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    2025 Priority Bills

    Good Governance

    Cat Number Title Patron House Senate GA Governor updated
    governance HB 1725 Support Medical Debt Protection Act; prohibited practices; penalties. more...
    Creates the Medical Debt Protection Act to prohibit a large health care facility or medical debt buyer, as those terms are defined in the bill, from charging interest or late fees on medical debt....
         		Delaney(D) Passed
    49Y46N
         		Passed
    w. substitute (27-Y 13-N)
    		Recommendations
    rec'd by House 3/24
    		 3/26/25
    governance SB 813 Support Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records. more...
    Requires the Department of Elections to complete not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the voter registration system....
         		Rouse(D) Passed
    51-Y 46-N
         		Passed
    20-Y 18-N
    		Vetoed
    		3/26/25
    governance, voting SB 1009 Support Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. more...
    Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. ...
         		Salim(D) Passed
    Passed House with substitute (50-Y 46-N)
         		Passed
    (21-Y 19-N)
    		Vetoed
    		3/26/25
    No. of bills: 3

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    2025 Session Dates

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

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    "The Governor may veto the bill if he objects to it by returning the bill with his objections to the house in which the bill originated. The house shall enter the objections in its journal and reconsider the bill. The house may override the veto by a two-thirds vote of the members present, which two-thirds shall include a majority of the members elected to that house. If the house of origin overrides the Governor's veto, it shall send the bill and Governor's objections to the other house where the bill shall be reconsidered. The second house may override the Governor's veto by a two-thirds vote of the members present, which two-thirds shall include a majority of the members elected to that house. If both houses override the Governor's veto, the bill shall become law without his signature. If either house fails to override the Governor's veto, the veto shall stand and the bill shall not become law." -Virginia Constitution

    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.

    More definitions from League of Women Voters Virginia
    More definitions from University of Virginia

    Other Legislation

    2024 Virginia Legislation
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    2022 Virginia Legislation
    2021 Virginia Legislation
    2020 Virginia Legislation
    2021 US Legislation

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