Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2306
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Department of Conservation and Recreation; acceptance of property to establish a state park; Loudoun County. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to accept or acquire from The Conservation Fund approximately 1,240 acres of real property and any buildings or structures thereon between Little River Turnpike, James Monroe Highway, and Tail Race Road, known as Oak Hill Farm, in Loudoun County for the purpose of establishing and operating a state park that provides outdoor recreation and historical interpretation opportunities and supports agricultural uses on such property.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2307
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements of practitioners; pharmacy technicians; training programs. Requires any prescriber of controlled substances approved for use in opioid addiction therapy to, prior to or as a part of execution of a treatment agreement with a patient, request information from the Director of the Department of Health Professions for the purpose of determining what, if any, other covered substances such patient is currently being prescribed. Under current law, only prescribers who hold a special identification number from the Drug Enforcement Administration authorizing the prescribing of controlled substances are required to request such information prior to or as a part of execution of a treatment agreement with a patient. The bill also adds training programs recognized by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or the National Healthcareer Association to the list of approved pharmacy technician training programs.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2308
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Inhaling drugs or other noxious chemical substances or causing, etc., others to do so; distribution of nitrous oxide to persons under 18 prohibited; penalties. Prohibits the sale or distribution of a device that is designed or intended to deliver a gas containing nitrous oxide to persons under 18 years of age with exceptions as defined in the bill. Any person who fails to make diligent inquiry as to whether the person trying to obtain such a device is 18 years of age or older or sells, distributes, or attempts to sell or distribute such a device to a person under 18 years of age is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also adds nitrous oxide to the list of noxious chemical substances for which it is unlawful to deliberately smell or inhale with the intent to become intoxicated, inebriated, excited, or stupefied or to dull the brain or nervous system, or to deliberately cause another person to do so. This bill is identical to SB 1361.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2309
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Department of Health; local health districts and local health departments; guidance for onsite sewage system and private well permits. Directs the Department of Health to develop guidance directing local health districts and local health departments to evaluate and recommend solutions to problems with a valid onsite sewage system or private well permit prior to issuing a revocation for such valid onsite sewage system or private well permit.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB231
Introduced
1/4/24
Refer
1/4/24
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions.The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2310
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
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
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Use of communications system to expose sexual or genital parts to a child; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person 18 years of age or older who uses a communications system, including computers or computer networks or bulletin boards, or any other electronic means, with lascivious intent, to expose his sexual or genital parts to any person he knows or has reason to know is a child to whom he is not legally married and such child is 15 years of age or older. Under current law, it is a Class 5 felony for any person 18 years of age or older to use such communications system for the purposes of soliciting, with lascivious intent, any person he knows or has reason to believe is a child younger than 15 years of age to knowingly and intentionally commit certain sexual activities, including exposing his sexual or genital parts to any child to whom he is not legally married or proposing that any such child expose his sexual or genital parts to such person. It is also a Class 5 felony under current law for any person to commit such acts with any child he knows or has reason to believe is at least 15 years of age but younger than 18 years of age if such person is at least seven years older than the child. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2311
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Display of POW/MIA flag by localities. Requires localities to display the POW/MIA flag on public buildings on designated days.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2312
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such materials are prohibited from being distributed by law or impossible to provide by electronic means. The bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to promulgate rules to implement this provision by July 1, 2027. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2028. The bill also requires the Executive Secretary of the Compensation Board, or a designee, to convene a work group to determine the costs associated with any changes in operations and technology infrastructure necessary to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill requires the Executive Secretary of the Compensation Board to provide an interim report to the General Assembly by November 30, 2025, and a final report to the General Assembly by August 1, 2026.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2313
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Grooming and boarding establishments; inspections by animal control officers. Allows an animal control officer to inspect a grooming or boarding establishment that is not regulated by the Board of Veterinary Medicine with the consent of the owner or person in charge or pursuant to a warrant upon a receipt of a complaint or twice annually upon their own motion to ensure compliance with state animal care laws and regulations. The bill requires an animal control officer, a law-enforcement officer, or the State Veterinarian to obtain the consent of the owner or person in charge of any business premises of any dealer, pet shop, groomer, or boarding establishment to investigate allegations of a complaint of a suspected violation of state or local animal care laws. Current law does not require such consent to investigate allegations of a complaint. The bill allows an animal control officer to search a building or place pursuant to a warrant after making a sworn statement regarding any potential violations of the cruelty to animals laws. Current law only allows a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer to conduct such a search. The bill also directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to, in consultation with the State Veterinarian, convene a work group to consider whether to propose a state license and other regulatory requirements for animal boarding establishments similar to the current licensing requirements for animal shelters and submit its report of such findings and recommendations by December 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1051.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2314
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Discovery. Allows the accused to request the Commonwealth to copy or photograph any discovery materials or evidence he is permitted to inspect and review, including relevant police reports, witness statements, and the name and contact information of any potential witness, and requires the Commonwealth to provide such copies or photographs, electronically or otherwise, to him or his counsel. The bill also requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide (i) discovery material for all courts to counsel of record for the accused, if requested, by electronic means, defined in the bill, unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law or impossible to provide by electronic means and (ii) to counsel of record for the accused, if requested, in any district court a copy of any police report by electronic means at least 10 days prior to the date the case is set for trial.Lastly, the bill requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to provide a copy of a person's criminal history record information, including criminal history record information maintained in the National Crime Information Center and the Interstate Identification Index System that is in his possession, pursuant to the rules of court for obtaining discovery or for review by the court. Current law provides that nothing shall preclude the dissemination of a person's criminal history record information pursuant to such rules of court but does not require the attorney for the Commonwealth to provide the copy nor identify specific types of information. This bill was incorporated into HB 1627.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2315
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; retirement age. Changes the age through which a retired law-enforcement officer covered under the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System is entitled to receive an additional retirement allowance from the law-enforcement officer's sixty-fifth birthday to retirement age as defined by the Social Security Act. This change aligns the additional allowance with that currently provided under the State Police Officers' Retirement System.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2316
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Protective orders; dissolution of existing order. Provides that, upon the issuance of a new protective order involving a petitioner and respondent, the court shall dissolve any existing order issued by such court involving the same petitioner and respondent.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2317
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Possession of marijuana, marijuana products, retail tobacco products, and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age prohibited; penalty. Provides that no person younger than 21 years of age shall consume or possess, or attempt to consume or possess, any marijuana, marijuana products, retail tobacco products, or hemp products intended for smoking, as such terms are defined in relevant law, and a violation of such prohibition is a Class 1 misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. The bill also allows any such person charged with his first offense of underaged possession of retail tobacco products or hemp products intended for smoking to have the proceedings deferred, to be placed on probation by the court, and to have the charges dismissed by the court without an adjudication of guilty upon such person's successful completion of probation.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2318
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Arrest of probationer without a warrant; repeal. Repeals the provision allowing any probation officer appointed pursuant to relevant law to arrest a probationer without a warrant, or to deputize any other officer with power to arrest to do so, by a written statement setting forth that the probationer has, in the judgment of the probation officer, violated one or more of the terms or conditions upon which the probationer was released on probation.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2319
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Drug paraphernalia; controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products; exception. Creates an exception for drug checking products used to determine the presence or concentration of a contaminant that can cause physical harm or death from the definitions of drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia. Under current law, the exception applies only to narcotic testing products used to determine whether a controlled substance contains fentanyl or a fentanyl analog.