Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2777
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
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary school student instruction, including (i) requiring each local school board to adopt and implement textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials in English language arts for grades six through 12 and mathematics, science, and history and social studies for grades kindergarten through 12 and requiring the Department of Education to support such local adoption and implementation in several ways and (ii) requiring each education preparation program offered by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education or alternative certification program that provides training for any student seeking initial licensure by the Board of Education with certain endorsements to include a program of coursework and clinical experience and require all such students to demonstrate mastery in identifying and implementing textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. The provisions of the bill, with the exception of a provision that requires a study of and report on the textbook review and approval process by November 1, 2025, have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill incorporates HB 2291 and HB 2772 and is identical to SB 955.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2778
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Direct the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the efficacy of expanding the School of Dentistry of Virginia Commonwealth University; report.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2779
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
2/12/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Vetoed
5/2/25
Office of New Americans Advisory Board; increase in membership. Increases from 18 to 21 the number of nonlegislative citizen members of the Office of New Americans Advisory Board and adds the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and Human Resources, Labor, Public Safety and Homeland Security, and Transportation as ex officio members with nonvoting privileges. The bill also removes the provision that limits the Board to meeting four times per year. This bill incorporates HB 2280.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2780
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Electric Utility Regulation.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2781
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Affordable housing; county executive form of government. Adds counties with the county executive form of government to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program. Albemarle County, which is already granted such authority under current law, and Prince William County are the only counties that have adopted such form of government.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2782
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
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
Vetoed
3/24/25
Board of Wildlife Resources; creel limits; blue catfish. Requires the Board of Wildlife Resources to amend regulations to remove the one-fish daily limit for blue catfish longer than 32 inches in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2783
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Placing Nazi swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who, with intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, places a Hakenkreuz, hooked cross, or Nazi symbol or emblem, sometimes referred to as the Nazi swastika, on the private property of another without permission. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony if such Nazi symbol or emblem is placed on a highway or other public place in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury. Finally, the bill clarifies that such Nazi symbol or emblem does not include the swastika symbol of peace and prosperity used by Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, or Native American religions.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB286
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes to guide policies in the Commonwealth to improve maternal care, quality, and outcomes for all birthing people in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Task Force to report its findings and conclusions to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1 of each year regarding its activities. This bill reestablishes the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures that concluded on December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB300
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB319
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that allow the organizations to certify ranges and instructors and for courses offered by them to serve as proof of demonstrated competence in firearms safety and training for the purpose of obtaining a concealed handgun permit or receiving training as a minor in the use of pneumatic guns. The bill also repeals authority for special license plates in support of the NRA.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB323
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Interstate Massage Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact. The Compact allows massage therapists who (i) possess an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state in which they reside; (ii) have completed at least 625 hours of massage therapy education; (iii) have passed the national licensing examination; and (iv) have no disqualifying criminal history to be granted a multistate license that authorizes them to practice in all compact member states. The Compact takes effect when it is enacted by a seventh member state.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB328
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Refer
2/6/24
Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pathway to licensure. The Compact is presently in effect, as it has reached the enactment threshold of 10 state members.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB33
Introduced
12/18/23
Refer
12/18/23
Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water and develop recommendations for the reduction of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Education and Health by December 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB331
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Charter; City of Richmond. Makes extensive updates to the charter for the City of Richmond. Many changes in the bill have the effect of removing outdated or duplicative provisions and more closely aligning the city's powers with those set out in general law. Other changes include authorizing compensation to individual council members as may be set by the city council by resolution as compensation for attending meetings of standing committees or other meetings of the city council, in addition to the sums permitted by general law. In addition, the bill authorizes the city council to fix an additional sum to be paid to the president and vice president of the city council, notwithstanding the limitations set out in general law. The bill makes the city's chief administrative officer, rather than the mayor, responsible for making certain recommendations to the council concerning the personnel system. Further changes in the bill provide for additional protected classes to include all of the protected classes recognized under general law. The bill also removes the requirement that the mayor annually submit a capital budget program to the city council and authorizes the city's chief administrative officer, not the mayor, to make transfers between completed projects and projects that are incomplete. The bill contains numerous technical amendments.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB338
Introduced
1/5/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
2/9/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality.