Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 162)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2312

Introduced
1/8/25  
Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such materials are prohibited from being distributed by law or impossible to provide by electronic means. The bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to promulgate rules to implement this provision by July 1, 2027. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2028. The bill also requires the Executive Secretary of the Compensation Board, or a designee, to convene a work group to determine the costs associated with any changes in operations and technology infrastructure necessary to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill requires the Executive Secretary of the Compensation Board to provide an interim report to the General Assembly by November 30, 2025, and a final report to the General Assembly by August 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2190

Introduced
1/7/25  
Public schools; school libraries; catalog of print or digital materials available in school libraries and used as instructional materials; development, implementation, and maintenance. Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to develop, implement, and maintain in an electronic spreadsheet or substantially similar electronic format a catalog of all print or digital materials, as defined in the bill, available in the school library and all instructional materials, as defined in the bill, used as a part of the school curriculum. The bill requires such catalog to (i) be developed and posted in a publicly accessible location on the school website in a searchable and downloadable format; (ii) identify each item by the item's title, author, and, if applicable, International Standard Book Number, or such other identifying features or information as the principal or his designee deems appropriate; and (iii) be maintained and updated as necessary to accurately reflect all print or digital materials available in the school library and any instructional materials used as a part of the school curriculum.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2367

Introduced
1/8/25  
Department of Human Resource Management; Department of Health; pharmacogenomics pilot program established; report. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to develop a two-year pharmacogenomics pilot program for state employees, beginning no later than January 1, 2026, and expiring on January 1, 2028. The bill also directs the Department of Human Resource Management to report annually on the pilot program to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2330

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Notice of certain land use actions. Provides that one notice sent by first-class mail to the last known address of certain property owners impacted by a proposed change in the zoning map classification of 25 or fewer parcels of land shall be deemed adequate notice, provided that a representative of the local planning commission shall make affidavit that such mailings have been made and file such affidavit with the papers in the case. Current law also allows such notice to be given by registered or certified mail. The bill also makes technical amendments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2269

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  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence reported. The bill requires each hospital to (i) report the data collected via the reporting system to the chief medical officer and the chief nursing officer of such hospital on, at minimum, a quarterly basis and (ii) send a report to the Department of Health on an annual basis that includes, at a minimum, the number of incidents of workplace violence voluntarily reported by an employee. The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of making recommendations on the workplace violence system and policies adopted pursuant to the bill. This bill is identical to SB 1260.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2253

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Nursing homes; sanctions; civil penalty. Establishes procedures for the implementation of sanctions by the State Health Commissioner on any nursing home that is licensed pursuant to the laws regulating medical care facilities and services. The bill specifies the forms of sanctions that the Commissioner may impose, the nursing home's continued responsibility for persons under its care, the use of funds remunerated in accordance with such sanctions, the process for the imposition of such sanctions, and the Commissioner's ability to revoke such nursing home's license. The bill specifies that sanctions shall not be imposed on a nursing home that is sanctioned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This bill is identical to SB 1383.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2380

Introduced
1/8/25  
Secretary of Health and Human Resources; Pharmacy Benefits Manager and Third-Party Administrator Oversight Work Group; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in consultation with the Attorney General, to convene the Pharmacy Benefits Manager and Third-Party Administrator Oversight Work Group to examine the impact of Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, 141 S. Ct. 474 (2020), and to formulate legislative recommendations for reducing prescription drug costs, minimizing health care expenses, reducing bureaucratic impediments to affordable health care, enhancing transparency, and improving overall health outcomes for residents of the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Work Group to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by November 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2315

Introduced
1/8/25  
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; retirement age. Changes the age through which a retired law-enforcement officer covered under the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System is entitled to receive an additional retirement allowance from the law-enforcement officer's sixty-fifth birthday to retirement age as defined by the Social Security Act. This change aligns the additional allowance with that currently provided under the State Police Officers' Retirement System.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2441

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees; authority to permit campus security officers to carry firearms in performance of official duties; conditions. Authorizes the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees to permit campus security personnel employed in its campus security department to carry firearms in the performance of their official duties, provided that such campus security personnel are considered armed security officers, as such term is defined in relevant law, and comply with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements attendant to such designation, including registration and training. This bill is identical to SB 1368.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2194

Introduced
1/7/25  
Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Permits political subdivisions participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to juvenile detention specialists. The bill applies only to service earned as a juvenile detention specialist on or after July 1, 2026, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time juvenile detention specialist before July 1, 2026, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2223

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Abolition of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Eliminates the fees for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation for persons who are determined to be indigent.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2351

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Civil litigation; suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit upon appeal. Increases the cap currently in place for suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit for appellants during the pendency of an appeal of a civil action from $25 million to $200 million. The bill also requires, beginning April 1, 2028, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, this monetary cap to be adjusted to reflect the change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2176

Introduced
1/7/25  
Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony offenses involving the possession, manufacture, selling, giving, distribution, transportation, or delivery of marijuana committed prior to July 1, 2021, who remain incarcerated or on community supervision on July 1, 2025, may receive an automatic hearing to consider modification of such person's sentence. The provisions of this bill sunset on July 1, 2028. This bill was incorporated into HB 2555.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2460

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Board of Education; Standards of Learning; incorporation of media literacy and digital citizenship. Requires the Board of Education to consider, during each regularly scheduled revision to the Standards of Learning and any associated curriculum framework, including the Digital Learning Integration Standards of Learning, incorporating media literacy and digital citizenship standards, as such terms are defined in the bill, at each grade level.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2392

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; definition of covered entity. Removes hospitals, as defined in existing law, from the exemption to the definition of covered entity for the purposes of existing law relating to pharmacy benefits managers. This bill is identical to SB 1311.