| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their applications whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 11-N) |
| SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local government retirement systems; investments. Authorizes the Virginia Retirement System and any local government retirement system to purchase investment grade life insurance policies and annuity policies on their m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Referendum in Grayson County. Provides for a referendum in Grayson County at the November 2014 election on the question whether the County's zoning ordinance should be repealed. The results of the referendum are binding. If a majority of the voters v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Motion picture production tax credit. Increases the percentage of the production company's qualifying expenses that can be taken as a refundable credit from 15 to 20 percent and increases the alternative option of taking the percentage of such expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI maiming; penalty. Raises the penalty for DUI maiming and for operating a motorcraft while intoxicated, causing permanent impairment, from a Class 6 to a Class 4 felony and creates a Class 6 felony when the offense causes serious bodily injury wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas; incentives for expanded use as transportation fuel. Establishes financial and regulatory incentives for expanding the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transportation purposes in the Commonwealth. Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors. Extends the statute of limitations to one year after the victim reaches 18 years of age for the misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge of consenting victim age 13 or 14 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; public libraries; penalty. Provides that any adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2014, shall as part of his sentence be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny and property injury; health and safety made an element of crimes where coal mine damaged; trespass; penalty.Defines certain offenses against coal mine property as grand larceny, injury to property, or trespass. The bill provides that la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter registration lists; interstate cross-checking programs. Prohibits the cancellation of the registration of an active voter identified on the basis of interstate cross-check lists as registered in another state without corroboration th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitlement to certain sales and use tax revenues; City of Bristol and Washington County. Expands the payments of sales and use tax revenue generated on the premises of a public facility located in the City of Bristol used to pay bonds issued to cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 12-N) |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood revitalization. Provides that a locality may by ordinance adopt a program to establish and impose an annual blighted property assessment fee on real properties that have remained vacant for one year or longer if the property has been per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse (a defined term) of a child aged 13 or 14 from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Arrest photos on Internet. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the owner of a website to both post an arrest photo and solicit, request, or accept money for removing the photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Convention to amend the United States Constitution; delegates. Establishes the procedure for appointing delegates to a convention to amend the United States Constitution and specifies the duties of delegates at such a convention. The bill also classi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (4-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by localities. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, or television rather than being limited to a newspaper of general circulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Service districts; underground utilities. Adds Prince William County to the list of those localities with authority to establish service districts to impose taxes or assessments upon the owners of abutting property for the underground relocation of d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of solid waste fees; Southampton County. Allows Southampton County to levy fees for the disposal of solid waste at a county collection or disposal facility not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; disability program for hybrid retirement plan participants. Provides that a disability program that provides income protection of at least 60% through the use of paid leave, or disability payments, is deemed a program comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 11-N) |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of unlawful photographs; venue. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to publish on the Internet a photograph or video made in violation of the current law prohibiting filming, videotaping, or photographing a nonconsenting per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitations on eminent domain; right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment. Recognizes the property right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment and provides that just compensation is owed to the owner of property subject to condemnation when quiet and peaceful e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Parking violations at VDOT commuter lots; failure to appear. Provides that if a person issued a summons for a parking violation at a commuter parking lot owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation fails to appear after being mailed a summons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Common-law crime of suicide. Abolishes the common-law crime of suicide. Suicide is currently a common-law crime in Virginia, although there is no statutorily prescribed punishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Noncompliant health benefit plans. Authorizes a health carrier to continue offering, issuing, issuing for delivery, delivering, selling, or renewing any health benefit plan that provides the same coverage, limits, conditions, restrictions, and benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; renewable energy certificate registration and tracking system. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a system for registering and tracking renewable energy certificates in order to facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited conduct by state and local government officers and employees; retaliation. Prohibits a state or local government officer or employee from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing view...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; working papers and correspondence of members of the General Assembly. Limits the record exemption for working papers and correspondence of members of the General Assembly by providing that such records are protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering by municipalities and multifamily customer-generators. Authorizes municipal renewable energy net metering projects. Participating municipalities are authorized to aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; creation of Department of Minority Business Enterprise and the Department of Business Assistance. Eliminates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and re-creates the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Preliminary protective orders. Changes the standard for issuing a preliminary protective order by requiring that the petitioner be subjected to act in furtherance of the violence, force, or threat. The bill also gives the attorney for the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB468 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget or general appropriation act. Provides that no legislative action shall be taken on the conference committee report on the biennial budget until the conference ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing the training of nineteenth-century physicians in Richmond. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile delinquency prevention and youth development programs savings grants. Establishes the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Program Savings Fund to provide grants in an amount equal to 50 percent of the total amount of saving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; nonviolent felons. Allows a parole hearing for nonviolent offenders whose crime was committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who have served 50% of their sentence. If the incarceration is the offender's second felony incarceration in Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; training center residents; quality of care. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to ensure that, before any training center resident is transferred to another facility or pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Foster care; approval of applicant whose household includes certain individuals convicted of an offense. Provides that a child-placing agency may approve an applicant as a foster care provider whose household includes an adult who has been convicted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriation act conference report; availability. Requires the conference committee report of the appropriation act to be available online for 36 hours and distributed to each member of the General Assembly before a vote is taken on the report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; withholding child from custodial parent. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any principal, assistant principal, or supervisor employed by a local school board who fails to or refuses to release a child into the custody of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | The University of Virginia; board of visitors. Changes the composition of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia from 17 visitors appointed by the Governor to 13 visitors appointed by the Governor and four visitors directly elected by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Boating safety course. Exempts persons 45 years of age or older on July 1, 2014, from having to pass a boating safety education course in order to operate a motorboat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; appeal of order. Provides that upon a finding by the circuit court that the appellant no longer meets the criteria for involuntary commitment (or mandatory outpatient treatment), the court shall reverse the order of the distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Acute psychiatric bed registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of stormwater; waiver of charges for places of worship. Requires a locality that adopts a system of stormwater management service charges to provide for a waiver of at least 50 percent of such charge to any church, synagogue, or other plac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody; time limit. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order to 24 hours. Currently, a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order for up to four hours, with an additional two-hour ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary detention order; facility of detention. Provides that in cases in which a facility for temporary detention has not been identified prior to the running of the time for emergency custody, the magistrate shall issue the temporary detention or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animal surgical sterilization program; fund; penalty. Establishes a fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or dogs. The bill provides that a surcharge of $50 per ton of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Facility of temporary detention. Provides that an individual for whom a temporary detention order is issued shall be detained in a state facility unless the state facility or an employee or designee of the community services board is able to identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Acute psychiatric bed registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order to 12 hours. Currently, a person may be held for up to four hours, with an additional two-hour extension available upon a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Student data; cloud computing. Requires each cloud computing service provider that enters into a contract with a local school board to provide services to only process and monitor student data according to the terms of its contract with the local sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (12-Y 2-N) |
