Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 131)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1831

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spending on support costs as a percentage of actual school division spending on all public education costs, with certain exceptions such as food service, and (ii) in calculating the costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula beginning with fiscal year 2029, to include all employee benefit costs incurred by a majority of school divisions, including costs related to retirement, health care, life insurance, and payout of earned but unused leave. The bill also requires support services positions to be funded based on a calculation of prevailing costs and prohibits such positions from being subject to any method of funding calculation that caps the number of funded support services positions based on a ratio of such positions to students enrolled in the school division, with the exception of certain support services positions enumerated in the bill. This bill was incorporated into HB 1954.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB851

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/17/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Local ordinances for the use of certain rainwater harvesting systems. Provides that existing local ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 2025, governing rainwater harvesting systems shall continue in force; however, in the event of a conflict between a Board of Health regulation and a local ordinance adopted prior to July 1, 2025, the Board regulation shall govern, except when the conflicting local ordinance is more stringent. The bill prohibits a locality from adopting any local ordinance requiring owners of Tier 4 rainwater harvesting systems to connect to any municipal water supply or impose any penalty, including condemnation proceedings, on such owner for failing to connect to a municipal water supply.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1874

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing a public official's personal information on the Internet. The bill clarifies that such retired or former law-enforcement officer be in good standing with no pending investigations or disciplinary actions. The bill provides that the demand in writing required to prohibit the publication of such personal information shall be effective for a period of four years, provided that such retired or former law-enforcement officer was retired or ended his service within four years of filing a petition with a circuit court. This bill is identical to SB 781.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1722

Introduced
1/4/25  
Refer
1/4/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Social Butterflies Foundation bearing the legend LUPUS AWARENESS.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1902

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report patient level data on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Health Professions for use in the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill requires practitioners to obtain such data when prescribing opioids.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1837

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Dealers in agricultural produce. Repeals provisions relating to the licensing requirements of any person who buys, sells, solicits for sale, processes for sale or resale, resells, exchanges, negotiates, purchases, or contracts for processing or transfers any fruits and vegetables of a producer of such produce in Virginia. The bill maintains the exclusion of such person under the commission merchant licensing requirements if such person holds a license under the federal Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. The bill also makes technical changes to references to agricultural produce as a result of the repeal.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1856

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Amber warning lights; certain department of social services vehicles. Authorizes the use of amber warning lights on vehicles used by a local department of social services to respond to a request for assistance from law-enforcement agency personnel.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1852

Introduced
1/6/25  
Definition of "family or household member." Clarifies that, for the purposes of the definition of "family or household member," an individual does not have to currently be or previously have been in a romantic, dating, or sexual relationship with another person for such individual to be considered a family or household member of such other person if such individual cohabits or, within the previous 12 months, cohabited with such other person and any children of either of them then residing in the same home with such other person.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR442

Introduced
1/6/25  
Study; tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concerning affordable housing; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concerning affordable housing and submit its report by the first day of the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1898

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Optometry; TPA-Formulary; TPA-Formulary Committee; dissolution. Dissolves the TPA-Formulary and the TPA-Formulary Committee. The TPA-Formulary is the list of the therapeutic pharmaceutical agents that a TPA-certified optometrist may prescribe. The TPA-Formulary Committee provides recommendations to the Board of Pharmacy regarding the therapeutic pharmaceutical agents to include on the TPA-Formulary for the treatment of diseases and abnormal conditions of the eye and its adnexa by TPA-certified optometrists. This bill is identical to SB 1081.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1878

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; renaming Director as Executive Director. Renames the Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia as the Executive Director.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1881

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Permits any school board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student's parent, (i) who does not reside within the applicable school division, (ii) whose parent is a full-time active duty member of the uniformed services of the United States and for whom the Commonwealth is the home of record, and (iii) who meets the other requirements set forth in the bill. The bill permits such policies to provide for the denial of any such enrollment request if the school board can demonstrate that it lacks the resources or capacity.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1883

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements; power purchase agreements. Amends certain renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements for Dominion Energy Virginia, including (i) the annual percentage of program requirements to be met with behind-the meter solar, wind, or anaerobic digestion resources of three megawatts or less located in the Commonwealth and (ii) the date by which 75 percent of such requirements shall be met with resources located in the Commonwealth. The bill also removes the requirement for a solar-powered or wind-powered generation facility to have a capacity of no less than 50 kilowatts to qualify for a third party power purchase agreement under a pilot program. The bill permits Dominion Energy Virginia to recover certain costs prior to December 31, 2032, and provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage development on previously developed project sites, as defined in existing law, to reduce the land use impacts of solar development. This bill is identical to SB 1040.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HR453

Introduced
1/6/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Commending Leland Teets.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB850

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Water utilities and wastewater utilities; eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement; cost recovery. Permits a water or wastewater utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for the approval of an eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement plan, as defined in the bill. The bill requires that a water or wastewater utility that receives approval for an eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement rider shall provide a proposed earnings test for informational purposes in each annual informational filing or base rate proceeding filed with the State Corporation Commission before December 1, 2030. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2035. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the State Water Commission. This bill is identical to HB 2711.