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in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2043: Consumer Data Protection Act; user-generated content protected, civil penalty.

Consumer Data Protection Act; user-generated content protected; civil penalty. Requires controllers and processors to provide consumers with a privacy notice that applies to the consumers' user-generated content, defined in the bill, under the Consumer Data Protection Act and requires that any secondary use, defined in the bill, of personal data or user-generated content be consented to by the consumer. The bill requires a controller or processor, upon request by a consumer, to provide such consumer with a report that describes how the consumer's personal data or user-generated content was processed over the prior 12 months. The bill increases from $7,500 to $15,000 the maximum civil penalties for violations and allows civil penalties of up to $22,500 per violation for repeated noncompliance or egregious violations. The bill also allows a consumer who suffers a loss due to a violation to bring a private right of action against a controller or processor.
Topics ✓ TechnologySupports TechnologyBill mandates consent for secondary use of personal data and requires privacy notices, directly strengthening consumer data privacy protections under technology policy.95% confidence
Bonita Anthony (D)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 1812: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers.

Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in such positions on or after July 1, 2026. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesExpands government spending on retirement benefits for animal control officers, increasing budget allocation for public employee compensation within fiscal management framework.90% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentExpands enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty workers (animal control officers), aligning with 'expands worker benefits' indicator under Labor & Employment.95% confidence
Ellen McLaughlin (R)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2556: Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant, penalty.

Department of Law; Address Confidentiality Program; removal of Program participant; penalty. Permits the Office of the Attorney General to cancel a participant's certification in the Address Confidentiality Program if such Program participant (i) has reached the age of 18, is not incapacitated, and did not submit recertification for participation in the Program within 60 days of his eighteenth birthday or (ii) initiates any legal action against the Office of the Attorney General. The bill clarifies that participation in the Program shall not affect custody or visitation orders in effect prior to or during Program participation. Finally, the bill penalizes any individual who knowingly discloses or publishes a Program participant's confidential address or any other confidential information with intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass such Program participant or any other person.
Amanda Batten (R)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2399: Minors; parental access to health records.

Parental access to minor's health records. Requires health care entities that provide access to health records of minors through a secure website to make such health records available to the minor's parent or guardian through the same secure website.
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareMandates parental access to minors' health records via secure portals, improving family access to healthcare information and aligning with patient access protections.90% confidence
Phil Scott (R) · 5 co-sponsors
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 1594: Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average.

Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2026 and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act enacted during any regular or special session of the General Assembly during 2026 or 2027 to fund, the Commonwealth's share of compensation supplement incentives for Standards of Quality-funded instructional and support positions sufficient to increase the average teacher salary in the Commonwealth to at least the national average teacher salary by the end of the 2026-2028 biennium and establishes a detailed timeline and process for satisfying such requirement.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesMandates state budget funding for teacher compensation supplements, directly increasing public service expenditure in education.90% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationMandates state funding to increase teacher compensation to national average, directly supporting educator pay and retention through budget requirements for 2026-2027.95% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentMandates state funding for teacher salary supplements, directly advancing educator compensation within employment standards per bill's requirement for budget allocations.95% confidence
Nadarius Clark (D) · 13 co-sponsors
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 1847: Admission to bail; creates rebuttable presumptions against bail.

Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the presumption against bail has been rebutted and whether there are appropriate conditions of release.
Topics ✓ Criminal JusticeSupports Criminal JusticeCreates rebuttable presumption against bail for certain offenses, reducing pretrial detention and aligning with reform goals to protect defendant rights and limit unnecessary incarceration.85% confidence
Jed Arnold (R)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 1807: Kindergarten Readiness Fund; established, report.

Virginia Preschool Initiative; Kindergarten Readiness Fund established. Establishes the Kindergarten Readiness Fund and provides that all balances of state general funds intended for the provision of services to families through the Virginia Preschool Initiative that are unspent at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Kindergarten Readiness Fund and thereafter used in the discretion of the Department of Education solely for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis to school divisions to utilize for other currently operated early childhood education programs.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesRedirects unspent preschool initiative funds to dedicated Kindergarten Readiness Fund, preserving funding for early education instead of returning to general budget.95% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationEstablishes dedicated Kindergarten Readiness Fund using unspent preschool funds to ensure continuous early education support, advancing K-12 readiness programs.95% confidence
Laura Jane Cohen (D)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2062: Income tax, state; eliminates sunset date, veteran student loan forgiveness.

Income tax exclusion; veteran student loan forgiveness. Eliminates the sunset date and expands eligibility for the income tax exclusion for any income received by a disabled veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States from the discharge of federal student loan indebtedness.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill provides tax exclusion for disabled veterans' student loan discharge, eliminating sunset and expanding eligibility, offering direct tax relief to a specific group.90% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationBill expands higher education access by eliminating sunset for veteran student loan forgiveness, reducing financial barriers for disabled veterans pursuing education.90% confidence ✓ VeteransSupports VeteransExpands eligibility and eliminates sunset for veteran student loan forgiveness tax exclusion, directly strengthening benefits for disabled veterans.95% confidence
Tom Garrett (R)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2704: Library boards; removal of members, appeal.

Library boards; removal of members; appeal. Provides that the procedure for removal of a library board member shall include a right of appeal by the member to the circuit court within 30 days of a decision to remove such member.
J.J. Singh (D)
in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

HB 2632: Jurors; failure to return jury questionnaire.

Jurors; failure to return jury questionnaire. Provides that the court may order any juror who has been issued a jury questionnaire and fails to return such questionnaire without good cause to appear in the office of the clerk to complete the questionnaire in a manner determined by such clerk.
Tony Wilt (R)
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