| SB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Removes the requirement that certain child day programs exempt from licensure require parents or guardians to sign a written policy that explains that the child day program allows school-age children to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR297 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable R. Terrence Ney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ297ER) |
| SJR295 | Pass | Commending Comfort Zone Camp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ295ER) |
| SB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure of family day homes. Provides that the children of a family day home provider and any children who reside in the family day home where care is provided shall be included in determining the number of children receiving care for the purpose o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Child welfare agencies; background checks. Requires annual background checks for employees and volunteers of child welfare agencies. Under current law, background checks are required only at the time of initial employment. The bill provides that such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB796 | Intro
Sine Die | County food and beverage tax; referendum requirement. Removes the requirement that a county food and beverage tax be approved by a referendum before the county may pass an ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Stricken from Senate calendar (37-Y 0-N) |
| SJR301 | Pass | Commending Morgan Lumber Company, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ301ER) |
| SJR304 | Pass | Commending Faye O. Prichard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ304ER) |
| SJR307 | Pass | Commending Robert P. Schultze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ307ER) |
| SB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Community policy and management teams; powers and duties; referral to family assessment and planning teams. Requires community policy and management teams to establish a process for parents and caregivers to directly refer children in their care to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support; notice of administrative support order. Allows the Department of Social Services to serve notice of an administrative support order, or a review of such order, by electronic means. Under current law, absent a formal waiver, notice must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR265 | Pass | Commending Ashland D. Fortune.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ265ER) |
| SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlicensed, unregistered family day homes; notice to Department of Social Services. Requires every family day home that provides care for five or fewer children, exclusive of the provider's own children, that is not licensed or voluntarily registered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Child day centers and family day homes; report to Department of Social Services. Requires local commissioners of revenue or other local business license officials to report to the Department of Social Services on a quarterly basis the name, address, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-30
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB1091 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjustment of the calculation of the local composite index for public school funding. Directs the Department of Education to adjust its funding calculations for the local ability to pay by using the use-value assessment of real property, instead of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a fetal transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospitals; admission of patients. Requires hospitals to ask each patient prior to admission whether he is a veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Commonwealth Resilience Fund established. Requires the Governor to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that established a regional CO2 electric power sector cap and trade program and establishes the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; licensure. Provides that supervised clinical training that is received in the United States as part of the curriculum of an international medical school may fulfill the requirements for licensure by the Board of Medicine if the cli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school board members; professional development. Requires each newly elected or appointed member of a local school board in a school division that contains one or more schools denied accreditation or accredited with warning for three consecutive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| SR77 | Pass | Commending Riverside Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate (SR77ER) |
| SB769 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animal surgical sterilization program; fund; penalty. Establishes a fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or dogs. The bill provides that a surcharge of $50 per ton of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospitals; required notice to patients. Requires hospitals to provide oral and written notice to any patient that has been placed in observation or outpatient status that he has been placed in such status if (i) the patient receives onsite services f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1442 | Intro
Sine Die | Implementation of Clean Power Plan rule. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) from expending funds to develop or implement a Clean Power State Implementation Plan (Plan) required under Clean Air Act §111(d) for existing power ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Noxious weeds. Designates golden bamboo as a noxious weed. The bill authorizes a locality to adopt an ordinance to prevent, control, and abate the growth, importation, or spread of golden bamboo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Community cat programs. Allows localities to authorize the operation of community cat programs. In a community cat program, a caregiver who has an outdoor, free-roaming cat sterilized and returns it to the area where it was captured is not considered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Newborn screening; Krabbe disease. Requires the screening tests conducted on every infant born in the Commonwealth to include a screening test for Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; teacher grievance procedures. Gives a teacher who has been recommended for dismissal by the superintendent the option of requesting a hearing before a three person fact-finding panel consisting of one person chosen by the teacher, one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB830 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care institutions; assisted living facilities; reporting requirements. Requires the chief executive, chief of staff, or administrator of a hospital, other health care institution, or assisted living facility who becomes aware of information in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Timing of ultrasound prior to abortion; informed consent. Removes the specific time frame for performance of a pre-abortion ultrasound, a requirement of informed consent prior to abortion. Current law requires the ultrasound take place at least 24 ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1112 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations, by July 1, 2017, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB1389 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Provides that the spouse or child of a veteran with at least 90 percent permanent disability may be eligible for benefits under the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB1101 | Intro
Sine Die | Marking oyster planting grounds. Prohibits the use of stakes or buoys made of metal or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to mark oyster planting grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB725 | Engross
Sine Die | Arrest without warrant; procedures. Allows the magistrate or other issuing authority to examine the investigating or charging officer rather than the arresting officer in determining whether an arrest warrant or summons should be issued for a person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Read third time and defeated by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| SB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Counseling; criminal history records check for applicants for licensure. Establishes state and federal criminal history background check requirements for applicants for licensure as a professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Second...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| SJR241 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study specific early childhood development programs, prenatal to age five, in the Commonwealth in order for the General Assembly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Incorporates SJ287 |
| SB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia crab meat label. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to represent or label a container as containing Virginia crab meat unless 100 percent of the crab meat is from crabs taken from or caught in Virginia waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Vegetation Program. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to establish the Virginia Vegetation Program, organizing volunteer labor to plant native vegetation on unimproved lands that is managed by the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support for disabled child over the age of 18 (Conner's Law). Provides that a court may order child support for any child over the age of 18 who is severely and permanently mentally or physically disabled if such disability existed prior to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, using a handheld personal communications device while operating a moving vehicle, unless such device is used in voice-operated or ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of "Jake brakes" in localities. Authorizes counties, cities, and towns to regulate the use of "Jake brakes" when operating motor vehicles within their boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Contract carrier's transportation of railroad employees; civil penalty. Provides for the regulation of transportation of railroad employees by contract carriers and requires that such contract carriers maintain a driver qualification file. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Transit funding in statewide prioritization; review of project prioritization. Includes moneys from the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund and highway aid to mass transit in the list of funds subject to the statewide prioritization process. The bill also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR78 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Carl Michael Ross.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Bill text as passed Senate (SR78ER) |
