Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR435
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Passed
2/18/25
Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day. Designates the first Monday in March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day in Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR436
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Study; Department of State Police; vehicle noise-monitoring devices; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the feasibility and impact of implementing vehicle noise-monitoring devices in the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR437
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Passed
2/18/25
Study; reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding; report. Reestablishes the Joint Subcommittee on Recurrent Flooding, which sunset in 2023, to continue its work through the 2026 interim.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR438
Introduced
1/3/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Enrolled
1/23/25
Passed
1/23/25
Commending the Glenvar High School girls' soccer team.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR439
Introduced
1/3/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Enrolled
1/23/25
Passed
1/23/25
Commending the Glenvar High School boys' soccer team.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR440
Introduced
1/5/25
Refer
1/5/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Passed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Passed
2/19/25
Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; removal of books from public school libraries; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the removal of books from public school libraries between July 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024. In conducting its study, JLARC is also directed to determine what resources exist to support school administrators in decisions concerning the removal of a book from a public school library and to report its findings by November 1, 2026.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR441
Introduced
1/5/25
Refer
1/5/25
Study; Virginia Commission on Youth; policies to support student mental health in Virginia's elementary and secondary schools; report. Directs the Virginia Commission on Youth to undertake a study on policies to support student mental health in Virginia's elementary and secondary schools, with a focus on improving funding and other resources, training and professional development, partnerships with health services, curriculum development, research and evaluation, and public awareness campaigns. The Behavioral Health Commission, along with the staffs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, are directed to provide assistance to the Commission during the course of the two-year study.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR442
Introduced
1/6/25
Refer
1/6/25
Study; tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concerning affordable housing; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the tax policies enacted by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions concerning affordable housing and submit its report by the first day of the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR443
Introduced
1/6/25
Refer
1/6/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Passed
2/20/25
Enrolled
2/21/25
Passed
2/21/25
Enrolled
2/21/25
Passed
2/21/25
Study; joint subcommittee to study the consolidation and scheduling of general elections in Virginia; report. Creates a two-year legislative study on the consolidation and scheduling of general elections in Virginia. A 13-member joint subcommittee is established, consisting of eight members of the General Assembly, four nonlegislative citizen members, and one ex officio member, and is tasked with weighing the potential and probable effects of moving some or all of Virginia's state or local elections to even-numbered years in order to coincide with the federal election schedule. Any recommendations by the joint subcommittee to consolidate or reschedule Virginia's general elections must include recommendations for any amendments to the Constitution of Virginia and the Code of Virginia needed to effectuate the shift. The joint subcommittee is given two years to complete its study, with its final report due no later than the first day of the 2027 Regular Session of the General Assembly. This resolution is identical to SJ 253.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR444
Introduced
1/6/25
Refer
1/6/25
Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, technical, and staffing shortcomings in the current election and campaign finance laws relating to (a) reporting and investigating violations, (b) enforcing legal and regulatory requirements, and (c) implementing directions from state government at the local level and (ii) determine whether current budgetary allocations are sufficient to effectively carry out such aspects of the campaign finance system. To that end, JLARC is directed to analyze how existing campaign finance and election laws can be modernized by creating a new independent agency to increase transparency and accountability using best practices from other jurisdictions across the United States and to produce a report of clear recommendations and best practices for creating such an independent agency for improving the current system.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR445
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Study; JLARC; transportation options in rural areas for persons with disabilities. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study transportation options in rural areas for persons with disabilities and identify ways to expand or enhance such transportation services. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Disability Commission.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR446
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Passed
2/18/25
Zero Waste Awareness Week. Designates the first full week of September, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Zero Waste Awareness Week in Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR447
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Passed
2/18/25
Virginia Commission to End Hunger; statewide food desert mapping tool; report. Directs the Virginia Commission to End Hunger to establish a statewide food desert mapping tool, using geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic data to identify food deserts and food apartheid zones in the Commonwealth in order to create a comprehensive and actionable statewide food desert mapping tool. The Commission is directed to collaborate with the Departments of Health, Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Social Services, in addition to universities and nonprofit organizations with relevant experience and expertise, to build the mapping tool. Technical assistance in building the mapping tool shall be provided to the Commission by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR448
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Passed
2/20/25
Study; Department of Environmental Quality; tax policy options for reforming the litter tax; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study tax policy options for reforming the litter tax.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR449
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Study; Department of Transportation; taxation of hybrid and electric trucks; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study options for taxation of hybrid and electric trucks to account for the shortfall in gas and diesel tax revenues that will result from the use of such vehicles.