Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 2)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2574

Introduced
1/12/25  
Refer
1/12/25  
Juvenile and domestic relations district court; juvenile intake; school notification. Expands the offenses for which a juvenile and domestic relations district court intake officer, upon the filing of a petition alleging an offense was committed, is required to notify the superintendent of the school division in which the child who is the subject of the petition is enrolled or was enrolled at the time of the offense. The bill adds carjacking and sexual extortion to the list of offenses.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1299

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/30/25  
Workers' compensation; compensation to dependents or beneficiaries of an employee killed. Provides that if an employee's death results from an accident compensable under the workers' compensation program, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid certain compensation to certain family members, dependents, or beneficiaries of the deceased employee under certain circumstances as described in the bill.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1300

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Enrolled
2/17/25  
Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) reference general law for procedures for removing members of the town council who are convicted of certain crimes; (iii) clarify the duties of the mayor and vice mayor; (iv) create the position of chair pro tem on the town council; (v) clarify how vacancies on the town council will be filled; (vi) clarify the procedure for introducing and passing town ordinances and emergency ordinances; (vii) specify that members of town committees, boards, and commissions serve at the pleasure of the town council; (viii) clarify the duties of various town officers; (ix) specify that there is a town clerk and describe the town clerk's duties; (x) provide that town departments include departments concerning recreation and civic engagement; (xi) add a reference to town authority to impose civil penalties and cap any such civil penalties at $5,000; and (xii) make numerous technical changes to update the town's charter, first enacted in 1994. This bill is identical to HB 2352.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1305

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Local taxes; zoning; assessments; ordinances. Provides that for purposes of real estate subject to a special tax assessment for land preservation by local ordinance, a change to the zoning ordinance shall only be effective following the later of (i) the approval of the relevant modification in the zoning classification of real estate; (ii) the exhaustion of the challenge or appeal period; (iii) if pending, the final determination of any challenge or appeal made within such period; or (iv) the sale of the subject property.The bill also provides that for purposes of subdivided or rezoned lots, the assessment or reassessment required by law shall only be effective following the later of (a) the approval of a modification in the zoning classification of the subject real estate, an exception to zoning or classification of the subject real estate, or a reclassification of the subject real estate; (b) the exhaustion of the challenge or appeal period for such approvals; (c) if pending, the final determination of any such challenge or appeal made within such period; or (d) the sale of the subject property.Finally, the bill provides that changes to the zoning ordinance refers to such ordinances enacted after December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR203

Introduced
1/10/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Commending Manakin Episcopal Church.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2594

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Department of Criminal Justice Services; standards and training for security at nonprofit institutions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish statewide best practices, including training, for any law-enforcement officer, unarmed security officer, or armed security officer providing security services at nonprofit institutions that serve individuals and communities at risk of hate crimes within the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1339

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone solicitations by text message. Permits an individual receiving a telephone solicitation via text message to request not to receive telephone solicitations from a telephone solicitor by replying to such text message with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" or "STOP." The bill requires a telephone solicitor in receipt of such request to honor such request for at least 10 years from the time such request is made. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1324

Introduced
1/12/25  
Refer
1/12/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Obstructing health care facility access; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person not authorized by the health care facility who knowingly obstructs, detains, hinders, impedes, blocks, or delays another person's entry to or exit from such health care facility, as defined in the bill. The bill also creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly approaches another person within eight feet of such person in the public way or sidewalk area within a radius of 40 feet from any entrance door to a health care facility, unless such other person consents to the approach, for the purpose of giving, tendering, or exhibiting any material to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with such other person.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1329

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/17/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/24/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Carrying concealed weapons; secured storage of firearms; penalty. Removes the exception to the prohibition on carrying a concealed weapon for any person who may lawfully possess a firearm and is carrying a handgun while in a personal, private motor vehicle or vessel and such handgun is secured in a container or compartment in the vehicle or vessel. The bill provides that a civil penalty of no more than $500 shall be imposed for any person who leaves a firearm in an unattended motor vehicle where such firearm is visible. The bill also creates a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person who fails to report to law enforcement the theft or loss of a firearm from an unattended motor vehicle and a Class 1 misdemeanor if another person obtains such firearm. 
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1161

Introduced
1/7/25  
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act established. Requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems made available in the Commonwealth to ensure that any generative artificial intelligence system that produces audio, images, text, or video content includes on such AI-generated content a clear and conspicuous disclosure that meets certain requirements specified in the bill. The bill also requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems to implement reasonable procedures to prevent downstream use of such system without the required disclosures and requires any third-party licensee of a generative artificial intelligence system to also implement such procedures. The bill provides that a violation of the disclosure requirements constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The bill allows the Attorney General to offer developers a right to cure noncompliance that is noticed by the Attorney General and provides that a person or entity claiming to be injured due to a violation of the disclosure requirements shall be entitled to initiate an action for monetary damages or equitable relief.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1271

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/27/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Threats of death or bodily injury or discharge of a firearm on school property; penalties. Clarifies that for crimes involving communicating in writing a threat to kill or do bodily injury, regardless of whether the person who is the object of such threat actually receives such threat, an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message includes an email, a text message, or a message or post on any social media platform. The bill also clarifies that any person who communicates an oral threat of discharging a firearm within or on school property, at any school-sponsored event, or on a school bus and the threat would place the person who is the object of the threat, or is included in the threat, in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily harm is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1295

Introduced
1/8/25  
Preliminary protective orders; hearings. Requires a court to schedule the dispositional hearings for preliminary protective orders on the same hearing or trial date as a related criminal offense until such related proceeding is resolved. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1306

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/23/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Department of Taxation; free tax filing program. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File program and the related agreement with the Consortium for Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to develop and offer a free individual state income tax filing program, effective beginning in taxable year 2028, that is similar to and compatible with the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Direct File program. To implement the new program, the bill requires the Tax Commissioner to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the IRS and coordinate with the IRS in program development. The bill contains technical amendments that remove obsolete language regarding fillable forms. This bill is identical to HB 2264.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1316

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
Renewable energy portfolio standard eligible sources; geothermal electric generating resources. Provides that geothermal electric generating resources, as defined in the bill, located in the Commonwealth or physically located within the PJM region are eligible for compliance with renewable energy portfolio standard requirements.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1350

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Restaurants; food allergy awareness notice required. Requires the State Health Commissioner to publish in multiple languages a notice containing procedures for restaurant staff to follow when a customer has a food allergy on the Department of Health's website. The bill requires restaurants to post such notice in a conspicuous location. The bill also requires restaurants to include the phrase, "If you have a food allergy, please notify us," and its translation, if applicable, on their menus or on a sign posted conspicuously in the restaurant.