Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2350
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Vetoed
5/2/25
Department of Emergency Management; powers and duties; development and implementation of standardized guidelines and training programs. Provides for the Department of Emergency Management (the Department) to consult with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services regarding the development of standardized guidelines for mental health support during an emergency or extended incident. The bill also requires the Department to develop a training program comprised of National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles, the state's Incident Command System (ICS) structure, and the role of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Under the bill, each agency head shall be required to complete the training within six months of appointment and again every two years thereafter. In addition, the bill provides for the Department to (i) offer health and safety training to volunteer organizations incorporated into the Virginia Emergency Support Team (VEST) and (ii) establish a health monitoring system for volunteers to be implemented during a declared state of emergency. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1386.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2351
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Vetoed
5/2/25
Civil litigation; suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit upon appeal. Increases the cap currently in place for suspension bonds and irrevocable letters of credit for appellants during the pendency of an appeal of a civil action from $25 million to $200 million. The bill also requires, beginning April 1, 2028, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, this monetary cap to be adjusted to reflect the change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2352
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) reference general law for procedures for removing members of the town council who are convicted of certain crimes; (iii) clarify the duties of the mayor and vice mayor; (iv) create the position of chair pro tem on the town council; (v) clarify how vacancies on the town council will be filled; (vi) clarify the procedure for introducing and passing town ordinances and emergency ordinances; (vii) specify that members of town committees, boards, and commissions serve at the pleasure of the town council; (viii) clarify the duties of various town officers; (ix) specify that there is a town clerk and describe the town clerk's duties; (x) provide that town departments include departments concerning recreation and civic engagement; (xi) add a reference to town authority to impose civil penalties and cap any such civil penalties at $5,000; and (xii) make numerous technical changes to update the town's charter, first enacted in 1994. This bill is identical to SB 1300.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2353
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to himself and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence or harm or the necessary additional educational services. The bill requires such facility to, prior to providing any such portions of any minor's discharge plan, provide to the parent of such minor student reasonable notice of the types of information that would be included in any portions of the discharge plan being provided and of the parent's right to, upon written request, refuse the provision of any such information.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2354
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Transfer of certain incarcerated persons to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections, sheriff, or other official in charge of the correctional facility in which an alien is incarcerated, upon receipt of a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to transfer custody of the alien to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement no more than five days prior to the date that he would otherwise be released from custody.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2355
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; professional mold remediators; study and report; emergency. Requires a professional mold remediator selling or offering for sale services to be performed upon any residential dwelling to hold a mold remediation certification from a nationally or internationally recognized certifying body for mold remediation. Under current law, such professional mold remediator is required to hold such certification from the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification. The provisions of the bill requiring such certification from a nationally or internationally recognized certifying body contain an emergency clause.The bill also directs the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to study the current state of the mold inspection and mold remediation workforce in the Commonwealth to determine whether there is sufficient proof that justifies the licensure or certification of mold inspectors and mold remediators and, if so, recommend educational, experiential, or examination requirements for such licensure or certification. The bill directs the Department to submit a report on the state of the mold inspection and mold remediation workforce in the Commonwealth to the House Committee on General Laws, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, and the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules by November 1, 2025. This bill was incorporated into HB 2195.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2356
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements; RPS-eligible source work; penalties. Requires each public service company, including its contractors and subcontractors, or third-party developer to ensure payment at the prevailing wage rate set by the Department of Labor and Industry for any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform construction, maintenance, or repair work for certain electricity generating sources. The bill requires each public service company to (i) ensure that 15 percent of the total labor hours of such work is performed by qualified apprentices and (ii) employ at least one qualified apprentice if four or more individuals are employed to perform such work. Under the bill, a public service company that fails to meet the requirements of its provisions is required to make penalty payments to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. This bill is identical to SB 853.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2357
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Voter registration; jury commissioners; list of unqualified persons transmitted to general registrars; list maintenance. Requires jury commissioners to collect information obtained from those persons not qualified to serve as a result of a condition that would also make them unqualified to register to vote. The sheriff, clerk of court, or other official responsible for maintaining such information provided by the commissioners is required to regularly transmit such information to the general registrar for the locality or localities served by such official. The bill requires general registrars to utilize such information to identify voters who are no longer qualified to vote and to initiate list maintenance procedures. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2358
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Enrolled
2/10/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Current and Mature Semiconductor Technology Grant Fund. Establishes the Current and Mature Semiconductor Technology Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 15 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60 million, to a qualified company that engages in the manufacture of semiconductors and that executes a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth and, on and after July 1, 2024, but before June 30, 2040, is expected to (i) make a capital investment, defined in the bill, of at least $2,170,130,850 and (ii) create and maintain at least 340 new full-time jobs, in an eligible locality, defined in the bill. The bill also authorizes bonus grants of up to $10 million that a qualified company may earn for certain new full-time job creation and maintenance. The bill also repeals the existing Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund and is identical to SB 1208.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2359
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Enrolled
2/10/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $206,085,243 for revenue-producing capital projects at James Madison University and The College of William and Mary in Virginia. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 1121.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2360
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
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
High school diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential for certain purposes. Requires the Board of Education to include on its list of industry workforce credentials its diploma seal of biliteracy and to consider such seal to be a high-demand industry workforce credential for the purpose of satisfying graduation requirements and determining and calculating high school student readiness in its school accountability system.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2361
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from five to six the maximum number of authorized general district court judges in the Thirty-first Judicial District. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2362
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Sale of real estate for delinquent taxes; procedure; enforcement of liens; orders of publication. Amends certain procedures relating to the sale of real estate to recover delinquent real estate taxes, including the enforcement of liens for taxes assessed upon real estate. The bill clarifies that any party or entity with an interest in the subject real estate, including a lienor, a person with a claim of title, or the beneficiary and trustees under a deed of trust, shall be named as party defendants in a proceeding for the sale of such real estate. The bill also makes the process by which notice by publication is given for a proceeding to enforce a lien for delinquent real estate taxes consistent with other actions where notice by publication is authorized. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2363
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Department of Corrections; designated employees with same power as sheriff or law-enforcement officer. Allows the Department of Corrections to designate employees to have the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of enforcing the criminal laws of the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Department can designate such employees with internal investigations authority to have such law-enforcement powers in the investigation of allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of the Department. Accordingly, the bill makes technical changes to additional sections that reference such designated employees, including in the definition of a law-enforcement officer used in various places throughout the Code and for the purposes of the Line of Duty Act, assault and battery of a law-enforcement officer, retired law-enforcement officers being able to carry a concealed handgun, and certain retired law-enforcement officers being able to purchase their service handgun or other weapon.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2364
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Advanced Emergency Training and First Aid Equipment Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the Advanced Emergency Training and First Aid Equipment Grant Fund and Program for the purpose of awarding grants from the Fund on a merit-based, competitive basis to school divisions to cover the cost of advanced emergency training of school board employees whose positions involve regular interaction with students and to purchase emergency first aid equipment for schools in the school division.