Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 3)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1383

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Nursing homes; sanctions; civil penalty. Establishes procedures for the implementation of sanctions by the State Health Commissioner on any nursing home that is licensed pursuant to the laws regulating medical care facilities and services. The bill specifies the forms of sanctions that the Commissioner may impose, the nursing home's continued responsibility for persons under its care, the use of funds remunerated in accordance with such sanctions, the process for the imposition of such sanctions, and the Commissioner's ability to revoke such nursing home's license. The bill specifies that sanctions shall not be imposed on a nursing home that is sanctioned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This bill is identical to HB 2253.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2558

Introduced
1/12/25  
Retail sales and use tax; firearm and ammunition taxes. Imposes (i) a firearm tax in the amount of $5 per firearm and (ii) a firearm ammunition tax of one cent ($0.01) per round of firearm ammunition that is sold by firearm seller, defined in the bill. The bill requires any revenue proceeds from such taxes to be used to prevent gun violence and enhance school safety.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1327

Introduced
1/12/25  
Refer
1/12/25  
Report Pass
1/22/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/30/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Engrossed
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases by one the maximum number of general district court judges in the Ninth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by one the maximum number of juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Second Judicial District. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts. This bill is identical to HB 2729.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2592

Introduced
1/13/25  
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; penalties. Increases the penalty for knowingly and intentionally causing an unmanned aircraft system to (i) take off or land in violation of current Federal Aviation Administration Special Security Instructions or UAS Sensitive Airspace Restrictions, including the airspace over any state or local correctional facility or a juvenile correctional center or (ii) (a) drop any item within the boundaries of or (b) obtain any videographic or still image of any identifiable inmate or resident at any state or local correctional facility or juvenile correctional center from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. The bill creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of any public services or utilities or critical infrastructure, as defined in relevant law. The bill states that any person who does such action and subsequently obtains and shares any videographic or still image of such public services, utilities, or critical infrastructure with the intent to commit espionage is guilty of a Class 3 felony. The bill clarifies that such offenses shall not apply to any person who causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter any prohibited property if such person is an employee of the property and is conducting official business.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR204

Introduced
1/12/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Celebrating the life of Charles Daniel Spruill.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1356

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/20/25  
Engrossed
1/23/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. Prohibits a landlord subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from charging a tenant any fee for the collection or processing of any payment of rent, security deposit, or any other fees, unless the landlord offers an alternative method of payment that does not include additional fees. This bill is identical to HB 2218.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1386

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Department of Emergency Management; powers and duties; development and implementation of standardized guidelines and training programs. Provides for the Department of Emergency Management (the Department) to consult with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services regarding the development of standardized guidelines for mental health support during an emergency or extended incident. The bill also requires the Department to develop a training program comprised of National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles, the state's Incident Command System (ICS) structure, and the role of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Under the bill, each agency head shall be required to complete the training within six months of appointment and again every two years thereafter. In addition, the bill provides for the Department to (i) offer health and safety training to volunteer organizations incorporated into the Virginia Emergency Support Team (VEST) and (ii) establish a health monitoring system for volunteers to be implemented during a declared state of emergency. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to HB 2350.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1384

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Childbirth; postpartum process. Requires health care facilities providing services related to labor and childbirth to develop policies to (i) allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth in addition to a partner or spouse; (ii) at the discretion of the treating physician, allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth when a partner or spouse is not permitted to be present; (iii) prioritize newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the postpartum process; (iv) prohibit excluding from care any person giving birth or prohibit interrupting the process of birth without the informed consent of the birthing person; (v) detail the facility's process related to receiving a pregnant person's patient information from any provider who has provided care for the pregnant person; (vi) establish processes to transfer and receive pregnant persons across levels of care of licensed facilities within the facility's capacity and capability; and (vii) establish a process to receive individuals who are pregnant, giving birth, or in the postpartum process from locations other than licensed facilities.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1072

Introduced
1/7/25  
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 SB1135

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/20/25  
Board of Pharmacy; regulation of crystalline polymorph psilocybin. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations that allow for prescribing, dispensing, possessing, and using the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin upon approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and following rescheduling by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1101

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/23/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. Establishes the Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to provide assistance to and advise the Department of Health on methods to support clinical research and implementation of treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, treatment-resistant depression, major depressive disorder, and traumatic brain injury.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1062

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
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 serve the Commonwealth as employees upon the conclusion of the internship and the intern's education. 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 Senate Bill SB1179

Introduced
1/8/25  
Motion picture production tax credit; renamed as content manufacturing tax credit; sunset. Removes the sunset for the motion picture tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026, and expands and redesignates the tax credit as the content manufacturing tax credit. The bill increases the total amount of credits that can be allocated to eligible taxpayers from $6.5 million to $11.5 million beginning in fiscal year 2025 and allows unclaimed aggregate credit amounts to be carried over and added to the aggregate credit cap in the following fiscal year. The bill also amends the definition of the "qualifying expenses" eligible for the content manufacturing tax credit to mean certain amounts spent in connection with the production of an eligible project filmed in the Commonwealth, defined as the production of a motion picture or an episodic television series.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1257

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Public institutions of higher education; student and campus safety; training in opioid antagonist administration for resident assistants required. Requires each resident assistant in a student housing facility at a public institution of higher education to complete, prior to the commencement of his duties, training in the administration of an opioid antagonist to any student, faculty, or staff member who is believed to be experiencing or about to experience a life-threatening opioid overdose. The bill requires each public institution of higher education to adopt policies and procedures relating to the administration of an opioid antagonist by each resident assistant, including policies and procedures (i) requiring each resident assistant to complete such training pursuant to the provisions of the bill and (ii) arranging for the provision of such opioid antagonist administration training.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1172

Introduced
1/7/25  
Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is currently applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.