| SB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Bristol. Makes clarifying changes related to the BVU Authority. Other changes include deletion of provisions related to the youth services department and replacing references to the city comptroller with chief financial officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Referenda for traffic light signal photo-monitoring systems. Provides that localities who wish to enact an ordinance providing for the use of traffic light signal photo-monitoring systems must first have voter approval by a referendum. The bill also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N) |
| SJR255 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session. Currently, campaign fundra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SR76 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR76ER) |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Leesburg; unmanned aerial vehicles; preservation of trees. Authorizes the town council to limit the use of unmanned aerial vehicles within town boundaries and, by ordinance, to require private construction projects to preserve existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR71 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR71ER) |
| SJR224 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; redistricting criteria and process. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SR72 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR72ER) |
| SJR219 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB722 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; students granted Temporary Protected Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and Deferred Action for Parental Accountability. Declares that absent congressional intent to the contrary, any person granted Temporary Protected ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SJR215 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor first elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; method of nominating party candidates. Removes the power of incumbent officeholders in some cases to insist on a primary as the method of nominating political party candidates and removes the power of General Assembly incumbents seeking re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Local regulation of certain aircraft. Provides that a locality may by ordinance prohibit the use within its boundaries of privately owned, unmanned, autonomous aircraft weighing 55 pounds or less within its boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery; sale of lottery tickets over Internet. Repeals the prohibition against the sale of lottery tickets over the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2015, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The measure also provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Magistrates; appointment and supervision. Reinstates supervisory control over the magistrate system with the chief circuit court judge and the Committee on District Courts and abolishes magisterial regions. In 2008, appointment of and supervisory aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | State police training; reduction in local law-enforcement funding. Requires a locality to reimburse the Department of State Police for training costs if the locality hires an officer of the Department of State Police within five years of the officer'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives. Requires health insurance policies, individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and health care plans offered by a health maintenance organization issued or renewed on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Option contracts for the purchase of residential property; required provisions. Establishes required contract provisions whenever an owner of residential property enters into an option contract with another party to purchase the residential property....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; sexual orientation and gender identity. Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; Robby's Rule. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish and maintain a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process on domestic corporations. Allows process on a Virginia corporation to be served on its registered agent by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's registered office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2015, to $9.00 per hour effective July 1, 2016, and to $10.10 per hour effective July 1, 2017, unless a higher mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Removes provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (2-Y 11-N 1-A) |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; art instruction studio license. Creates an art instruction studio license that permits the consumption of wine or beer on the premises of the licensee by any bona fide customer attending a private studio instructional sess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 8-N) |
| SR67 | Pass | Commending Jill Branham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR67ER) |
| SR66 | Pass | Commending the 2015 inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR66ER) |
| SR64 | Pass | Commending Freddie W. Nicholas, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR64ER) |
| SR56 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Thelma Day Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR56ER) |
| SR59 | Pass | Commending Castlewood High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR59ER) |
| SR54 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Harvey Nathaniel Johnson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR54ER) |
| SR60 | Pass | Commending John I. Burton High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR60ER) |
| SR58 | Pass | Commending Honaker High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR58ER) |
| SR55 | Pass | Commending the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR55ER) |
| SR61 | Pass | Commending Eastside High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR61ER) |
| SR57 | Pass | Commending Haysi High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR57ER) |
| SR63 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State University football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR63ER) |
| SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; health information form. Prohibits the physical examination report or health information form required by public schools for entering students from including a question on the subject of the presence of a firearm in the residence of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery; certain local social services workers; penalty. Provides that the penalty for battery of a child protective services worker or foster care worker employed by a local department of social services and engaged in his public duties shall includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Postal Service; inspectors. Removes the word "Inspection" from references to the United States Postal Inspection Service in several criminal procedure sections. The United States Postal Service restructured its law-enforcement agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB799 | Intro
Sine Die | State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person because of sexual orientation or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N) |
| SR65 | Pass | Senate of Virginia; 2015 Operating Resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR65ER) |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of unlawful photographs; venue. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to publish on the Internet a photograph or video made in violation of the current law prohibiting filming, videotaping, or photographing a nonconsenting per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse (a defined term) of a child aged 13 or 14 from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Appointment of conservation police officers. Eliminates the requirement that the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, when making appointments to sworn officer positions above the rank of conservation police officer, select from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires local fiscal impact bills to be introduced no later than the first day of the session. This bill was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of the corporate income tax. Eliminates the corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, by setting the rate of the tax at zero percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
