| SB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities. Exempts a member of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, or a member of a veterans service organization that is Congressionally chartered or officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter referendum; issuance of state general obligation bonds for school facility modernization. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly shall issue state general obligation bonds in the amount of $3 billion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1305 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; subcontractor workforce requirements. Requires all public bodies in a locality with a population in excess of 25,000 and covered institutions, defined in the bill, to include in every construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR322 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1115 | Engross
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; federal hemp producer license; emergency. Updates Virginia's industrial hemp laws to address the new hemp producer license issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bill changes drug laws to exclude the industrial hemp posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1363 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Restores the authority of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to (i) ensure the development of long-range policies, programs, and plans for corrections services provided at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; license plate readers. Prohibits law-enforcement and regulatory agencies from using license plate readers to collect and maintain personal information on individuals without a warrant. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SB1171 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure requirements; industrial development authorities and economic development authorities. Requires the executive director and members of each industrial development authority and economic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1437 | Engross
Sine Die | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor offense or an administrative violation. The bill provides that an accused shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1401 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Education Committee |
| SB1123 | Engross
Sine Die | Will contest; presumption of undue influence. Provides that in any case contesting the validity of a decedent's will where a presumption of undue influence arises, the burden of producing evidence and the burden of persuasion as to the factual issue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1443 | Engross
Sine Die | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses. Eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence; report. Provides that a person who was convicted of a felony offense, or who was adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would have been a felony offense if committed by an adult, may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1246 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; mandatory processing of returned absentee ballots before election day; central absentee voter precinct in the office of the general registrar. Requires certain actions to be taken to process absentee ballots that are returned by mail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a pilot program to provide a fixed reimbursement for the costs of broadband services to households currently participating in the Supplemental Nut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board established. Establishes the Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1106 | Engross
Sine Die | Public School Assistance Fund and Program created. Creates the Public School Assistance Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing grants to school boards to be used for the purposes of repairing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1211 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; Public Safety Trust Fund. Imposes an additional $4 vehicle registration fee to be deposited into the Public Safety Trust Fund, established by the bill. The moneys in the Public Safety Trust Fund are to be used to eliminate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1226 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation Board; determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Compensation Board shall consider workload totals comprehensively, including the use of diversion programs and specialty dockets, when deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local arbitration agreements. Allows a participating locality, for any procurement solicitation or contract exceeding $10,000 for goods and services, to require the bidder or offeror to disclose certain information re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1367 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; requiring licensed health practitioners to conduct medical reviews. Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act, the Virginia Retirement System shall require that such rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Certain emergency and quarantine orders; additional procedural requirements. Provides that any person who is affected by an order of quarantine may file an appeal in the circuit court for the city or county in which he resides or is located or the ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1380 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; electric school bus projects; report. Authorizes electric utilities to partner with school divisions to implement projects designed to encourage the proliferation of school buses that are fueled in whole or in part by electricity,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1349 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions; email addresses of licensed professionals. Modifies current law to provide that electronic mail addresses of persons applying for or possessing a license to engage in the practic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1362 | Engross
Sine Die | Employers; reporting outbreaks of COVID-19. Requires that, upon determination that a worksite cluster of COVID-19 has occurred at a workplace with 50 or more employees, the Department of Health (the Department) shall make a report available to the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty. Authorizes any public or private animal shelter, releasing agency, or hospital or clinic that is operated under the immediate supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian to operate a trap, neute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons. Provides that a licensed insurer may issue a policy of group accident and sickness insurance to an association of real estate salespersons (association), which association shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB1104 | Engross
Sine Die | Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall release a prisoner no sooner than 21 business days after the date of notification by the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to the appropriate attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1425 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption for data centers. Provides that if a data center operator qualifies for the exemption in one locality and seeks to qualify in another, it shall be required to meet a reduced job creation requirement of 25 jobs for purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1318 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental justice; interagency working group; report. Establishes the Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group as an advisory council in the executive branch of state government to further environmental justice in the Commonwealth and dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1369 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purpose of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to allow a cooperative association organized pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Isle of Wight County to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1125 | Engross
Sine Die | Parole Board; notice to victim. Requires the Parole Board, within seven days of making any decision regarding the parole of a prisoner, to provide written or electronic notice of such decision to the victim of the crime for which the prisoner was inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Actions against real estate appraisers or appraisal management companies; statute of limitations. Provides that no action for damages or other relief alleging that a certified general real estate appraiser, a certified residential real estate apprais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1278 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; regulations; Texas Hold'em poker games. Clarifies that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) has specific authority to approve and regulate operators of both Texas Hold'em poker games and Texas Hold'e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1202 | Engross
Sine Die | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits, for a claim for unin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB1285 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Removes the requirement that a building meet the definition of "derelict building" and instead requires that such building potentially endanger the public health, safety, or welfare in order for the Town of Clifton For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
(requires 67 affirmative votes to pass) |
| SB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Capitol Square Preservation Council; powers and duties; review and approval of plans for changes to artifacts contained within the Capitol Building. Grants the Capitol Square Preservation Council the authority to review and approve all plans or propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| SB1195 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; underinsured motor vehicle. Provides that a policy or contract of bodily injury and property damage liability insurance for the use of a motor vehicle shall contain an endorsement or provisions obligating the insurer to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) |
| SJR289 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); local government; sale of property; authority to grant perpetual easements to units of government. Allows easements on public property to be granted in perpetuity to a public body, political subdivision, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 5-N) |
| SJR310 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment; length of regular sessions convened in odd-numbered years. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to provide that a regular session of the General Assembly convened in an odd-numbered year shall continue for no longer than 46 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (17-Y 2-N) |
| SJR275 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); public schools in the Commonwealth; equitable educational opportunities. Requires the General Assembly to provide for a system of public schools in the Commonwealth with equitable educational opportunities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB1176 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; barrier crimes. Amends the current barrier crimes requirements for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) to provide that the Department, community s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB1235 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health; certain communication prohibited. Prohibits any person employed by or who has entered into a contract to provide services on behalf of the Department of Health or a local department of health from initiating communication regard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| SB1422 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 10-N) |
