| SB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil commitment proceedings; fees and compensation. Increases from $25 to $75 the fee paid to court-appointed counsel representing a person in a civil commitment proceeding under Title 19.2 of the Code of Virginia. The bill also provides that court-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Adds definitions for consumer fireworks and display fireworks and authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "consumer fireworks" ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB883 | 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 Board would expire on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB731 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile law-enforcement records; restorative justice. Allows law enforcement agencies to release information on juvenile arrests for the purpose of referring a juvenile to a restorative justice program that has a contract with a local governing body...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1342 | 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] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB823 | 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] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| SB1211 | Engross
Sine Die | Gender-specific references. Revises references to certain gender-specific terms in the Code of Virginia in light of the 2014 Bostic v. Rainey decision, 970 F.Supp.2d 456 (E.D. Va. 2014), cert. denied, 83 U.S.L.W. 3189 (U.S. Oct. 6, 2014), which struc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB853 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; assistance for certain voters. Allows any qualified voter who is 75 years of age or older or a person with a disability to request to go to the front of the line and to vote at the next available voting booth or voting system. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance for local employees. Allows local school boards and local governing bodies to elect to have all their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of employees and retirees, eligible to participate in the state employee health i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB977 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open enrollment period. Opens enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program between October 1, 2015, and January 1, 2016, for eligible employees not currently participating in the program. Any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1349 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; suspension of reviews of earnings. Bars the State Corporation Commission (SCC) from conducting a biennial review of the rates, terms, and conditions for any service of (i) Dominion Virginia Power for the five test periods...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| SB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Telemedicine; pilot program. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, to establish a three-year telemedicine pilot program designed to reduce patient use of emergency department facilities for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; notice in formal proceedings; disqualification of presiding and hearing officers. Establishes a process for the disqualification of presiding officers and hearing officers. The bill also specifies the information that an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Confiscation, reporting, and return of firearms by law enforcement. Replaces current requirements that law-enforcement agencies report information regarding confiscated firearms to the Department of State Police with a requirement that information be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1123 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care subsidy; license required. Requires licensure for any child day center or family day home, other than those located on federal property and operated or certified by the U.S. Department of Defense, that contracts with the State Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR353 | Pass | Commending Cabell F. Willis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ353ER) |
| SJR238 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; alcohol by volume. Allows farm winery licensees to manufacture wine containing 21 percent or less of alcohol by volume. Under current law, farm winery licensees may manufacture wine containing 18 percent or less of alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SJR357 | Pass | Commending Culpepper Garden.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ357ER) |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license plates; TO BE MUTUALLY HELPFUL TO ONE ANOTHER. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for members and supporters of the Virginia State Police Association, Emergency Relief Fund, Inc., bearing the legend TO B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| SJR352 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Gertrude Weber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ352ER) |
| SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Provides a mechanism for a person convicted of a nonhomicide offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, while the person was a juvenile, and who is sentenced to life or a term of confinement that would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1273 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; regulations of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board relating to certain brewery personnel. Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations that prescribe the terms and conditions under which tour guides employed by a licensed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB935 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Herndon; elections. Moves the date of election of the mayor and members of the town council from May to November beginning with the election of November 2016 and extends the terms of those in office as of July 2016 until December 31,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Routine review of emergency services; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish benchmarks and standards for emergency services provided by community services boards and behavioral health authorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Exemptions from boating safety education requirements. Exempts motorboat operators born prior to July 1, 1972, and who are residents of Virginia, from having to demonstrate compliance with boating safety education requirements before operating a moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Reconsideration of defeated action rejected by House |
| SB950 | Engross
Sine Die | Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program (the Program) to be administered by the Department of Veterans Services to provide grants to businesses certified by the Department as participants in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB824 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly should adopt a resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would establish an independent re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR334 | Pass | Commending the Loudoun County High School volleyball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ334ER) |
| SJR349 | Pass | Commending Courtney Paige Garrett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ349ER) |
| SJR347 | Pass | Commending Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ347ER) |
| SJR345 | Pass | Commending Eric Betzig, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ345ER) |
| SJR336 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Donald W. Devine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ336ER) |
| SJR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe. Extends state recognition to the Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR340 | Pass | Celebrating the life of E. Cabell Brand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ340ER) |
| SJR341 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable George W. Harris, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ341ER) |
| SJR348 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Samuel Bryan Chandler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ348ER) |
| SJR344 | Pass | Commending Casey Veatch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ344ER) |
| SJR292 | Engross
Sine Die | Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1352 | Engross
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 general appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR329 | Pass | Commending the Herndon Woman's Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ329ER) |
| SJR339 | Pass | Commending John Henry Middleton, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ339ER) |
| SJR335 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Marvin Bennett Milam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ335ER) |
| SJR342 | Pass | Commending Leidos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ342ER) |
| SB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires bills that require a net reduction of revenues by local governments to be introduced no later than the first day of the regular session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR337 | Pass | Commending Robert G. Templin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ337ER) |
| SJR343 | Pass | Commending Francis C. Steinbauer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ343ER) |
| SJR333 | Pass | Commending Kingsley Edwin Haynes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ333ER) |
| SJR350 | Pass | Commending Steve Farmer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ350ER) |
