan under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act, that are necessary to implement its provisions.