VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2233

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Extreme Weather Relief Act established. Establishes the Extreme Weather Relief Program, administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, for the purpose of holding parties responsible for covered greenhouse gas emissions between the covered period of January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2024, for the parties' share of the Commonwealth's costs due to climate change. The bill defines responsible parties as fossil fuel extractors or crude oil refiners causing emissions of one billion metric tons or more of covered greenhouse gases during the covered period. Under the bill, responsible parties are strictly liable for cost recovery payments to the Commonwealth. The bill requires the State Treasurer to conduct an assessment of the costs to the Commonwealth and its residents of the emissions of covered greenhouse gases during the covered period. The bill establishes the Extreme Weather Relief Fund into which the cost recovery payments from responsible entities are deposited and used to pay for extreme weather relief projects, as defined in the bill.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2234

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/30/25

Engrossed

2/3/25

Engrossed

2/4/25

Refer

2/5/25

Report Pass

2/13/25

Enrolled

3/7/25

Chaptered

3/24/25

Passed

3/24/25

Transportation Trust Fund; investments; personal liability. Extends the limitation on personal liability for loss in investments from moneys in the Transportation Trust Fund to an individual's actions taken while serving on or employed by certain entities, even if such individual no longer serves on or is employed by any such entity. The bill also applies such limitation on personal liability for loss in investments to members and employees of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority. This bill is identical to SB 1250.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2235

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/24/25

Engrossed

1/29/25

Refer

1/31/25

Report Pass

2/7/25

Engrossed

2/12/25

Engrossed

2/14/25

Enrolled

2/19/25

Chaptered

5/2/25

Passed

5/2/25

Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant. Prohibits the use of restraints, defined in the bill, on any prisoner of a local or regional correctional facility who is (i) known to be pregnant or (ii) in postpartum recovery unless a deputy sheriff or jail officer makes an individualized determination that (a) the prisoner will harm herself, the fetus, the newborn child, or any other person; (b) the prisoner poses a flight risk; or (c) the totality of the circumstances creates a serious security risk. Under current law, such prohibition applies only to state correctional facilities. The bill also requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to include in the compulsory minimum entry-level training standards training regarding pregnant prisoners for deputy sheriffs and jail officers who are employees of local or regional correctional facilities who may have contact with pregnant prisoners.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2236

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/24/25

Engrossed

1/29/25

Refer

1/31/25

Report Pass

2/10/25

Enrolled

2/17/25

Chaptered

3/24/25

Passed

3/24/25

Use of Virginia crime code in documents for jailable offenses; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission. Provides that the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission shall develop, maintain, and modify the Virginia crime codes used in documents for jailable offenses as may be deemed necessary. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2237

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

Vetoed

3/24/25

Public school employees; suspension; conditions for continued receipt of salary. Clarifies that no school board employee shall be suspended without notice and, if applicable, an opportunity to be heard and that any individual who is so suspended, regardless of the length of such suspension, shall continue to receive his then applicable salary unless and until the school board, after a hearing, determines otherwise.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

2/14/25

Engrossed

2/19/25

Engrossed

2/20/25

Enrolled

3/7/25

Vetoed

3/24/25

Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, or explosives or carrying concealed weapons by persons convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person who has been convicted, on or after July 1, 2025, of assault or assault and battery if it appears on the face of the warrant upon such conviction that such person intentionally selected the person against whom the offense was committed because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or ethnic or national origin from knowingly and intentionally possessing or transporting any firearm or ammunition for a firearm, any stun weapon, or any explosive material or carrying a concealed weapon, a violation of which is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2242

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/24/25

Engrossed

1/29/25

Refer

1/31/25

Report Pass

2/17/25

Engrossed

2/19/25

Engrossed

2/20/25

Enrolled

3/7/25

Chaptered

3/24/25

Passed

3/24/25

Arrest of probationer without a warrant; timeframe for service of process. Provides that upon the arrest of a probationer, the probation officer shall forthwith, but in all cases no later than three business days after the arrest of the probationer, (i) submit a copy of any written statement alleging a violation of the terms and conditions of parole or probation, including all relevant case numbers, to the local attorney for the Commonwealth and the clerk of court for the circuit court responsible for supervision of the probationer and advise such persons of his arrest and (ii) request the circuit court of the sentencing jurisdiction to promptly issue a capias or bench warrant for the alleged violation contained in the written statement.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2243

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/24/25

Engrossed

1/29/25

Refer

1/31/25

Report Pass

2/12/25

Enrolled

2/19/25

Chaptered

3/19/25

Passed

3/19/25

Uniform Trust Code; specific powers of trustee. Expands certain specific powers conferred to a trustee, including the power to guarantee loans, the power to pledge trust property to guarantee loans, the exercise of certain powers with respect to an interest in real property, and the exercise of certain powers relating to stocks and other securities.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2244

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

Engrossed

2/19/25

Engrossed

2/20/25

Enrolled

3/7/25

Vetoed

3/24/25

Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required. Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department of Education (the Department), to establish and implement standards for determining and recognizing student educational performance and academic achievement in the form of a weighted proportionality score for each school, to account for no less than five percent of such school's accreditation rating score or metric under the current school accountability system, for the purpose of identifying, accounting for in determining accreditation ratings, and addressing disparities in access to educational resources across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in public schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department to (i) develop a metric for calculating the weighted proportionality score for each school using certain variables calculated by the Department; (ii) develop a metric for calculating the improvement of a school's proportionality score received year over year; (iii) assign for each school based on such school's proportionality score a proportionality designation of "highly proportional," "proportional," "somewhat disproportional," and "highly disproportional"; and (iv) require any school board that contains within the school division a school assigned a proportionality designation of "highly disproportional" to develop and submit to the Department a remediation plan detailing the actions such school board will take to reduce disparities in access to education resources. The bill directs the Board to (a) amend its regulations to include as a school quality indicator the weighted proportionality score developed in accordance with the bill and (b) submit to the U.S. Department of Education within 90 days of the effective date of the bill any amendments necessary to its state plan pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended, that are necessary to implement the provisions of the act. Finally, the bill requires its provisions to be implemented beginning with the 2025–2026 school year.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2245

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/29/25

Engrossed

2/3/25

Refer

2/5/25

Report Pass

2/11/25

Enrolled

2/17/25

Chaptered

3/24/25

Passed

3/24/25

Real property tax; assessment of affordable rental housing. Directs the Department of Taxation to develop a uniform income and expense reporting form that may be provided by duly authorized assessors and completed by the owners of affordable rental housing properties prior to assessment of such affordable rental housing properties. The bill provides that the duly authorized real estate assessor charged with determining the fair market value of affordable rental housing shall use the income approach when such housing generates income unless certain information is not provided by the property owner. The bill specifies that the foregoing provisions shall become effective for assessments beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Finally, the bill directs the Department to develop, in consultation with a stakeholder group, the uniform income and expense reporting form no later than September 1, 2025, and directs the Department to provide by November 1, 2025, a letter to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Finance with an update on the development of such form and implementation of training for assessing officials and contracted assessors on the assessment of affordable rental housing.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2246

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Report Pass

1/30/25

Engrossed

2/3/25

Engrossed

2/4/25

Refer

2/5/25

Report Pass

2/12/25

Engrossed

2/17/25

Engrossed

2/18/25

Enrolled

2/20/25

Chaptered

3/21/25

Passed

3/21/25

Funerals; disagreements among next of kin. Permits funeral service establishments to proceed with funeral and disposition arrangements upon authorization from any next of kin after 30 days have passed since the funeral service establishment learned of a dispute between next of kin. Such procedure may only occur if the funeral service establishment has not received written notice of agreement among the next of kin or a court order resolving the dispute within the 30-day period.

VA

Virginia 2025 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB2247

Introduced

1/7/25

Refer

1/7/25

Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; Director of Department of Environmental Quality; point source pollution grant agreements. Clarifies that the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality is only required to enter into water quality improvement grant agreements with all facilities designated as significant dischargers or eligible nonsignificant dischargers that apply for such grants if sufficient and unobligated funds are available in the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund at the time the Director enters into such grant agreements.

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