VA Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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
SJR306	Pass	Commending Virginia Organizing. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ306ER)
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)
SB1210	Engross Sine Die	Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Defeated by Senate (14-Y 24-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
SR80	Pass	Commending the Dochiki Civic and Social Club, Inc., on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR80ER)
SR84	Pass	Celebrating the life of Curtis Howard Hazel. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR84ER)
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)
SR81	Pass	Commending the Reverend Dr. Devlaming A. Peace, Sr. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR81ER)
SR82	Pass	Celebrating the life of R. David O'Dell, Jr. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR82ER)
SR85	Pass	Commending Celestial Baptist Church. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR85ER)
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
SR86	Pass	Commending the Reverend Jerome Hancock. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR86ER)
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
SJR233	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for existing political boundaries, equal population, racial and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage
SR79	Pass	Commending Palmer Stillman. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR79ER)
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)
SB1202	Intro Sine Die	Clean Power Plan; preparation of state implementation plan. Prohibits any state agency or employee from preparing or submitting to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a state implementation plan, or other document with respect to the EPA's Clea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
SR83	Pass	Celebrating the life of Robert Barns Brittain. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Bill text as passed Senate (SR83ER)
SB1063	Intro Sine Die	Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their applications whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to devel... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
SB1149	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
SB1416	Intro Sine Die	Railroads; trespassing; penalties. Provides that a person who goes upon a railroad trestle or railroad bridge or within a railroad tunnel or railway yard without the consent of the railroad company is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. The bill also re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N)
SB1033	Intro Sine Die	Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership composition. Increases the membership of the NVTA by one nonlegislative member to represent towns that receive funds for urban highway systems. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SJR269	Engross Sine Die	U.S. Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution to restrain the abuse of power by the federal government. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 0-N)
SB993	Intro Sine Die	Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" or "vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the ve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Incorporates SB694
SB1254	Intro Sine Die	Judges; limitation on election and appointment of judges. Restricts the General Assembly from electing or appointing a person to an original term as a judge if the person (i) is a member of the General Assembly or (ii) was a member of the General Ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
SB1452	Intro Sine Die	Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; adoption. Codifies the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, which provides a fiduciary, including a personal representative, conservator, guardian, agent, or trustee, the power to access and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N)
SB1444	Intro Sine Die	Driver's license; marijuana possession. Revises the existing provision that a person loses his driver's license for six months when convicted of or placed on deferred disposition for a drug offense to provide that the provision does not apply to simp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 7-N)
SB1453	Intro Sine Die	Commission on all sales of spirits in closed containers. Provides that licensed distillers shall earn a 15 percent commission on all sales of spirits in closed containers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 8-N)