Study Commissions Committees And Reports
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established, report. [SB-318]
Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student food insecurity at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Program shall be managed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and available for participation by public institutions of higher education; however, participation in the Program shall be optional for such institutions. Under the bill, if a public institution of higher education satisfies
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danica Roem
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Dillon Rule; joint subcommittee to study. [SJR-18]
Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Left In Rules on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Elections; allows for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. [HB-658]
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill also clarifies requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be reported along with other results reported on election
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
Left In Privileges And Elections on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Prisoners; Department of Corrections- and jailer-issued identification. [HB-1405]
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card through the Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for such government-issued identification card and the issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections, in coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; increases membership, training requirements, report. [HB-556]
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; membership; training requirements; Commission staff; JLARC study; report. Increases the membership of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (the Commission) from seven to nine members and reduces from 15 to 10 years the legal practice requirement of any member of the Commission. The bill further provides for staggered terms of the members of the Commission. The bill requires that members of the Commission complete a certain amount of education on judicial misconduct and correcting implicit bias. The bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Electric utilities; regional transmission entities, annual report. [HB-109]
Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as required under current law to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year. Such report shall include all recorded votes cast by the utility during the immediately preceding calendar year, all votes cast by an affiliate of the utility, and a brief description explaining how each vote cast by the utility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Sullivan
Left In Commerce And Labor on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Critical infrastructure sectors; Director of Dept. of Energy to convene a work group to evaluate. [HB-1363]
Department of Energy; work group on critical infrastructure sectors; report. Directs the Director of the Department of Energy to convene a work group to evaluate the Commonwealth's critical infrastructure sectors' usage of fuel for energy and feedstock and impact on jobs, capital investments, and state and local revenue. The bill requires the work group to also assess (i) the impact of the Commonwealth's critical infrastructure sectors on natural gas service or retail natural gas supply choice as provided in relevant law and individually metered
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Transcranial magnetic stimulation; DBHDS to establish pilot program for veterans. [SB-636]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with two locations to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available for certain military members, veterans, first responders, law-enforcement officers, and certain agents of federal agencies, and family members of the aforementioned individuals. The bill requires the Department to establish regulations for administration of the pilot program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Land value; DHCD to study tax implications of local governing bodies implementing a tax. [HJR-40]
Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; tax implications of implementing a land value tax; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study tax implications of local governing bodies implementing a land value tax.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Advisory Council on; established, report. [HB-80]
Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention to advise the State Health Commissioner on the regulations and infrastructure necessary to support clinical access to and training for medication-assisted U.S. Food and Drug Administration breakthrough therapies for veteran suicide prevention. The bill requires the Commissioner of Health to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Jones
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Emergency medical personnel; EMS Advisory Board to examine requirements to join program. [SB-594]
Department of Health; Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board; emergency medical personnel; career fatigue and wellness program. Directs the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services EMS Advisory Board to examine the eligibility requirements for emergency medical personnel to join a professional program addressing career fatigue and wellness. The bill requires the Board to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program; established. [SB-96]
Special education; Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program (the Pilot Program), to be developed and administered by the Board of Education in collaboration with the Department of Health and the Advisory Board on Behavioral Analysis, for the purpose of assisting parents of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with becoming a registered behavior technician (RBT) in order to provide assistance to their children
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Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In Education And Health on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Dependents of public school personnel, etc.; SCHEV to study reduced in-state tuition rates. [HJR-15]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; offering reduced rate in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to dependents of public school instructional, administrative, and support personnel in the Commonwealth; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the feasibility and efficacy of offering the dependents of public school instructional, administrative, and support personnel in the Commonwealth reduced
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Roads maintained/managed by VDOT & localities; JLARC to study rate of accidents that cause fatality. [HJR-65]
Study; JLARC; rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and roads maintained and managed by localities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Irene Shin
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Veterans' Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program; created, report. [HB-141]
Department of Veterans Services; Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program. Creates, within the Department of Veterans Services, the Veteran's Fellowship for State Government Pilot Program (the Program) through which the Department shall collaborate with Virginia Commonwealth University to recruit veterans to participate in undergraduate-level and graduate-level cohorts to assist such veterans in pursuing educational pathways to employment with the Commonwealth. The Department shall report annually to the General Assembly by November
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Regional career and technical education program; establishing in Planning District 2. [SB-563]
Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, the Board of Education, the school board and division superintendent of Tazewell County Public Schools, and representatives of the governing boards of comprehensive community colleges located in Tazewell County and contiguous counties to study the feasibility of and make recommendations on developing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Travis Hackworth
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia State Police, retired; TAX to study reducing economic stress. [SJR-22]
Study; Department of Taxation; reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to study tax policy solutions for reducing economic stress on retired Virginia State Police.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Starr Alert Program; Department of State Police to study need for an alert program, etc. [HJR-46]
Study; Department of State Police; Starr Alert Program; report. Requests the Department of State Police to study the need for an alert program, to be known as the Starr Alert Program, to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby hit-and-run incidents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonita Anthony
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Pharmacy technician profession; Board of Pharmacy to review framework. [HB-1497]
Board of Pharmacy; pharmacy technician profession; work group; report. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to review and make recommendations related to the regulatory framework for the pharmacy technician profession, educational barriers to the pharmacy technician profession, compensation of pharmacy technicians, and the educational requirements of pharmacy technicians. The bill requires the Board to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health and Human Services
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024