| SB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Post-adoption services. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when issuing a new certificate of birth pursuant to an adoption, to provide adoptive parents with a document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SJR275 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Wendell Scott, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ275ER) |
| SJR223 | Pass | Commending Sandra Levin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ223ER) |
| SJR232 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jean R. Packard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ232ER) |
| SJR221 | Pass | Commending Cliffview Church of God.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ221ER) |
| SJR253 | Pass | Commending John Otho Marsh, III, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ253ER) |
| SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Social Services; annual review of payments made to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program recipients and indexing of such payments to the Consumer Price Index. Requires the State Board of Social Services to develop and impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR225 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Major Michael Donahue, USA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ225ER) |
| SJR267 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joe Hampton France.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ267ER) |
| SJR248 | Pass | Commending LEAD VIRGINIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ248ER) |
| SJR230 | Pass | Commending Shirley Fowlkes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ230ER) |
| SJR250 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dee E. Floyd.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ250ER) |
| SR68 | Pass | Commending the Richlands High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Bill text as passed Senate (SR68ER) |
| SR69 | Pass | Celebrating the life of George Crocker, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Bill text as passed Senate (SR69ER) |
| SB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual orientation change efforts prohibited. Prohibits any health care provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with any person under 18 years of age. The bill defines "sexual orientation change efforts" as including the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning tests; expedited retake. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test to all students regardless of grade level or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning tests; expedited retake. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test to all students regardless of grade level or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test to each student regardless of grade level or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1322 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board for Community Colleges; policy for the award of academic credit for military training. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt, no later than December 31, 2015, a policy for the award of academic credit to any student enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | School-sponsored fund-raisers; regulations. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to limit the number of school-sponsored fund-raisers that are exempt from the requirements of Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 USC 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; regional care organizations. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (Department), subject to approval of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to enter into contracts in regions of the Commonwealth with regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test, with the exception of the writing Standards ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1294 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Nursing; criminal history record check for applicants for licensure. Establishes state and federal criminal history background check requirements for applicants for licensure as a practical nurse or registered nurse, beginning January 1, 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board for Community Colleges; policy for the award of academic credit for military training. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt, no later than December 31, 2015, a policy for the award of academic credit to any student enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Court costs; expired inspection sticker. Prohibits the court from assessing court costs if the violation for an expired motor vehicle safety inspection sticker is dismissed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; conviction required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax refunds; payment. Requires the Tax Commissioner and State Comptroller to implement procedures to allow an individual to elect to have his income tax refund paid by check mailed to his address. If the individual makes no election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing with a double yellow line. Allows drivers to pass a pedestrian, stopped vehicle, or vehicle traveling less than 25 miles per hour by crossing a double yellow line. The bill also relocates a definition from the end of the section to the beginn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Exceeding speed limit; fine. Repeals reckless driving for exceeding the speed limit as a Class 1 misdemeanor and provides a mandatory minimum fine of $500 for a speed of 20 miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing with a double yellow line. Allows drivers to pass a pedestrian, stopped vehicle, or vehicle traveling less than 25 miles per hour by crossing a double yellow line. The bill also relocates a definition from the end of the section to the beginn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax on commercial and industrial property. Requires counties to appropriate 30 percent of the revenue from the special tax on commercial and industrial property attributable to property located within any town that constructs and mainta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduction of the corporate income tax. Reduces the corporate income tax rate by one percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, and continues to reduce the corporate income tax rate each taxable year contingent upon general fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of foreign law in Virginia courts; domestic relations. Provides that if a court, administrative agency, arbitrator, mediator, or other adjudicative or enforcement authority in a domestic relations matter bases its ruling or decision on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1212 | Intro
Sine Die | Watercraft sales and use tax. Raises the rate of the watercraft sales and use tax, currently 2%, to 4.15%, which is the rate that will be applied to the motor vehicle sales and use tax effective July 1, 2016. The bill removes the current cap of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Weighing exemptions for vehicles owned by a locality. Provides an exemption from weighing for vehicles owned by a locality when the locality maintains the highway or roadway adjacent to the weigh station. This bill would apply to the City of Suffolk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Local cigarette taxes. Allows all localities to impose a cigarette tax by removing the requirement that they had such authority prior to 1977. The bill sets a maximum rate on the cigarette tax imposed by counties of five cents per pack or the amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (3-Y 12-N) |
| SB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Imposes a five-cent bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support the Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation network companies; penalties. Provides for the regulation of transportation network companies by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissions tax in counties. Extends the authorization to levy a tax on admissions charged for attendance at any event to all counties and removes specific authorizations deemed unnecessary as a result of this bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Low-income tax credit; refundable. Changes the low-income tax credit to make any amount that exceeds the taxpayer's income tax liability refundable to the taxpayer beginning in tax year 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation network companies. Establishes a process for the licensing of transportation network companies (TNCs) by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), provided that TNCs comply with the requirements for licensure. The bill requires TNCs to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB1199 | Intro
Sine Die | Acts of violence on schools and other property; penalties. Provides enhanced penalties for certain acts of violence if the act is committed at a public or private elementary or secondary school, institution of higher education, or child day center; o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Refusal of DUI blood or breath tests; eligibility for restricted license. Provides that a court may, for good cause shown, issue a restricted driver's license to a person found guilty of a first or second offense of refusing to submit to blood or bre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB939 | Intro
Sine Die | Private police departments. Defines private police department as any police department that employs private police officers operated by an entity authorized by statute or an act of assembly to establish a private police department. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxes on electronic cigarettes and other vapor products. Creates a state tax on electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic cigarillos, and similar products and devices (vapor products) and authorizes cities and towns and certain counties to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR70 | Pass | Senate Rules. Amends the Senate Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR70ER) |
| SR73 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR73ER) |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates; signatures required on ballot petitions. Reduces the number of signatures an independent candidate or a candidate for nomination by primary is required to gather on the candidate petition when seeking to qualify as a candidate for the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SR75 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR75ER) |
| SR74 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR74ER) |
