Immigration enforcement in Virginia

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• VASB845 2027By Mamie Locke (D)
  Pregnant & postpartum inmates; reporting requirements of state, regional, & local correctional fac.

  AI summary Prohibits use of pregnancy-related data collected from correctional facilities for immigration enforcement, so less immigration enforcement using such data.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Committee Oct 26: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
• VAHB28 2027By Rozia Henson (D) · 14 cosponsors
  Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, with required participation, data sharing, and procedures for cancellation based on immigration status information.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: Passed one chamber Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1261 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, adding oversight and standards but without provisions on cooperation with ICE,

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1257 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies & interrogation practices; forensic lab.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, which regulates but does not expand or restrict the scope of immigration-enfor

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VASB351 2026By Saddam Salim (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Courthouses; certain civil arrests prohibited, penalty.

  AI summary Bars immigration officers from performing civil immigration arrests in courthouses, hospitals, schools, prosecutor offices, and polling places without a judicial warrant, so less immigration enforcement in those locations.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed May 20: Vetoed by Governor
• VAHB650 2026By Katrina Callsen (D) · 36 cosponsors
  Courthouses; certain civil arrests prohibited, penalty.

  AI summary Bars immigration officers from performing civil immigration arrests in courthouses, hospitals, schools, prosecutor offices, and polling places without a judicial warrant, so less immigration enforcement in those locations.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, other
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed May 20: Vetoed by Governor
• VAHB972 2026By Marcia Price (D)
  Voter registration; list maintenance activities, cancellation procedures, required record matches.

  AI summary Limits use of SAVE Program data to individual verification of specific persons' citizenship (not bulk voter list checks), prohibits using it as sole basis for rejecting applications, and bars transferring more data than necessary to DHS, so narrower cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1120)
• VAHB675 2026By Michelle Maldonado (D) · 20 cosponsors
  Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status, civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits employers (including government entities) from using immigration-status threats or coercion to deter employees from exercising labor rights under state wage/hour laws, with investigation, penalties, and nondisclosure of complainants, so less immigration enforcement is used as leverage in a

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies
  ↑Expands immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Law May 14: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1115)
• VASB783 2026By Saddam Salim (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Law-enforcement agencies; agreements with federal authority for immigration enforcement.

  AI summary Imposes numerous conditions and restrictions on any agreements allowing local or state law enforcement to assist federal immigration enforcement or to detain immigrants in state facilities, including requiring judicial warrants for cooperation, prior notice from ICE, limits on where and when ICE can

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, sanctuary policies
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1028)
• VAHB1441 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 53 cosponsors
  Law-enforcement agencies; agreements with federal authority for immigration enforcement.

  AI summary Imposes numerous conditions and restrictions on any agreements allowing local or state law enforcement to assist federal immigration enforcement or to detain immigrants in local facilities, including prior notice requirements, limits on locations and activities, prohibitions on certain surveillance,

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, sanctuary policies
  Stage: Law Apr 22: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1098)
• VASB491 2026By Stella Pekarsky (D) · 4 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Public schools; right to free public elementary and secondary education, discrimination, etc.

  AI summary Prohibits schools from inquiring about, collecting, designating, or disclosing immigration/citizenship status information (with narrow exceptions), and requires protocols for handling immigration-related warrants on school property, so less immigration enforcement in schools.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681)
• VASB273 2026By Mamie Locke (D)
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive issues.

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)
• VAHB836 2026By Sam Rasoul (D) · 9 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Public schools; right to free public elementary and secondary education, discrimination, etc.

  AI summary Prohibits schools from inquiring about, collecting, designating, or disclosing immigration or citizenship status (with narrow exceptions), and requires protocols for handling immigration warrants on school grounds, so less immigration enforcement in schools.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680)
• VAHB667 2026By Michelle Maldonado (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Juvenile/domestic rel. district cts.; petition, noncitizen aged 18-21 years for leg. custody/relief.

  AI summary Expands juvenile court jurisdiction to allow unmarried noncitizen 18-21 year olds who have been abused, abandoned or neglected to petition for physical custody placement and related findings of fact to support a federal special immigrant juvenile petition, enabling more state court involvement in SI

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656)
• VAHB1262 2026By Jackie Glass (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Notaries; prohibition on certain advertising, investigation by Attorney General.

  AI summary Increases civil penalties for notaries who falsely advertise as authorized to provide immigration legal advice or services, and expands Attorney General investigative and enforcement powers, so more enforcement against unauthorized immigration practice.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763)
• VAHB837 2026By Adele McClure (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive rights.

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)
• VASB52 2026By Aaron Rouse (D)
  Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, with required participation, data-sharing, and procedures for cancellation based on immigration-status information from DHS.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10: Left in Appropriations
• VAHB28 2026By Rozia Henson (D) · 14 cosponsors
  Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, with required participation, data sharing, and procedures for cancellation based on immigration status information.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 24: Continued to next session in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
• VAHB313 2026By Otto Wachsmann (R)
  Virginia FOIA; public records to be open to inspection, non-citizen property owners.

  AI summary Expands who can request public records under FOIA to include non-citizens who own property in Virginia, allowing greater access to government information for certain non-citizens.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee General Laws
• VAHB280 2026By Nadarius Clark (D) · 20 cosponsors
  Comprehensive children's health care coverage program; DMAS Services to establish.

  AI summary Limits DMAS from sharing children's health program data with immigration authorities without consent or judicial warrant and requires notifying the subject, so less immigration enforcement.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Health and Human Services
• VAHB966 2026By Marcia Price (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program); use by Dept. of Elections.

  AI summary Requires the Department of Elections to participate in the federal SAVE Program to verify citizenship of registered voters and to enter into a memorandum of agreement with USCIS, so more state use of federal immigration data for voter eligibility checks.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  ↔Mixed immigration enforcementother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (HB972-Price) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1459 2026By Eric Zehr (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Ice-Free Comm. Act; notifi. to fed. immigr. authorities of pending release of persons from custody.

  AI summary Requires local jails and state prisons to notify ICE of pending release of any person subject to an immigration detainer, with specific advance notice periods and details, so more immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13: Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 7-N)
• VAHB912 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 8 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Public schools; right to free public elementary and secondary education, discrimination, etc.

  AI summary Prohibits schools from inquiring about, collecting, designating as directory info, or disclosing immigration/citizenship status (with narrow exceptions), and requires procedures limiting law enforcement access for immigration purposes, so less immigration enforcement in schools.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 11: Incorporated by Education (HB836-Rasoul) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1442 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 6 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Polling places; prohibited activities, acts in furtherance of federal immigration laws.

  AI summary Prohibits any person from performing acts in furtherance of federal immigration law enforcement within 40 feet of polling places, electoral board meetings, and recount locations, so less immigration enforcement at those sites.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Incorporated by Public Safety (HB650-Callsen) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1440 2026By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Protected areas; certain federal immigration enforcement prohibited, penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits state and local protected-area employees from allowing federal immigration enforcement operations in nonpublic areas of hospitals, schools, prosecutor offices, and other designated facilities without a judicial warrant, and bars unauthorized immigration enforcement acts in those areas, so

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Incorporated by Public Safety (HB650-Callsen) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1438 2026By Elizabeth Guzman (D) · 10 cosponsors
  State agencies, etc.; agreements with federal authority for immigration enforcement, prohibitions.

  AI summary Prohibits state and local agencies from entering agreements with federal immigration authorities, detaining people for ICE beyond scheduled release, assisting in immigration enforcement, or conducting non-mandatory communications with immigration authorities, so less immigration enforcement by state

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, sanctuary policies
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Incorporated by Public Safety (HB1441-Lopez) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1260 2026By Irene Shin (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Publ. elementary/secondary schools, etc.; fed. immigration investigation and enforcement activities.

  AI summary Requires schools and colleges to notify all students, faculty, and parents of any federal immigration enforcement presence on campus and bars such agents from nonpublic areas without a judicial warrant, so less immigration enforcement on educational property.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 6: Incorporated by Public Safety (HB650-Callsen) (Voice Vote)
• VAHB1261 2026By Jackie Glass (D)⚠ check quote
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training standards for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices.

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 2: Continued to next session in Communications, Technology and Innovation (Voice Vote)
• VASB813 2025By Aaron Rouse (D)
  Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and cancel registrations of non-citizens, with longer notice periods before cancellation, so more immigration-related checks in voter rolls.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Senate sustained Governor's veto
• VAHB1657 2025By Rozia Henson (D) · 19 cosponsors
  Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and cancel registrations of non-citizens, and requires the Department to enter into a memorandum of agreement with USCIS, increasing state cooperation with federal immigration authorities for voter list maintenance.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Vetoed Apr 2, 2025: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
• VAHB2560 2025By Alfonso Lopez (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Defendant; notifying consequences criminal proceedings can have on immigration.

  AI summary Requires courts to advise defendants that criminal proceedings may have federal immigration consequences, which informs noncitizens of risks and may lead some to avoid pleading guilty or otherwise alter their defense strategy to reduce immigration enforcement outcomes.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementother
  Stage: Law Mar 24, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464)
• VAHB2623 2025By Hyland Fowler (R)⚠ check quote
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; failure to communicate or cooperate.

  AI summary Imposes liability on state or local governments for injuries caused by people they failed to notify ICE about before release, which deters sanctuary-style policies that limit cooperation with ICE.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2586 2025By AC Cordoza (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Voter registration; automatic registration upon application for hunting and fishing license.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program by the Department of Elections to verify citizenship of registered voters and adds reporting of noncitizens from concealed handgun permit applications to aid in removing noncitizens from voter rolls.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Privileges and Elections
• VAHB2433 2025By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies and interrogation practices.

  AI summary Adds training standards for school security officers who carry firearms, including active shooter response, but does not change rules on buying, owning, carrying or accessing firearms.

  =No change to immigration enforcementother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2389 2025By Geary Higgins (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Sanctuary policies; prohibited.

  AI summary Prohibits localities from adopting any policy that restricts enforcement of federal immigration laws, so more immigration enforcement by local governments.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, state federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2354 2025By Tony Wilt (R) · 9 cosponsors
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement; transfer of certain incarcerated persons.

  AI summary Changes 'may' to 'shall' for transferring custody upon ICE detainer, so more state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2298 2025By Mark Earley (R) · 6 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Designated illegal acts; transfer of prisoners convicted of acts.

  AI summary Updates terminology from INS to ICE and expands the list of qualifying convictions for which ICE may take custody of aliens from state facilities, so more immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2188 2025By Nicholas Freitas (R)
  Designated illegal acts; transfer of prisoners convicted of acts.

  AI summary Requires notification to ICE and mandates that ICE shall take custody of aliens convicted of specified serious crimes, replacing permissive language with mandatory language, so more immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, detention transport
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2057 2025By Chad Green (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Voter registration; automatic registration of hunting, fishing, and milk distributor license.

  AI summary Expands use of the federal SAVE Program by the Department of Elections to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, and requires more state agencies including those issuing concealed handgun permits to collect and share citizenship data with election officials for voter list maintenance.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Privileges and Elections
• VAHB1891 2025By Jason Ballard (R)
  Transfer of certain incarcerated persons to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

  AI summary Changes 'may' to 'shall' for honoring ICE detainers by requiring notification and transfer of custody, so more immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB1651 2025By Jason Ballard (R)
  Social Services, Department of; applications for public assistance, immigration status inquiry.

  AI summary Requires state social services officials to inquire about immigration status on all public assistance applications, increasing the chance that immigration status will be used to limit benefits or share data with federal authorities.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Health and Human Services
• VAHB2169 2025By Todd Gilbert (R)
  Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail for an alien illegally present in the U.S.

  AI summary Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for aliens illegally present in the U.S. who are charged with certain serious offenses, making it harder for them to be released pretrial and thereby increasing state enforcement actions tied to immigration status.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Courts of Justice
• VAHB1885 2025By Wren Williams (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Juvenile/adult adjudicated delinquent/convicted of violent juvenile felony; immigration status.

  AI summary Requires intake officers, facility directors, and courts to inquire about foreign birth/citizenship of juveniles or adults adjudicated or convicted of violent juvenile felonies, to query ICE, report to ICE, share records with ICE, honor ICE detainers, and transfer custody to ICE, so more immigration

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Courts of Justice
• VASB772 2025By Glen Sturtevant (R)
  Social Services, Department of; applications for public assistance, immigration status inquiry.

  AI summary Requires state social services officials to inquire about immigration status of all public assistance applicants, increasing the chance that immigration status information will be collected and potentially shared with federal authorities.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1268 2025By Tara Durant (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Immigration status; inquiry and report.

  AI summary Requires intake officers, facility directors, and courts to inquire about foreign birth/citizenship of juveniles and adults adjudicated for violent felonies, report confirmed illegal status to ICE, honor ICE detainers by transferring custody up to five days early, and share records upon ICE request,

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1141 2025By Glen Sturtevant (R) · 2 cosponsors
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; transfer of certain incarcerated persons.

  AI summary Changes 'may' to 'shall' so that officials must honor ICE detainers by providing notification and transferring custody of aliens upon release, increasing state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
• VASB1454 2025By Glen Sturtevant (R)
  Voter registration; systematic citizenship verification program.

  AI summary Requires the Department of Elections to use data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Social Security Administration, and Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, and to cooperate with DMV and other agencies for

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate federal cooperation, state immigration crimes border, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 28, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N)
• VASB1446 2025By Luther Cifers (R)
  Human smuggling; penalties.

  AI summary Creates a new state felony for human smuggling tied to evading U.S. immigration laws, increasing state penalties and enforcement for such activity.

  ↑Expands immigration enforcementstate immigration crimes border, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 27, 2025: Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
• VAHB954 2025By Alfonso Lopez (D)
  VA Human Rights Act; prohibits discrimination on the basis of citizenship or immigration status.

  AI summary Adds citizenship or immigration status as a protected class against discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and other areas, so state and local governments and private actors face more limits on using immigration status as a basis for differential treatment or non-cooperation with ICE.

  ↓Restricts immigration enforcementsanctuary policies, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in General Laws

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