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2025 Priority VA Legislation

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2025 Priority Bills

Education

Cat Number Title Patron House Senate updated
education HB 1954 Support Equity in public school funding and staffing; special education students; at-risk students; English language learner students; support services positions; report. more...
Requires state-funded add-ons to be provided to support special education students that are calculated by multiplying weights set forth in the general appropriation act by the relevant basic aid per-pupil amount for each such student....
Rasoul(D) Passed
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 34-N)
PBI
Finance and appropriations
2/11/25
education HB 2118 Support Public schools; delayed implementation and review of revised public school accountability system. more...
Directs the Department of Education to delay for a period of one year the implementation of the revised public school accountability system adopted pursuant to applicable Board of Education regulations in order to conduct a review of and establish a stakeholder advisory committee to solicit input on such revised public school accountability system ...
Keys-Gamarra(D) Left
Left in Education Committee
2/3/25
education HB 2196 Support Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. more...
Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the purpose of addressing school discipline issues and promoting evidence-based restorative practices, ...
McQuinn(D) Passed
51 to 48
Committee
Education and Health Committee
2/6/25
education SB 977 Support Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. more...
Requires the Department of Education (the Department) (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs associated with work-related employee travel and leased facilities; ...
Hashmi(D)
Left
Left in Finance and Appropriations Committee
2/3/25
education SB 979 Support Department of Education; public school accountability; delayed implementation and review of revised public school accountability system; report; emergency. more...
Directs the Department of Education to delay for a period of one year the implementation of the revised public school accountability system adopted pursuant to applicable Board of Education regulations in order to conduct a review of and establish a stakeholder advisory committee...
Hashmi(D)
Failed
defeated 17 to 22
2/5/25
education SB 1262 Support Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. more...
stablishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the purpose of addressing school discipline issues and promoting evidence-based restorative practices, ...
Pekarsky(D)
Left
Left in Finance and Appropriations
2/3/25
No. of bills: 6

General info

2025 Session Dates

Jan 8: Session begins
Feb 4: Crossover*
Feb 22: Session adjourns

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Constitutional Amendments

Amendments to the Virginia Constitution require that a resolution be passed by:

1. A majority of both houses during a session
2. Held over to be passed again by the next elected legislature, with an election intervening between the two approvals.
3. If it succeeds the second time, voters must approve the change in a referendum before it can take effect.


Glossary

Dillon Rule. Restricts local government authority to enact ordinances.

Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

Continued/Carried over. Action taken in an even-numbered year to postpone the consideration of a measure until the next regular session of the General Assembly.

Crossover. The last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced and move forward for consideration in the opposite chamber. If a bill does not move forward, it is "Left" (dead).

Engrossed. A legislative stage when a bill passes the second reading in the House of origin. Every bill has to be "read" on the floor three times before voting on it. The action or any debate or discussion usually comes on the day of the second reading or the third reading.

Enrolled. Legislation which has passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.

Failed to report. Defeated. The rejection of a motion to 'report' a bill to the full chamber.

Incorporated. Rolled into someone another bill. Either because they're identical, or they have incorporated *some* of the language in, and the patron agreed to have her name on the other bill.

Patron. Bill sponsor. There can be many patrons.

PBI. Passed by Indefinitely. Action to allow a committee to reconsider legislation at a later meeting. If the committee takes no further action, the bill is dead. [Usually the bill is dead.]

Referred. The assignment of legislation to another standing committee with no stance on the policy of the measure (neither endorses nor rejects the legislation).

Reported. The approval of a measure by the majority of the committee. The legislation may be reported by the committee with or without amendments. A bill may also be reported and referred to another committee.

Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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