Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 165)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1972

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be established with the goal of increasing and maintaining capacity systemwide to provide each family with meaningful access to high-quality and affordable choices among publicly funded, federally funded, mixed delivery, and private providers.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1010

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Subpoenas duces tecum; financial records of nonparty; report. Authorizes a nonparty to a civil proceeding to file a motion to quash or modify a subpoena duces tecum issued by a party to such proceeding for the production of (i) financial records of a nonparty account holder or (ii) if such nonparty is an attorney, such attorney's records subject to attorney-client privilege. The bill also prohibits certain financial entities from conditioning the compliance with a subpoena for production of financial records upon the payment of fees for producing such records. The bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to amend its rules as necessary to be consistent with the provisions of the bill. Finally, the bill directs the Boyd-Graves Conference to study whether the Code of Virginia should be amended further to grant standing to other nonparties to file a motion to quash or modify a subpoena duces tecum for other types of records requested by a party in a civil proceeding and to submit the findings of such study to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees for Courts of Justice by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 2565.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2115

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Summonses of a juvenile; custody, visitation, and support proceedings. Provides that the court may direct the issuance of a summons to a juvenile on its own motion or upon request of a party to a custody or visitation petition. The bill further provides that the court may direct the issuance of a summons to a juvenile on its own motion or for good cause shown by a party to a support proceeding requesting the issuance of such a summons. The bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR448

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Study; Department of Environmental Quality; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1995

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  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; recommendations on exempting certain courses of instruction operated by private and out-of-state institutions of higher education; report. Directs the State Council of Higher for Virginia (the Council) to evaluate and make recommendations on amending the provisions of law relating to certain activities and programs offered by private and out-of-state postsecondary schools that are exempt from the requirements for obtaining and maintaining certification by the Council to operate in the Commonwealth for the purpose of exempting noncredit courses of instruction offered by an entity or organization in accordance with the requirements of a nationally recognized certifying body and those intended solely to prepare students for certification as project management professions, provided that no such exempted course shall exceed the number of hours required by the applicable certifying body. The bill requires the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health and the House Committees on Appropriations and Education by November 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2019

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Charter; Town of Shenandoah. Establishes a new charter for the Town of Shenandoah in Page County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1926. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains powers typically granted to towns. This bill is identical to SB 1150.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2029

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/10/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Real property tax; exemption for elderly and disabled individuals. Revises various provisions of the local real property tax exemption and deferral program for elderly and disabled individuals. The bill allows a locality to require that an individual (i) pay all delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest assessed by the locality and incurred prior to becoming eligible for an exemption or deferral; (ii) enter into an installment agreement with the locality for the payment of all such delinquent amounts in installments over a period that is reasonable under the circumstances, but that in no event shall exceed 72 months; (iii) submit and obtain the treasurer's agreement to an offer in compromise with respect to all amounts of delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest; or (iv) carry out a combination thereof. Additionally, the bill provides that notice of the terms and conditions of the exemption and deferral program may be included in any notice of change in assessment and that the treasurer shall post such information on the locality's website. Finally, the bill allows a locality to provide a prorated exemption or deferral for the portion of the taxable year during which the taxpayer would have qualified for such exemption or deferral but had not yet filed an application. This bill is identical to SB 816.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB967

Introduced
1/6/25  
Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime pay or (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violates the bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee for certain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill. The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouse employee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performance standard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverse employment action that may result from such employee's failure to meet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employer from taking an adverse action against a warehouse employee for such employee's use of a bathroom facility. The bill provides that a warehouse employer that violates the bill's provisions relating to warehouse employers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2061

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
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Department of Forestry; Cumberland State Forest; boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest; acceptance of conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to enter into a boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest in and to private property located adjacent to Cumberland State Forest. The bill also authorizes the acceptance of a conveyance of a perpetual access easement by the Department from Stella Watson Chambliss and Rick Matthew Chambliss, Weyerhaeuser Company, and Wayne Rosson. The easement, which will follow an existing road across a portion of Cumberland State Forest, will allow ingress and egress access from State Route 612 and a portion of Cumberland State Forest where no express right-of-way exists.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2099

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Health insurance; carrier contracts; required provisions regarding prior authorization for health care services; work group; report. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier has the right or obligation to require prior authorization for a health care service, as defined in the bill, to include provisions governing the prior authorization process. Such required provisions include (i) time limits for a carrier to respond to prior authorization requests, (ii) a prohibition on revoking, limiting, making conditional, modifying, or restricting a previously approved prior authorization except under certain circumstances, and (iii) a requirement that a carrier shall provide the reasons for denial of a request. The bill requires a carrier to make publicly available on its website a list of health care services and codes for which prior authorization is required. The foregoing provisions have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to establish a work group to develop and deliver a report related to the bill's provisions by November 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1215.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2125

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Department of Human Resource Management; State Government Internship Coordinator. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to establish and employ a State Government Internship Coordinator to attract high quality interns to the service of the Commonwealth with the goal of developing such interns to support their ability to compete for positions in agencies of the Commonwealth upon conclusion of their internships and completion of their educational programs. The bill also requires the Department to establish and administer a system to provide professional development opportunities for state agency interns, intern supervisors, and human resources staff.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2123

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Protective orders; maximum time valid. Provides that if the court finds, based upon evidence presented, that the respondent has been subject to a previous permanent protective order or a permanent protective order in cases of family abuse issued within 10 years, the court may issue a permanent protective order in a case of family abuse for a specified period of time up to a maximum of four years. The bill further provides that such protective order may be extended for a period of not longer than two years, regardless of whether such order was initially issued for a period of time up to a maximum of two years or four years. Current law allows such protective orders to be issued for a specified period of time up to a maximum of two years and extended for a period of time not longer than two years.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2406

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  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Escape from jail or custody; penalty. Specifies that the definition of law-enforcement officer that currently applies for the crime of assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer shall be used for the purposes of the crimes related to escaping from jail or custody of a law-enforcement officer. This bill is identical to SB 861.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2473

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
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/21/25  
Board of Pharmacy; long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs; correctional facilities. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to register a correctional facility to maintain a floor stock of long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs for the treatment of mental illness or substance use disorder. The bill requires such long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs to be stored in an area accessible only to persons who are licensed to administer such prescription drugs, regardless of whether the prescriber is on site. The bill provides that each correctional facility shall maintain an ongoing perpetual inventory of all such drugs in Schedules II through V and that such perpetual inventory shall (i) accurately indicate the physical count of each drug on hand at the time the inventory is performed and (ii) no less than once per month, include a reconciliation of each drug with a written explanation for any difference between the physical count and the theoretical count. This bill is identical to SB 1367.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2412

Introduced
1/8/25  
Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exceptions for highway rest areas and government stores. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth shall not apply to any highway rest area or government store, as those terms are defined in relevant law.