Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 171)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1290
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Health insurance; reimbursement for services rendered by certain practitioners other than physicians. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose accident and sickness insurance policies or subscription contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a physician assistant to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer when such services are performed in an office setting. Additionally, the bill requires the reimbursement or payment for a service provided by certain licensed practitioners listed in the bill to be in the same amount as the reimbursement or payment paid under such policy or subscription contract to a licensed physician performing such service in the area served.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1291
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for all civil actions. Under current law, only civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death have a maximum jurisdictional limit of $50,000. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1292
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Allows a retired sworn law-enforcement officer who returns to employment as an instructor at a regional criminal justice academy to continue receiving his service retirement allowance. Such employment shall not increase, decrease, or affect in any way his retirement benefits before, during, or after such employment. Under current law, a retired law-enforcement officer may return to full-time employment without impact on his retirement benefits only if he is employed as a school security officer. The bill has a sunset date of July 1, 2028.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1293
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
School board employees; professional development and continuing education; optional programs; children with autism spectrum disorder. Directs the Board of Education to provide guidance on and each school board to provide each year an optional program of high-quality professional development for instructional personnel and school board employees whose duties include regular contact with students on communicating with and supporting students with autism spectrum disorder. The bill provides that any instructional personnel or school board employee who completes such professional development shall be eligible for professional development points toward renewal of his license.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1294
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Regional emergency medical services councils. Provides that 55 percent of certain funds distributed to the Department of Health from motor vehicle registration fees shall be distributed to the designated regional emergency medical services councils for their operational support. The bill also specifies that there shall be 11 designated regional emergency medical services councils. Under current law, there is no specified number.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1295
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Preliminary protective orders; hearings. Requires a court to schedule the dispositional hearings for preliminary protective orders on the same hearing or trial date as a related criminal offense until such related proceeding is resolved. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1296
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Virginia Public-Private Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Public-Private Safety Communications Infrastructure Fund (the Fund), to be managed by the Virginia Resources Authority, for the purpose of making loans and awarding grants to local governments for the purpose of assisting with improvement projects relating to public safety radio and communications infrastructure.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1297
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; police power; primary law-enforcement agency for certain crimes against property and involving fraud. Provides that special agents of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall serve as the primary law-enforcement agency for enforcing, reporting, and investigating certain crimes against property and crimes involving fraud that occur on property owned or leased by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1298
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Use of profane, threatening, etc., language over the telephone; repeated telephone contact; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who uses obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or makes any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threatens any illegal or immoral act with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, over any telephone to (i) the same person 50 or more times within a 48-hour period or (ii) two or more family or household members of a person 50 or more times within a 48-hour period.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1299
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/20/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
1/30/25
Refer
2/6/25
Workers' compensation; compensation to dependents or beneficiaries of an employee killed. Provides that if an employee's death results from an accident compensable under the workers' compensation program, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid certain compensation to certain family members, dependents, or beneficiaries of the deceased employee under certain circumstances as described in the bill.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1300
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/20/25
Engrossed
1/22/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) reference general law for procedures for removing members of the town council who are convicted of certain crimes; (iii) clarify the duties of the mayor and vice mayor; (iv) create the position of chair pro tem on the town council; (v) clarify how vacancies on the town council will be filled; (vi) clarify the procedure for introducing and passing town ordinances and emergency ordinances; (vii) specify that members of town committees, boards, and commissions serve at the pleasure of the town council; (viii) clarify the duties of various town officers; (ix) specify that there is a town clerk and describe the town clerk's duties; (x) provide that town departments include departments concerning recreation and civic engagement; (xi) add a reference to town authority to impose civil penalties and cap any such civil penalties at $5,000; and (xii) make numerous technical changes to update the town's charter, first enacted in 1994. This bill is identical to HB 2352.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1301
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/20/25
Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that workers' compensation benefits are payable for anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty. The bill also increases from 52 weeks to 500 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that workers' compensation benefits are payable for post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1302
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/21/25
Refer
2/4/25
Limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials, as defined in the bill, and commercial driver's licenses and permits, to a period of time consistent with the validity of (i) driver's licenses, which under current law is a period not to exceed eight years or for a person age 75 or older, a period not to exceed five years; (ii) permits, which under current law is the period of time until a driver's license is issued or the person is no longer eligible for such permit, a period of 12 months for motorcycle permits, or a period of the 60 days prior to the person's first behind-the-wheel exam for persons 25 years of age or older; and (iii) special identification cards, which under current law is a period between three and eight years, with exceptions, or for a person younger than the age of 15, until such person's sixteenth birthday, unless extended under certain circumstances for a period no longer than 90 days. The bill directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to implement the extended validity periods for such documents upon reissuance.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1303
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/22/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
School Health Services Committee; comprehensive review of student diabetes medical management plans; report. Requires the School Health Services Committee, in consultation with such interested stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to conduct a comprehensive review of the legislative proposal relating to student diabetes medical management plans contained in the amended substitute to Senate Bill 1303 (2025) offered to the House Committee on Education during the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly and to report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2025, any legislative recommendations that result from such review.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1304
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Department of Medical Assistance Services; state plan for medical assistance services; crisis stabilization services for nonhospitalized individuals; emergency. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary federal approvals to remove the prohibition against the use of crisis stabilization services for nonhospitalized individuals in institutions for mental disease and, upon receiving federal approval, (i) authorizes the Department of Medical Assistance Services to implement such change through agency guidance documents prior to the completion of any regulatory review process and (ii) directs it to promulgate regulations to implement such change to be effective within 280 days of receiving federal approval. This bill is identical to HB 2534.