Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 150)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2254
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Outdoor advertising in sight of public highways; license. Removes the requirement for a license for certain outdoor advertising in the sight of public highways.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2163
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Enterprise zone grant program; work group; report. Changes provisions related to enterprise zone real property investment grants by (i) creating an elevated grant tier on and after July 1, 2025, for major qualified zone investors, defined in the bill, and capping grants for such major qualified zone investors at $300,000 within any five-year period for any individual building or facility and (ii) including child day centers in the definition of qualified real property investments for purposes of enterprise zone real property investment grants. The bill directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to collaborate with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to convene a work group to review the utilization of currently designated enterprise zones, make recommendations on renewals or termination of such zones, and report its findings by November 1, 2025. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2130
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Juvenile respondent in protective order proceeding; certain orders. Provides that a court may, upon its own motion or the motion of an attorney or guardian ad litem representing a juvenile respondent in a protective order proceeding, enter an order that requires the local board of social services to provide services to the child and family.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2147
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Tax increment financing; use of other local taxes. Authorizes the governing body of a county, city, or town to apply tax revenues from sources other than real estate taxes for use in tax increment financing of development projects. Under current law, only real estate taxes are specifically authorized to be used for such projects. The governing body may choose any or all of such taxes to be applied in such manner. The amount of revenues to be so used shall be the amount of the increase of such taxes collected in the development project area in a given year compared with the base amount of revenues prior to the establishment of such area. The local taxes that may be so applied include local sales and use taxes, merchants' capital taxes, license taxes, admissions taxes, transient occupancy taxes, meals taxes, and other local taxes and fees for utilities and transportation purposes.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2128
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/17/25
Engrossed
1/22/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Derelict buildings; civil penalties. Expands the authority of localities to impose civil penalties not exceeding $500 per month on the owners of certain derelict buildings to include non-residential property. Current law limits such civil penalties to residential property.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2448
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Interstate Massage Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed massage therapists to practice in Compact member states, provided that they meet certain requirements. The Compact takes effect when enacted by a seventh member state. Currently, two states have enacted the Compact.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2326
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Commercial fishing pier; public fishing pier owned by a political subdivision; exclusion. Excludes a political subdivision that operates a public fishing pier over or upon the subaqueous beds of the Commonwealth from commercial fishing pier licensing fees and permitting requirements.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2265
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Certain individuals to be deemed licensed as teachers with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birth–age five years). Provides that any individual who has been employed in the Commonwealth as a preschool special education teacher licensed with an endorsement in special education - general curriculum K-12 for at least 15 school years shall be deemed licensed as a teacher with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birth–age five years) upon the recommendation of the division superintendent in the local school division in which such individual is employed to the Department of Education that such teacher is well-qualified to continue to teach preschool special education in such school division. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2236
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Use of Virginia crime code in documents for jailable offenses; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission. Provides that the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission shall develop, maintain, and modify the Virginia crime codes used in documents for jailable offenses as may be deemed necessary. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2347
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Limitation of prosecutions; false entries or destruction of records by officers. Extends the statute of limitations for prosecution of the offense of false entries or destruction of records by officers to within (i) five years of the commission of the offense or (ii) two years after the existence of the illegal act and the identity of the offender are discovered by the Commonwealth, whichever is later. The current statute of limitations is one year from the date of the offense.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2449
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Real property tax; special assessment for land preservation. Allows a locality to provide for the use value assessment and taxation of qualifying leased real estate. Qualifying leased real estate is defined in the bill as real estate devoted to open-space use that is subject to an active lease with a lessor who is using the property for agricultural purposes. The taxpayer seeking to qualify for the different assessment of any such qualifying leased real estate must apply to the commissioner of the revenue and provide any documentation necessary to determine eligibility.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2248
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Retail sales and use tax; aircraft components. Removes the July 1, 2025, sunset for the retail sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any aircraft's avionics system, engine, or component parts. The bill also redefines a manned systems aircraft for purposes of the exemption to include aircraft with any maximum takeoff weight. Under current law, a manned systems aircraft is defined to include only aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of at least 2,400 pounds. This bill was incorporated into HB 1729.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR458
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Designates April 24, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in Virginia.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2233
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
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.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2307
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
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
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements of practitioners; pharmacy technicians; training programs. Requires any prescriber of controlled substances approved for use in opioid addiction therapy to, prior to or as a part of execution of a treatment agreement with a patient, request information from the Director of the Department of Health Professions for the purpose of determining what, if any, other covered substances such patient is currently being prescribed. Under current law, only prescribers who hold a special identification number from the Drug Enforcement Administration authorizing the prescribing of controlled substances are required to request such information prior to or as a part of execution of a treatment agreement with a patient. The bill also adds training programs recognized by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or the National Healthcareer Association to the list of approved pharmacy technician training programs.