| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of physically disabled or socially isolated persons. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from a physical disability or social isolation to, through the use of that ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; certified industrial parks. Provides that the Authority shall develop a program by which local industrial parks may become certified by the Commonwealth. In developing such a program, the Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Revenues from local fines and penalties. Provides for a portion of the revenues from local fines and penalties to be segregated and deposited in a special fund in those counties or cities in which the local fines and penalties collected exceed a thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR65 | 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] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animal surgical sterilization program; fund; penalty. Establishes a fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or dogs. The bill provides that a surcharge of $50 per ton of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax liens. Provides that if a taxpayer agrees, a third party who pays the delinquent taxes due on the taxpayer's real property may be assigned the tax lien on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology related to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill also eliminates provisions exempting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering by municipalities and multifamily customer-generators. Authorizes municipal renewable energy net metering projects. Participating municipalities are authorized to aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; funding and review. Creates a Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund and provides for the funding of Line of Duty claims. The bill also establishes an advisory review board to assist the Comptroller in the review of claims invo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Secondhand fixtures and scrap metal; payment. Requires persons acquiring secondhand building fixtures, scrap, metal articles, and proprietary articles to make payments for the materials in the form of a check. Currently, purchasers of certain secondh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody orders; duration; extension. Provides for a second two-hour extension of the time during which a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order upon a finding by the magistrate that the person continues to meet the criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; limitation on collection and use of personal information by law enforcement. Limits the ability of law-enforcement and regulatory agencies to use technology to collect and maintain personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession and administration of epinephrine. Authorizes any employee of a licensed restaurant, summer camp, or campground to possess and administer epinephrine, provided such employee is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia community college mental health services pilot program. Requires the Virginia Community College System to create a pilot program to establish a plan or contract with community groups or both to provide mental health services to uninsured stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Securities Act; Invest in 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 issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; inspection and enforcement. Provides that if any locality elects to enforce Part III of the Building Code, it shall also enforce the unsafe structures provisions for tenant complaints and enforce the elevator, escalat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal background check for transfer of firearms; exemption for holders of concealed handgun permits. Provides that a licensed firearms dealer does not have to have a criminal background check performed to determine a person's eligibility to purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor 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 prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the vendor may tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study equity of transportation funding; report. Directs JLARC to review the equity of transportation funding in light of new revenues and because such a study has not been conducted in 30 years....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors. Extends the statute of limitations to one year after the victim reaches 18 years of age for the misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge of consenting victim age 13 or 14 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; withholding child from custodial parent. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any principal, assistant principal, or supervisor employed by a local school board who fails to or refuses to release a child into the custody of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Withdrawal from secondary highway system. Allows lane-mile payments of $12,529 for a county with a charter that borders four cities, which elects to withdraw from the secondary system after June 30, 2014. The bill also allows the Commissioner of High...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing the training of nineteenth-century physicians in Richmond. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Disabled American Veterans Highway. Designates the entire length of Interstate Route 495 (Capital Beltway) in Virginia the "Disabled American Veterans Highway."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement consolidation plan. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Marine Resources Commission, to develop a plan for the consolidation of the law-enforcement functi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Agreements as to compensation. Requires that the Commissioner of Highways' decisions regarding agreements be reasonable and not arbitrary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood revitalization. Provides that a locality may by ordinance adopt a program to establish and impose an annual blighted property assessment fee on real properties that have remained vacant for one year or longer if the property has been per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax; telephone and telegraph companies. Authorizes localities to tax the personal property of telephone and telegraph companies not used in furnishing telegraph, telephone, broadband personal, or mobile commercial communication serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitations on eminent domain; right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment. Recognizes the property right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment and provides that just compensation is owed to the owner of property subject to condemnation when quiet and peaceful e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Retired state employees; health insurance credit. Increases the amount of the monthly health insurance credit for retired state employees from $4 per year of creditable service to $5 per year of creditable service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection of courts costs at DMV. Allows the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the collection of court costs at DMV customer service centers. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR1 | 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] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Contract passenger carriers. Eliminates the requirements that (i) contract passenger carrier service be provided for a minimum of one hour per vehicle trip and (ii) each vehicle carry a trip sheet showing passenger destinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill sets up the licensing scheme for casino gaming and provides penalties for viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor 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 prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR74 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); nomination of candidates for elective office. Provides for the right of a political party to determine the method by which it nominates candidates for state, county, city, and district office, so long as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; safety of Route 13; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Local Government to study the safety of Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties and to report on safety improvement recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; victims of sexual assault; cost-sharing requirement for HIV prevention medication. Prohibits certain insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts from imposing on an insured, subscriber, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational neglect or fraud (Ben's law). Provides that it is a felony for an educational professional or education-related service provider, by willful act or omission, to fail to provide the educational services outlined in an individualized educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI maiming; penalty. Raises the penalty for DUI maiming and for operating a motorcraft while intoxicated, causing permanent impairment, from a Class 6 to a Class 4 felony and creates a Class 6 felony when the offense causes serious bodily injury wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR80 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; brain injury services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the progress made by the Commonwealth in expanding access to brain injury services. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding of sexual and domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. Creates a new subfund in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be known as the Sexual and Domestic Violence Subfund. The Subfund consists of all funds, from whate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credit. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired local government employees, local officers, general registrars, employees of a general registrar, and employees of local social services bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
