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Commending Olwen Herron, Ed.D.
Ryan T. McDougleRepublican
Last action Feb 14, 2025
Commending J. Dean Norton.
Scott A. SurovellDemocrat
Commending the Arab America Foundation.
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Saddam Azlan SalimDemocrat
Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by firefighters, etc.
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 post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty.
Paul E. KrizekDemocrat
Last action Feb 17, 2025
Sickle cell disease; feasibility of Medicaid benefit and Medicaid Health Homes, report.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; sickle cell disease; feasibility of Medicaid benefit and Medicaid Health Homes; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to determine the feasibility of participating in an optional Medicaid benefit for sickle cell disease and establishing Medicaid Health Homes to coordinate care and provide treatment for individuals with sickle cell disease. The bill requires the Department to report its findings in its annual review of sickle cell disease treatment and submit such review to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the Joint Commission on Health Care by November 15, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
Candi Mundon KingDemocrat
Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties.
Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act to regulate the practices of persons seeking to receive compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a violation of its provisions constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
Bryce E. ReevesRepublican
Rural Affairs, Secretariat of; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position.
Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs in the Commonwealth.
Lashrecse D. AirdDemocrat
Uniform Statewide Building Code; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation.
Board of Housing and Community Development; USBC; temperature regulation. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to, during the 2024 Virginia Code Development Cycle, evaluate potential revisions to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require that certain owners and operators that rent, lease, or let one or more dwelling unit, rooming unit, or guestroom to supply cooling and furnish heat to maintain certain temperatures in all habitable rooms.
Barbara A. FavolaDemocrat
Land records; recording and indexing fees.
Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, unless the person presenting such document or instruments requests that such document or instruments be recorded and indexed in more than a single instance. The bill also provides that no recordation tax shall be required of a quitclaim deed between a grantor and grantee when no consideration has passed between the parties, provided that such quitclaim deed shows on its face that no consideration has passed.
Atoosa R. ReaserDemocrat
State Government Internship Coordinator; DHRM to establish and employ.
Department of Human Resource Management; State Government Internship Coordinator. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to establish and employ a State Government Internship Coordinator to attract high quality interns to the service of the Commonwealth with the goal of developing such interns to support their ability to compete for positions in agencies of the Commonwealth upon conclusion of their internships and completion of their educational programs. The bill also requires the Department to establish and administer a system to provide professional development opportunities for state agency interns, intern supervisors, and human resources staff.
Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.Democrat
Virginia's manufacturing sector; JLARC to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations.
Study; JLARC to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations on Virginia's manufacturing sector; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to update its 2016 study of the impact of regulations on Virginia's manufacturing sector. This bill is a recommendation of the Manufacturing Development Commission.
Angelia Williams GravesDemocrat
Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports, searchable electronic database.
Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports; searchable electronic database. Requires the Department of Elections to provide an interface for the campaign finance database maintained by the Department that allows users to easily search for and sort information by individual candidates and types of elections, offices, committees, other spenders, and contributors; contributions, receipts, disbursements, expenditures, loans, and other categories of information included in campaign finance reports; and late filings, incomplete filings, and other violations. The bill specifies that the interface shall also provide users tools for manipulating and exporting data. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Commending the 2025 House-Senate basketball game to benefit Massey Cancer Center.
The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
Aaron R. RouseDemocrat
Core emergency management functions; DEM to study reliance on federal grants.
Department of Emergency Management; work groups related to the Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to convene work groups to (i) study the reliance of the Commonwealth and its localities on federal grants for core emergency management functions, (ii) study and develop a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework to take effect during a disaster for which a state of emergency has been declared, and (iii) study and develop solutions to address breaks in technology continuity among communities across the Commonwealth during emergencies. The bill directs each work group to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates SB 1325.
Russet PerryDemocrat
Coastal storm risk mgmt.; Office of Commonwealth Resilience to study costs of feasibility studies.
Coastal storm risk management; Office of Commonwealth Resilience to study costs of feasibility studies; report. Directs the Office of Commonwealth Resilience to conduct a study to (i) examine the methodologies and criteria, if any, that other states in the United States use to apportion responsibility between the state and the participating localities for that portion of the cost of coastal storm risk management (CSRM) feasibility studies and plan implementation for which the nonfederal sponsor is responsible and (ii) develop a recommended methodology and associated criteria for apportioning responsibility of the same for CSRM feasibility studies and plan implementation in Virginia. The bill directs the Office of Commonwealth Resilience to complete its work no later than November 30, 2026, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth to submit a report of the findings and recommendations of the study to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2026.
David W. MarsdenDemocrat
Workforce Development and Advancement, Department of; powers and duties.
Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; powers and duties. Requires the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to ensure that all state workforce development programs and state workforce education and training programs (i) address an industry need identified on a high-demand occupation or field list created by the Department and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and Advancement and (ii) include a job placement component in their implementation and operating plans. Publicly funded workforce development and workforce education and training programs may apply for an exemption from such requirements, and the Commissioner shall approve or disapprove such application within 45 days of receipt. The bill provides that if the Commissioner does not provide a response within 45 days of receipt, the waiver request will be deemed approved. The bill also provides that if a program is denied an exemption by the Commissioner, such program may appeal the decision to the Secretary of Labor within 10 days of the date of denial by the Commissioner and the Secretary of Labor will make a final determination within 30 days of receipt of the appeal.
Irene ShinDemocrat
Pregnant individuals; DMAS to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility, etc.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities; performance standards for 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. The bill directs qualified entities to provide (i) the necessary applications for medical assistance on the day in which the presumptive eligibility decision is made and (ii) assistance with completing such applications through available modalities. Under the bill, qualified entities are authorized to make determinations of presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals who meet eligibility criteria for certain medical assistance programs and have not had a presumptive eligibility period during the current pregnancy. The bill also sets forth certain performance standards that qualified entities must meet to remain a qualified entity, described in the bill.
Michael B. FeggansDemocrat
Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing.
Surplus real property; prioritization of disposition for affordable housing. Requires the Department of General Services to determine whether, following an offer of surplus property to the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the surplus property is located, as well as to any economic development entity for such locality, such surplus property is suitable for the development of affordable housing, as defined by the bill. If the Department so determines, the bill provides that such property shall be offered for at least 90 days exclusively to eligible organizations, as defined by the bill, for the purpose of developing affordable housing, provided that the terms of the disposition include a recorded covenant to provide affordable housing for at least 30 years.The bill also requires the governing body of each locality to prepare an inventory list of all real property within its jurisdiction to which the locality or any dependent special district within its boundaries holds fee simple title that is suitable for the development of affordable housing. If the governing body of a locality chooses to dispose of such a property, such property shall be offered for at least 90 days exclusively to eligible organizations, as defined by the bill, for the purpose of developing affordable housing, through purchase, lease, exchange, or donation in return for a recorded covenant to provide affordable housing for at least 30 years.
Debra D. GardnerDemocrat
Public campaign financing; counties and cities may establish for certain offices.
Public campaign financing; counties and cities may establish for certain offices. Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to establish by ordinance a system of public campaign financing for elected local offices. The bill specifies certain requirements for a system of public campaign financing established by a governing body, including the provision of a public election fund to be administered by the treasurer of the county or city. A system of public campaign financing established by a county or city is permitted to more stringently regulate the campaign finance activity of participating candidates and shall be subject to regulation and oversight by the State Board of Elections to ensure its conformity with state law and policy to the extent practicable.
Marcus B. SimonDemocrat
Community Living and Family and Individual Supports Waiver; program rule amendments.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Waivers; program rule amendments; direct support professionals. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals to amend the program rules for the Community Living and Family and Individual Supports Waivers to provide for compensation of a direct support professional for a waiver recipient in an acute care hospital under certain circumstances.
Betsy B. CarrDemocrat
Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program; guidance and criteria for awarding grants.
Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program; guidance and criteria for awarding grants; military community. Requires that the guidance and criteria developed by the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs for use in awarding grants under the Virginia Military Community Infrastructure Grant Program provide that such grants be awarded primarily to projects that receive federal matching funds. However, in the event that federal matching funds are not available, the bill provides that such grants may be made to other projects that promote the objectives of the Program. The bill redefines "military community" for purposes of the Program to mean any locality that can demonstrate that more than five percent of the community's economy is derived from military funding and supporting partner entities who aid in the planning, design, construction, or completion of infrastructure projects that enhance military readiness, installation resiliency, or quality of life for such locality's community. Under current law, such term means any locality that can demonstrate that more than five percent of the community's economy is derived from military funding.
Anne Ferrell TataRepublican
English language learner expenditures & students; DOE shall develop data collection process.
Department of Education; English language learner students; data collection on expenditures. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a data collection process related to English language learner expenditures and student English proficiency levels and identify other options to support English language learners and provide a status report to the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding on its implementation and data collection efforts by September 1, 2025.
Railroad safety; minimum train crew used in movement of freight, civil penalties.
Railroad safety; minimum train crew; movement of freight; civil penalties. Requires railroad companies to comply with federal requirements for minimum train crews on all trains, locomotives, or light engines used in connection with moving freight and provides civil penalties for violations of such requirement.
Jennifer D. Carroll FoyDemocrat
Public Safety & Homeland Security & HHR, Secretaries of; combat sale of illicit cannabis products.
Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and Secretary of Health and Human Resources; combat the sale of illicit cannabis products; work group; report.
Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups.
Department of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list; additional priority group; target timeline for assigning slots to priority groups. Requires the Department of Education to amend its Child Care Subsidy Program Guidance Manual to add a seventh priority group to the Child Care Subsidy Program waiting list that consists of any family that meets all other Program eligibility criteria and includes a parent who is employed for at least 30 hours per week by a publicly funded child care provider in the Commonwealth that serves children from birth to age five, excluding employment by a local school division but including employment by a Head Start program that is located within a public school building. The bill also directs the Department of Education to require local departments of social services to target a maximum of 30 days for moving priority group families from the waiting list into services; regularly assess, in coordination with the Department of Social Services, the length of time it takes for priority groups to be assigned slots; and provide quarterly updates, beginning October 1, 2025, to the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education on such timeline and any other barriers experienced by families in priority groups on the waiting list in accessing services.
Elizabeth B. Bennett-ParkerDemocrat
Solar facilities; local regulation, special exceptions.
Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various criteria to be included in a local ordinance, such as specifications for setbacks, fencing, solar panel height, visual impacts, and grading, and a decommissioning plan for solar energy equipment and facilities, unless otherwise permitted by right.
Emergency management and state health regions, etc.; study of makeup and composition.
Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Health to study the makeup and composition of the emergency management regions, state health regions, and local health districts; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Health to study the makeup and composition of the seven emergency management regions, the five Virginia health regions, and the 35 local health districts to determine the feasibility of mutually beneficial alignment of such regions and districts. The bill directs the Departments to complete their work and report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth.
High school students; postsecondary opportunities, transferable meta-major associate degrees.
Public high school students; opportunity to earn transferable meta-major associate degree during high school to reduce college debt. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in cooperation with the Virginia Community College System and each associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, to establish a program by which qualified high school students earn an associate degree in a meta-major through dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, or a combination thereof, that (i) is fully transferable to any baccalaureate public institution of higher education that offers a program of study in such meta-major and (ii) to the extent possible, satisfies discipline-specific degree requirements in the student's preferred program of study.
Sam RasoulDemocrat
Veterans or military service members; deaths by suicide.
Deaths by suicide of veterans or military service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is filed and lists suicide as the cause of death, to make an inquiry into whether the decedent was a veteran or military service member and to provide any information concerning the suicide of such veteran or military service member to the Department of Veterans Services. The bill also provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services may request, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall deliver to the Commissioner, a copy of an autopsy report of a veteran or military service member whose cause and manner of death is determined to be a suicide. The bill also reestablishes the position of Suicide Prevention Coordinator as the Suicide Prevention Program and requires such Program to, in coordination with the State Police, compile and analyze data relating to such suicides to be included in the annual report submitted by the Department to the Governor and the General Assembly.
David A. ReidDemocrat
Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program; created, report, sunset.
Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program created; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives; report. Creates the Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. To be eligible for a grant from the Program, an eligible locality, as named in the bill, is required to make a change to its zoning policies to allow for by-right development that is expected to further the goal of creating and maintaining mixed-income communities, affordable housing, and moderately priced housing, as those terms are defined in the bill. The Department is required to establish certain guidelines for the Program no later than December 31, 2025, and to notify eligible localities of the existence and purpose of the Program no later than February 1, 2026. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028.
Virginia's campaign finance laws; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, technical, and staffing shortcomings in the current election and campaign finance laws relating to (a) reporting and investigating violations, (b) enforcing legal and regulatory requirements, and (c) implementing directions from state government at the local level and (ii) determine whether current budgetary allocations are sufficient to effectively carry out such aspects of the campaign finance system. To that end, JLARC is directed to analyze how existing campaign finance and election laws can be modernized to increase transparency and accountability using best practices from other jurisdictions across the United States and to produce a report of clear recommendations and best practices for improving the current system.
Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank; established, report.
Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Board established; report. Continues the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Bank (the Bank) as a division of the Department of Energy to implement the provisions of the bill and approve expenditures and disbursements from the Virginia Clean Energy Innovation Fund. The bill describes the powers of duties of the Bank and requires certain lending practices. The bill requires the Bank to develop and adopt a strategic plan biennially starting in 2025 to develop programs to overcome market impediments through access to Bank financing and technical assistance and outreach and marketing strategies designed to make potential project developers, participants, and communities aware of financing and technical assistance available from the Bank. The bill requires the Bank to adopt a long-term investment strategy by December 15, 2025, and every four years thereafter. The bill requires the bank to maintain a public website and submit an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly. The bill also creates an Advisory Board and specifies how initial appointments of nonlegislative citizen members shall be staggered and made.
Alfonso H. LopezDemocrat
Developmental disability waivers; reallocation of unassigned and unused waiver slots.
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of Medical Assistance Services; developmental disability waivers; reallocation of unassigned and unused waiver slots. Grants the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) the authority to reallocate developmental disability waiver slots if such waiver slot is unassigned and unused for a 30-day period. The bill directs the Department and the Department of Medical Assistance Services to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill becomes effective when the Department of Medical Assistance Services obtains the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the provisions of the bill.
Tony O. WiltRepublican
Va. Economic Development Partnership; evaluation of new economic development incentives.
Virginia Economic Development Partnership; evaluation of new economic development incentives for companies engaging in the microchip and semiconductor and related equipment and material supplies sector; report. Directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, in collaboration with the Department of Taxation, to evaluate the benefits and impacts of new economic development incentives for companies engaging in the microchip and semiconductor and related equipment and material supplies sector. The bill requires VEDP to provide a report on its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations no later than November 30, 2025.
Underground transmission lines; qualifying projects.
Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to, in reviewing any application submitted by a public utility for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of an electrical transmission line of 500 kilovolts filed between January 2025 and July 2032, approve up to two applications for qualifying projects to be constructed in whole or in part underground as part of the pilot program for underground transmission lines and to provide an expedited review of any such application. The bill removes certain provisions related to the existing pilot program. Under the bill, a project shall be qualified if an engineering analysis demonstrates that it is technically feasible, if the applicant provides an overall cost of the project and its impact on electric service rates, and if the governing body of each locality in which a portion of the proposed line will be placed underground indicates support for the transmission line to be placed underground. The bill permits the Commission to deny an application for a project that otherwise meets the criteria to qualify, provided that the Commission shares its rationale for doing so. Additionally, rather than assigning certain costs to be recovered by Virginia jurisdictional customers, the bill requires that such costs be allocated by the Commission in a manner that is just and reasonable for customers.
JJ SinghDemocrat
Real property tax; certain driveways owned by disabled veterans and surviving spouses exempted.
Real property tax; exemptions for disabled veterans and surviving spouses; driveways. Clarifies that any driveway used to access land otherwise exempt from real property taxes as being owned by a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability shall also be exempt from such taxation. The bill also clarifies that any driveway used to access land otherwise exempt from real property taxes due to being owned by a surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who died in the line of duty shall be similarly exempt from real property taxes.
Phillip A. ScottRepublican
Early childhood care & education; statewide unified public-private system, capacity & family choice.
Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be established with the goal of increasing and maintaining capacity systemwide to provide each family with meaningful access to high-quality and affordable choices among publicly funded, federally funded, mixed delivery, and private providers.
Dynamic stockpile strategy; Div. of Purchases & Supply, et al., to study use in times of emergency.
Study; Division of Purchases and Supply; development of dynamic stockpile strategy; report. Directs the Division of Purchases and Supply, in conjunction with the Department of Emergency Management, to study and recommend a dynamic stockpile strategy for use in times of emergencies. The bill directs the Division to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth.
David R. SuetterleinRepublican
New tow truck license plates; DMV, et al., to identify information needed to design & implement.
Department of Motor Vehicles; work group; design and implementation of new tow truck license plate; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to identify certain information needed to design and implement a new tow truck license plate to aid in the enforcement of registration of tow truck drivers and towing violations.
J.D. "Danny" DiggsRepublican
Continuity of Operations; Secretary of Public Safety & Homeland Sec. to study centralized framework.
Study; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; feasibility of establishing a centralized Continuity of Operations framework across all state agencies; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to convene a work group to study the feasibility of establishing a centralized Continuity of Operations framework across all state agencies mandating the creation and regular updating of agency-specific continuity plans. In conducting its study, the work group shall include consideration of standardized guidelines for digital infrastructure upgrades, remote work capabilities, and staff training on emergency procedures. The bill directs the work group to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth.
Mass Violence Care Fund; definitions, established.
Mass Violence Care Fund established. Creates within the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund the Mass Violence Care Fund as a subfund for the purpose of reimbursing victims or claimants of mass violence, defined in the bill, for unreimbursed medical expenses related to a mass violence event, defined in the bill. The bill directs the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to promulgate guidelines and criteria for the payment of claims from the Fund within one year of the effective date of the bill.
David L. BulovaDemocrat
Higher educational institutions, baccalaureate public; intercollegiate athletics programs.
Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; boards of visitors; intercollegiate athletics programs; athletics revenue and subsidy requirements; report. Amends provisions relating to intercollegiate athletics programs and athletics revenue requirements by expanding the allocations of athletics revenues that may be excluded from the subsidy for the purposes of calculating the subsidy percentage, as defined by applicable law, to include athletics revenues allocated to medical expenses and insurance. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to (a) study the impact of the provisions of the bill on intercollegiate athletics in the Commonwealth and make recommendations on any further legislative action or policy considerations that should be made based on the impact of the provisions of the bill on intercollegiate athletics in the Commonwealth and (b) submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 15, 2025. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
R. Creigh DeedsDemocrat
Students at public schools; expansion of Medicaid services, certain platforms, surveys, and analyses
Expansion of Medicaid services for students at public schools; certain platforms, surveys, and analyses; report. Requires the Department of Education to enter into one or more statewide contracts with providers of a platform for Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites that any school board may utilize at no cost to facilitate, track, and coordinate such billing. The bill requires the Department of Education to survey each local school division to determine which school divisions bill Medicaid for reimbursable services rendered at school sites, the types of services that are billed, and the amounts for which such services are billed and to report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the School Health Services Committee no later than August 1, 2025. The bill also requires the School Health Services Committee to collaborate with local school divisions and such other stakeholders as it deems necessary to identify barriers to Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites in each local school division, with a particular focus on local school divisions in which such Medicaid billing is unutilized or underutilized.
Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council; established.
Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. Establishes the Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to provide assistance to and advise the Department of Health on methods to support clinical research and implementation of treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, treatment-resistant depression, major depressive disorder, and traumatic brain injury.
Ghazala F. HashmiDemocrat
Health insurance; coverage for donor human milk, penalty.
Donor human milk banks; health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty. Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health Commissioner and makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to establish or operate a donor human milk bank in the Commonwealth without obtaining such license. The bill also establishes requirements, policies, and procedures, for the operation and administration of licensed human donor milk banks, including procedures relating to disciplinary actions, application fees, and inspections and interviews related to such donor human milk banks. The bill directs (i) the State Board of Health to establish a regulatory and statutory scheme for the licensure and regulation of donor human milk banks operating or doing business in the Commonwealth and (ii) the Commissioner to implement and enforce numerous regulations relating to the issuance, renewal, denial, suspension, and revocation of such licenses. The bill requires (a) health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for expenses and (b) the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services incurred in the provision of pasteurized donor human milk for any infant that is younger than the age of six months and who satisfies certain criteria enumerated in the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Last action Feb 18, 2025
NOVA Bicycle & Pedestrians Network Study; NOVA Transportation Authority to examine.
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; recommendations related to the Northern Virginia Bicycle and Pedestrian Network Study; report. Directs the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to coordinate with the Department of Transportation and certain other stakeholders to examine the findings of the Department of Transportation's December 2024 Northern Virginia Bicycle and Pedestrian Network Study and make recommendations on a method to implement and fund the infrastructure needs and other objectives identified in such study.
Limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, etc.; expiration.
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.
Jeremy S. McPikeDemocrat
Retail tobacco products and hemp products; prohibiting sale or distribution, etc.
Prohibiting sale or distribution, etc., of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by persons younger than 21 years of age; penalties. Increases the penalties for an individual or separate retail establishment that sells or distributes, etc., retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking to persons younger than 21 years of age. The bill increases from $500 to $1,000 the civil penalty for a first violation. For a second violation within a three-year period, the bill requires the Department of Taxation to suspend any approved license, permit, or registration issued to the retail establishment. For a third violation within a three-year period, the bill requires a one-year suspension of such approved license, permit, or registration, and for a fourth violation within a three-year period, a permanent revocation of such approved license, permit, or registration.
Timmy FrenchRepublican
Medicaid Financial Oversight, Office of; established.
Office of Medicaid Financial Oversight established. Establishes the Office of Medicaid Financial Oversight as an independent agency to provide financial oversight and fiscal accountability for the Commonwealth's Medicaid and children's health insurance programs.
Action for civil trespass; mapping of GPS, private road or driveway.
Action for civil trespass; GPS; private road or driveway. Provides that a person operating a motor vehicle is liable for trespass if such person enters a private road or driveway along which the owner of such private road or driveway has posted signs that may be reasonably seen that such road is a private driveway. The bill also provides that when such defendant relied upon a global positioning system (GPS) and such reliance resulted in the trespass, any corporation, company, or other entity responsible for the mapping function of the GPS may be added as a party to such action. The bill allows such corporation, company, or entity to provide in writing in advance of any proceeding in the action that such private road or driveway has been removed from the GPS and requires the court, upon receiving such evidence, to dismiss the action against such corporation, company, or entity.
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