Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 200)
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB831
Introduced
12/31/24
Refer
12/31/24
Report Pass
1/16/25
Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals, in addition to the existing hospital presumptive eligibility program and, if the Department receives such authority, allows the Department to authorize qualified entities to make determinations of presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB832
Introduced
12/31/24
Refer
12/31/24
Report Pass
1/15/25
Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance voucher pilot program. Establishes the rental assistance voucher pilot program within the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of providing direct rental assistance to qualifying households, as defined by the bill, in the form of rental assistance vouchers. The bill directs the Department to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation and impact of the rental assistance voucher program. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB833
Introduced
12/31/24
Refer
12/31/24
Report Pass
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/23/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
Refer
2/5/25
Operation of the City of Hampton local health department. Requires the City of Hampton to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Currently, the local department of health is operated as a joint venture between the state and local governments.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB834
Introduced
1/1/25
Refer
1/1/25
Report Pass
1/17/25
Engrossed
1/21/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Enrolled
2/10/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exceptions. Removes certain provisions of the exceptions to the tied house limitations that state a manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler cannot require, by agreement or otherwise, a retailer to exclude from sale at his establishment alcoholic beverages of other manufacturers, bottlers, importers, brokers, or wholesalers in order for the exception to apply. However, the bill retains the general prohibition that no manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler of alcoholic beverages shall make an agreement, or attempt to make an agreement, with a retail licensee pursuant to which any products sold by a competitor are excluded in whole or in part from the premises on which the retail licensee's business is conducted. This bill is identical to HB 1703.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB835
Introduced
1/1/25
Refer
1/1/25
Commonwealth Savers Plan; Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund established; report. Establishes (i) the Endowment Scholarship Program for the purpose of providing scholarships to students at eligible institutions, as defined in the bill; (ii) the Virginia College Opportunity Endowment as an agency of the Commonwealth for the purpose of establishing and administering the Endowment Scholarship Program; (iii) as a subfund of the Commonwealth Savers Plan's fund, the DB529 Fund for the purpose of holding in trust the assets of prepaid tuition contracts to meet contractual obligations; (iv) as a subfund of the Commonwealth Savers Plan's fund, the Virginia College Opportunity Fund (the Opportunity Fund), into which certain funds from the DB529 Fund shall be deposited for the purpose of funding, by income generated from investments of such deposits, the Endowment Scholarship Program and other programs established for the purpose of enhancing educational access and affordability for students with recognized financial need, as set forth in the bill; and (v) the College Opportunity Investment Advisory Committee for the purpose of making recommendations to and assisting the General Assembly in determining the prudence of directing deposits, and the amounts of any such deposits, of actuarial surpluses of the Commonwealth Savers Plan from the DB529 Fund into the Opportunity Fund. The bill requires the board of the Commonwealth Savers Plan to (a) after the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2025, deposit $500 million into the Opportunity Fund from the DB529 Fund; (b) each fiscal year thereafter, in accordance with the timeline set forth in the bill, submit to the General Assembly a report on the funded status, as defined by applicable law, of the DB529 Fund and the recommendation of the College Opportunity Investment Advisory Committee as to the prudence of directing deposits of additional actuarial surpluses of the Plan from the DB529 Fund into the Opportunity Fund; and (c) each subsequent year, deposit additional actuarial surpluses into the Opportunity Fund in accordance with the provisions of the bill. Finally, the bill contains provisions (1) relating to voluntary contributions to the Opportunity Fund for the purpose of receiving tax fund contributions and income tax deductions; (2) exempting from mandatory disclosure requirements certain information contained in a public record relating to the Commonwealth Savers Plan or the Virginia College Opportunity Endowment and Fund, and (3) authorizing the College Opportunity Investment Advisory Committee to hold closed meetings for certain purposes.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB836
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/13/25
Engrossed
1/15/25
Refer
2/3/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Charter; City of Poquoson. Amends the charter for the City of Poquoson to give the city council authority to remove, by a vote of four-sevenths of the whole city council, any person appointed to a city board or commission by the city council.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB837
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Concealed handgun permits; minimum age requirement. Reduces from 21 years of age to 18 years of age the minimum age requirement for resident and nonresident concealed handgun permits.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB838
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/24/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; recovery residences; certification required; penalty; work group. Changes the existing civil penalty for a violation of law related to the operation of recovery residences to a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill allows the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to issue provisional certification to certain recovery residences. The bill also directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to (i) make recommendations related to oversight and transparency for recovery residences and (ii) develop credentialing guidelines for recovery residences. The bill directs the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by November 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB839
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Zoning; by-right multifamily development in areas zoned for commercial use. Requires a locality to provide in its zoning ordinance provisions allowing for the by-right development and construction of multifamily residential uses on all land contained in commercial or business zoning district classifications. The bill provides that the review and approval of such development shall be done administratively by the locality's staff and that any residential development that dedicates a minimum of 10 percent of the total number of housing units to households with a household income at or below 80 percent of the area median income shall be granted an accelerated plan review and permit approval process by the locality's staff.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB840
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Specifies certain criteria for a child to be considered engaged in the work of content creation and prohibits a child who is under 14 years of age from engaging in the work of content creation. A child 14 years of age or older who is considered a child engaged in the work of content creation shall be compensated by the content creator, defined in the bill, whose video content includes such child's likeness, name, or photograph. The bill requires the content creator to set aside gross earnings on the video content including the likeness, name, or photograph of the child in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the child upon attaining 18 years of age or being declared emancipated. The bill also requires the content creator to maintain certain records specified in the bill and retain them until the child reaches 21 years of age. The bill allows the child, or his parent or guardian on behalf of such child, to commence a civil action to enforce the provisions of law related to the trust account. Finally, the bill gives the Attorney General the authority to enforce the provisions of the bill by issuing a civil investigative demand and causing an action to be brought in the appropriate circuit court to enjoin any violations. This bill was incorporated into SB 998.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB841
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Board of Pharmacy; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; opioid treatment programs; mobile units; report. Directs the Board of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop and implement a process by which opioid treatment programs can apply for and receive the necessary permissions and waivers to dispense opioid use disorder treatment medications from mobile units. The bill directs the Board to report to the Joint Commission on Health Care by November 1, 2025, on the status of and any barriers to the development and implementation of such process. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB842
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/15/25
Report Pass
1/22/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Enrolled
2/18/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Passed
3/21/25
Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband access services for mobile health clinics. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to, as part of its broader initiative to support the development and implementation of programs that support telehealth, include broadband access services for mobile health clinics as a priority for broadband nondeployment programs using federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program funding to the extent approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB843
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/20/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Enrolled
2/20/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring for patients with chronic conditions; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop a plan and estimate costs for expanding eligibility criteria under Medicaid for remote patient monitoring for individuals with chronic conditions and to report such plan and cost estimate to the Joint Commission on Health Care by October 1, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB844
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Report Pass
1/13/25
Engrossed
1/15/25
Refer
2/3/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Enrolled
2/17/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration intervals for Tier I and Tier II offenses. Requires any person who is required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry and who is convicted of a Tier I or Tier II offense to register yearly. The bill also requires any person convicted of providing false information or failing to provide registration information where such person was included on the Registry for a Tier I or Tier II offense to register twice a year.
VA
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB845
Introduced
1/2/25
Refer
1/2/25
Virginia taxable income; standard deduction; sunset. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that is scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026. This bill was incorporated into SB 782.