| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
