Bill Tracker

Glossary

What “Status” Means:

Bills Making Progress: If a bill is amended, given a substitute, or reported from a subcommittee or committee, it is still being considered and in progress.
Bills That Are Stalled: If a bill fails to report, is laid on the table, stricken from the docket, or is passed by indefinitely (PBI), it has stalled for the session and will not move forward.
Final Action: A bill that has been approved by both the House and the Senate. It will be sent to the Governor to sign, veto, or amend.

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 3	Aird	Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.	Support	Finance and Appropriations	Passed House with substitute (94‑Y 4‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 20	Locke	Early childhood care and education; Child Care Subsidy Program; income-based eligibility for assistance.	Support	Education and Health	Reported from H-Education committee with amendments (18-Y 3-N). Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 42	Roem	School boards; powers and duties, school meal policies, payment of school meal debt.	Monitor	Education and Health	H-RUL Studies Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
SB 90	Favola	Equity in public school funding and staffing.	Support	Education and Health	Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations committee
SB 119	Carroll Foy	Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.	Support	Education and Health	Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations committee (SB3-Aird) (15-Y 0-N)
SB 685	Pekarsky	Standards of Quality; school board policy, communication and language accessibility.	Support	Education and Health	Passed House with substitute (66‑Y 33‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 18	McClure	Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.	Support	Appropriations	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (91-Y 7-N 0-A)
HB 31	Feggans	Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program; established, report.	Monitor	Appropriations	Left in Committee Appropriations
HB 92	Rasoul	Equity in public school funding and staffing.	Support	Education	Continued to 2027 in S-Finance and Appropriations committee (15‑Y 0‑N)
HB 103	Ballard	DBHDS; Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; program extension.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Left in Committee Appropriations
HB 211	Gardner	Head Start State Collaboration Office; plan for universal access to Head Start programs.	Support	Education	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (65-Y 32-N 0-A)
HB 254	Glass	Early childhood care and education; Child Care Subsidy Program; income-based eligibility for assistance; development and implementation of phased reduction model.	Monitor	Education	Left in Committee Appropriations
HB 334	Rasoul	Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum	Support	Finance	Continued to 2027 in S-Finance and Appropriations committee (14‑Y 0‑N)
HB 1208	Sewell	Public education; early childhood care and education; child care access calculation; report.	Support	Education	Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (37‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (74‑Y 22‑N 0‑A)

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 21	Locke	DJJ; transfer of responsibility to Secretary of Health and Human Resources.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Continued to 2027 in H-Rules committee (Voice Vote)
SB 36	Favola	Child abuse or neglect; prenatal use of a controlled substance or drug as prescribed.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services
SB 125	Favola	Children’s Ombudsman, Office of the; powers and duties. Report.	Support	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 133	Locke	Abused or neglected child; prenatal substance abuse.	Support	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Passed House with substitute (80‑Y 18‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
SB 206	Suetterlein	Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; petitions for relief of care and custody.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
SB 305	Perry	Child abuse and neglect; obscenity and related offenses; mandatory.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Passed House Block Vote (96‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (37‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 556	Perry	Child abuse and neglect; obscenity and related offenses; mandatory.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Tabled in H-Appropriations committee (22‑Y 0‑N)
SB 640	Pillion	DSS; corrective action plans and assumption of temporary control of local boards and local departments; centralized intake system for reports or complaints of child abuse or neglect.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Passed House with substitute Block Vote (99‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 73	Cole	Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; petitions for relief of care and custody.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Passed Senate Block Vote (38‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
HB 76	Keys-Gamarra	Department of Social Services; foster care; new luggage; report.	Support	Health and Human Services	Appropriations Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7‑Y 0‑N)
HB 266	Tata	Department of Social Services; centralized intake and validity determination for child abuse and neglect.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N)
HB 283	Gardner	Child abuse or neglect; prenatal use of a controlled substance or drug as prescribed.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (73‑Y 25‑N 0‑A)
HB 578	Glass	Foster care; federal benefits; representative payees.	Support	Health and Human Services	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7‑Y 0‑N)
HB 632	Callsen	Kinship foster care; barrier crime waiver.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote. Passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 651	Kent	DSS; CPS: family assessments; face-to-face interviews with victim children.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
HB 652	Hayes	Abused or neglected child; prenatal substance abuse.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (66‑Y 32‑N 0‑A)
HB 775	Thornton	Removal hearings; foster care; termination of parent rights.	Support	Courts of Justice	Left in Committee Appropriations
HB 1060	Callsen	Foster and adoptive homes; barrier crimes; exceptions.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 1174	Carroll	DSS; children in foster care; supplemental clothing allowance rate increase.	Support	Health and Human Services	Left in Committee Appropriations
HB 1222	Delaney	Local departments of social services; child abuse and neglect; recorded interviews.	Monitor	Health and Human Resources	Passed Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 1293	Hope	DJJ; transfer of responsibility to Secretary of Health and Human Resources.	Monitor	Rules	Continued to 2027 in Rules committee (Voice Vote)
HB 1327	Tata	Child dependency cases; court procedures; relatives and fictive kin.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 1346	Clark	Noncustodial Parent Employment and Child Support Pilot Program; report; work group; sunset.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
HB 1366	Callsen	DSS; corrective action plans and assumption of temporary control of local boards and local departments.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (91‑Y 6‑N 0‑A)
HB 1490	Tran	DSS; centralized intake system for reports or complaints of child abuse or neglect; response to complaints within 24 hrs for children under three years of age.	Monitor	Health and Human Resources	Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (89‑Y 7‑N 0‑A)
HB 1511	Feggans	Fatherhood Initiative.	Support	Health and Human Services	Left in Committee Appropriations

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 33	Favola	Programs for at-risk students; permissible uses of funding.	Support	Education and Health	Passed House Block Vote (99‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 35	Favola	Juvenile & domestic relations district courts; delinquent juv., mental health/disability evaluation.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Reported from H-Courts of Justice committee and referred to Appropriations (22‑Y 0‑N). Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
SB 39	Favola	Public schools; best practice of tech. tools to assist w/ identifying students at risk of self-harm.	Monitor	Education and Health	Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education appropriations subcommittee. Read third time and passed Senate (38‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 61	Mulchi	Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program; established.	Support	Education and Health	Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations committee (15-Y 0-N)
SB 259	Stanley	DBHDS; Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Program; pilot programs.	Monitor	Education and Health	Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations committee (14-Y 1-N)
HB 38	Hensen	Public schools; mental health awareness training and instruction, requirements.	Support	Education	Passed Senate (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (68‑Y 31‑N 0‑A)
HB 48	Reid	Suicide prevention; work group develop plan to reduce among at-risk pops.	Support	Rules	Left in Committee Rules
HB 195	McQuinn	Programs for at-risk students; permissible uses of funding.	Support	Education	Passed Senate Block Vote (37‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House Block Vote (96‑Y 0‑N 0‑A
HB 245	Watts	Jurisdiction of district courts in felony cases; specialty dockets; Behavioral Health Docket Act.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (76-Y 19-N)
HB 298	McQuinn	Public elementary or secondary school students; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices	Support	Education	Passed Senate with substitute (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (62‑Y 35‑N 0‑A)
HB 355	Gardner	Public school students in grades six through 12; annual mental health screening.	Monitor	Education	Passed Senate with substitute (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (64‑Y 33‑N 0‑A)
HB 453	Willett	Comprehensive crisis system; comprehensive mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability crisis services; written plan.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (99‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 495	Guzman	School boards; mental health awareness training; anonymous student reporting system.	Support	Education	Continued to 2027 in S-Education and Health committee (15‑Y 0‑N)
HB 1223	Delaney	Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Continued to 2027 in Health and Human Services committee (Voice Vote)
HB 1400	Franklin	Health insurance; coverage for maternal mental health screenings.	Support	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate with amendment Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (66‑Y 30‑N 0‑A)

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 1	Lucas	Minimum wage; increases incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2028.	Support	Commerce and Labor	Passed House (62‑Y 34‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (20‑Y 19‑N 0‑A)
SB 7	Suetterlein	Income tax; standard deduction and earned income tax credit.	Monitor	Finance and Appropriations	Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
SB 268	Craig	Income tax, state; create child tax credit.	Support	Finance and Appropriations	Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations committee (9-Y 4-N)
HB 1	Ward	Minimum wage; increases incrementally to $15.00 per hour by January 1, 2028.	Support	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (64-Y 34-N 0-A)
HB 188	Convirs-Fowler	Income tax, state; establishes a new income tax bracket beginning in taxable year 2026.	Support	Finance	Incorporated by Finance committee (HB 979) (Voice Vote)
HB 372	Price	Earned income tax credit.	Support	Finance	Subcommittee #3 recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
HB 378	Bennett-Parker	Net investment income tax.	Support	Finance	Subcommittee #1 recommends laying on the table (10-Y 0-N)
HB 403	Reid	Income tax credits; child care-related expenses.	Monitor	Finance	Subcommittee #1 recommends laying on the table (7-Y 2-N)
HB 900	Sullivan	Sales & use tax on taxable services & digital personal property; taxes levied in certain districts.	Monitor	Finance	Subcommittee #3 recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
HB 978	Watts	Retail Sales and Use Tax; taxation on various services, include digital personal property.	Monitor	Finance	Subcommittee #3 recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
HB 979	Watts	Taxation provisions; increases standard deduction.	Monitor	Finance	Subcommittee #3 recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)
HB 1004	Tran	Child Tax Credit; Virginia’s adjusted gross income.	Support	Finance	Subcommittee #1 recommends laying on the table (7-Y 3-N)
HB 1074	Hernandez	State taxation in the Commonwealth.	Support	Finance	Subcommittee #3 recommends continuing to 2027 (Voice Vote)

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 2	Boysko	Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action.	Support	Commerce and Labor	Passed House with substitute (64‑Y 35‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A)
SB 4	Roem	School breakfast; availability at no cost to students.	Support	Education and Health	Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations committee (15-Y 0-N)
SB 22	Locke	Medicine and Nursing, Boards of; continuing education, bias reduction training.	Support	Education and Health	Passed House (63‑Y 34‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 8-N 0-A)
SB 73	Srinivasan	Medicaid billing navigator positions; Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish, report.	Support	Education and Health	Passed House with amendment (79‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Senate Block Vote (39‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
SB 372	Carroll Foy	Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties.	Support	Commerce and Labor	Incorporated by Commerce and Labor committee (SB199 Favola) (15-Y 0-N)
HB 5	Convirs-Fowler	Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties for violation.	Support	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate with substitute (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (63‑Y 35‑N 0‑A)
HB 66	Feggans	Medical assistance and social services programs; DMAS and DSS to modernize technology systems.	Support	Health and Human Services	Continued to 2027 in S-Finance and Appropriations committee (14‑Y 0‑N)
HB 96	Bennett-Parker	School breakfast; availability at no cost to students.	Support	Education	Continued to 2027 in Appropriations committee (Voice Vote)
HB 210	Price	School meal debt; annual report.	Support	Education	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (89-Y 10-N 0-A)
HB 257	Simonds	Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health.	Support	Counties, Cities, and Towns	Passed Senate (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (68-Y 30-N 0-A)
HB 280	Clark	Comprehensive children’s health care coverage program; DMAS Services to establish.	Support	Health and Human Services	Social Services subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
HB 327	Sullivan	Commonwealth Health Reinsurance Program; extension of program; percentage goal to decrease premium.	Monitor	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Passed House Block Vote (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
HB 328	Sullivan	Health insurance; essential health benefits benchmark plan.	Support	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate with substitute (24‑Y 16‑N 0‑A) Read third time and passed House (72‑Y 25‑N 0‑A)
HB 336	Anthony	Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report.	Monitor	Rules	Incorporated by Appropriations committee (HB 1398 Franklin) (Voice Vote)
HB 371	Price	Virginia Commission to End Hunger; membership.	Support	Rules	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (93-Y 6-N 0-A)
HB 456	Willett	State Board of Health regulations; standards for levels of neonatal care.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	" Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 674	Maldonado	Department of Health; collection and annual publication of food insecurity information.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House Block Vote (97‑Y 0‑N 0‑A)
HB 859	Cousins	Farm to School Program Task Force; membership requirements; report.	Support	Education	Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (93-Y 2-N 0-A)
HB 942	Clark	Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation, possession or consumption of authorized substances.	Monitor	Courts of Justice	Passed Senate with substitute (22‑Y 17‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (62‑Y 36‑N 0‑A)
HB 1147	Hayes	Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; continuing education; bias reduction training	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate with substitute (29‑Y 9‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (63‑Y 35‑N 0‑A)
HB 1207	Sewell	Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action.	Support	Labor and Commerce	Passed Senate with substitute (21‑Y 19‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (62‑Y 34‑N 0‑A)
HB 1276	Watts	Health care providers; required estimate for nonemergency health care services.	Monitor	Labor and Commerce	Continued to 2027 in S-Commerce and Labor committee (15‑Y 0‑N)
HB 1398	Franklin	Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report.	Monitor	Health and Human Services	Continued to 2027 in S-Finance and Appropriations committee (14‑Y 0‑N)
HB 1403	Franklin	Severe maternal morbidity; Maternal Mortality Review Team renamed; duties; data dashboard.	Support	Health and Human Services	Passed Senate Block Vote (40‑Y 0‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (95‑Y 2‑N 0‑A)
HB 1458	Downey	SHHR; private equity ownership of health care facilities; work group; report.	Monitor	Rules	Continued to 2027 in Rules committee (Voice Vote)
HB 1468	LeVere Bolling	Health Insurance; coverage for doula care services.	Monitor	Labor and Commerce	Subcommittee #1 recommends striking from the docket (9-Y 0-N)

Bill Number	Patron	Bill Description	Voices Position	Committee	Bill Status
SB 18	Locke	Children; adjudication of delinquency.	Monitor	Rehabilitation and Social Services	Passed House with amendments (65‑Y 34‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 11-N 0-A)
HB 91	Seibold	DJJ; limiting room or cell confinement for minors committed to a juvenile correctional facility; report.	Support	Public Safety	Passed Senate with amendments (36‑Y 2‑N 0‑A). Read third time and passed House (86-Y 12-N 0-A)
HB 117	Seibold	Virginia Commission on Youth; membership; nonlegislative citizen member; person younger than 18 years of age.	Support	Rules	Studies subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 0-N)
HB 236	Gardner	Local, regional, and school library material.	Monitor	Education	Left in Committee
HB 485	Shin	Children’s Cabinet established; report.	Support	Rules	Continued to 2027 in Rules committee (Voice Vote)

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