| HJR506 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; short- and long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Requests the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy's Division of Geology and Mineral Resources' Virginia geological survey,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2281 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote. Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote in the legislative branch of state government. The Commission is charged with pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR598 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; driver's license suspension for unpaid court fines and costs; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to study the use of driver's license suspension as a collection method for unpaid court fines and costs and make recommendations for improvement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1895 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional financial and administrative authority for certain public institutions of higher education. Permits the board of visitors or other governing body of any public institution of higher education that has entered into and successfully renewed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1896 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2106 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Commission on Virginia Indian Recognition; report. Creates the Joint Commission on Virginia Indian Recognition to review applications and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding applications of groups seeking recognition as Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB2263 | Engross
Sine Die | Roanoke Regional Airport Commission. Allows the Roanoke Regional Airport Commission to establish an airport police department at the Roanoke Regional Airport. The authority of the airport police department shall be limited to real property owned, lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1329 | Engross
Sine Die | Out-of-state concealed handgun permits; photo identification. Removes certain requirements for an out-of-state concealed handgun permit or license to be recognized and accepted in Virginia and instead requires an out-of-state permit or license holder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; felony drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HR297 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| HB2238 | Engross
Sine Die | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parents of certain students with disabilities to apply to their resident school division for a Parental Choice Education Savings Account, to consist of the student's Standards of Quality per pup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Chair votes No |
| HR299 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N) |
| HR298 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Introduced bill reprinted 15105424D |
| HJR515 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); powers of General Assembly; limitations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HJR719 | Engross
Sine Die | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; environmental impact statement. Encourages the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct an environmental impact study related to landing commercial booster rockets and spacecraft at NASA's Wallops Fligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1533 | Engross
Sine Die | Obscene sexual display; third offense; penalty. Adds engaging in an obscene sexual display, i.e., actual or explicitly simulated masturbation in a public place, to the list of misdemeanor sex offenses for which the penalty for a third offense of any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2144 | Engross
Sine Die | Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any citizen pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1503 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving after forfeiture of license; blood alcohol content. Provides that there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a person's blood alcohol concentration at the time of the offense is the concentration indicated by a chemical test in any prosecut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1361 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School (the Board) as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government, under the authority of the Secretary of Education, for the purpose of governing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HJR707 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposition to federal Postsecondary Institution Ratings System. Recognizes the quality and value of diversity and innovation in the institutions of higher education in the United States and strongly disagrees with the proposal of the President of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR603 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; prevention of sexual violence on the campuses of public and private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the prevention of sexual vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1418 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal injuries compensation; confidentiality. Exempts records, papers, transcripts, opinions, and reports involving Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund claims from disclosure to anyone other than the agents or representatives of the Virginia Worke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1753 | Engross
Sine Die | Children; receiving home instruction; one year probationary period; exemption. Eliminates the ability of the division superintendent to impose a one year academic probationary period on a child who begins home instruction on or after the first day of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB2129 | Engross
Sine Die | Barriers to licensure or registration; private security services businesses; bail bondsmen; bail enforcement agents; special conservators of the peace. Prohibits persons who are required to register as a sex offender from obtaining a license or regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR537 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug trafficking; interstate cooperation. Requests the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to initiate a memorandum of agreement with the Governor of Maryland pertaining to the enforcement of laws involving the illegal trafficking of controlled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR666 | Engross
Sine Die | Clean Water Act; opposition. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to recognize the Commonwealth of Virginia's opposition to the proposed rule regarding the Clean Water Act definition of "waters of the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB2265 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; photo identification. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) shall design and approve the issuance of photo-identification cards to every person who is issued a private secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2029 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; fees; background check; exemption for permit holders. Provides that a licensed firearms dealer does not have to have a criminal background check performed to determine a person's eligibility to purchase a firearm if the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1813 | Engross
Sine Die | Practice of veterinary medicine. Eliminates the exception to licensure requirements for veterinarians licensed in other states who are called to attend a case in the Commonwealth and who do not open an office or appoint a place to practice within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB2319 | Engross
Sine Die | Halifax County Board of Supervisors; election of an at-large member. Provides that beginning January 1, 2016, the Halifax County Board of Supervisors shall include, in addition to the eight members currently elected from districts, a ninth member to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HJR608 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental Protection Agency emissions guidelines; opposition. Recognizes the Commonwealth's opposition to proposed Environmental Protection Agency emissions guidelines for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB2179 | Engross
Sine Die | Release of certain tax information. Permits the Department of Taxation to provide information subpoenaed by a grand jury without first submitting it to a court for a determination that the value of the information to the grand jury outweighs the valu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 3-N) |
| HB2315 | Engross
Sine Die | Failure to renew vehicle registration; failure to inspect vehicle; dismissal. Allows the court to dismiss a summons for failure to renew vehicle registration or to have a vehicle inspected if a copy of the current registration or proof of inspection ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 3-N) |
| HJR577 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HB2274 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; cost recovery. Permits investor-owned electric utilities to recover from certain customers, through a rate adjustment clause, the projected and actual costs of designing, implementing, and operating State Corporation Commission-ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 0-N) |
| HB1372 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' compensation insurance; use of experience modification factor in contracting; not-at-fault motor vehicle accidents. States that any contract or offer to contract entered into or issued on or after July 1, 2016, that requires the contractor o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB2223 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; willful violations a misdemeanor; penalty. Provides that in addition to the civil enforcement provisions of FOIA, any officer, employee, or member of a public body who, without legal excuse or justification, delib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1573 | Engross
Sine Die | Duty of the Attorney General to represent the Commonwealth. Provides that the Attorney General or his designee has the duty to represent the interests of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof in any proceeding in federal court or a Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Chair votes No |
| HB1692 | Engross
Sine Die | Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures to students. The bill provides that if a public institution o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (10-Y 4-N) |
| HB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Requires electric utilities serving two million or more customers in the Commonwealth to file an integrated resources plan (IRP) by September 1 of each year. Currently, they are required to file an IRP a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB1437 | Engross
Sine Die | Prayer at public events. Provides that a deliberative public body, by ordinance, resolution, or written policy statement, may adopt a policy to permit a public invocation before each meeting of the public body, for the benefit of the public body. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1814 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Provides that the combined gross receipts from the sale of food consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages served on the premises by mixed beverage restaurant licensees, mixed beverage caterer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services with letter (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB2152 | Engross
Sine Die | Write-in votes; duties of the electoral boards. Provides that when no person is elected to an office by write-in votes and the total number of write-in votes for that office is less than 95 percent of the total number of votes cast for the candidate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Defeated by Senate (2-Y 36-N) |
| HB1962 | Engross
Sine Die | Local school board members; professional development. Adds additional topics to the professional development activities required of local school board members and requires members to certify their compliance annually with the clerk of the school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N) |
| HB1971 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacancies in the General Assembly; special elections. Requires at least two weeks between the issuance of a writ of an election to fill a vacancy in the General Assembly and the date of the special election to fill such vacancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| HB1581 | Engross
Sine Die | Family life education; advance directives related to mental health. Requires the family life education curriculum developed by the Board of Education to include, as a component of instruction in mental health education and awareness, instruction on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1565 | Engross
Sine Die | Authority of animal control officers. Authorizes an animal control officer to capture and confine a companion animal that is not subject to licensure upon receiving complaint from a property owner of the presence of the companion animal on his proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Defeated by Senate (8-Y 29-N) |
| HB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Local school boards; arming of school security officers. Permits local school boards to arm school security officers with batons, stun weapons, or any spray device designed to incapacitate a person and to allow school security officers to use such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Dispensing of interchangeable biosimilars; sunset. Extends by one year, through July 1, 2016, the requirement that a pharmacist who dispenses an interchangeable biosimilar in the place of a prescribed biological product provide electronic, written, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Speeding; penalty. Allows localities to apply the $200 penalty for speeding to an additional classification of highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
