| SB44 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure; gifts. Requires the Governor and Attorney General to disclose gifts to the members of their immediate families by appending additional information to their statements of economic interests. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08 Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Life insurance for retired state employees. Provides that the basic life insurance coverage for retired state employees with 30 or more years of creditable service shall not be reduced to less than $8,000, increased by the same percentage as annual p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08 Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB163 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission on Local Government; local mandates. Expands the size of the task force appointed by the Governor to review state mandates on localities from five members to seven members, of whom two are required to be non-governmental appointees with a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08 Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Weekend jail time. Allows the court to sentence a felon to nonconsecutive days or weekend jail time upon a showing of good cause if the felony was not an "act of violence" as defined in § 19.2-297.1 and the active portion of the sentence remaini... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08 Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB35 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital cases; appointment of counsel. Provides that when the defendant whose capital offense was charged by warrant in district court requests appointment of counsel, the case must be referred to the circuit court for appointment of counsel. This bi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06 Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 1-N) |
| SJR179 | Engross
Sine Die | Standard for movable soccer goal safety. Recognizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission's "Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety" as the standard for use by public and private soccer programs in the Commonwealth to promote and protect the safe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06 Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB633 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Authorizes public institutions of higher education to grant full or partial tuition waivers to dependent students of faculty members employed by the institution, to be paid out of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB158 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether a bipartisan advisory commission should be created to propose redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution. Delays the initial transfer of supervision of certain public schools from the local school boards to the Opportunity Educational Institution by one year, from after the 2013-2014 school year to after the 2014-2015... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Education Committee |
| SB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Child day programs; radon testing. Requires regulated child day programs that are located in jurisdictions designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as High or Moderate Risk areas for indoor radon to test for radon at least once every fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
Sine Die | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; regulations. Provides that the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families may promulgate regulations necessary to carry out its ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Individual income tax refunds; payment. Requires the Tax Commissioner and State Comptroller to implement procedures to allow an individual to elect to have his income tax refund paid by check mailed to his address. If the individual makes no election... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| SB225 | Engross
Sine Die | Opening and closing motor vehicle doors. Requires drivers and passengers to wait for a reasonable opportunity to open vehicle doors on the side adjacent to moving traffic. A violation constitutes a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB539 | Engross
Sine Die | Secretary of Education; annual report. Requires the Secretary of Education, on or before October 1 of each year, to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the Commonwealth's efforts to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathema... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Education Committee |
| SB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Persons not guilty by reason of insanity; court-appointed counsel fees. Increases from $25 to $75 the fee paid to court-appointed counsel representing a person in a civil commitment proceeding under Title 19.2 (Criminal Procedure). The bill also prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB144 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assessments; revisions. Requires that all revisions to any Standards of Learning assessment are finalized by December 31 of the school year prior to the school year in which the revised assessment is administered. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB446 | Engross
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB6 | Engross
Sine Die | DNA sample upon arrest. Adds indecent exposure and obscene sexual display to the list of crimes for which a DNA sample must be taken upon conviction or arrest for commission or attempted commission and adds sexual battery, peeping or spying into a dw... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB277 | Engross
Sine Die | DSS; amend the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to include payments for individuals up to age 21. Directs the Department of Social Services to develop amendments to the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance, including p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; impact statements. Requires VRS impact statements to detail the financial impact of a proposed bill on members and beneficiaries. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB223 | Engross
Sine Die | Board for Charitable Gaming; authorization of electronic poker games for qualified organizations. Authorizes a qualified organization to allow the playing of electronic poker games. In order to obtain a permit to conduct electronic poker games, a qua... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; candidate filings; Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; candidates and campaign committees. Beginning July 1, 2016, requires that campaign finance documents be filed electronically with the State Board of Elections. Currently, the law allows G... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB529 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; conditions. Authorizes the Commissioner of Health to condition the approval of a certificate of public need upon an agreement of the applicant to support charitable organizations that specifically target providing health c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of Immigrant Assistance created. Establishes in the Department of Social Services an Office of Immigrant Assistance to assist persons lawfully entering the United States and the Commonwealth for the purpose of becoming citizens. The Office sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test to each student regardless of grade level or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia - Korea Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia - Korea Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve mutually beneficial trade relationships between the Commonwealth and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The provisions of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB325 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; waivers from third grade Standards of Learning assessments in certain scenarios. Allows a public elementary school that had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 To House Education Committee |
| SB408 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspection; window tint. Requires the Department of State Police to amend its regulations to include inspection of window tint as part of the motor vehicle safety inspection. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04 VOTE:DEFEATED (44-Y 54-N 1-A) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |