VA Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB987	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides that whenever the lowest responsive and responsible bidder is a resident of another state that allows a percentage preference for resident contractors, a like pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1270	Intro Sine Die	Admission of incapacitated persons pursuant to advance directive or by guardian; transportation; pilot program. Provides that when the employee or designee of a local community services board who is conducting the evaluation of an individual required... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N)
SB711	Intro Sine Die	Voter registration; duties of State Board of Elections and general registrars. Requires general registrars to conduct and complete within 30 days of the receipt of precinct lists from the State Board of Elections a cross-check of precinct list voters... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB1357	Intro Sine Die	Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; duty of counsel to exercise due diligence in representation of a servicemember. Requires any counsel appointed to represent a defendant pursuant to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to exercise due diligence ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N)
SB990	Intro Sine Die	Domestic violence leave for employees. Requires employers to allow an employee to take domestic violence leave, with or without pay, if the employee or the employee's family member is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Domest... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SB1337	Intro Sine Die	Voter registration; voter list maintenance. Extends the current prohibition against periodic list maintenance within the 90 days preceding a federal primary or general election to all primary and general elections. The bill also requires that the pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB1299	Intro Sine Die	Public procurement; products manufactured in the United States. Requires public contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building or public works to contain a provision that the iron,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 4-N)
SB1420	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; IT procurement; terms and conditions; limitation on contractor liability. Provides that terms and conditions relating to the liability of a contractor contained in any solicitation for the procurement of information t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (11-Y 0-N)
SB902	Intro Sine Die	Minors; procedures for collection of physical evidence. Allows a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse to perform a physical evidence recovery kit examination for an unemancipated minor whom he reasonably su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 9-N)
SB1180	Intro Sine Die	Custody and visitation agreements; best interests of the child. Requires the court to consider any history of abuse of persons other than family members when determining the best interests of the child for the purposes of custody and visitation arran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N)
SB1438	Intro Sine Die	State and local government employees; prohibited use of state funds to pay membership dues for private organizations. Prohibits the use of state funds to pay the individual membership dues or enrollment fees of a state or local employee to join a pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (5-Y 10-N)
SB1169	Intro Sine Die	Natural gas companies; right to enter upon property. Conditions a natural gas utility's exercise of its authority to enter upon the property of a landowner without his permission upon the adoption by the local governing body of the city or county in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N 3-A)
SB1462	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Offshore Energy Development Authority. Converts the Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority to the Virginia Offshore Energy Development Authority and broadens its focus to include facilitating, coordinating, and supporting the developme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
SB1166	Intro Sine Die	Public service corporations; access to public records. Makes a public service corporation subject to the public records provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act with respect to any project or activity for which it may exercise the power ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (8-Y 3-N 3-A)
SB1128	Intro Sine Die	State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia" as the official state song. The bill also contains a technical amendment. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB735	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited conduct related to travel. Prohibits members of the General Assembly from accepting any lodging, transportation, hospitality, or other travel-related thing of value with an aggregate value in ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB1150	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget or general appropriation act. Provides that no legislative action shall be taken on the conference committee report on the biennial budget or the general approp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB1425	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; reports accompanying general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (15-Y 0-N)
SB1289	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; Virginia Independent Commission on Ethics established; penalty. Establishes the Virginia Independent Commission on Ethics (the Commission), an independ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB696	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; penalties. Prohibits state and local government officers and employees and legislators and candidates for the General ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SJR317	Intro 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]	2015-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SB752	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited conduct for Governor's Secretaries. Clarifies that for purposes of prohibiting certain conduct of a Governor's Secretary in the year following termination of public service, the definit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB812	Intro Sine Die	Lobbyist disclosure; definition of executive action; procurement transactions. Includes procurement transactions under the definition of "executive action." "Procurement transaction" is defined as all functions that pertain to obtaining goods, servic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB1278	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; penalties. Prohibits state and local government officers and employees and legislators and candidates for the General ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB898	Intro Sine Die	Unlicensed and unregistered family day homes; notice to Department of Social Services; background checks; safety requirements. Requires unlicensed and unregistered family day homes to submit the following to the Commissioner of the Department of Soci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N)
SB1436	Intro Sine Die	Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Reconstitutes the membership of the Commission by reducing the number of members from 31 to 15, eliminating legislative and flue-cured and burley tobacco producer members and adding the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (10-Y 0-N)
SB924	Intro 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]	2015-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (12-Y 2-N 1-A)
SB1152	Intro Sine Die	Criminal gang files. Allows the Department of Corrections to enter information into state and federal gang files on an offender who is incarcerated for more than one year at any time before the offender is released from incarceration. Current law req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N)
SB1267	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited conduct related to gifts and travel. Prohibits state and local government officers and employees and members of the General Assembly from... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Incorporated by Rules
SB983	Intro Sine Die	Four-year public institutions of higher education; dual enrollment programs. Permits four-year public institutions of higher education to offer at a public high school through a dual enrollment program courses similar to those offered by the comprehe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
SB998	Intro Sine Die	School divisions; concussion policies and procedures; management plan. Requires each local school division to establish a management plan for implementation of and compliance with its policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SB1093	Intro Sine Die	Movable Soccer Goal Safety Act created. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations, consistent with the Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, establishing safety standards for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N)
SB1222	Intro Sine Die	Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such investigational drug, biological product, or device available to a person... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1271	Intro Sine Die	Submerged beds of rivers or creeks; claims of private ownership; arbitration. Requires that the Department of General Services (the Department) order arbitration to resolve claims of ownership of a submerged bed of an inland river or creek upon the w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
SB1167	Intro Sine Die	Possession and administration of epinephrine auto-injectors. Requires the Commissioner of Health to identify and publish a list of certain entities or categories of entities that are located in or conduct activities in a setting where allergens capab... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (12-Y 0-N)
SB1370	Intro Sine Die	Richmond City Public Schools Learning Excellence by Aligning Public Schools Commission. Establishes the Richmond City Public Schools Learning Excellence by Aligning Public Schools Commission for the purposes of evaluating Richmond City Public Schools... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
SB1266	Intro Sine Die	Conservation easements; private bottomland conveyed by special grant. Clarifies that riverbed property that a court has conclusively determined to be in private ownership may be the subject of a conservation easement. The bill defines "private bottom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
SB1347	Intro Sine Die	Uniformed services-connected students; identification. Requires the Department of Education to establish a process for the identification by local school divisions of newly enrolled students who have a parent in the uniformed services. Local school d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB791	Intro Sine Die	Vehicle safety inspection fees. Increases the price of a vehicle safety inspection by $1 for each category of vehicle and allocates $0.50 of the additional $1 to the Department of State Police toward the Department's costs in administering the motor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB1415	Intro Sine Die	Certificate of public need; projects. Excludes capital expenditures by or on behalf of a general hospital from the definition of project. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1183	Intro Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; fixed four-year tuition rate. Requires the board of visitors of four-year public institutions of higher education to prospectively fix the cost of tuition, room and board, and other mandatory fees for incoming... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1242	Intro Sine Die	Nurseries; labeling of plants treated with pollinator-lethal insecticides. Prohibits the labeling or advertisement of a plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant contains a detectable level of a systemic insecticide that is harmful to pol... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
SB739	Intro 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]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB827	Intro Sine Die	Voting systems; use of direct recording electronic machines. Prohibits the use of direct recording electronic (DRE) machines in elections on and after July 1, 2016, except for the express purpose of providing accessible voting equipment as required b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB740	Intro Sine Die	Regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing stationary sources; General Assembly approval of state plan. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to receive approval from the General Assembly for Virginia's state plan to regulate car... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
SB837	Intro Sine Die	Emergency medical services personnel; background checks; process. Creates an alternative method for national criminal history background checks for emergency medical services personnel, allowing local governments that have procedures in place for the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1340	Intro Sine Die	School board clerks; electronic maintenance of records. Permits the clerk of each school board to keep volumes of meeting minutes and receipt and disbursement records, vouchers, contracts, and other official papers electronically. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB806	Intro Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; fixed four-year tuition rate. Requires the board of visitors of four-year public institutions of higher education to prospectively fix the cost of tuition, room and board, and other mandatory fees for incoming... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Incorporates SB1183
SB1426	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, except that addi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
SB674	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Information Technologies Agency; email archiving. Requires any state agency in the executive branch of government that receives email services from VITA to also utilize email archiving services provided by VITA. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 7-N 1-A)