Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1670
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Health insurance; cost-sharing for epinephrine injectors. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $60 for a two-pack of covered epinephrine injectors that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale. The bill also prohibits a provider contract between a carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy from containing a provision (i) authorizing the carrier's pharmacy benefits manager or the pharmacy to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy to collect, or (iii) requiring a covered person to make a cost-sharing payment for a covered two-pack of epinephrine injectors in an amount that exceeds such limitation.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1671
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; recordkeeping by resellers. Removes the requirement under the Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act that, if contact information has been obtained by a reseller of a time-share from any source, such reseller and the lead dealer of such time-share maintain a copy of a current government-issued photographic identification of the lead dealer who provided the contact information.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1672
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Retail electric energy; renewable energy certificates. Requires competitive service providers, as defined in the bill, to serve 100 percent of their customers' energy and capacity needs from electric generating units located within the PJM transmission region. Under the bill, a competitive service provider must ensure that 100 percent of its customers' energy is either zero-carbon electricity or matched with zero-carbon electricity or renewable energy certificates. A certain percentage of a retail customer's annual load must be matched with renewable energy certificates from within the PJM transmission region. The bill allows certain retail customers to be exempt from non-bypassable charges associated with the renewable energy portfolio standard. The bill also requires the State Corporation Commission to promulgate rules as necessary to ensure that the provisions of the bill do not create an unreasonable shifting of costs to nonparticipating customers and to ensure that in all integrated resource plans and cost recovery proceedings no incumbent electric utility is improperly incorporating the loads of retail electric customers into its forecasts or load projections.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1673
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Pedestrian crossing violation monitoring systems and stop sign violation monitoring systems; violation enforcement; civil penalty. Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign violation monitoring systems in school crossing zones, highway work zones, and high-risk intersection segments for purposes of recording pedestrian crossing and stop sign violations, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill imposes the same requirements on pedestrian crossing and stop sign violation monitoring systems as currently exist for photo speed monitoring devices and requires local law-enforcement agencies implementing or expanding the use of such systems to, prior to the implementation or expansion of such systems, conduct a public awareness program for such implementation or expansion.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1674
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Board of Education; accreditation requirements for professional education programs; exemption for professional education programs leading to certain endorsements. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations relating to accreditation requirements for professional education programs in the Commonwealth to require the Department of Education to provide an alternative to the requirement to obtain and maintain national accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation for any professional education program that leads to an endorsement as a school counselor or a school psychologist and has a secured specialty area accreditation from a specialized accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1675
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
Refer
1/30/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
5/2/25
Board of Medicine; continuing education; unconscious bias and cultural competency. Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. The bill specifies requirements for the training and requires the Board of Medicine to report on the training to the Department of Health. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1676
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/17/25
Engrossed
1/22/25
Refer
1/24/25
GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset repeal. Removes the July 1, 2025, sunset date of the program allowing a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1677
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Charter; City of Martinsville. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville by making a technical clarification to the qualifications required for the city attorney.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1678
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Enrolled
2/12/25
Vetoed
5/2/25
School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to SB 1048.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1679
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments; availability in commonly spoken languages other than English. Requires the Board of Education to prioritize the incorporation of Standards of Learning assessments in commonly spoken languages in the Commonwealth other than English into its statewide student assessment system, and in any contract that it enters into with a third party for the development, establishment, and maintenance of such system.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1680
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Rights of persons with disabilities; definition of "place of public accommodation." Amends the definition of "place of public accommodation" as it relates to the rights of persons with disabilities to add that a place of public accommodation includes a website that a private entity owns, leases or leases to, or operates and whose operations affect commerce. Under current law, a "place of public accommodation" is defined as a facility that a private entity owns, leases or leases to, or operates and whose operations affect commerce.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1681
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Undesignated sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms, reports, applications, or other documents used by state agencies to offer the option of "male," "female," or "X" when designating sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1682
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/20/25
Engrossed
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Surplus lines broker taxes; certain insurance policies. Provides that any surplus lines broker or any person required to be licensed as one shall not be subject to the annual taxes, license taxes, or penalties under current law for any policy of insurance procured during the preceding calendar year on behalf of a commuter rail system jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation District beginning in calendar year 2025. This bill is identical to SB 1269.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1683
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
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
Motor vehicle dealers; recall and warranty costs; right of first refusal. Clarifies various requirements for the reimbursement of motor vehicle dealers for costs related to vehicle recalls and warranties. The bill also clarifies the timeline for a manufacturer or distributor to notify a dealer that it is exercising its right of first refusal related to the sale or transfer of a dealership. This bill is identical to SB 1308.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1684
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
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
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Real estate brokers and salespersons; licensees engaged by buyers. Repeals the provision providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law requiring written brokerage agreements or governing the duties of licensees, nothing shall be construed to require that a written agreement between a licensee and a prospective buyer or tenant be executed prior to the licensee's showing properties to the prospective buyer. The bill also provides that a licensee engaged by a seller or landlord shall not be required to show property to a prospective buyer when such showing is conducted pursuant to and in accordance with a brokerage agreement entered into with a seller or landlord client. This bill is identical to SB 1309.