Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 205)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB922

Introduced
1/6/25  
Claims to unclaimed property; authority of administrator. Authorizes the State Treasurer or his designee to make payments relating to unclaimed property without receiving a claim if the property is cash property, the apparent owner is a natural person and such apparent owner has been identified by the State Treasurer or his designee, and the amount to be paid does not exceed $5,000. This bill was incorporated into SB 996.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB934

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/27/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Certain unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund. Provides that any funds or other property held or payable to a member of the Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund that have remained unclaimed for more than five years after such member's forfeiture of his membership or the dissolution of a volunteer emergency medical services agency or volunteer fire department shall be presumed abandoned for the purposes of the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB919

Introduced
1/5/25  
Refer
1/5/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Private companies providing public transportation services; employee protections. Requires the governing body or transportation district commission of any county or city that contracts with a private company to provide transportation services to (i) require such company to provide any employee of such company providing such services compensation and benefits that are, at a minimum, equivalent to the compensation and benefits provided to a public employee, as defined in the bill, with a position requiring equivalent qualifications and years of service; (ii) provide transportation services through such company's own employees; and (iii) if such transportation district commission, county, or city subsequently elects to provide its own system of public transportation, adopt an ordinance or resolution providing for collective bargaining, ensure all employees of such private company are offered employment with such subsequent public transportation system without loss of compensation or benefits, and ensure the recognition of any lawful collective bargaining representative of such private company's employees. This bill is identical to HB 2619.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB897

Introduced
1/5/25  
Refer
1/5/25  
Report Pass
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/23/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
Engrossed
2/21/25  
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 HB 2469.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB893

Introduced
1/4/25  
Refer
1/4/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Renewable energy portfolio standard program; geothermal heating and cooling systems; report. For purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard program, requires Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power to procure and retire certain percentages of renewable energy certificates from geothermal heating and cooling systems, as defined in the bill, beginning with the 2026 or 2027 compliance year and thereafter. The bill amends the method by which renewable energy certificates from geothermal heating and cooling systems are calculated and directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to prepare and deliver a report evaluating the procurement and retirement of renewable energy certificates from geothermal heating and cooling systems in the Commonwealth on or before November 1, 2027. The bill also directs the Real Estate Appraiser Board to promulgate regulations requiring the development of a continuing education curriculum and required training for all licensees that includes how to properly determine the increase in value of real estate created by reductions in building energy costs associated with solar, geothermal, and solar water heating investments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB916

Introduced
1/5/25  
Refer
1/5/25  
Report Pass
1/14/25  
Engrossed
1/17/25  
Engrossed
1/20/25  
Sale of dogs and cats by pet shops; consumer education; work group; report. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) to convene a work group to analyze and evaluate currently collected data on the sale of dogs and cats by pet shops to identify what information a pet shop shall make available to a prospective dog or cat owner. The bill requires the work group to include representatives from animal welfare organizations, pet shops that sell dogs and cats, and any other relevant stakeholders the Department deems appropriate. The bill requires the Department to submit a report on the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than November 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1867

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; renewal notice. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, whether individually or through a business entity, in the Commonwealth shall be required to provide written notice of nonrenewal to any tenant. This bill is identical to SB 1043.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1872

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord; tenant remedies. Prohibits a residential landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, whether individually or through a business entity, in the Commonwealth from taking adverse action, as defined in the bill, against a prospective tenant due to the prospective tenant's history of a dismissed, nonsuited, or expunged unlawful detainer case or an unlawful detainer case that is eligible for expungement. The bill allows a prospective tenant to recover, as a result of any such adverse action, (i) actual damages, (ii) statutory damages of $1,000, and (iii) reasonable attorney fees. This bill is identical to SB 815.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB860

Introduced
1/3/25  
Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 500 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that workers' compensation benefits are payable for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty. The bill also removes the prohibition on medical treatment, temporary total incapacity benefits, or temporary partial incapacity benefits from being awarded beyond four years from the date of the qualifying event that was the primary cause of the post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder. Additionally, the bill expands the definition of law-enforcement officer to include any civilian employed by a county, city, or town police department or by a sheriff's office as a crime scene investigator for the purposes of worker's compensation claims related to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1855

Introduced
1/6/25  
Threats to bomb or damage; false information as to danger; public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school; penalty. Provides that for any person who (i) makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, or in any manner damage a public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school, as defined in relevant law, or (ii) communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, or damage to a public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school, the punishment includes a term of confinement of at least six months, 30 days of which is a mandatory minimum. Under current law, a person who is 15 years of age or older is guilty of a Class 5 felony and a person who is under 15 years of age is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for such violation, but no minimum term or mandatory minimum term of confinement is provided in current law.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1857

Introduced
1/6/25  
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; boards; appointment requirements; years of experience. Lowers from at least five years to at least three years the years of experience required for the appointment of (i) home inspectors to the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; (ii) hearing aid specialists, otolaryngologists, opticians, and ophthalmologists to the Board for Hearing Aid Specialists and Opticians; (iii) real estate appraisers to the Real Estate Appraiser Board; (iv) alternative onsite sewage system operators, alternative onsite sewage system installers, and onsite soil evaluators to the Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals; and (v) cemetery operators to the Cemetery Board.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1869

Introduced
1/6/25  
Refer
1/6/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to juvenile and domestic relations district court, a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill as an individual who, within the previous 12 months, was in a romantic, dating, or sexual relationship with the person as determined by the length, nature, frequency, and type of interaction between the individuals involved in the relationship. The bill also adds to the definition of "family or household member," as such definition relates to a person's purchase, possession, or transportation of a firearm following an assault and battery of a family or household member, any individual who cohabits or who, within the previous 12 months, cohabitated with the person. Finally, the bill provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally purchases, possesses, or transports any firearm following a misdemeanor conviction for an offense that occurred on or after July 1, 2025, for the offense of assault and battery against an intimate partner or an offense substantially similar under the laws of any other state or of the United States is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to SB 883.  
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB868

Introduced
1/3/25  
Refer
1/3/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licensees; prohibition on delivery to consumer of original bottle of alcoholic beverage; exception. Adds an exception to the prohibition on mixed beverage licensees or any agent or employee of such licensees delivering to a consumer an original bottle of an alcoholic beverage purchased under such license by allowing the delivery of the entire contents of an original container of spirits for on-premises or off-premises consumption provided that the (i) container is 16 ounces or less and (ii) alcohol content is no greater than 15 percent by volume.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB856

Introduced
1/3/25  
Absentee voting in person; available beginning 14 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to beginning 14 days prior to any election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to any election.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1404

Introduced
1/14/25  
School boards; method of selection; election required. Requires election as the method of selecting the members of each school board in the Commonwealth and makes several changes to eliminate provisions relating to appointed school boards. Current law requires such members to be appointed but permits their election under certain circumstances.