Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2762
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Education improvement scholarships tax credit; guidelines for scholarship foundations; scholarship amount. Provides that, on and after July 1, 2025, the aggregate amount of scholarships provided to each student, eligible student with a disability, or pre-kindergarten child by scholarship foundations may exceed the maximum amounts established in current law for such students.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2763
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostitution from any minor. Under current law, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the minor is 16 years of age or older or a Class 5 felony if the minor is younger than 16 years of age. Finally, the bill increases the fines for certain offenses related to sex trafficking from $100 to $1,000 and from $500 to $2,500, respectively.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2764
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Collective bargaining by public employees; exclusive bargaining representatives. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. The bill requires public employers and employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representatives to meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. The bill repeals a provision that declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vote by secret ballot is a fundamental right that shall be guaranteed from infringement. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 917.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2765
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Department of Education; statewide anonymous student reporting mobile application. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act or provided from any other source, and alone or in partnership with another state agency or a nonprofit organization, or a combination thereof, to (i) develop or procure a multiplatform compatible mobile application that permits any public elementary and secondary school student to submit anonymous reports relating to the health or safety of self or others, including threats of violence that are made on social media; (ii) train or contract for the training of individuals to respond to each such anonymous report in a timely and effective manner, including responding to the student and notifying the appropriate school official, local law-enforcement agency, or public safety answering point (PSAP), as that term is defined in relevant law; (iii) train students, parents, PSAP responders, law-enforcement officials, and school officials throughout the Commonwealth on the proper use of such mobile application; and (iv) provide permissible users with access to such mobile application at no cost.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2766
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Violations of protective orders; child protective order; penalties. Changes the punishment and sentencing requirements for a violation of a preliminary child protective order and a protective order entered in a dispositional order related to abused, neglected, or abandoned children or children without parental care to the same penalties as violations of preliminary, emergency, and permanent family abuse protective orders, including enhanced penalties for certain violations. Under current law, (i) the maximum penalty for violations of child protective orders constitutes contempt of court; however, if the violation involves an act or acts of commission or omission that endanger the child's life or health, or results in bodily injury to the child, it is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor and (ii) the court is not required to enter a permanent family abuse protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) upon a conviction of a violation of a preliminary child protective order.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2767
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence. Adds a firearms safety or training course conducted by U.S. LawShield or any firearms safety or training course or class available to the general public offered by a nationally recognized firearms safety training organization to the list of qualifications that satisfy the demonstration of competence requirement for the issuance of a Virginia resident or nonresident concealed handgun permit. The bill also directs the Department of State Police to publish on its public website a list of organizations conducting such trainings that the Department deems adequate.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2768
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Engrossed
1/29/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
County manager plan of government; county board; powers. Broadens several powers related to the county board size and manner of election for counties that have adopted the county manager plan of government by giving such counties the option of following general law, after voter approval by referendum, rather than the provisions specified in this optional form of county government. Currently, only Arlington County has adopted the county manager plan of government. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2026 Session of the General Assembly.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2769
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Life insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life insurance or accident and sickness insurance coverage available to an individual or charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage based solely on the status of such individual as having received pre-exposure prophylaxis for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2770
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training; safety grants.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2771
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; penalty. Authorizes the use of all-terrain vehicles on secondary state highways if (i) such operation is approved by action of the governing body of a locality for operation on the secondary state highways within such locality and (ii) such all-terrain vehicles, when operated between dusk and dawn, are equipped with two front and two rear lights that render discernible a person or object at a distance of 200 feet.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2772
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2773
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers; compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "pharmacy benefits management services," and "price protection rebates." The bill requires that an enrollee's defined cost-sharing for each prescription drug be calculated at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 80 percent of all rebates received or expected to be received in connection with the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug.The bill prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from deriving income from pharmacy benefits management services provided to a carrier or health benefit plan except for income derived from a pharmacy benefits management fee. The bill requires the amount of any pharmacy benefits management fees to be set forth in the agreement between the pharmacy benefits manager and the carrier or health benefit plan and that such fee not be based on the acquisition cost or any other price metric of a drug; the amount of savings, rebates, or other fees charged, realized, or collected by or generated based on the activity of the pharmacy benefits manager; or the amount of premiums, deductibles, or other cost-sharing or fees charged, realized, or collected by the pharmacy benefits manager from enrollees or other persons on behalf of an enrollee. The bill requires a pharmacy benefits manager to annually certify to the State Corporation Commission that it has met certain requirements. The Commission is directed to impose a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 per claim for a violation of these provisions.The bill establishes a pharmacy benefits manager duty, which includes the duties of care, good faith, and fair dealing, owed to any enrollee, provider, or health benefit plan that receives pharmacy benefits management services from the pharmacy benefits manager or that furnishes, covers, receives, or is administered a unit of a prescription drug for which the pharmacy benefits manager has provided pharmacy benefits management services. The bill requires the Commission to define by regulation the scope of such duty and provides for a private cause of action for any person aggrieved by the breach of such duty. The bill is identical to SB 1078.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2774
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
School-connected student overdoses; policies relating to parental notification. Requires public school principals and heads of private schools in the Commonwealth to report certain information to the parents of enrolled students within 24 hours of a confirmed or suspected school-connected student overdose, as defined in the bill. This bill incorporates HB 2287 and HB 2424 and is identical to SB 1240.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2775
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Definition of hemp product; Revitalize Hemp Act.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2776
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel.