Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 184)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1481
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Animal testing facilities operated by public institutions of higher education; report. Requires each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth that operates an animal testing facility to publish an annual report that includes specific information about such institution's animal testing operations. The bill requires each such institution to submit the annual report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, which shall make it publicly available on its website.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1482
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Bribes to officers or candidates for office; gratuities for previous acts. Clarifies that the term "gratuity" includes any gratuity given for a prior official act of any executive, legislative or judicial officer, sheriff or police officer, or any candidate for such office.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1483
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Regulated hemp product retail facility registration; fee. Changes the requirement that a regulated hemp product retail facility registration be required for each location that offers for sale or sells at retail regulated hemp products to instead require such registration for the primary location that offers for sale or sells such products. The bill also requires an applicant for a regulated hemp product retail facility registration to notify the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services no less than 14 days in advance of any additional temporary event locations, including fairs, festivals, or farmers markets, at which such facility intends to offer for sale or sell at retail (i) a regulated hemp product or (ii) a substance intended for human consumption, orally or by inhalation, that is advertised or labeled as containing an industrial hemp-derived cannabinoid. However, the bill provides that no such product or substance that contains tetrahydrocannabinol may be sold at any such temporary event location.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1484
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Enrolled
2/21/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Hospitals and nursing homes; licensure and inspection fees; Hospital and Nursing Home Licensure and Inspection Program Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to require in its regulations the establishment of fees for the issuance, change, or renewal of a hospital or nursing home license to cover the costs of operating the hospital and nursing home licensure and inspection program in a manner that ensures timely completion of inspections. The bill requires the Board to distribute the costs of operating the hospital and nursing home licensure and inspection program in an equitable manner across all hospitals and nursing homes and specifies that the amount of such fees shall change no more frequently than annually. Such fee changes shall only be initiated under the bill if the expenses are more than 10 percent greater or less than the annual costs of operating the licensure and inspection program in a manner that ensures timely completion of inspections. The bill also creates the Hospital and Nursing Home Licensure and Inspection Program Fund to be used for the purposes of supporting the activities of the licensure and inspections requirements administered pursuant to current law. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill related to the establishment of such fees and specifies that the provisions pertaining to the creation of the Fund shall not become effective until the Board adopts such emergency regulations. This bill is identical to HB 2255.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1485
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Electric utilities; customer energy choice; customer return to service; subscription cap and queue. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purchase electric energy matched 100 percent by renewable energy certificates from any supplier of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. The bill requires a licensed supplier to match a percentage of each retail electric customer's annual load with renewable energy certificates from within the PJM transmission region. The bill decreases from five years to six months the required written notice period for certain electric energy customers to return to service by an incumbent electric utility after purchasing electric energy from other suppliers. The bill also directs the Commission, by October 1, 2026, to establish a subscription cap allowance for certain utility customers seeking to participate in purchasing electric energy from a licensed supplier. The Commission is required to review the subscription cap allowance every two years starting on January 1, 2028, and electric utilities are required to file their subscription queues with the Commission by January 15, 2027, and annually thereafter. The bill contains an exception to the subscription cap allowance for customers seeking to expand usage at an existing or new facility. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, unless the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated pursuant to the bill specify a commencement date.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1486
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
School-issued devices; protection of student personal information. Establishes certain enumerated requirements for the protection of student personal information on school-issued devices, as defined in the bill, by certain public schools and school boards and by school technology providers, as defined in the bill, that are substantially similar to the requirements established in current law for the protection of student personal information on school services by school service providers.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1487
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Governor; protecting the resiliency of the Commonwealth's critical infrastructure. Directs the Governor to establish two committees, the Critical Infrastructure Committee and the Resilient Energy Committee, consisting of security professionals, energy experts, utility representatives, and scientists, for the purpose of assessing Virginia's critical infrastructure and making recommendations for the protection of such infrastructure from all hazards.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1488
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Income tax; family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable family caregiver tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more activities of daily living, also defined in the bill. The credit equals 50 percent of eligible expenditures incurred by the caregiver up to $1,000. To qualify for the credit, the family caregiver must (i) not receive any compensation or reimbursement for the eligible expenditures and (ii) have federal adjusted gross income that is no greater than $100,000 or, if such family caregiver is married and filing jointly, shall have federal adjusted gross income of no greater than $200,000. 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 Senate Bill SB1489
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/27/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Authority of local governments; service employees. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For example, such local ordinance or resolution may require that successor service employers retain incumbent service employees during a transition period of 90 days. Under the bill, service employees are those who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of property, services at an airport, or food preparation services at schools. The provisions of the bill do not include any building owned by the Commonwealth or any institution of higher education. The bill provides that an employer that violates the provisions of a local ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to the bill may be subject to a civil action and monetary damages. This bill is identical to HB 2559.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1490
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Charter; City of Richmond. Amends the charter for the City of Richmond by setting out the minimum qualifications for the director of public utilities.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1491
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
School crossing zones; institutions of higher education. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institutions of higher education and nonprofit private institutions of higher education. Currently, the definition of "school crossing zone" includes only areas surrounding schools where the presence of children requires such warning. Existing provisions of law allowing photo speed monitoring devices to be installed in school crossing zones will apply to any location that meets the expanded definition.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1492
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Mass Violence Care Fund established.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1493
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/17/25
Contraception; right to access.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1494
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Registration of lobbyists and conflict of interest; disclosure by those making political contributions. Requires any person who makes or anticipates making contributions in the aggregate during a calendar year of $1 million or more to candidates for office or political committees to register as a lobbyist and make disclosures of his personal financial interests.
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1495
Introduced
1/30/25
Refer
1/30/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/17/25
Enrolled
2/19/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
State Air Pollution Control Board; permit exemptions; poultry or swine incinerators; bovine incinerators; emergency. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board to amend its regulations relating to permit exemptions for poultry or swine incinerators to include bovine incinerators. The bill contains an emergency clause.