Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 51)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB338
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB270
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/9/24
Refer
2/15/24
Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB620
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Medical assistance services; payment for essential hygiene products. Directs the State Board of Health to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the purchase of essential hygiene products in the state plan for medical assistance services.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB920
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owner or other responsible non-law-enforcement entity to operate a data trust, defined in the bill, to store the data collected by a license plate reader and requires any such law-enforcement agency to apply to the data trust for access to such data. The bill limits the use of license plate readers to scanning, detecting, and identifying license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying vehicles involved in certain crimes.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB742
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
State Board of Elections; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Provides for the appointment of the Commissioner of Elections to be made by the State Board of Elections; currently, the Governor makes such appointment. The appointment or removal of a Commissioner shall require an affirmative vote of four of the five members of the Board. The Commissioner shall be subject to confirmation and reconfirmation by the General Assembly every four years. If the Board fails to make or communicate an appointment of a Commissioner by the end of the term, the bill provides that the Commissioner serving at such time shall be deemed to be reappointed and shall be subject to reconfirmation at the next regular session. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB91
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Report Pass
1/22/24
Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide consumer-directed services. The bill provides that "employer" includes the Commonwealth, any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, and any public body.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB417
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investigation requirements for local departments of social services related to reports of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (ii) record retention and disclosure requirements for the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and local departments of social services; (iii) notice requirements related to findings by local departments and central registry entries; and (iv) an appeals process to contest the findings of a local department related to substantiated reports of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The bill directs the Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and exempts the Commissioner's initial adoption of such regulations from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR35
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Study; Department of Taxation; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Directs the Department of Taxation, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Quality, to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB347
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/12/24
Engrossed
2/13/24
Refer
2/16/24
Report Pass
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; work group to evaluate and make recommendations on improving long-term viability; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs and the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of evaluating the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and making recommendations on legislative actions and budgetary modifications that could improve the stability, strength, and long-term viability of the Program. The bill requires the Secretary of Finance to submit the work group's recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1185
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Refer
2/6/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer, and Discharge data elements on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Health Professions for use in the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill requires practitioners to obtain such data when prescribing opioids.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1033
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1280
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Consumer protection; failure to honor service warranty. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from failing to honor a service warranty of another supplier after acquiring the business of such other supplier. A violation of the provisions of the bill constitutes a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB273
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment by either party. The bill also repeals the provision allowing for a divorce from bed and board on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment. The provisions of the bill apply to suits for divorce filed on or after July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB510
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Surplus line broker taxes. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the preceding calendar year on behalf of a commuter rail system jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation District.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB164
Introduced
1/7/24
Refer
1/7/24
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict an actual person or an audio or audio-visual recording intending to depict the voice of an actual person where the creator has not disclosed the use of artificial intelligence technology.