VA Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB355	Intro Sine Die	Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology related to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill also eliminates provisions exempting... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB275	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; victims of sexual assault; cost-sharing requirement for HIV prevention medication. Prohibits certain insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts from imposing on an insured, subscriber, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB130	Intro Sine Die	Delinquent juveniles; commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the only juveniles who may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice are those adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would be a felony if committed by an a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N)
SB122	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile offenders; sentences. Provides that the punishment is a Class 2 felony (20 years to life) for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile for which the only available punishment is a life sentence. The bill also provides that a ju... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N)
SB248	Intro Sine Die	Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N)
SB125	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Establishes a procedure to retroactively modify a mandatory life sentence for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile. The bill provides for an individualized assessment and allows the punishm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB329	Intro Sine Die	Implied warranty; new homes. Provides that if the vendor of a new home (i) is in the business of building or selling new dwellings and (ii) selected and installed the materials and fixtures used in the construction of the dwelling, he shall be held t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (1-Y 14-N)
SB111	Intro Sine Die	Expungement of criminal conviction record. Allows a person convicted of certain criminal offenses to petition to have his conviction expunged after a five-year period has expired following the conviction, upon a showing that his opportunities for emp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB379	Intro Sine Die	Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB339	Intro Sine Die	Secondhand fixtures and scrap metal; payment. Requires persons acquiring secondhand building fixtures, scrap, metal articles, and proprietary articles to make payments for the materials in the form of a check. Currently, purchasers of certain secondh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB380	Intro Sine Die	State Department of Emergency Management; state agency components to the State Emergency Operations Plan. Requires each state agency designated by the State Department of Emergency Management to submit the agency's supporting component of the State E... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N)
SB447	Intro Sine Die	Department of Treasury; Risk Management Division; liability coverage for certain pro bono attorneys. Provides for inclusion under the state's risk management plan attorneys providing pro bono legal services under a Virginia State Bar approved program... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
SB475	Intro Sine Die	Collection of courts costs at DMV. Allows the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the collection of court costs at DMV customer service centers. The bill al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB63	Intro Sine Die	Uniform Statewide Building Code; accessible units. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to revise the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require that at least 10 percent of all dwelling units, but in no case less than one dwelling ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-20 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (12-Y 0-N)
SJR16	Intro Sine Die	Study; mental health and the criminal justice system; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study mental health and the criminal justice system, including (i) the training provided to law-enforcement officers and other first responders under th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Incorporated by Rules
SJR80	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; brain injury services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the progress made by the Commonwealth in expanding access to brain injury services. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR55	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR72	Intro Sine Die	Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study equity of transportation funding; report. Directs JLARC to review the equity of transportation funding in light of new revenues and because such a study has not been conducted in 30 years.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR86	Intro Sine Die	Advanced Composites Initiative. Encourages the development of the Advanced Composites Initiative at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's historic Langley Research Center. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR33	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR34	Intro Sine Die	Study; recurrent flooding; report. Establishes a 15-member joint subcommittee to formulate recommendations for the development of a comprehensive and coordinated planning effort to address recurrent flooding. The joint subcommittee is charged with re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Incorporated by Rules
SJR36	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC to study consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State P... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SB301	Intro Sine Die	Jail construction; state reimbursement; mental health beds. Provides that the Commonwealth will reimburse 50% of the cost of constructing, enlarging, or renovating a jail or regional jail to provide mental health beds and 100% of the cost of treating... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Incorporated by Rules
SJR52	Intro Sine Die	Early childhood education. Recognizes the inestimable value of early childhood education to children and sets a goal of extending the availability of early childhood education so that the Virginia Preschool Initiative and Head Start together serve 50... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SB169	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; wineries; on-premises events. Allows winery licensees to host no more than 12 special events per calendar year on the premises of the licensee, during which the licensee may sell and serve wine for on-premises consumption ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N)
SB322	Intro Sine Die	Human trafficking; legislative commission created; study; report. Creates a legislative commission for the purpose of developing and implementing a State Plan for the Prevention of Human Trafficking. The commission will expire in two years. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N)
SB272	Intro Sine Die	Department of Juvenile Justice; use of isolation and restraint. Prohibits the Department of Juvenile Justice and any mental health facility to which a child in its custody has been transferred from isolating or physically restraining a child unless i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N)
SJR30	Intro Sine Die	Study; joint committee to study options for reducing the number of Standards of Learning assessments; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to gather information and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 To Senate Rules Committee
SB557	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); distillers' licenses; tasting privileges; distillers' special event licenses. Creates a new distillers' special event license and sets its privileges and state and local license taxes. The bill also grants to a disti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-17 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N)
SB403	Intro Sine Die	Dead bodies, disposition. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to accept and dispose of an unclaimed dead body of a person who has been received into the state corrections system and died prior to his release and whose body the Commissioner of He... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB382	Intro Sine Die	Individual school performance; A-to-F grading system. Requires the Board of Education to (i) provide an opportunity for public comment on the A-to-F school grading system and the grades assigned to each public school in the Commonwealth and (ii) incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB210	Intro Sine Die	Suspension of tidal fishing privileges. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to suspend for five years the tidal fishing privileges of any commercial fisherman who has violated the tidal fishery laws five times or more in a two-year period. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
SB372	Intro Sine Die	Early childhood education. Requires, on and after July 1, 2019, all school divisions to provide early childhood education programs for four-year-olds and five-year-olds who are not eligible to attend kindergarten or at-risk early childhood education ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N)
SB258	Intro Sine Die	Law-enforcement consolidation plan. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Marine Resources Commission, to develop a plan for the consolidation of the law-enforcement functi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB217	Intro Sine Die	Pollutant discharge permit for surface mining. Eliminates the requirements that the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy submit a copy of the application for a discharge permit to the State Water Control Board for its review and p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N)
SB246	Intro Sine Die	Funeral services, cremation. Provides that, in cases where no next of kin, designated person, or agent is available, any person over 18 years of age who is able to provide visual identification of a deceased and is willing to pay the costs of cremati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB15	Intro Sine Die	Public school textbooks; East Sea. Requires all textbooks approved by the Board of Education to note that the Sea of Japan is also referred to as the East Sea. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB535	Intro Sine Die	Disposition of dead bodies. Establishes a process for the disposition of unclaimed dead bodies. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB556	Intro Sine Die	Limited public forums for student religious viewpoint expression; school division policy. Requires each school division to adopt a policy to permit a student speaker to express a religious viewpoint at all school events at which a student is permitte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB309	Intro Sine Die	Appeal of computation of the local composite index. Provides a procedure for appealing the computation of the composite index of local ability-to-pay before a review committee consisting of three Board of Education members, the Superintendent of Publ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB547	Intro Sine Die	Sampling of well near uranium exploration activity. Requires the holder of a permit to conduct uranium activities to contact those property owners who have wells located within 750 feet of the exploration activity and, with the owners' consent, to pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB548	Intro Sine Die	Coalbed methane; arbitration of conflicting claims of ownership. Allows a party to appeal an arbitrator's decision to the circuit court and authorizes the court to award attorney fees. Under current law, the circuit court may confirm, vacate, or corr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N)
SB160	Intro Sine Die	Policies on concussions in student-athletes. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to establish policies and procedures based on either the local school division's guidelines or the Board of Education... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB159	Intro Sine Die	Annual license tax on certain vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also lowers the annual license tax for electric motor v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Incorporated by Finance
SB33	Intro Sine Die	Sentence modification; felony. Amends provision that allows felony sentence modification prior to transfer to the Department of Corrections to specify that the transfer must have been lawful. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB233	Intro Sine Die	Prejudgment interest on awards; insurer denial of coverage or liability. Requires an insurer to pay interest on the principal sum awarded by the court at the judgment rate from the date of the filing of a civil action that is instituted by an insured... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Committee substitute printed to Web only 14103703D-S1
SB38	Intro Sine Die	Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also provides for refunds of the license tax paid on hybrid electric mo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Incorporated by Finance
SB13	Intro Sine Die	Retrieval of hunting dogs and other animals. Requires a hunter to make a good faith effort to obtain permission from the landowner, his agent, or a person occupying a residence located on the property before entering the property to retrieve his hunt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB36	Intro Sine Die	Writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence; petitioners pro se. Provides that the Supreme Court shall not accept a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence from a petitioner pro se unless such petition is accomp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB41	Intro Sine Die	Assault and battery; conspiracy. Provides that conspiracy to commit misdemeanor assault or assault and battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-15 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)