Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2676
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Electric utilities; renewable energy definition and facilities. Amends the definition of "renewable energy" for the purposes of electric utility regulation to include fuel cells. The bill also adds any renewable energy generation facility located in the coalfield region of the Commonwealth to the list of projects for which a utility may seek a rate adjustment clause.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2677
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority; residency requirements. Requires all members of the Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority to be residents of Dinwiddie County and requires the removal by the governing body of the County of any such appointee who ceases to reside within the County. Currently, four of the seven members of the Authority are required to be residents of the County and removal of an appointee for ceasing to reside within the County is at the discretion of the governing body of the County.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2678
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Title of purchase; judicial sale; application to divorce proceedings. Provides that when the title of a purchaser at a confirmed sale of property is made under a divorce decree, such sale shall not be disturbed unless within 12 months from such confirmation the sale is appealed within the time allowed pursuant to relevant law and the court orders such sale to be set aside.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2679
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
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
Passed
3/24/25
School boards; threat assessment teams and procedures; parental notification of student determined to pose a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; provision of certain recognition and response materials required. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to provide materials on recognition of and strategies for responding to behavior indicating that a student poses a threat of violence or physical harm to himself or others to the parent or legal guardian of any student who, according to a preliminary determination from a threat assessment team, poses such a threat. The bill specifies that the provision of such materials shall occur either in the initial attempt to immediately notify such student's parent or legal guardian pursuant to applicable law or through a separate communication to such student's parent or legal guardian made as soon as practicable thereafter. The bill (i) requires such materials to be selected in accordance with the criteria and guidelines developed by the Board of Education pursuant to the provisions of the bill; (ii) requires such materials to include information on the requirements set forth in applicable law relating to the safe storage of firearms in the presence of minors; and (iii) permits such materials to include guidance on best practices and strategies for limiting a student's access to lethal means, including firearms and medications.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2680
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; regulation of ear-piercers and ear-piercing salons and schools. Provides for the licensure of ear-piercing salons, ear-piercing schools, and ear-piercers by the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology. The bill distinguishes ear-piercing salons from body-piercing salons by definition and requires the Board to adopt regulations establishing the requirements for licensure of ear-piercing salons, ear-piercing schools, and ear-piercers. Additionally, the bill requires the Board to develop specific training and apprenticeship programs for ear-piercers and permits localities to regulate the sanitary conditions of ear-piercing salons. This bill is identical to SB 1419.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2681
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Department of Taxation; corporate tax returns involving net operating losses; work group; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group composed of tax practitioners experienced in the preparation of corporate tax returns involving net operating losses to study the treatment of net operating losses in Virginia when compared to other states and to make recommendations to simplify such treatment in Virginia. The bill directs the work group to complete its meetings by October 1, 2025, and the Department to submit a report of the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Finance, and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2682
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Board of Housing and Community Development; work group to identify certain changes related to the building permit and certificate of occupancy processes. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to establish a work group to identify changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to streamline the processes for reviewing and issuing building permits and certificates of occupancy and to develop recommendations for maximum timelines for review of applications and revised applications.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2683
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Road impact fees. Lowers one of the local government population requirements for eligibility to adopt a road impact fee ordinance from a population of at least 20,000 and a population growth rate of at least five percent to a population of at least 15,000 with no growth rate requirement.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2684
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Phase II Utility; plan for certain generation and transmission infrastructure costs. Directs a Phase II Utility, as defined in existing law, to develop and file with the State Corporation Commission every two years a plan for addressing the risk of generation and transmission infrastructure costs associated with providing electric service to new customers that are data centers, as defined in existing law, being stranded with new customers.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2685
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Retail sales and use tax; commercial and industrial exemptions; data centers. Provides that, between July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2030, the retail sales and use tax exemption for computer equipment or enabling software purchased or leased for use in a data center shall not apply for such equipment if it is purchased or leased for use in a data center that is constructed after July 1, 2025, in Planning District 8.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2686
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Certain advanced or accelerated mathematics opportunities; policies and criteria for enrollment. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that sets forth the criteria for students in grades five through eight to be eligible to enroll in advanced or accelerated mathematics and requires each such policy to provide for (i) the automatic enrollment of certain students in advanced or accelerated mathematics based on Standards of Learning assessment scores, subject to course offerings and availability and the opportunity for parental opt-out; (ii) multiple additional pathways to student enrollment in advanced or accelerated mathematics; and (iii) an annual parental notification relating to mathematics coursework.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2687
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Workers' compensation; presumption for certain cancers; sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five years of service in their position to include sheriffs or deputy sheriffs.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2688
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Labor and employment; protection of employees; restricting use of accrued leave for other employment prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer from prohibiting any employee from using accrued annual or vacation leave to work on behalf of another employer unless such other employment would create a conflict of interest. The bill permits an employer to prohibit or restrict an employee's use of such employer's property, office space, equipment, materials, trade secrets, confidential information, or other assets for any purpose relating to such employee's employment by another employer. The bill imposes a civil penalty of up to $100 on any employer that knowingly violates the bill's provisions.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2689
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Penalty for failure to certify record of marriage; persons other than ministers. Provides that persons other than ministers authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage are subject to a $25 penalty for failing to certify the record of marriage. Under current law, such penalty is applicable only to ministers authorized to celebrate such rites of marriage.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2690
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Publication of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to publish legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.