Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 180)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1421
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages; statute of limitations. Expands the existing ability for any person to maintain a suit in equity, including the accompanying remedies available and statute of limitations, for the unauthorized use of his name, portrait, or picture for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade to include the unauthorized use of his voice or likeness.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1422
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/20/25
Engrossed
1/22/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Zoning violations; appeals; fines. Provides that a zoning ordinance may prescribe an appeal period of less than 30 days but not less than 10 days for a notice of violation involving the storage or disposal of nonagricultural excavation material, waste, and debris. The bill also provides for enhanced fines for any conviction resulting from a violation of provisions regulating the storage or disposal of nonagricultural excavation material, waste, and debris.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1423
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Taxation; rate of interest. Provides that (i) the rate of interest on omitted taxes and assessments is equal to the Underpayment Rate established by the Internal Revenue Code and (ii) the rate of interest on refunds is equal to the Overpayment Rate for noncorporate taxpayers established by the Internal Revenue Code beginning in the third quarter of calendar year 2025 and thereafter. Current law provides that (a) the rate of interest on omitted taxes and assessments is equal to the Underpayment Rate plus two percent and (b) the rate of interest on refunds is equal to the Overpayment Rate for noncorporate taxpayers plus two percent.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1424
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Prohibited acquisition and ownership of single-family homes; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any partnership, corporation, or real estate investment trust that manages funds pooled from investors and has $50 million or more in net value or assets under management on any day during a taxable year from acquiring any interest in single-family homes, as defined in the bill, in the Commonwealth and requires registration with the Secretary of the Commonwealth by September 1, 2026, for any such business that acquired such interest prior to July 1, 2026. The bill also requires any such business to divest at least 10 percent of such interest per year over a course of 10 years whereby no such business shall own any interest in single-family homes on and after July 1, 2036. The bill requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to report annually by December 1 on the registrations and any penalties assessed for failure to register or divest ownership interests and to submit such report to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill also requires all real property tax bills to contain notice of such prohibited business ownership restrictions and registration requirements. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1425
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Retail sales and use tax; data center exemption expiration; distribution of revenues. Provides for a sunset on the data center retail sales and use tax exemption, and any extensions thereof, on and after July 1, 2025. The bill requires that the revenues generated by the expiration of the exemption be distributed for school construction and road and bridge construction.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1426
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Corporate income tax; Virginia taxable income; definitions. Defines, for purposes of income tax, "entire net income" as the total net income from all sources that a taxpayer is required to report for purposes of the federal income tax. The bill further defines "net operating loss" as the excess of any allowable income tax deductions over the gross income used in computing entire net income.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1427
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; members. Expands from 31 to 32 the minimum number of members of the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education by adding one representative of the Department of Veterans Services to the nonlegislative citizen members of the Commission. This bill was incorporated into SB 1391.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1428
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge." This bill is identical to HB 1853.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1429
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Protection of memorials for war veterans. Provides that it is unlawful for localities or individuals to disturb or interfere with certain monuments, markers, and memorials for war veterans or to prevent citizens from taking proper measures and exercising proper means for the protection, preservation, and care of the monuments, markers, or memorials. The bill describes \"disturb or interfere with\" to include removing, damaging, or defacing monuments, markers, or memorials or, in the case of the Civil War, placing Union markings or monuments on previously designated Confederate memorials or placing Confederate markings or monuments on previously designated Union memorials. The bill also deletes current provisions that allow localities to remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover such monuments or memorials. The bill changes an existing advisory referendum provision by limiting its applicability to those monuments, markers, and memorials that were erected at least 40 years ago and by requiring a two-thirds majority vote, both by voters and by the governing body, before any monument can be removed, relocated, or covered. The bill also establishes a process whereby any person with an interest can initiate an action against a person or locality that damages or defaces a publicly owned monument if a locality or its officers have failed to take such action within 60 days of the damage or defacement.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1430
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Military and emergency laws; closure of United States government; civil relief for furloughed employees and contractors; emergency. Extends from 30 days to 60 days the stay of a foreclosure proceeding on any mortgage or the execution of or sale under any deed of trust for any (i) homeowner who defaults on a note that is secured by a one-family to four-family residential property or (ii) owner who rents a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who defaults on a note that is secured by such property after the commencement of a closure of the United States government. The bill also removes from the definition of "closure of the United States government" the requirement that such closure be for a period of 14 consecutive days or longer. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1431
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Admission to bail; risk assessment. Provides that a judicial officer shall (i) require an evidence-based pretrial risk assessment be prepared prior to admitting an offender to bail, (ii) review such risk assessment, and (iii) obtain the person's criminal history when such person was arrested for the commission or attempted commission of a second or subsequent violent felony.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1432
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Juvenile secure detention facilities; closure or consolidation; funding contributions; education programs. Provides that upon the closure or consolidation of a juvenile secure detention facility, any locality or commission operating a juvenile secure detention facility in which juveniles will be placed who previously would have been placed in the closed or consolidated juvenile secure detention facility shall negotiate in good faith with the locality from which a juvenile may be placed to arrive at mutually agreeable funding contributions for the operation of such receiving juvenile secure detention facility. The bill requires such agreements to include certain provisions related to equal access to post-dispositional programming and medical and hospitalization costs and provides that such agreements may include provisions related to transportation of juveniles and transportation options for parents or guardians.The bill further states that if the localities or commissions are unable to reach such an agreement, then the Department of Juvenile Justice shall determine the funding contributions and that failure of any locality or commission to comply with such determination may result in the loss or reduction of state funding. Under the bill, any locality or commission operating a juvenile secure detention facility that refuses to accept placement of juveniles who previously would have been placed in a closed or consolidated juvenile secure detention facility shall not be eligible for state funding.The bill changes the required staffing ratio for education programs in regional and local detention homes to one full-time equivalent program employee for every six students based on a rolling average daily population at the facility as calculated by the Department of Education from the previous three fiscal years. Under current law, the ratio for such programs is one teacher for every 12 beds based on the capacity of the facility. The bill also provides that the Board of Education shall require all such education programs to have either a principal or a lead teacher on site and requires contracts for the hiring and supervision of teachers to allow a teacher employed by a local school board to continue teaching in his local school division and be hired as a part-time teacher for such an education program. The bill requires that each part-time teacher for an education program be provided an annual $3,000 bonus.Lastly, the bill directs the closure of seven juvenile secure detention facilities across the Commonwealth and specifies the facilities to be closed and the facilities into which they may be consolidated. The bill requires the facilities to be closed and consolidated by January 1, 2026, and states that any such facility that fails to comply with the requirements for closure and consolidation, in addition to any other remedy available at law, shall not be eligible for state funding.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1433
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Tax credit for purchase of mobile machinery and equipment used by road contractors for processing recyclable asphalt materials on pavements and roadways. Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 in an amount equal to 20 percent of the purchase price paid, as defined in the bill, during the taxable year for machinery and equipment used to reclaim, recycle, or reprocess existing asphalt materials from pavements and roadways. The bill requires a taxpayer to submit invoices with an income tax return verifying the amount of purchase price paid for such machinery and equipment. The bill provides a $3 million aggregate annual cap on the number of credits to be distributed, as administered by the Department of Taxation. Any credit not used for the taxable year in which the purchasing price for recycling machinery was paid may be carried over for the next 10 years until the total credit amount is used.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1434
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Solar photovoltaic project; siting. Requires the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to establish regional planning targets for each planning district for energy production and energy efficiency. The bill requires such targets to be included in the Virginia Energy Plan and for each planning district commission to amend its regional strategic plan to include a regional energy plan that meets such targets. The bill requires localities to incorporate into their comprehensive plans energy production and energy efficiency targets based on their planning district commission's regional strategic plan. The bill requires the Director of the Department of Energy to convene an Interagency Solar Advisory Committee for the purposes of reviewing solar photovoltaic project proposals and issuing advisory opinions on such proposals when requested. The Advisory Committee is required to review each proposal and to issue an advisory opinion within 120 days and provide such opinion to the relevant locality. In reviewing a proposal, the bill requires the Advisory Committee to consider (i) regional planning targets for the relevant planning district; (ii) the goals of the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy; (iii) renewable energy portfolio requirements; (iv) cost effectiveness; (v) the project's proximity to existing energy infrastructure; (vi) any impacts to natural, historical, or cultural resources; (vii) any impacts to historically economically disadvantaged communities; and (viii) any other factor the Advisory Committee deems relevant. The bill requires localities to review and consider such advisory opinion before making decisions regarding a solar photovoltaic project.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1435
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Certain eminent domain powers; conservation easements; compensation to the Commonwealth and localities. Requires any person, defined in the bill, if it takes by condemnation proceedings any land or right-of-way or similar interest therein that is subject to a conservation easement, to compensate (i) the Commonwealth in an amount equal to the value of any tax credit received by the landowner under the provisions of the Virginia Land Conservation Incentives Act of 1999 during the pendency of the conservation easement and (ii) the locality in which the right-of-way is located (a) in an amount of any property tax avoided by the landowner during the pendency of the conservation easement and (b) if the right-of-way is located on property that is registered with the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, in an amount equal to the additional value conferred upon the property during the period that property was registered.