Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2705
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Child custody orders; transfer of custody to person with legitimate interest. Provides that when a juvenile and domestic relations district court has entered an order transferring custody of a child to a person with a legitimate interest, the court shall provide notice to such person with a legitimate interest of any motion to terminate or amend such order. The bill also provides that such person with a legitimate interest shall have the opportunity to be heard on such motion to terminate or amend.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2706
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Reports of certain incidents to school officials; recipients; subsequent reports to law enforcement. Requires reports of eight enumerated types of school-related incidents, including incidents involving alcohol, marijuana, a controlled substance, an imitation controlled substance, or an anabolic steroid on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, including the theft or attempted theft of student prescription medications, to be made to the members of the school board in addition to the requirement in current law to report such incidents to the division superintendent and the principal or his designee. The bill also requires the school principal to subsequently report some such incidents that may involve a criminal offense to the local law-enforcement agency as soon as practicable but no later than 24 hours after receiving the report of the incident. Current law requires such reports to be made immediately but does not establish a reporting deadline of any specific length.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2707
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Income tax; toll charges for disabled veterans tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 for expenses incurred during the taxable year by a disabled veteran, defined in the bill, for documented toll charges, also defined in the bill. The amount of the credit shall be equal to the lesser of the documented toll charges or $100. The bill requires the Tax Commissioner to establish guidelines for claiming the credit and provides that any unused credit may be carried forward by the taxpayer for five taxable years following the taxable year for which the credit was issued.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2708
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
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Prohibited equipment related to manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance; penalties. Exempts permitted outsourcing facilities and pharmacies from the prohibition for any person to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or possess with intent to sell, give, or distribute an encapsulating machine or a tableting machine that manufactures, compounds, converts, produces, processes, prepares, or otherwise introduces into the human body a controlled substance. Current law exempts permitted manufacturers.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2709
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Designating or nominating historic landmarks; notice requirements. Removes the requirements for the Department of Historic Resources to provide written notice to an owner or his agent of property abutting or immediately across the street or road of property proposed to be designated or nominated as a historic landmark. The bill directs the Department to schedule a public hearing at the seat of government of the locality in which the property proposed to be designated or nominated as a historic landmark is located at a time and place that will allow for the attendance of the affected general public. Current law applies such time and place requirements only for affected property owners. Finally, the bill changes the time in which the Department must specify the time and place of the public notice published in the newspaper having general circulation in the locality from not less than six days nor more than 21 days after the second publication of the notice to not more than 30 days and not less than seven days before the public hearing.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2710
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Uniform labeling requirements for certain food packaging. Prohibits the use of a sell-by date on a label affixed to a food product that is manufactured on or after July 1, 2026. The bill instead requires a person selling or offering for sale such food product to use on the outside packaging or container of such food product the phrase "Best if Used by," "Best if Used or Frozen by," "Use by," or "Use by or Freeze by" or its associated abbreviations, as provided in the bill. The bill exempts from its provisions infant formula, eggs, including pasteurized in-shell eggs, beer or other malt beverages, certain shellfish, and any food that is required by law or regulation to bear a label indicating a date or time such food must be consumed, sold, or discarded. The bill maintains a person's discretion to use a quality date or safety date that is not otherwise required by law; however, the bill requires use of the specified label if a person chooses to include such a label on the food product. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2711
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Water utilities and wastewater utilities; eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement; cost recovery. Permits a water or wastewater utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for the approval of an eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement plan, as defined in the bill. The bill requires that a water or wastewater utility that receives approval for an eligible infrastructure replacement and enhancement rider shall provide a proposed earnings test for informational purposes in each annual informational filing or base rate proceeding filed with the State Corporation Commission before December 1, 2030. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2035. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the State Water Commission. This bill is identical to SB 850.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2712
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Siting of data centers; local authority. Provides that a locality, in considering any land use application required for the siting of a data center, may (i) require and consider water use estimates for proposed data center developments; (ii) require sound modeling studies for proposed data center developments; (iii) establish and enforce maximum allowable sound levels for operational data center facilities, including the use of alternative low-frequency metrics, and include such requirements in zoning ordinances; and (iv) require and consider power load demand estimates for a proposed data center development.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2713
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Marine Resources Commission; Virginia Institute of Marine Science; study of ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of Atlantic menhaden; report. Directs the Marine Resources Commission in collaboration with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and certain stakeholders, as provided in the bill, to conduct a three-year study of the ecology, fishery impacts, and economic importance of the Atlantic menhaden population in the waters of the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Commission to provide a report on its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources no later than October 1, 2028.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2714
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of Medical Assistance Services; developmental disability waivers; reallocation of unassigned and unused waiver slots. Grants the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) the authority to reallocate developmental disability waiver slots if such waiver slot is unassigned and unused for a 30-day period. The bill directs the Department and the Department of Medical Assistance Services to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill becomes effective when the Department of Medical Assistance Services obtains the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the provisions of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2715
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain wage rate standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator ensures that every building service employee, as defined by the bill, employed at the data center is compensated at a rate that is no less than the standard building service employee rate, as defined by the bill. The bill requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to audit any qualifying person claiming this exemption to determine whether such person is in compliance with the wage requirements. Upon three violations of the wage requirement, the Department of Taxation shall revoke any such exemption received by a data center operator or tenant and require repayment.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2716
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Photo speed monitoring devices; private vendors; calibration; civil penalty. Requires any private vendor that has entered into an agreement with a law-enforcement agency to provide a photo speed monitoring device and is also compensated for the calibration of such device to calibrate such device in the same manner and to the same specifications as all other devices determining speed, to the extent that such devices utilize the same method of speed detection as such photo speed monitoring device, used by such law-enforcement agency. The bill also (i) requires such a private vendor to provide, within 10 days of a request by a person receiving a summons by mail for a vehicle speed violation recorded by a photo speed monitoring device provided by such private vendor, for proof of calibration for such photo speed monitoring device; (ii) requires such a summons to provide notice of such right to request such proof of calibration; and (iii) imposes a civil penalty on any private vendor who fails to provide such proof of calibration within such time.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2717
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Unclaimed property; application to delinquent taxes. Directs the administrator of unclaimed property to transmit information to the Department of Taxation regarding the value of the property and the identity of the taxpayer. The bill also directs the Department to subtract the value of any unclaimed cash property, as defined in the bill, from the amount of any state taxes owed and specifies that the unclaimed cash property shall be paid to the Department.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2718
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Photo speed monitoring devices; school crossing zones. Requires photographs, microphotographs, videotapes, or other recorded images, or documentation, produced by a photo speed monitoring device placed in a school crossing zone to depict or confirm a portable sign or tilt-over sign that is in position or blinking sign that is activated, indicating the school crossing zone, at the time of such vehicle speed violation in order for a sworn certificate to be considered prima facie evidence for purposes of enforcing vehicle speed violations.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2719
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Adding court ordered outpatient mental health treatment as a prohibition to ownership of a firearm.