| SJR290 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Expresses support for the establishment of the Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; computer equipment and software used in certain data centers. Removes the June 30, 2020, sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for computer equipment and software used in certain data centers. The bill also incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Limit on appropriations. Limits the growth in appropriations from state sources to the growth of Virginia's population plus the rate of inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1139 | 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] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyist reporting; disclosure statement. Amends the lobbyist disclosure form to require the listing of the matters of general concern for which the lobbyist works on behalf of the principal and each (i) legislative action, (ii) executive action, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; significant infrastructure limited licensee; allocation of advance deposit account wagering. Authorizes the Virginia Racing Commission (VRC) to issue a significant infrastructure limited license to the owner or operator of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against family or household member; penalty. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member, when the person has been previously convicted of an offense of (i) assault and battery agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Median income taxpayers tax credit. Creates a $250 nonrefundable tax credit for taxpayers who have one or more dependents under the age of 18 and whose family adjusted gross income is within 25 percent, above or below, of the statewide median househo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1250 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; gifts; penalty. Amends the portion of the lobbyist disclosure form on which gifts are disclosed. The amended Schedule B requires disclosure of any gift to an executive or legislative official with a value of more than $50 of whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR279 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; dangers of Tannerite; report. Establishes a nine-member joint subcommittee to study the dangers of Tannerite and, if necessary, identify the potential need to (i) restrict the amounts of Tannerite that can be purchased lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR240 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JCHC; older Virginians' access to oral health care; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study older Virginians' access to oral health care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession or transportation of firearms following convictions for certain misdemeanor crimes; restoration of rights; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of stalking, assault and battery of a family or household member, or sexual batte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB831 | Intro
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] | 2015-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 2-N) |
| SB1328 | 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] | 2015-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedure for construction. Clarifies that small purchase procedures for purchases not expected to exceed $100,000 may be used to procure construction. Under the bill, where small purchase procedures ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB1006 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Marine Resources Commission; submerged lands; permit fees. Clarifies the requirement of a permit application to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (Commission) for the placement of certain piers and provides that certain applications f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Chair votes No |
| SB1457 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; exemptions for certain industries regulated by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Permits the Criminal Justice Services Board to establish training standards for private security professionals, bail bondsmen, bai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 21-N) |
| 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) |
| SB819 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF eligibility; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits shall not be denied such benefits solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-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) |
| SJR305 | 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] | 2015-02-09
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| 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) |
| SJR291 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study the potential for the establishment of a funding source to localities in coastal Virginia for flood resilience that could result by including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Requires 2/3 of members voting for passage |
| 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 |
| SR62 | Pass | Study; staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections; report. Continues, for an additional year, the joint committee of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services and the Senate Committee on Rules to study...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Bill text as passed Senate (SR62ER) |
| SJR289 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Julian H. Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ289ER) |
| SJR266 | Pass | Commending the Glenvar High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ266ER) |
| 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) |
| SB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Release of balloons. Prohibits any person, with certain exceptions, from intentionally releasing or causing to be released any balloon into the atmosphere that (i) is inflated with a substance lighter than air and (ii) requires more than five minutes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Read third time and defeated by Senate (16-Y 21-N 1-A) |
| 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 |
| SJR309 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Stephen Boddie Wiggins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ309ER) |
| 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 |
| SJR310 | Pass | Commending The Steward School baseball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ310ER) |
| 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 |
