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Votes at a glance: House journal highlights from Jan. 30, 2025 session
Summary
The House of Delegates recorded roll-call votes across multiple bills on Jan. 30, 2025. This roundup lists contested and uncontested blocks and the recorded tallies for each item cited on the House calendar during the morning hour and regular session excerpts provided in the transcript.
The Virginia House of Delegates recorded numerous roll-call votes during its Jan. 30, 2025, session. Below is a compact listing of bills called on the House floor in the provided transcript, together with the recorded roll-call tallies as read into the record. Where bills were presented as an uncontested block, the clerk’s tally applies to the entire named block.
Third-reading uncontested calendar block (top of the printed calendar): Approx. 40 bills read into the uncontested block (examples listed in the record). Clerk announced the block and the roll call returned: Ayes 96, No 0. Bills listed in that block included (as announced): House Bill 1603; 1629; 16902; 17303; 17506; 17509; 1820; 1882; 18809; 1913; 19502; 19505; 19607; 1968; 19902; 19906; 20006; 200902; 2115; 2117; 20140; 20170; 201704; 201709; 2222; 2235; 2236; 2242; 2243; 2303; 203302; 2352; 203807; 203903; 204706; 205303; 205306; 2546; 2628; 2664. (Transcript lists the block contents when the clerk read the calendar; consult the enrolled calendar for the precise enumerated list.)
Selected roll-call outcomes (as read verbatim in the House record excerpt):
- House Bill 16 21 (governing boards, nonvoting advisory representatives at public institutions of higher education): Ayes 51, Noes 45 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 16 22 (firearm in unattended motor vehicle civil penalty): Ayes 51, Noes 45 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 16 25 (minimum wage for certain farm labor/temporary foreign workers): Ayes 50, Noes 46 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 16 27 (discovery): Ayes 96, Noes 0 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 16 30 (discovery, electronic means): Ayes 88, Noes 6 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 17 11 (Mass Violence Care Fund established): Ayes 84, Noes 12 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 18 46 (name-change and registry victim notification clarifications): Ayes 95, Noes 0 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 18 54 (custody/visitation for parent whose rights were previously terminated): Ayes 96, Noes 0 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 18 64 (garnishment automatic exemption with depository institution): Ayes 91, Noes 5 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 18 73 (release of accused on unsecured bond): Ayes 50, Noes 46 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 19 28 (minimum wage — longer floor debate recorded): Ayes 50, Noes 46 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 19 90 (conversion to single-member districts for certain governing bodies): Ayes 54, Noes 42 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 20 12 (local film industry community zones): Ayes 91, Noes 5 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 20 37 (land development, solar canopies and surface parking areas): Ayes 64, Noes 32 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 20 64 (firearm locking device required for sale/transfer): Ayes 50, Noes 46 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 22 17 (court appearance of a person not free on bail; floor debate included victims’ notification concerns): Ayes 51, Noes 44 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 22 52 (decreasing probation period criteria for mandatory reduction): Ayes 56, Noes 40 — The bill passed.
- House bill relating to Department of Emergency Management powers and duties (as announced on the calendar): Ayes 50, Noes 46 — The bill passed (clerk read as House Bill 02/1950 in the transcript excerpt).
- House Bill (delinquent real estate taxes procedure): Ayes 94, Noes 2 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 24 38 (local regulation of solar facilities, contested floor debate): Ayes 48, Noes 46 — The bill passed.
- House Bill 25 55? and other subsequent bills called later on the calendar: votes recorded in the transcript include tallies ranging from unanimous or near-unanimous to narrow margins; where the clerk announced specific roll-call tallies above, those are reported exactly as read.
Procedural notes from the transcript: the Clerk read lengthy calendars in blocks, moved certain bills from the uncontested calendar to the regular calendar on motions, and several committee substitutes and committee amendments were adopted before bills were engrossed and passed to third reading. The transcript records the clerk’s tallies for each named vote.
For the detailed enrolled bill texts, amendment histories and effective dates, consult the official Legislative Information System and the enrolled bills published after the session. This roundup reflects only the roll-call tallies and short descriptions announced on the House floor in the provided transcript excerpt.
