Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 167)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2135

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Unemployment compensation: allowance for dependents. Provides that, in addition to the weekly unemployment benefit amount determined by relevant law, an eligible claimant who is unemployed in any week shall be paid an allowance of $25 for each of up to three dependents of such claimant. The bill defines "dependent" as the child, adopted child, or stepchild of a claimant who, on January 1 of the benefit year, is wholly or partly supported by such claimant and younger than 16 years of age. The bill requires any claimant declaring one or more dependents to provide proof of such dependents in a form and manner prescribed by the Commission in conformance with certain conditions enumerated in the bill. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2143

Introduced
1/7/25  
Animal-drawn vehicles; equipment requirements. Establishes certain equipment requirements for animal-drawn vehicles operating on the highways of the Commonwealth, including requirements for brake systems, tires and wheels, headlamps, reflectors, hazard lights, rearview mirrors, and horns. The bill replaces existing light and reflector requirements for animal-drawn vehicles under current law with such equipment requirements for headlamps, reflectors, and hazard lights.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2384

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  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
State Board of Health to adopt regulations related to emergency medical vehicle restrictions and specifications. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt a regulation allowing certain Emergency Medical Services (EMS) vehicles belonging to a combination fire and EMS agency to have the fire department logo and lettering appear larger than the lettering identifying the EMS agency.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2334

Introduced
1/8/25  
Vehicle safety inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends from 12 months to 24 months the period for which a vehicle safety inspection is valid for new motor vehicles. The bill requires the fee for a 24-month inspection approval sticker to be double the price of a 12-month inspection approval sticker. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2472

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
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Fingerprints, palm prints, and photographs of juveniles. Requires law-enforcement officers to obtain, electronically when possible, fingerprints, palm prints with accompanying distal prints, if available, and photographs of any juvenile taken into custody and charged with a delinquent act. The bill also requires such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be both filed with the Central Criminal Records Exchange and submitted electronically, when possible, to the State Police to be maintained in a confidential and secure area within the system in which the record is maintained that is inaccessible during routine use of such system. The bill further requires any electronic record of such fingerprints, palm prints, or photographs to be destroyed as soon as possible after the State Police have been notified that a petition or warrant has not been filed against the juvenile. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1261.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2332

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Charter; Town of Urbanna. Amends the charter for the Town of Urbanna in Middlesex County by clarifying that the mayor shall be a member of town council and shall be included in the determination of a quorum.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HR454

Introduced
1/7/25  
Directing the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the legal effects and consequences of a constitutional amendment enshrining a right to reproductive freedom. Directs the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the legal effects and consequences of a constitutional amendment enshrining a right to reproductive freedom, including whether the language of the proposed amendment would constitutionally protect abortion throughout all of pregnancy, create a constitutional right for the parents of a dead child to sell such child's body parts, and legally permit partial birth infanticide, born-alive murder, child pornography, sexual assault, and any other crime after complete extraction or expulsion from the mother so long as the umbilical cord is attached.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2469

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Overtime for certain employees; domestic service workers and live-in domestic workers. Adds domestic workers, as defined in the bill, to provisions related to overtime pay. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 897.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2378

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  
Therapeutically equivalent drug products; provisions for return of outdated drugs. Requires drug manufacturers to implement provisions for the return of drugs past their expiration date by pharmacies in order for their products to be eligible for dispensing as a therapeutically equivalent drug.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2373

Introduced
1/8/25  
Public elementary and secondary school students; parents' bill of rights established. Establishes, consistent with § 1-240.1 of the Code of Virginia, several enumerated rights for the parents of each public elementary or secondary school student in the Commonwealth, including the right to review any books, curricula, or instructional materials being taught or made available to their child and the right to be notified of any situation that directly affects their child's safety at school.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2181

Introduced
1/7/25  
Commonwealth of Virginia State Parks Bond Act of 2025. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia state parks and recreational facilities bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount not exceeding $80,960,000, subject to approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the Commonwealth voting thereon at the November 4, 2025, general election. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds for deferred maintenance projects at state parks and recreational facilities. The full faith and credit of the Commonwealth is pledged for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds and any bond anticipation notes or refunding bonds. The bill authorizes the Treasury Board, by and with the consent of the Governor, to fix the details of such bonds, to borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of the bonds, and to issue refunding bonds. The bill shall not become effective, and no bonds shall be issued, unless and until voter approval is obtained.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2399

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Parental access to minor's health records. Requires health care entities that provide access to health records of minors through a secure website to make such health records available to the minor's parent or guardian through the same secure website.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2249

Introduced
1/7/25  
Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from three to four the maximum number of authorized general district court judges in the Ninth Judicial District. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR679

Introduced
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Commending United Methodist Family Services.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR678

Introduced
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Enrolled
2/22/25  
Commending the Roanoke Higher Education Center.