Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 195)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB756
Introduced
12/10/24
Refer
12/10/24
Report Pass
1/23/25
Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision of early childhood care and education services that establishes the minimum funding and number of slots per biennium for such providers based on a cost of quality rate per child, actual data from the prior year, unserved waitlists, and a multiplier based on enrollment and parent demand growth in prior biennia; (ii) make disbursements from the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund (the Fund), established in the bill, to support the provision of early childhood care and education services in accordance with the funding formula set forth in the bill; (iii) make certain funding calculations, in consultation with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, to be included in the funding formula, for the purpose of determining the number of slots to be added to support local or regional economic development efforts; and (iv) submit to the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education a report on the status of the Fund, including the data used to calculate the minimum funding and number of slots per biennium established pursuant to the funding formula. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit to the Generally Assembly by November 1 of each year a report on Fund revenues, distributions, and balances.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB757
Introduced
12/10/24
Refer
12/10/24
Report Pass
1/13/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Enrolled
2/11/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Trespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains or attempts to obtain any videographic or still image that contains or reveals any controlled technical information located within a contracted defense facility, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill also provides that the owner or operator of a contracted defense facility and its employees shall be immune from criminal prosecution and civil liability as a result of preventing, stopping, deterring, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to prevent, stop, deter, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system from entering the property of such contracted defense facility or from stopping, interrupting, or repelling, or attempting to stop, interrupt, or repel, an unmanned aircraft system that has entered such property, provided that such action does not result in injury to any person. This bill is identical to HB 1726.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB758
Introduced
12/10/24
Refer
12/10/24
Report Pass
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/23/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to include all pregnant and postpartum persons. Under current law, only high-risk pregnancies are covered.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB759
Introduced
12/10/24
Refer
12/10/24
Contracts assigning rights to earned wages; legal rate of interest. Provides that any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2025, pursuant to which a person receives a cash advance for assigning to a company or other entity a portion of such person's rights to receive earned wages, salary, commissions, or other compensation for services shall be considered a loan and that any additional funds such person is obligated to pay under the terms of the contract shall be considered interest. The bill provides that such contract shall be subject to the legal rate of interest.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB760
Introduced
12/11/24
Refer
12/11/24
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/25/25
Elections; deadline for receipt of absentee ballots and certain other information; 5:00 p.m. on the third day after the election. Moves the deadline for receipt of absentee ballots, information required to cure an absentee ballot, or proof of identification to accompany a provisional ballot provided for lack of identification from noon to 5:00 p.m. on the third day after the election.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB761
Introduced
12/12/24
Refer
12/12/24
Report Pass
1/13/25
Engrossed
1/15/25
Refer
2/3/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Civil actions brought by warrant or motion for judgment. Extends the date range during which a person against whom a civil claim is asserted is required to appear in court to answer the complaint from not more than 60 to not more than 90 days from the date the warrant is served on such person. The bill also extends the date range on which a plaintiff bringing an action by motion for judgment is required to make such motion from not more than 60 to not more than 90 days from the date the motion is served.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB762
Introduced
12/12/24
Refer
12/12/24
Report Pass
1/13/25
Engrossed
1/16/25
Salaries of boards of supervisors for certain counties. Increases the statutory salary caps for boards of supervisors of counties that have adopted salary limits consistent with provisions in the Code of Virginia relating to alternative procedures for establishing salaries of boards of supervisors.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB763
Introduced
12/13/24
Refer
12/13/24
Income tax deduction; tips. Provides, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026, an income tax deduction for the amount of cash tips received during the taxable year that are included on statements furnished to the employer for federal tax purposes.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB764
Introduced
12/14/24
Refer
12/14/24
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB765
Introduced
12/16/24
Refer
12/16/24
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/3/25
Refer
2/7/25
Incapacitated persons; finding of lack of capacity to understand the act of voting. Provides that no person shall be deemed disqualified to vote due to lack of capacity for the purposes of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia unless the court makes a specific finding by clear and convincing evidence that such person lacks the capacity to understand the act of voting. The bill allows any person deemed disqualified to vote due to lack of capacity prior to July 1, 2025, to file a petition for a court to review such determination in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill also requires the report of a guardian ad litem in a guardianship or conservatorship to include whether the respondent lacks the capacity to understand the act of voting. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Disability Commission.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB766
Introduced
12/17/24
Refer
12/17/24
Report Pass
1/15/25
Museum of the Virginia National Guard established. Establishes the Museum of the Virginia National Guard as a state agency and educational institution for the dissemination of education concerning the history of the Virginia National Guard. The bill provides that the Museum is governed by a 15-member board of trustees and establishes the duties of such Board.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB767
Introduced
12/17/24
Refer
12/17/24
Institutions of higher education; financial assistance; tuition grants; Virginia National Guard. Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the amount of grant funding that the Department of Military Affairs may use each year to recruit qualified applicants for service in the Virginia National Guard.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB768
Introduced
12/17/24
Refer
12/17/24
Report Pass
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Department of Education; survey of local education agencies on school-based mental and behavioral health services; report. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) to survey each local education agency (LEA) in the Commonwealth to determine (i) how public schools governed by such LEA currently grant access to local departments of social services and community services boards and other community-based providers of mental and behavioral health services and (ii) what school-based mental and behavioral health services are made available by such LEA. The bill requires the Department to utilize the results of and feedback from the survey to inform the continued development and improvement of guidelines for school professionals to support students and families by connecting them with community resources that provide mental and behavioral health services. The bill requires the Department to report to the Commission on Youth by November 1, 2025, any findings and recommendations that result from the survey. This bill is identical to HB 1947.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB769
Introduced
12/18/24
Refer
12/18/24
Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file, commonly referred to as a "cookie," on the consumer's computer or web browser and a disclosure of the purposes for which the data files are used. The bill prohibits controllers from using cookies, except those that are strictly necessary, without the prior express consent of the consumer and prohibits controllers from preventing access to their services if such consent is not granted. The bill also requires controllers to document and store proof of such consent and make available an easily accessible method by which consumers may withdraw such consent.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB770
Introduced
12/19/24
Refer
12/19/24
Report Pass
1/17/25
Engrossed
1/21/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; deaths of inmates in local, regional, and community correctional facilities; reports. Consolidates reports made by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails related to the Board's reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility into one annual report to be published on the Board's website on or before July 1, 2025, and each July 1 thereafter and submitted to the Governor, the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. The annual report shall include (i) a summary of the reviews of the deaths of inmates that occur in any local, regional, or community correctional facility conducted in the prior year, including any trends or similarities identified by such reviews; (ii) any recommendations for policy changes to reduce the number of inmate deaths; and (iii) any recommendations for changes to the policies and procedures for conducting reviews of the deaths of inmates to improve the operations, safety, and security of local, regional, or community correctional facilities.