SB708 - Underground transmission lines; qualifying projects, pilot program.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 10 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts. The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission shall approve additional qualifying projects as part of the pilot program that traverse along highways in developed areas where the route of proposed transmission lines and towers traverse areas protected by a scenic easement, view shed easement, areas of registered historic designation, or areas of conservation easements. Under the bill, existing requirements for qualifying projects shall continue to apply to such new category of qualifying projects.
STATUS
Introduced
SB406 - Political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or nonparty committee.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on white paper, (ii) include the words "sample ballot," (iii) include the statement: "Paid for by [Name of the sponsor as defined by § 24.2-956.1]," and (iv) include the statement "Authorized by [Name of political party]" or "Not authorized by a political party."
STATUS
Engrossed
SB328 - Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Emily M. Brewer, Christie New Craig, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 11 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB440 - School protection officers; employment in public schools.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tara A. Durant
Last updated 11 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school protection officer, defined in the bill as a retired law-enforcement officer hired by the local law-enforcement agency on a part-time basis to provide limited law-enforcement and security services to public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires each such school board and local law-enforcement agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding that sets forth the powers and duties of school protection officers. The bill requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for school protection officers and requires the collection of certain data relating to the activities of such officers.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR1 - Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer Barton Boysko, Ghazala F. Hashmi, Louise Lucas
Last updated about 1 year ago16 Co-Sponsors
Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising the individual's right to reproductive freedom or for aiding another individual in the exercise of such right, unless justified by a compelling state interest.
STATUS
Introduced
SB548 - Virginia Retirement System; return to work, break in service.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Christie New Craig
Last updated 11 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement officer before such person may return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS).
STATUS
Introduced
SB359 - Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms, addictive feed.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Schuyler T. VanValkenburg, Lashrecse D. Aird, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 10 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent. Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB694 - Skill games; exceptions.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William M. Stanley
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Skill games; exceptions. Clarifies that skill games are a form of illegal gambling except where relevant Code provides otherwise.
STATUS
Introduced
SB665 - Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its conduct of land-disturbing activities to the Department of Environmental Quality for approval by the Department as an alternative to submitting soil erosion control and stormwater management plans.
STATUS
Introduced
SB685 - Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers, civil action.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime pay or (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violates the bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee for certain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill. The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouse employee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performance standard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverse employment action that may result from such employee's failure to meet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employer from taking adverse action against a warehouse employee for such employee's use of a bathroom facility. The bill provides that a warehouse employer that violates the bill's provisions relating to warehouse employers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.
STATUS
Introduced
SB662 - Income tax, state; subtraction for state police retirement benefits.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark J. Peake, Christie New Craig
Last updated 10 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Income tax subtraction; state police retirement benefits. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $10,000 of state police retirement benefits in taxable year 2024 and each year thereafter. The bill defines state police retirement benefits to include retirement income received by a Virginia State Police officer who is at least 55 years of age and benefits paid to the surviving spouse of such officer whose death occurred in the line of duty.
STATUS
Introduced
SB91 - Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola, Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 11 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide consumer-directed services. The bill provides that "employer" includes the Commonwealth, any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, and any public body.
STATUS
Introduced
SB518 - Public high schools; college and career specialist required.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angelia Williams Graves
Last updated 11 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provides that each such individual shall be employed in addition to and not as a replacement for the required school counselor positions, specialized student support positions, or support services positions.
STATUS
Introduced
SB500 - Electric utilities; integrated resource plans, grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 11 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Electric utilities; integrated resource plans; grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors. Requires an electric utility to include in an integrated resource plan a comprehensive assessment of the application of grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors, as those terms are defined in the bill, and, if applicable, to include in such plan a detailed explanation of why such technologies or conductors are not included in such plan.
STATUS
Introduced
SB293 - Guardianship and conservatorship; duties and powers of guardian and conservator.
Virginia - 2025 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 11 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Guardianship and conservatorship; duties and powers of guardian and conservator; self-dealing prohibited. Provides that a guardian and conservator shall avoid all conflicts of interest and self-dealing, including all appearances of conflicts of interest and self-dealing, when addressing the needs of the incapacitated person to whom the guardian or conservator owes a fiduciary duty. The bill provides that a conflict of interest arises when the guardian or conservator has a personal or agency interest that can be perceived as self-serving or adverse to the position or best interest of the incapacitated person, and self-dealing arises when the guardian or conservator seeks to take advantage of his position as guardian or conservator and acts for his own interests rather than for the interests of the incapacitated person. The bill further provides that any sale or transaction that constitutes self-dealing shall be voidable by the court.
STATUS
Introduced
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