| 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) |
| SJR214 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-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) |
| SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program (Program) to be administered by the Department of Veterans Services to provide grants to businesses certified by the Department as participants in the De... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; charitable gaming; audit and administration fee; adjusted gross receipts. Limits the audit and administration fee to no more than one and one-quarter percent of the adjusted gross receipts of a charita... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies. Requires the governing boards of public and private institutions of higher education to adopt a sexual misconduct policy that addresses incidents of sexual misconduct involving any person ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1379 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to certify to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia that it has reviewed its sexual miscondu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; disease presumption; correctional officers. Provides that correctional officers are entitled to a presumption that hypertension, heart disease, hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, MRSA, or HIV causing the correct... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; net energy metering. Increases, from 500 kilowatts to two megawatts, the maximum generating capacity of an electrical generating facility owned or operated by an electric utility's nonresidential customer that may be eligible for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; penalties. Makes numerous changes to laws regarding firearms. The bill provides that a person may be held civilly liable for injury to the person or property of another or for wrongful death resulting from the use of a firearm by a child un... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; reporting of sexual assault; penalty. Requires any administrator or professor employed by a public institution of higher education who through the course of his employment obtains information alleging that a criminal sexual assault ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Corrections; Department of Corrections; powers and duties. Transfers certain powers and duties of the State Board of Corrections to the Department of Corrections, including establishing procedures for home incarceration, work release, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption by person other than spouse of a parent. Provides that a person other than the spouse of a parent may adopt a child if the child has only one parent, the adoption would not terminate the parental rights of the parent, and the parent joins in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 8-N) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |