Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 161)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1006

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/17/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Driving while intoxicated; pre-conviction ignition interlock for certain offenders. Permits a first-time or second-time offender charged with driving while intoxicated to obtain an ignition interlock pre-conviction. The bill allows the installation period of time accrued by such offender prior to trial for the pending charge to count toward any (i) ignition interlock or restricted license period of time ordered by the court or (ii) restricted license, suspension, or revocation issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to relevant law. Current law prohibits the installation of an ignition interlock system until a court issues a restricted license. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB998

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Requires that a child under the age of 16 who meets certain criteria specified in the bill to be considered a child engaged in the work of content creation 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 that includes 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 having been declared emancipated. The bill also requires the content creator to maintain certain records specified in the bill and provide them to the child and the holder of the trust account on an ongoing basis. The bill also allows the child, or his parent or guardian on behalf of such child, to commence a civil action if the content creator fails to maintain the required records and to enforce the provisions of law related to the trust account. This bill incorporates SB 840 and is identical to HB 2401.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1005

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Services for sexual assault patients; provision of information for sexual assault patients; Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault; work group; report. Changes instances of "sexual assault survivor" and its variations to "sexual assault patient." The bill requires health care facilities to provide information on local or statewide sexual and domestic violence advocacy services to adult and pediatric patients. The bill removes language requiring hospitals to enter into a memorandum of understanding with rape crisis centers, removes language allowing sexual assault patients to be transferred to clinics, and repeals the statute establishing the Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault. The bill directs the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services to convene a work group to address sustainable funding for sexual assault medical forensic examinations and services. The bill requires the work group to submit a report with recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 1731.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2105

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Regional correctional facilities; investigation of acts of violence; report to law-enforcement agency; policies. Requires the jail superintendent of any regional correctional facility to promptly report to the primary local law-enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where such facility is located or to the Department of State Police any act of violence that occurs within such correctional facility. The bill also requires each regional correctional facility to adopt a policy setting forth the procedures for the investigation of such acts of violence and the respective roles and responsibilities of the jail superintendent of such correctional facility and the law-enforcement agency to which such report is made. The bill requires each regional correctional facility to provide a copy of such policy to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails prior to January 1 each year, beginning on January 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2080

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Registration decals; discontinued. Discontinues the requirement for and issuance of decals displaying the expiration month and year of motor vehicle registration to be displayed on license plates. The bill also removes the requirement for the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue appropriately designated license plates for motor vehicles held for rental. The bill does not eliminate existing requirements that vehicles are to be registered. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB993

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/11/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions. Clarifies that the provisions related to real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents shall not apply to any person employed by a licensed real estate broker for and on behalf of the owner of any real estate or the improvements thereon that the licensed broker has contracted to manage for the owner if the actions of such employee are limited to (i) accepting and signing broker-approved rental agreements, state or federal required disclosures, and any documents required for compliance with Virginia Fair Housing Law related to such rental transaction and (ii) accepting security deposits, periodic rent, and other payments contracted for in the rental agreement for such real estate. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to HB 2557.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB990

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Mattress Stewardship Program established; report; civil penalties. Establishes the Mattress Stewardship Program that allows certain industry associations to administer the Program as a mattress recycling organization with approval and certification from the Department of Environmental Quality. The bill requires certain producers, retailers, and renovators of mattresses to register with a certified mattress recycling organization and requires a producer to identify each mattress brand it sells or offers for sale in the Commonwealth on or before June 1, 2027. Prior to the Program going into effect, the bill requires a mattress recycling organization to submit a plan with certain criteria relating to the collection and recycling of mattresses and the implementation of the Program. The bill establishes annual reporting requirements for the mattress recycling organization and establishes a Mattress Stewardship Program Advisory Board to provide advice on the proper implementation and sustainability of the Program. Finally, the bill establishes the powers and duties of the Department as they relate to the bill and civil penalties for violations of the Program by the producers, the retailers, or the mattress recycling organization.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2084

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
State Corporation Commission regulatory proceeding; reasonable classifications of customers by public utilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission, in an existing proceeding filed after January 1, 2025, but no late than July 1, 2027, to determine whether Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power are using rates, tolls, charges, or schedules that contain reasonable classifications of utility customers.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2063

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Removes the requirement to report certain arrests and convictions of school employees enumerated in law via fax to the fax number identified for the division superintendent or the designated division safety official, as the case may be. However, the requirements in current law to make such reports via certified mail and email are preserved.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2045

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; publishing of certain institution-level data on website required. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to annually publish in an easily accessible format and location on its website data for each public institution of higher education and each nonprofit private institution of higher education eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program on the (i) cost of tuition and fees; (ii) student retention rate; (iii) student graduation rate; (iv) wages of former students three years after graduation; (v) 20 baccalaureate degree programs with the highest average annual wages following graduation; and (vi) 20 associate degree or certificate programs with the highest average annual wages following graduation. The bill requires such data to be presented in a user-friendly format so that the user can compare the data clearly and visually.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2049

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Retail sales and use tax exemption; motor vehicle child restraint device. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for the purchase of a child restraint device for personal use in a passenger car beginning July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2110

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; prohibition on requiring purchaser's name. Prohibits any association from requiring a purchaser's name prior to preparing the resale certificate or requiring such information to be set out on a completed resale certificate prepared pursuant to the provisions of the Resale Disclosure Act.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB996

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator; emergency. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a natural person and the sole owner of such property, the apparent owner has been identified by the State Treasurer or his designee, and the amount to be paid does not exceed $5,000. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill incorporates SB 867 and SB 922 and is identical to HB 1606.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2124

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Engrossed
1/30/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
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.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2075

Introduced
1/7/25  
Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for sexual abuse of a child who is 13 or 14 years of age.