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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HR 454: Reproductive freedom; Speaker of HOD to order study of legal effects & consequences, etc.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HR 454 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Reproductive freedom; Speaker of HOD to order study of legal effects & consequences, etc. Primary sponsor: Eric Zehr (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 4, 2025): Left in Rules.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Directing the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the legal effects and consequences of a constitutional amendment enshrining a right to reproductive freedom. Directs the Speaker of the House of Delegates to order a study of the legal effects and consequences of a constitutional amendment enshrining a right to reproductive freedom, including whether the language of the proposed amendment would constitutionally protect abortion throughout all of pregnancy, create a constitutional right for the parents of a dead child to sell such child's body parts, and legally permit partial birth infanticide, born-alive murder, child pornography, sexual assault, and any other crime after complete extraction or expulsion from the mother so long as the umbilical cord is attached.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Eric ZehrPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse51

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Rules
  2. Referred to Committee on Rules
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102468D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source