Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 6)

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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR196

Introduced
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Commending Producers Peanut Company.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR200

Introduced
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Commending Mill Swamp Baptist Church.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SR199

Introduced
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/16/25  
Commending David W. Poole.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2482

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Virginia Public Procurement Act; additional public works contract requirements. Provides that public bodies shall require the contractor and its subcontractors for any capital outlay project, as defined in the bill, to complete certain safety training programs, maintain records of compliance with applicable laws, and participate in approved apprenticeship training programs. The bill provides exemptions from such requirements for reasons related to lack of availability of apprentices and high costs. The provisions of the bill do not apply to transportation-related construction projects. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 962.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2479

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Engrossed
2/22/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Elections; political campaign advertisements; synthetic media; penalty. Prohibits electioneering communications containing synthetic media, as those terms are defined in the bill, from being published or broadcast without containing the following conspicuously displayed statement: "This message contains synthetic media that has been altered from its original source or artificially generated and may present conduct or speech that did not occur." The bill creates a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000 for a violation of such prohibition and, for a willful violation, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill permits any registered voter who receives an electioneering communication in violation of this requirement to institute an action for preventative relief to prohibit the publication or dissemination of such electioneering communication, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction. This bill is identical to SB 775.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2521

Introduced
1/8/25  
Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Marine Resources Commission; oyster stock assessment; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in collaboration with the Marine Resources Commission to conduct a stock assessment of the oyster population in the waters of the Commonwealth. The bill requires VIMS to provide a report on its 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 and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources no later than April 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2504

Introduced
1/8/25  
Emergency Vehicles and Housing for Emergency Services Volunteers Grant Programs established; reports. Establishes the Emergency Vehicles Grant Program (the EV Program) and the Housing for Emergency Services Volunteers Grant Program (the ESV Program). The EV Program authorizes the Department of Fire Programs to provide grants to assist eligible localities in acquiring emergency vehicles to be used in the performance of volunteer emergency services, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly in amounts of up to $10,000 per eligible locality, on a first-come, first-served basis. The ESV Program authorizes the Department to provide grants to assist eligible localities in providing emergency services volunteers who are currently enrolled in an eligible educational institution with living quarters at no charge to such volunteers, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. Grant recipients of the EV Program and the ESV Program are required to submit a report to the Department no later than October 1 of any year in which the recipient receives available funds. The Department is directed to submit a summarized report of the information received from grant recipients to the House Committee on General Laws, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2427

Introduced
1/8/25  
Unauthorized use of electronic tracking device; penalties. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who installs or places an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent, or causes an electronic tracking device to be installed or placed through intentionally deceptive means and without consent, and uses such device to track the location of any person protected by a protective order issued pursuant to relevant law. The bill also states that any person who consents to the installation or placement of an electronic tracking device may withdraw such consent at any time, and such withdrawal shall allow prosecution.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2201

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/3/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 teaching days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as defined in relevant law, to fill a teacher vacancy, with certain conditions and restrictions. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to SB 1230.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2402

Introduced
1/8/25  
Elections; conduct of election; affirmation statement in lieu of identification; additional information required. Requires a person voting absentee in person or at the polls on election day who signs a statement in lieu of providing a valid form of identification to also provide his full name, year of birth, and the last four digits of his social security number, if any. The form containing the statement and voter information is required to be retained as election materials.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2325

Introduced
1/8/25  
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; work group to review standards and regulations for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons in local and regional correctional facilities; report. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to convene a work group to conduct a review of existing standards for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons in local and regional correctional facilities and to develop recommendations for new standards and recommendations for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated persons by considering certain best practices. The bill requires the work group to report such findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees for Courts of Justice, the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and the House Committee on Public Safety by July 1, 2026, and to adopt regulations consistent with such findings and recommendations by December 1, 2027.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1128

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/24/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/14/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department), with input from a stakeholder group convened by the Department, to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the federal Fair Housing Act to the use of criminal records and maintain such model policy on its website. The bill prohibits a landlord of an affordable housing unit from basing an adverse action, in whole or in part, on an applicant's criminal or arrest record unless the landlord does so in accordance with the criminal record screening model policy developed by the Department and posted on its website and provides the applicant with a written copy of such policy. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department to convene a work group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1103

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard industries, as defined in the bill. The bill authorizes a person aggrieved by a violation of its provisions or the regulations promulgated thereunder to seek to obtain injunctive relief, to recover statutory damages of $1000, or both, in an action commenced within one year of the cause of action. The bill requires the Safety and Health Codes Board, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop a list of high-hazard industries by January 1, 2026, and to develop and adopt regulations requiring employers in high-hazard industries to implement standards for heat illness prevention by May 1, 2026. This bill was incorporated into SB 917.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1093

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/28/25  
Engrossed
1/31/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Enrolled
2/19/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry. Removes the restriction on localities that operate regulated municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4) to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4 and allows such localities to, at reasonable times and under reasonable circumstances, enter any establishment or upon any property, public or private, for the purpose of obtaining information or conducting surveys or investigations necessary in the enforcement of the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program. However, the bill restricts operators of an MS4 that are not a locality, or any duly authorized agent thereof, to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4. This bill is identical to HB 2008.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB1131

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Report Pass
1/16/25  
Engrossed
1/21/25  
Abandonment of highways and roads; consideration of alternative use. Provides that in Planning District 8, consideration shall be given to the discontinuance, rather than the abandonment, of a highway in the primary or secondary state highway system and its potential uses for (i) hiking or bicycle trails, (ii) greenway corridors, or (iii) access to historic, cultural, and educational sites. The bill also requires the governing body of a county in Planning District 8, prior to the abandonment of a road not in the primary or secondary state highway system, in determining whether public necessity exists for the continuance of a section of road as a public road, to consider such potential uses of such road as described in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii).