Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 185)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1655

Introduced
1/3/25  
Alcoholic beverage control; limitation on manufacturers, bottlers, and wholesalers; restrictions on employment; exemptions. Allows a manufacturer, bottler, or wholesaler to employ any person employed by a retail licensee and a retail licensee to employ any person employed by a manufacturer, bottler, or wholesaler, provided that (i) no person employed by a manufacturer is employed as a designated manager of a retail licensee or similar position in a retail licensee establishment and (ii) no retail licensee is required by agreement or otherwise to exclude from sale at his establishment alcoholic beverages of other manufacturers, bottlers, or wholesalers.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1672

Introduced
1/3/25  
Retail electric energy; renewable energy certificates. Requires competitive service providers, as defined in the bill, to serve 100 percent of their customers' energy and capacity needs from electric generating units located within the PJM transmission region. Under the bill, a competitive service provider must ensure that 100 percent of its customers' energy is either zero-carbon electricity or matched with zero-carbon electricity or renewable energy certificates. A certain percentage of a retail customer's annual load must be matched with renewable energy certificates from within the PJM transmission region. The bill allows certain retail customers to be exempt from non-bypassable charges associated with the renewable energy portfolio standard. The bill also requires the State Corporation Commission to promulgate rules as necessary to ensure that the provisions of the bill do not create an unreasonable shifting of costs to nonparticipating customers and to ensure that in all integrated resource plans and cost recovery proceedings no incumbent electric utility is improperly incorporating the loads of retail electric customers into its forecasts or load projections.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1673

Introduced
1/3/25  
Pedestrian crossing violation monitoring systems and stop sign violation monitoring systems; violation enforcement; civil penalty. Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign violation monitoring systems in school crossing zones, highway work zones, and high-risk intersection segments for purposes of recording pedestrian crossing and stop sign violations, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill imposes the same requirements on pedestrian crossing and stop sign violation monitoring systems as currently exist for photo speed monitoring devices and requires local law-enforcement agencies implementing or expanding the use of such systems to, prior to the implementation or expansion of such systems, conduct a public awareness program for such implementation or expansion.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1678

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/15/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to SB 1048.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1670

Introduced
1/3/25  
Health insurance; cost-sharing for epinephrine injectors. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $60 for a two-pack of covered epinephrine injectors that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale. The bill also prohibits a provider contract between a carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy from containing a provision (i) authorizing the carrier's pharmacy benefits manager or the pharmacy to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy to collect, or (iii) requiring a covered person to make a cost-sharing payment for a covered two-pack of epinephrine injectors in an amount that exceeds such limitation.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1677

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Chaptered
3/18/25  
Charter; City of Martinsville. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville by making a technical clarification to the qualifications required for the city attorney.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1784

Introduced
1/6/25  
Expired vehicle registration; fines. Establishes a tiered fine system for expired vehicle registrations. The bill establishes a fine of $25 if the registration has been expired for less than one year on the date the citation is issued and a fine of no less than $25 but no more than $250 if such registration has been expired for at least one year on the date the citation is issued. The bill provides that an expired registration does not constitute a traffic infraction if the registration sticker was valid within the last 60 days.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1734

Introduced
1/4/25  
Refer
1/4/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator; name change. Renames the Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator as the Human Trafficking Response Coordinator within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill also changes related references from "sex trafficking" to "human trafficking."
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR436

Introduced
1/3/25  
Study; Department of State Police; vehicle noise-monitoring devices; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the feasibility and impact of implementing vehicle noise-monitoring devices in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1847

Introduced
1/6/25  
Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the presumption against bail has been rebutted and whether there are appropriate conditions of release.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1828

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
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; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in the Commonwealth on and after January 1, 2026. The bill provides that such examinations include examinations using diagnostic mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, or breast ultrasound. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill incorporates HB 2133 and is identical to SB 1436.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1893

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
State plan for medical assistance services; recovery residences; work group; report. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of care provided at certain recovery residences for individuals diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The bill also directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to (i) convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to (a) establish a monitoring and evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness and impact of recovery residences on long-term recovery outcomes and (b) study the economic impact of recovery residences on the Commonwealth and (ii) in consultation with such work group, promulgate regulations to ensure recovery residences are operating in compliance with American Society of Addiction Medicine standards. The bill directs the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB848

Introduced
1/2/25  
Refer
1/2/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing an assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, jail officer, or member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the Virginia National Guard, or the National Guard of any other state. Accordingly, the bill prohibits a licensed dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory an assault firearm to any person under 21 years of age. A violation of either prohibition is a Class 6 felony. The bill also expands the definition of assault firearm as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB872

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Engrossed
1/15/25  
Engrossed
1/15/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Vetoed
3/24/25  
Charter; City of Portsmouth. Amends the charter for the City of Portsmouth by authorizing the City Manager to require city departments to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law wherever there exists (i) a compelling government interest, (ii) an analysis that documents a statistically significant disparity between the availability and utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses, or (iii) direct evidence by minority-owned businesses or women-owned businesses of the impact of race by discrimination. This bill is identical to HB 1634.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1903

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Nursing Workforce Center established; reporting and monitoring of health care workforce programs; residency slots; work group; report. Establishes the Virginia Nursing Workforce Center under the auspices of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority (the Authority) for the purpose of working toward ensuring a quality nursing workforce for all Virginians. The bill also changes the name of the Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund to the Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund and directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend its regulations to increase supplemental payments for qualifying residency slots from $100,000 to $160,000. The bill directs the Authority to convene work groups for the purpose of developing a long-term vision for the health workforce and to develop a plan to increase capacity for reporting and monitoring of health care workforce programs.