VA Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB958	Intro Sine Die	Driving while intoxicated; no driver's license. Requires a 30-day mandatory minimum jail sentence and vehicle forfeiture for DUI defendants who do not hold a valid driver's license or who are not authorized to drive at the time of the offense. A thir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-28 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 9-N)
SB952	Intro Sine Die	Highway maintenance payments to cities and towns. Bases highway maintenance payments to cities and towns on lane-miles of highways. Under current law, such payments are based on moving-lane-miles available to peak-hour traffic. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-28 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB953	Intro Sine Die	Highway maintenance payments to certain cities. Provides for highway maintenance payments to cities for paved trails that accommodate all modes of nonmotorized transportation, at a rate of 50 percent of the per-miles rate established for highway main... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-28 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1323	Intro 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]	2015-01-27 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (12-Y 0-N)
SB1288	Intro Sine Die	General registrars; assistant registrars. Removes the requirement that in Russell County there be at least one full-time assistant registrar serving in the office of the general registrar. The law for all other counties and cities permits each electo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
SB1175	Intro Sine Die	Short-term rental property tax. Permits localities to impose a short-term rental property tax on bicycles at the rate of $1 per rental or at the rate permitted under current law, which is a rate not to exceed one and one-half percent of the price of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 9-N)
SB1185	Intro Sine Die	Admissions tax in Stafford County; expiration. Extends the expiration of the admissions tax in Stafford County from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2019. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB708	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB1397	Intro Sine Die	Elections; run-off elections. Provides that no candidate shall be deemed to have been elected at a general election to any statewide office or to the United States Senate unless such candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB758	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB765	Intro Sine Die	Population data to be used in redistricting. Establishes a procedure for allocating persons in state and federal correctional facilities to their last known residential addresses for purposes of state legislative and local redistricting. Under curren... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N)
SB890	Intro Sine Die	Zoning; vehicle title loan businesses and payday lenders. Allows a local zoning ordinance to include reasonable limits on the number of motor vehicle title loan businesses and payday lenders that may be operated at any one time within a zoning distri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N)
SB746	Intro Sine Die	Absentee ballots; deadline for mailing to voters. Extends the deadline by which the electoral boards are required to make available printed ballots to be used for absentee voting from 45 days to 60 days prior to the election. By reference, this measu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 0-N)
SB906	Intro Sine Die	Absentee voting; information required on application. Eliminates the requirement that a voter applying for an absentee ballot provide on the application the last four digits of his social security number. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N)
SB1343	Intro Sine Die	Joint Rules Committee; employment of legal counsel. Authorizes the Joint Rules Committee of the General Assembly to employ legal counsel to represent the Commonwealth in litigation challenging the validity of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter (11-Y 2-N)
SB910	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB907	Intro Sine Die	Absentee ballots; name and address of voter. Provides that a voter's failure to include, in the Statement of Voter on the back of the envelope for returning a voted absentee ballot, his full name and the full address of his legal residence in Virgini... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N)
SB1077	Intro Sine Die	Vote centers; pilot program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to conduct a pilot program under which one or more localities unanimously approved by the State Board would establish vote centers for use in primary elections instead of operating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB786	Intro Sine Die	Electoral college; allocation of electoral votes. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors from a winner-take-all basis to a proportional allocation basis. The two elector... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 4-N)
SB1432	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; commercial spaceflight entities. Continues the transfer to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority of income tax revenue generated by certain companies that is attributable to the sale of commercial human spaceflights or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Finance
SB726	Intro Sine Die	Cash proffer for residential construction; sunset date. Removes the July 1, 2017, expiration of a Code section that delays the payment of certain per-dwelling-unit cash proffers until after the final inspection of the subject property and prior to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Local Government
SB1396	Intro Sine Die	Authority related to disposition of certain utilities; Cities of Danville and Martinsville; report to House and Senate Commerce and Labor Committees. Provides that the city council of the City of Danville and the city council of the City of Martinsvi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1243	Intro Sine Die	Tangible personal property; miscellaneous and incidental property. Declares miscellaneous and incidental property with an original cost of less than $250 as a separate classification of tangible personal property. The bill clarifies that when reporti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Finance
SB1400	Intro Sine Die	Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits a person, other than a political party committee or political action committee, from making any single contribution or any combination of contributions that exceeds $10,000 to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 2-N)
SB1065	Intro Sine Die	Cash proffer for residential construction; sunset date. Removes the July 1, 2017, expiration of a current law that delays the payment of certain per-dwelling-unit cash proffers until after the final inspection of the subject property and prior to the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Local Government
SB822	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-27 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB1239	Intro Sine Die	Statewide drill simulating an electromagnetic pulse disaster. Requires the Governor to designate an attack on the Commonwealth involving an electromagnetic pulse as the disaster scenario for the required 2015 annual statewide drill on large-scale dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB1215	Intro Sine Die	Sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn; penalty. Provides that a person who imports, sells, offers for sale, purchases, barters, or possesses with intent to sell any ivory, ivory product, rhinoceros horn, or rhinoceros horn product is guilty of a Class 1 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
SB1326	Intro Sine Die	Academic transcripts; documentation of dismissal. Requires public institutions of higher education to document the dismissal of any student who has been dismissed for violation of the institution's sexual misconduct policy, student code of conduct, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB964	Intro Sine Die	Charitable Gaming Board; authorization of electronic poker games for qualified organizations. Authorizes a qualified organization to allow the playing of electronic poker games. In order to obtain a permit to conduct electronic poker games, a qualifi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB1179	Intro Sine Die	Firearms; access by children; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor to knowingly authorize a child age four or younger to use a firearm or pneumatic gun. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N)
SB704	Intro Sine Die	Alternative local minimum wage. Establishes a procedure by which an alternative local minimum wage may be imposed in any locality. Adoption of an alternative minimum wage requirement requires majority approval by the voters in a local referendum. If ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
SB1275	Intro Sine Die	Institutions of higher education; reporting of sexual assault to DCJS. Requires each public or private institution of higher education that has obtained any information alleging that a felony sexual assault involving a student has occurred to report ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB981	Intro Sine Die	Institutions of higher education; sexual assault; memorandum of understanding and policies. Requires the governing board of each public or private institution of higher education to (i) establish a written memorandum of understanding with a local sex... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB768	Intro Sine Die	Firearm transfers; penalties. Creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a person who is not a licensed dealer to sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm to any other person who is not a licensed dealer. The bill also creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a pers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 10-N)
SB1207	Intro Sine Die	Securities Act; Crowdfunding Virginia Exemption. Creates an exemption from the securities, broker-dealer, and agent registration requirements of the Securities Act for an offer or sale of a security by an issuer, or an individual who represents an is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
SB1321	Intro Sine Die	Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program (the Program) to be administered by the Department of Veterans Services to provide grants to businesses certified by the Department as participants in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB694	Intro Sine Die	Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check; penalties. Requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on a prospective transferee before a firearms show vendor may transfer firearms at a gun show. The bill... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB1252	Intro Sine Die	Higher education; reporting of sexual assualt; penalty. Requires any employee of a public institution of higher education who through the course of his employment obtains information alleging a criminal sexual assault has occurred to report within 24... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB714	Intro Sine Die	Private health insurance exchanges. Provides that one or more private entities may establish private health insurance exchanges within the Commonwealth. The measure requires exchanges to be registered with the State Corporation Commission. Participat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB798	Intro Sine Die	Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits individuals who are not licensed firearms dealers from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and establishes such an offense as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 10-N)
SB772	Intro Sine Die	Equal pay irrespective of sex. Amends existing law requiring equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex to (i) increase the penalty for a violation from double unpaid wages to triple unpaid wages plus reasonable attorney fees; (ii) prohibit employe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 5-N)
SB828	Intro Sine Die	Possession of firearm, etc., on school property; private or religious schools. Eliminates the crimes of possession on the property of a private or religious elementary, middle, or high school; a school bus owned or operated by such school; or any pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
SB912	Intro Sine Die	Emergency custody orders; temporary firearms restriction orders. Requires a magistrate who issues an emergency custody order to also issue a temporary firearms restriction order for a period of 90 days. A person subject to a temporary firearms restri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
SB1346	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Building Authority; Military Mission Improvement and Expansion projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to finance or assist in the financing of certain activities connected with Military Mission Improvement and Exp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB909	Intro Sine Die	Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Prohibits a person who is subject to a protective order from possessing a firearm; currently, such person is only prohibited from purchasing or transporting a firearm. Such conduct is punishable as ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 10-N)
SB1429	Intro Sine Die	Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure where an attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer can apply to a circuit court judge for a warrant to remove firearms from a person who poses a sub... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 10-N)
SB1295	Intro Sine Die	Chaplains of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force; sermons. Prohibits censorship by state government officials or agencies of the religious content of sermons and other speeches made within religious services by chaplains of the Vir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB864	Intro Sine Die	Cemeteries; access when located on private property. Adds to a lessee of private property on which a cemetery is located the duty to provide access. Currently, the duty is on only the owner of such property. The bill also provides that if a locked ga... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB1108	Intro Sine Die	Revocation of concealed handgun permit; delinquency in child support payments. Provides for the revocation of an individual's concealed handgun permit if such individual (i) has failed to comply with a subpoena, summons, or warrant relating to patern... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 10-N)