Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 137)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HR465

Introduced
1/9/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Commending the Iranian American community in Virginia.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HR464

Introduced
1/9/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Commending Mary Werkheiser.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SJR266

Introduced
1/9/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Enrolled
1/20/25  
Commending Debbie Rountree.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2540

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/10/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund. Establishes the Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 20 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60.597 million, to a qualified company that engages in the manufacture of lithium-ion battery separators and that executes a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, and that on and after July 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2045, is expected to (i) make a capital investment, defined in the bill, of at least $1.3506 billion and (ii) create and maintain at least 2,015 new full-time jobs in Pittsylvania County. This bill is identical to SB 1207.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1230

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Enrolled
2/21/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
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 HB 2201.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1019

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1219

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and determining whether any adjustments to salaries or allowances are needed. The 11-member Commission shall be appointed as follows: two former members of the Senate of Virginia and four former members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Joint Rules Committee, and five nonlegislative citizen members, with the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the House Minority Leader, and the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders each appointing one such member. Any adjustments made to salaries, expense allowances, or other emoluments or benefits enacted in a budget bill based upon the recommendation of the Commission shall not be effective until January 1 of the year immediately following the general election for all members of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1053

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/23/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Synthetic digital content; penalty; work group. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic digital content, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to use any synthetic digital content for the purpose of committing any criminal offense involving fraud, constituting a separate and distinct offense with punishment separate and apart from any punishment received for the commission of the primary criminal offense. The bill also authorizes the individual depicted in the synthetic digital content to bring a civil action against the person who violates such prohibition to recover actual damages, reasonable attorney fees, and such other relief as the court determines to be appropriate. The bill directs the Attorney General to convene a work group to study and make recommendations on the current enforcement of laws related to the use of synthetic digital content, including deepfakes, and any further action needed to address the issue of such use in fraudulent acts. The substantive provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2026 Session of the General Assembly and the provisions directing the Attorney General to convene a work group become effective in due course. This bill is identical to HB 2124.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1081

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Enrolled
2/13/25  
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 HB 1898.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1216

Introduced
1/8/25  
Retail electric energy; renewable energy certificates. Requires competitive service providers, as defined in the bill, to serve 100 percent of their customers' energy and capacity needs from electric generating units located within the PJM transmission region. Under the bill, a competitive service provider must ensure that 100 percent of its customers' energy is either zero-carbon electricity or matched with renewable energy certificates. A certain percentage of a retail customer's annual load must be matched with zero-carbon electricity or renewable energy certificates from within the PJM transmission region. The bill allows certain retail customers to be exempt from non-bypassable charges associated with the renewable energy portfolio standard. The bill also requires the State Corporation Commission to promulgate rules as necessary to ensure that the provisions of the bill do not create an unreasonable shifting of costs to nonparticipating customers and to ensure that in all integrated resource plans and cost recovery proceedings no incumbent electric utility is improperly incorporating the loads of retail electric customers into its forecasts or load projections.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1039

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Corrections; State Board of Local and Regional Jails; policies on inmate participation in telehealth. Requires the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and implement policies for the accommodation in local, regional, state, and community correctional facilities of inmate participation in telehealth appointments, which shall include designating a private space for such telehealth appointments to occur. The bill requires the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to provide an update to the Joint Commission on Health Care by October 1, 2025, on (i) the status of the policies for the accommodation of inmate participation in telehealth appointments required to be developed and implemented pursuant to the provisions of this act; (ii) opportunities to expand telehealth programs in local, regional, state, and community correctional facilities; and (iii) recommended strategies to reduce gaps in or barriers to telehealth service delivery in such correctional facilities. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2549

Introduced
1/10/25  
Refer
1/10/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Individual income taxes; creation of currently not collectible status. Directs the Department of Taxation to create a form through which taxpayers may file for currently not collectible status and specifies that corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies shall be ineligible for such status. The bill provides that the Department shall place an applicant into such status upon a finding that the collection of income taxes from such applicant would create or exacerbate an undue hardship for such applicant. Such applicant shall reapply for such status annually. This bill incorporates HB 2667 and has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1068

Introduced
1/7/25  
Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the presumption against bail has been rebutted and whether there are appropriate conditions of release.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1017

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
School boards; powers and duties; school meal policies; payment of school meal debt. Requires each school board, at the end of each school year, to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance, resulting from uncollectable school meal debts on any student account, on the nonprofit school food service account for each public elementary or secondary school in the school division using any appropriated nonfederal funds, except that each school board is prohibited from requiring any public elementary or secondary school in the school division from paying for or providing any funds to pay for such school's unpaid school meal balance. The bill requires each school board to adopt policies in accordance with the provisions of the bill in order to pay these unpaid balances at the end of each school year.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2438

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various criteria to be included in a local ordinance, such as specifications for setbacks, fencing, solar panel height, visual impacts, and grading, and a decommissioning plan for solar energy equipment and facilities, unless otherwise permitted by right.