Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2335
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Free fishing license program; blue catfish; sunset. Directs the Department of Wildlife Resources to create a program that allows a person to obtain a digital fishing license at no cost through the Department's Go Outdoors Virginia mobile application to catch blue catfish. The bill requires the Department to establish certain eligibility requirements as provided in the bill and to establish guidelines for the administration of the program, including an incentive program to recognize program participants that catch the most blue catfish by weight, length, or number. The program has an expiration date of July 1, 2029, after which the Department is required to examine and report on the effectiveness of the free digital fishing license program in reducing the Commonwealth's population of blue catfish.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2336
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Retail sales and use tax; exemptions; gold, silver, or platinum bullion; sunset. Extends to June 30, 2032, the exemption from the retail sales and use tax for gold, silver, or platinum bullion and legal tender coins. The exemption is currently set to expire on June 30, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2337
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Voter registration; time period for closing registration records before certain elections. Reduces from 21 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before primary and general elections and from 13 to 10 days the number of days during which registration records are closed before special elections that are not called by the Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates, or President pro tempore of the Senate.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2338
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Public education; concurrent enrollment; high school graduation. Makes several changes relating to graduation from a public high school in the Commonwealth, including (i) eliminating the requirement for a student to complete one virtual course in order to graduate from high school and (ii) specifying that various career and technical education credentials earned for the purpose of satisfying high school graduation requirements are required to be high-demand career and technical education credentials. The bill also defines and thereby distinguishes the concepts of dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment in the context of high school students' participation in college-level coursework and requires the agreements for postsecondary attainment between school boards and comprehensive community colleges and certain other educational institutions to specify the credit available for dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment courses. The provisions of the bill amending the requirements for such agreements and for certain parental notification plans have a delayed effective date of August 1, 2026.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2339
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Child in foster care; provision of certain documents; 16 years of age. Directs local departments of social services to provide children in foster care with certain documents when such children reach 16 years of age. Under current law, local departments of social services are required to provide certain documents when children are leaving foster care upon reaching 18 years of age.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2340
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Department of Social Services; licensed child placing agencies; foster and adoptive provider training; reciprocity among local departments of social services and licensed child placing agencies; regulations. Directs the Department of Social Services to amend its regulations related to preservice trainings and annual in-service trainings for foster and adoptive providers to ensure that reciprocity for such trainings is established among all local departments of social services and all licensed child placing agencies in the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2341
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Department of Education; culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services; guidance and policies. Requires, no later than October 1, 2026, the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and provide to each local school board guidance on the adoption of policies governing the provision of culturally responsive and language-appropriate mental health support and services for students in the local school division and permits any school board to develop and adopt policies in the local school division that are consistent with the guidelines adopted and provided by the Department of Education.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2342
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Alcoholic beverage control; confectionery mixed beverage retail license. Creates a confectionery mixed beverage retail license that authorizes the licensee to prepare and sell on the licensed premises for on-and-off premises consumption confectionery that contains five percent or less alcohol by volume. The bill provides that any alcohol contained in such confectionery shall not be in liquid form at the time of sale, unless such confectionery is a frozen dessert, as defined in the bill. The bill also sets the state and local license fee for such confectionery license and repeals the provisions of alcoholic beverage control law that created an off-premises wine and beer confectionery license.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2343
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Placing swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person or persons, with the intent of intimidating another person or group of persons, to place or cause to be placed a swastika on (i) the private property of another without permission or (ii) a highway or other public place in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2344
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; program extension. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to take all steps necessary to implement the federal extension option for the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities to allow children four years of age or younger to receive services through such program.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2345
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Child day-care facility investment and child day-care expense reimbursement tax credits. Allows a taxpayer to claim a nonrefundable income tax credit for 25 percent of amounts incurred for eligible child day-care expenses of the taxpayer's employees that are either paid directly by the taxpayer or reimbursed by such taxpayer to the taxpayer's employees during the taxable year. The bill also increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the amount for which a taxpayer may claim a credit for establishing a child day-care facility for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026. Finally, approval of applications for the credits shall be limited to those that are assumed to result in no more than $200,000 of credits in any fiscal year. Under current law, such limit is $100,000.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2346
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
Electric utilities; virtual power plant pilot program. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval to conduct a pilot program to evaluate methods to optimize demand through various technology applications, including the establishment of virtual power plants, by December 1, 2025. The bill requires the pilot program to evaluate electric grid capacity needs and the ability of such virtual power plants to provide grid services, including peak-shaving, during times of peak electric demand. This bill is identical to SB 1100.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2347
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Limitation of prosecutions; false entries or destruction of records by officers. Extends the statute of limitations for prosecution of the offense of false entries or destruction of records by officers to within (i) five years of the commission of the offense or (ii) two years after the existence of the illegal act and the identity of the offender are discovered by the Commonwealth, whichever is later. The current statute of limitations is one year from the date of the offense.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2348
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; flood-related disclosures. Requires the owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealth who has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit is located within certain flood hazard areas or floodplains to disclose such fact to the purchaser. The bill also removes from the disclosure statement provided by the Real Estate Board that is furnished to the purchaser of residential real property that the owner makes no representation with respect to whether the property is located in one or more special flood hazard areas.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2349
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, stormwater management facilities, and fill and borrow areas.