| SB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Officers of election. Provides that a local electoral board may appoint a person 17 years of age as an officer of election, provided such person is a citizen of the United States, a resident of the Commonwealth, and, to the extent practicable, a resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB450 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving under the influence; first offenders; license conditions. Provides that if it is an adult offender's first DUI conviction and the offender's BAC was less than .015, the sole condition of the offender's driver's license restriction shall be a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2015, and the thirtieth day of June, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB369 | Engross
Sine Die | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership. Increases the membership of the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families by adding a third private provider repre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB235 | Engross
Sine Die | Appeal from bail, bond, or recognizance order; compliance with appellate court. Provides that a court from which an appeal of a bail, bond, or recognizance decision is taken shall not modify the appellate court's decision regarding the terms or amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB252 | Engross
Sine Die | Insurance; state and local employees. Requires the state health plan to provide means for coverage of one additional adult. The total cost for such additional adult must be paid for by the state employee. The bill also expands the list of people who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB353 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal history record checks; barrier crimes. Sets out the list of barrier crimes for (i) individuals seeking employment at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities, and private providers licensed by the Department of Beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB204 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; raffles by nonprofit organizations. Clarifies that the exemption for nonprofit organizations from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Division of Charitable Gaming prior to conducting raffles that generate annual gross rece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 806, 2013 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB427 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; employment services organizations. Includes employment services organizations in the development and operation of any state procurement program or program goals and targets for small, women-owned, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR78 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Community colleges; workforce training. Establishes the Community College Workforce Training Grant Program to provide a $1,000 incentive payment to a community college for each student who (i) has successfully completed a noncredit workforce training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB106 | Engross
Sine Die | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of $1 million in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB250 | Engross
Sine Die | Employment applications; inquiries regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested or charged with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB303 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes a career progression program for State Troopers and Special Agents based on years of satisfactory service. For State Troopers, the program provides for promotion to the rank...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB429 | Engross
Sine Die | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; amount of grant. Provides that the amount of the Two-Year College Transfer Grant an eligible student receives shall be based on the difference between the costs of tuition and mandatory educational and general...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB340 | Engross
Sine Die | Group home licenses. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a list of licenses issued for group homes and residential facilities housing eight or fewer persons during the preceding month upon the request of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB305 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning; expedited retakes. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to (a) increase the number of students and the number of grade levels that are eligible for an expedited retake of Standards of Learning assessments a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB139 | Engross
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder from a secondary offense to a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB107 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math educational programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program beginning in 2014 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools. The donations must be used by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR160 | Pass | Commending the American Culinary Federation Virginia Chefs Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ160ER) |
| SB115 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary detention; time during which a person may be held. Provides that a person held pursuant to a temporary detention order shall be held for at least 24 hours but no more than 72 hours. Currently, a person may be held pursuant to a temporary de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB256 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB132 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Social Services; annual review of payments made to TANF recipients and indexing of such payments to the Consumer Price Index. Requires the Board of Social Services to develop and implement a process for annually reviewing the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB173 | Engross
Sine Die | Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case, other than an act of violence, where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB254 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; exceptions to territorial limits; sex offenses. Provides that whenever the necessity arises for the enforcement of laws related to child pornography, grooming videos, or use of a communications system to facilitate certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB170 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019. The bill requires that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB388 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations authorizing local school divisions to determine the date for administering Standards of Learning assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Internet Crimes Against Children Fund; fee; Governor's Child Safety Test. Increases from $10 to $15 the additional fee placed upon each felony or misdemeanor conviction assessed as court costs and deposited into the state treasury and credited to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB291 | Engross
Sine Die | Visually impaired students; Braille. Requires each visually impaired student to be evaluated by a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired and requires the student to receive instruction in Braille or the use of Braille unless the team responsible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB16 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB672 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; out-of-state students. Requires the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Board) to include in its criteria and procedures governing admissions to the school provisions for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB373 | Engross
Sine Die | Trafficking in persons; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude and adds the new felonies as a predicate criminal act under the criminal gang statute, as racketeering crimes, and to the function...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB660 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; funds recovered. Authorizes the Division of Debt Collection in the Office of the Attorney General to pursue claims and recoveries owed to the Commonwealth under the Fraud Against T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR163 | Pass | Commending Equality Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ163ER) |
| SB155 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day or an average of 100 minutes per week during the regular school year for students in grades kindergarten through five. This requirement becomes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB621 | Engross
Sine Die | Certain felony convictions. Provides that subsequent to a felony conviction, the court has jurisdiction to amend the conviction, if it is not an act of violence as defined in § 19.2-297.1, to a misdemeanor conviction pursuant to the terms and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher relocation incentive grant program. Provides a grant of $5,000 to teachers who relocate to either a school where at least 40 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch or to a school in a locality with a population of 50,000 or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB171 | Engross
Sine Die | Writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence; additional petitions allowed. Removes the limitation that only one petition may be filed by allowing additional petitions based on new retroactive rules of constitutional law and changes in st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services through the Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families program to students who transfer from an approved private school spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB146 | Engross
Sine Die | Sentence modification; felony. Amends provision that allows felony sentence modification prior to transfer to the Department of Corrections to allow sentence modification after transfer to the Department of Corrections pursuant to a motion for a sent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB343 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer grade fireworks. Authorizes the use of consumer-grade fireworks in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "consumer fireworks" as small fireworks devices containing restricted amounts of pyrote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB62 | Engross
Sine Die | Residential Improved Accessibility and Universal Visitability Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for homeowners and contractors for the purchase or construction of new residences or renovations to existing residences designed to improve acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB510 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession of firearms following conviction of certain crimes; penalty. Prohibits any person who is convicted of stalking, sexual battery, or assault and battery of a family member involving the use of force from possessing, transporting, or carrying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of members of the General Assembly. Prohibits compensation to legislators for attending conferences for which the agenda and materials are not available to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB540 | Pass | Confederate graves. Allows disbursement of funds for the care and maintenance of three additional graves at Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery in Chesterfield County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110) |
| SJR10 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; strategies for improving access to higher education for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to study strategies for improving access to higher e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
