Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1114
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various criteria to be included in a local ordinance, such as specifications for setbacks, fencing, solar panel height, visual impacts, and grading, and a decommissioning plan for solar energy equipment and facilities.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1115
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Enrolled
2/11/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Legal duty; action for damages for legal malpractice concerning estate planning; third parties to an attorney-client contract. Provides that an attorney does not owe a legal duty to a person other than the client for the purpose of the client's estate planning, including the provision of legal advice or the preparation of legal documents, unless the client and attorney enter into a signed, written agreement expressly allowing for such. The bill provides that its provisions are declarative of existing law. The bill also repeals the provisions under current law that specify the statute of limitations for legal malpractice actions relating to contracts for legal services concerning estate planning and the tolling of such statute of limitations. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to HB 2174.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1116
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Enrolled
2/11/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Uniform Trust Code; qualified trustee; definition. Expands the definitions of "independent qualified trustee" and "qualified trustee" to authorize additional entities to serve as an independent qualified trustee or a qualified trustee of a qualified self-settled spendthrift trust. This bill is identical to HB 1605.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1117
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Income tax credit; braille labeling program. Creates a nonrefundable individual and corporate income tax credit, as applicable, for up to $50,000 of expenditures incurred in the development and implementation of a braille labeling program on products, items, or packages sold in or shipped to the Commonwealth in taxable years 2025 through 2029. The aggregate amount of credits allowed for all taxpayers in a taxable year is $1,000,000.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1118
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Refer
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Registration by localities of cemeteries on private property; Planning District 8. Requires localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) to adopt an ordinance setting forth a register of identified cemeteries, graveyards, or other places of burial located on private property not belonging to any memorial or monumental association. Under current law, all localities are permitted but not required to pass such an ordinance. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1119
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Elections; primary dates; presidential year primaries. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for election in November of a presidential election year, the bill also lifts the requirement that petition signatures must be collected after January 1 of the presidential election year. The bill adjusts campaign finance filing deadlines for candidates in presidential year elections to account for the March primary date. This bill is identical to HB 1794.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1120
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's and maternal health. The Commission consists of 15 members, 10 of whom are legislative members and five of whom are nonlegislative citizen members with significant experience or expertise in women's or maternal health policy.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1121
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Engrossed
1/17/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
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 HB 2359.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1122
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Under the program, benefits are paid to covered individuals, as defined in the bill, for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning January 1, 2027. The bill provides that the amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 120 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted annually to reflect changes in the statewide average weekly wage. The bill caps the duration of paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year and provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1123
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.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1124
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/23/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Board of Education; driver education programs; computer-based driver education courses; requirements. Clarifies that the classroom training portion of the standardized program of driver education in the safe operation of motor vehicles, established by the Board of Education pursuant to applicable law, may be administered in-person or online, except in the case of the parent/student driver education component of the classroom training portion administered in Planning District 8, which pursuant to applicable law must be administered in person. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1125
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/21/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Department of Wildlife Resources; propagation of mammalian wildlife unlawful; premature separation; hybridization. Makes it unlawful to prematurely separate any mammalian wildlife offspring born in captivity from the mother prior to the natural time of weaning that is appropriate for such species, except that wildlife offspring may be prematurely separated if a medical necessity exists pursuant to a written order from a veterinarian licensed to practice in the Commonwealth with appropriate species-specific experience and expertise. The bill excludes the following from its provisions: (i) noncommercial transfers or trades between accredited zoological facilities, (ii) an accredited zoological facility that retains the mammalian wildlife offspring that has already been prematurely separated by such zoological facility, and (iii) a person operating under a wildlife rehabilitator permit issued by the Department of Wildlife Resources. The bill also makes it unlawful to intentionally and for commercial purposes propagate mammalian wildlife of different species, also known as hybridization.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1126
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Students with individualized education programs or Section 504 Plans; emergency protocol and guide. Requires each individualized education program implemented for a public school student with a disability in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and each Section 504 Plan implemented for a public school student in accordance with § 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to contain an addendum that has been reviewed and signed by the student's parent and that includes a protocol for individualized accommodations and supports for the student during emergency situations at school and a step-by-step guide on how to execute such protocol. The bill requires such addendum to be provided to all of such student's teachers for implementation.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1127
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/21/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Animal testing facilities; public notification. Requires any animal testing facility to (i) within 30 days of receiving a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report, make such inspection report publicly available along with any other relevant USDA final incident reports and relevant documents generated during or as a result of internal or external reviews and (ii) within 30 days of receiving any USDA official warning notice of alleged violation, settlement agreement or stipulation, administrative complaint, decision or order, or any other enforcement record, make such documents publicly available. Current law requires any animal testing facility, within 30 days of receiving an inspection report, to make such inspection report publicly available along with any other relevant USDA incident reports and relevant documents generated from internal reviews. The bill also allows an animal testing facility to redact information contained within such documents in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1128
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department), with input from a stakeholder group convened by the Department, to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the federal Fair Housing Act to the use of criminal records and maintain such model policy on its website. The bill prohibits a landlord of an affordable housing unit from basing an adverse action, in whole or in part, on an applicant's criminal or arrest record unless the landlord does so in accordance with the criminal record screening model policy developed by the Department and posted on its website and provides the applicant with a written copy of such policy. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department to convene a work group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.