| SR11 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Giles High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Reverend Carl Terrie Tinsley, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Thomas Bowles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Steven C. Stombres.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Northside High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-08
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR47 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; distributed solar generation and net metering; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to jointly convene a stakeholder group to study the costs and benefits of distributed sola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| 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 |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 806, 2013 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; safety of Route 13; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Local Government to study the safety of Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties and to report on safety improvement recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Senate Committee on Education and Health to study options for changing the number, frequency, or content of Standards of Learning assessments; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study options for changing the numbe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | General district courts; days of operation. Provides that the clerk's office of every district court shall be kept open for the transaction of business on every day except Saturday, Sunday, and the statewide legal holidays designated in the Code of V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Judgment rate of interest, cap. Provides that the interest rate on a money judgment entered on or after July 1, 2014, in an action arising from a contract shall be the rate provided by the contract until the judgment date and six percent thereafter. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Livable Home Tax Credit. Increases the total amount of tax credits granted for the Livable Home Tax Credit program in any fiscal year from $1 million to $2 million and increases the total amount of tax credits made available through the program alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Repeals provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to simple interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; limitation on collection and use of personal information by law enforcement. Limits the ability of law-enforcement and regulatory agencies to use technology to collect and maintain personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting coyotes on Sunday. Makes it lawful to hunt or kill coyotes on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Stricken from Senate calendar (39-Y 1-N) |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Repeals provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to simple interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; testimony under oath before committee or subcommittee. Authorizes the chairman or at least one-third of the total membership of a committee or subcommittee to request any person addressing the committee or subcommittee to take an oa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited conduct by legislators; retaliation. Prohibits a member of the General Assembly from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing views on matters of public concern or for exercising any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation Freedom Amendment. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment to the United States Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR79 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; DGIF to study removal of prohibition against hunting over bait; report. Requests the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to study the effects of a removal of the prohibition against baiting, with an emphasis on the recent experience in Nor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; temporary licenses for applicant for mixed beverage restaurant licenses; penalty. Sets out a process for the issuance of a temporary license to applicants for a new mixed beverage restaurant license beginning July 1, 2014,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SJR22 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to enact banking legislation. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; construction of I-73; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires local fiscal impact bills to be introduced no later than the first day of the session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| SJR71 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Congress; application to call a convention to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for a balanced budget requirement. Applies to the United States Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution of the United S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR53 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; creation of state ethics commission; ethics laws governing public officials; report. Establishes a 14-member joint subcommittee to study the creation of a state ethics commission and evaluate the adequacy of Virginia's current ethics laws gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Commission on Administrative Rules; powers and duties; effect of administrative rules on private sector employment. Adds to the powers and duties of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules the power to review proposed rules and regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (10-Y 7-N) |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires local fiscal impact bills to be introduced no later than the first day of the session. This bill was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management programs; appeals. Clarifies the appeals process for persons subject to state permit requirements under the Stormwater Management Act. The bill removes Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) authorities from the list of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Local implementation of Stormwater Management Program. Delays the date that local governments will have to assume responsibility for administering the Stormwater Management Program from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Withdrawal from secondary highway system. Allows lane-mile payments of $12,529 for a county with a charter that borders four cities, which elects to withdraw from the secondary system after June 30, 2014. The bill also allows the Commissioner of High...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater Management Program; localities with minimal Chesapeake Bay watershed. Delays the date on which local governments are required to assume responsibility for administering the Stormwater Management Program from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (5-Y 9-N) |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Monitoring Program; reporting requirements. Requires dispensers to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program within three days of dispensing a covered substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting of water usage. Requires electric generating stations seeking a Virginia Water Protection Permit to submit an estimate of the amount of water that will be withdrawn and consumed for the lifecycle of the fuel used by the proposed generating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations, by July 1, 2016, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia community college mental health services pilot program. Requires the Virginia Community College System to create a pilot program to establish a plan or contract with community groups or both to provide mental health services to uninsured stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; certified industrial parks. Provides that the Authority shall develop a program by which local industrial parks may become certified by the Commonwealth. In developing such a program, the Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Local economic development. Provides that the Virginia income tax net revenue and sales and use tax generated by certain corporations or limited liability companies within a qualified locality shall be transferred to the qualified locality under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; hearing to be held simultaneously with pending criminal action. Provides that, whenever practical, a court having jurisdiction over both a petition for a protective order and a pending criminal action in which the defendant is also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill sets up the licensing scheme for casino gaming and provides penalties for viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Admission of minors to mental health facility for inpatient treatment. Removes provisions of the Code requiring the consent of a minor 14 years of age or older prior to admission to a mental health facility for inpatient treatment. The bill allows fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Local departments; consent to treatment and collection of evidence. Provides that a local director of social services or his designee may consent to (i) surgical or medical treatment of a minor in the custody of the local department of social service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; costs; attorney fees. Requires the court, in certain condemnation proceedings, to award costs, including reasonable attorney fees, to the owner of property taken by condemnation. Under current law, awarding costs is discretionary and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 4-N) |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; powers and duties of the State Board of Elections. Provides that the powers granted and duties assigned to the State Board of Elections shall not be delegated to any other entity and shall be carried out by the State Board, but gives the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
