Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 129)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB757

Introduced
12/10/24  
Refer
12/10/24  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/11/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person. This bill is identical to HB 1726.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB841

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Board of Pharmacy; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; opioid treatment programs; mobile units; report. Directs the Board of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop and implement a process by which opioid treatment programs can apply for and receive the necessary permissions and waivers to dispense opioid use disorder treatment medications from mobile units. The bill directs the Board to report to the Joint Commission on Health Care by November 1, 2025, on the status of and any barriers to the development and implementation of such process. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB840

Introduced
1/2/25  
Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Specifies certain criteria for a child to be considered engaged in the work of content creation and prohibits a child who is under 14 years of age from engaging in the work of content creation. A child 14 years of age or older who is considered a child engaged in the work of content creation shall be compensated by the content creator, defined in the bill, whose video content includes such child's likeness, name, or photograph. The bill requires the content creator to set aside gross earnings on the video content including the likeness, name, or photograph of the child in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the child upon attaining 18 years of age or being declared emancipated. The bill also requires the content creator to maintain certain records specified in the bill and retain them until the child reaches 21 years of age. The bill allows the child, or his parent or guardian on behalf of such child, to commence a civil action to enforce the provisions of law related to the trust account. Finally, the bill gives the Attorney General the authority to enforce the provisions of the bill by issuing a civil investigative demand and causing an action to be brought in the appropriate circuit court to enjoin any violations. This bill was incorporated into SB 998.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB839

Introduced
1/2/25  
Zoning; by-right multifamily development in areas zoned for commercial use. Requires a locality to provide in its zoning ordinance provisions allowing for the by-right development and construction of multifamily residential uses on all land contained in commercial or business zoning district classifications. The bill provides that the review and approval of such development shall be done administratively by the locality's staff and that any residential development that dedicates a minimum of 10 percent of the total number of housing units to households with a household income at or below 80 percent of the area median income shall be granted an accelerated plan review and permit approval process by the locality's staff.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB844

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Engrossed
1/15/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration intervals for Tier I and Tier II offenses. Requires any person who is required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry and who is convicted of a Tier I or Tier II offense to register yearly. The bill also requires any person convicted of providing false information or failing to provide registration information where such person was included on the Registry for a Tier I or Tier II offense to register twice a year.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB843

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring for patients with chronic conditions; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop a plan and estimate costs for expanding eligibility criteria under Medicaid for remote patient monitoring for individuals with chronic conditions and to report such plan and cost estimate to the Joint Commission on Health Care by October 1, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB837

Introduced
1/2/25  
Concealed handgun permits; minimum age requirement. Reduces from 21 years of age to 18 years of age the minimum age requirement for resident and nonresident concealed handgun permits.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB842

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband access services for mobile health clinics. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to, as part of its broader initiative to support the development and implementation of programs that support telehealth, include broadband access services for mobile health clinics as a priority for broadband nondeployment programs using federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program funding to the extent approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB830

Introduced
12/31/24  
Refer
12/31/24  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Enrolled
2/10/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; name change; general application; expiration repealed. Renames the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program as the Eviction Diversion Program, removes the July 1, 2025, expiration date from the Program, and makes the Program available to all general district courts. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to HB 1623.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB836

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Engrossed
1/15/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Charter; City of Poquoson. Amends the charter for the City of Poquoson to give the city council authority to remove, by a vote of four-sevenths of the whole city council, any person appointed to a city board or commission by the city council.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1684

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Real estate brokers and salespersons; licensees engaged by buyers. Repeals the provision providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law requiring written brokerage agreements or governing the duties of licensees, nothing shall be construed to require that a written agreement between a licensee and a prospective buyer or tenant be executed prior to the licensee's showing properties to the prospective buyer. The bill also provides that a licensee engaged by a seller or landlord shall not be required to show property to a prospective buyer when such showing is conducted pursuant to and in accordance with a brokerage agreement entered into with a seller or landlord client. This bill is identical to SB 1309.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1770

Introduced
1/5/25  
Refer
1/5/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Uniform Trust Code; definitions. Adds "electronic" to the definitions in the Uniform Trust Code. The bill also amends the definition of "trust instrument."
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR440

Introduced
1/5/25  
Refer
1/5/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Passed
2/18/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024. In conducting its study, JLARC is also directed to determine what resources exist to support school administrators in decisions concerning the removal of a book from a public school library and to report its findings by November 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1806

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Individualized education programs; individualized accommodations and supports during emergencies. Permits, if deemed appropriate by the individualized education program (IEP) team, including the parent, each IEP implemented for a public school student with a disability, with the exception of such students who have been placed in private day or residential school settings, to contain language addressing individualized accommodations and supports for the student during emergency situations and evacuations. The bill also (i) provides that in developing such language, IEP teams should be supported by the school administration and (ii) directs the Department of Education to provide guidance to school divisions on how to support IEP teams for the consideration of specific supports required for students with disabilities.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1749

Introduced
1/4/25  
Workers' compensation; duty to furnish medical attention; timeframe for decision. Requires an employer, as defined in existing law, to issue a decision regarding the provision of medical attention to an employee within 45 calendar days after such employee's request for care pursuant to existing law, with certain exceptions described in the bill.