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SJR228PassResolution; endorsement of SCHEV's statewide strategic plan for higher education; report. Endorses the framework of mission, vision, goals, and strategies for the statewide strategic plan for higher education developed and approved by the State Counc...
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ228ER)
SR114PassCelebrating the life of William Francis Swain.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR114ER)
SR100PassConfirming appointments to the Senate Ethics Advisory Panel. Confirms appointments made by the Senate Committee on Rules to the Senate Ethics Advisory Panel.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR100ER)
SR110PassCelebrating the life of Reuben V. Burrell.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR110ER)
SR112PassCelebrating the life of Willie Fobbs, Sr.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR112ER)
SR116PassCelebrating the life of Charles B. Walker.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR116ER)
SR122PassNominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
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2015-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR122ER)
SB1009Engross

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Income tax deduction; long-term health care insurance premiums. Reduces the allowable income tax deduction for long-term health care insurance premiums from 100 percent to 50 percent of the amount an individual pays annually in premiums, effective fo...
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2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee
SB1297Engross

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Stalking; penalty. Provides that a person who on more than one occasion maliciously engages in conduct directed at another person that would cause a reasonable person to suffer severe emotional distress with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or haras...
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2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1000Engross

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Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans, including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distr...
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2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1154Engross

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Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires any person who unlawfully discharges any deleterious substance into state waters to notify the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) or the coordinator of emergency...
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2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
SJR361PassCelebrating the life of Charles L. Moseley.
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2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ361ER)
SJR285Engross

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Study; feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to complement existing federal requirements; report. Establishes an 11-member joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to comp...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1280Engross

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Certificate of public need; conditions. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to condition the approval of a certificate of public need upon an agreement of the applicant to support charitable organizations specifically concerned with the provisio...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB742Engross

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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...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SJR245PassSexual Assault Awareness Month. Designates the month of April, in 2015 and in each succeeding year, as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Virginia.
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2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ245ER)
SB1421Engross

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TANF; Back-to-School Supplies and Clothing Allowance Program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish and administer the Back-to-School Supplies and Clothing Allowance Program (the Program). Under the Program, families receiving benefi...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1022Engross

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Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2015, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1292Engross

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Sanitary districts; boat ramps, shoreline management, and dredging. Authorizes a county governing board to construct and operate boat ramps and facilities systems, beach and shoreline management and restoration systems, and creek and river dredging s...
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2015-02-24
VOTE: PASSAGE (47-Y 51-N 1-A)
SB1402Engross

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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; open meeting exemption for gang-related activities. Authorizes a public body to convene a closed meeting for consultation with or briefings by staff members, legal counsel, or law-enforcement or emergency service ...
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2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee
SJR351PassCelebrating the life of John Edward Hughes.
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2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ351ER)
SB1386Engross

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Teacher licensure; professional development. Requires every person seeking initial teacher licensure or renewal of a teaching license with an endorsement in elementary education to receive professional development on the screening, intervention, and ...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1083Engross

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Immunizations; meningococcal vaccine. Adds certain doses of the meningococcal vaccine to the minimum immunization requirements set forth in the State Board of Health Regulations for the Immunization of School Children. The bill contains a reenactment...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SJR281Engross

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Study; urban schools; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the unique and specific challenges facing urban school divisions. The provisions of the resolution are contingent on funding in a 2015 general appropriation act.
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1055Engross

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Child welfare agencies; background checks and barrier crimes. Establishes a national fingerprint-based criminal history record check requirement for licensure or registration as a child welfare agency; for approval as a family day home by a family da...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1028Engross

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Compensation of court-appointed counsel; waivers. Allows court-appointed counsel for parents in child welfare cases to submit a waiver application for additional compensation of $120 in district court and $158 for cases appealed to the circuit court....
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1076Engross

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Elections; date of June primary elections. Changes the date of primary elections held in the month of June from the second Tuesday to the third Tuesday and changes candidate filing deadlines accordingly.
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2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1013Engross

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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...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1460Engross

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Financial exploitation of adults. Provides that upon receipt of a report on or during an adult protective services investigation of suspected financial exploitation of an adult in which financial losses to the adult resulting from the exploitation ar...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB1017Engross

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Employment applications; inquiries regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested or charged with...
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2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1051Engross

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Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations will start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019. The bill requires that t...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1244Engross

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Practice of chiropractic; scope. Expands the scope of practice of chiropractic to include performing the physical examinations required of applicants for a new commercial driver's license or commercial driver's learner's permit or a renewal of such l...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB800Intro

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Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 3, Special Session I, of the Acts of Assembly of 2014.
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1305Engross

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Unclaimed property; funds owed under a life insurance policy, annuity, or retained asset account; use of the master death master file. Requires insurance companies to perform a semiannual comparison of their in-force policies, annuities, and retained...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB967Engross

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Extended foster care services and support. Creates the Extended Foster Care Services and Support Program to provide foster care services and support, including foster care maintenance payments, to qualifying individuals age 18 to 21 years who were fo...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1105Engross

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School Health Advisory Board. Establishes the School Health Advisory Board in the executive branch to advise the General Assembly on pending legislation concerning health policy that affects elementary and secondary schools.
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SJR359PassCelebrating the life of Patricia Carolyn McWaters.
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2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ359ER)
SJR216Engross

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United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
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2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB991Engross

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Virginia Tourism Growth Incentive Fund. Establishes the Virginia Tourism Growth Incentive Fund to attract new tourism and hospitality projects and expand existing tourism and hospitality projects in the Commonwealth. The provisions of the bill are co...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1388Engross

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Trespassing on railroad trains; penalty. Raises the penalty for trespassing on a railroad car or train from a Class 4 to a Class 2 misdemeanor.
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2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB877Engross

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Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Creates the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact to (i) protect the public through verification of competency and ensuring of accountability for pa...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB736Engross

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Courthouse security; assessment. Increases from $10 to $20 the maximum amount a local governing body may assess against a convicted defendant as part of the costs in a criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to fund courthouse security.
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB978Engross

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Virginia Retirement System; participation in Plan One. Allows an employee hired before July 1, 2010, who did not have at least 60 months of creditable service as of January 1, 2013, to make a one-time, irrevocable election to participate in the Virgi...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1364Engross

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Corporate income tax; apportionment of income for manufacturers; defense manufacturers. Exempts defense manufacturers that elect to use single sales factor apportionment for purposes of determining corporate income tax liability in the Commonwealth f...
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2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee
SB692Engross

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Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SB1393Engross

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Compounding of drugs for use in executions. Empowers the Director of the Department of Corrections to make and enter into contracts with a pharmacy or outsourcing facility to compound the drugs necessary to carry out execution by lethal injection. Th...
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2015-02-24
VOTE: DEFEATED (42-Y 56-N)
SB691Engross

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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 ...
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2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1143Engross

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Establishment of quarantine zones by the Governor. Authorizes the Governor to establish quarantine zones at points of entry into the Commonwealth, including airports, seaports, and marine terminals, for the purpose of quarantining individuals who hav...
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2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB1054Engross

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State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; regulations. Provides that the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families shall promulgate regulations necessary to carry out it...
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2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee
SJR263Engross

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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...
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2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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