| SB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Trap, neuter, and return activity. Permits a person to trap and sterilize a feral cat before returning it to the site where it was trapped. The bill excludes a participant in such an activity from the definition of "owner" regarding custody of the su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB852 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; corporal punishment; exception. Clarifies that corporal punishment does not include physical activities prescribed as part of an accredited high school athletic program. This bill provides that its provisions are declarative of exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| SB1148 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricted driver's license; activities related to seeking employment. Adds travel to and from a scheduled job interview or the office of the Virginia Employment Commission for the purpose of seeking employment to the list of purposes for which a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1409 | Engross
Sine Die | Community services boards; emergency services; access to experts. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to enter into agreements with health care providers experienced in the provision of emergency services for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB971 | Engross
Sine Die | Community colleges; workforce training. Establishes the Community College Workforce Training Grant Program to provide a $1,000 incentive payment to a community college for each student who (i) has successfully completed a noncredit workforce training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1374 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; failure to register. Provides that a defendant cannot raise as a defense to a charge of failure to register as a sex offender the fact that he did not receive information outlining registration duties and procedures from a stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB882 | Engross
Sine Die | Opening and closing motor vehicle doors. Requires drivers to wait for a reasonable opportunity to open vehicle doors on the side adjacent to moving traffic. A violation constitutes a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1317 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund. Establishes the Fund for the purpose of creating a low-interest loan program to help residents and businesses that are subject to recurrent flooding. Moneys from the Fund may be used to mitigate future flood damage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR332 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe and communicated to the General Assembly on January 29, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ332ER) |
| SB713 | Engross
Sine Die | Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council. Establishes the Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council (Council) as an advisory council in the executive branch. The bill requires the Council to advise and make recommendations to the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1315 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonhuman primates; penalties. Prohibits the acquisition of nonhuman primates and controls the ownership of such primates already in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits the possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of a primate, defined as any species ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; in-state tuition. Requires a public institution of higher education to grant a student in-state tuition if participation in a federal educational assistance program is conditioned on such student receiving in-state tuition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB754 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; Public Safety Trust Fund established. Raises the vehicle registration fee an additional $1.25 per year on each July 1 from 2015 through 2024 and allocates the funds to the Public Safety Trust Fund. The bill establishes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application for ballot. Requires that an absentee ballot application made by mail, electronic or telephonic transmission to a facsimile device, or other means be made no later than 5:00 p.m. on the eleventh day prior to the election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1446 | Engross
Sine Die | Training centers; communications with individuals. Provides that if an individual has submitted a letter to a training center director stating that he does not wish to leave the facility, community services board staff or Department staff, employees,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SJR355 | Pass | Celebrating the life of William Mackensen Dressler, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ355ER) |
| SB771 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; toxic waste site inventory. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to inventory by July 1, 2016, nonfederally managed toxic waste sites in Virginia and publish the inventory at that time and annually ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of the distribution and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; penalty. Transfers the regulation of the distribution and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products from the Department of T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1439 | Engross
Sine Die | Vessel operation; reasonable and articulable suspicion. Prohibits law-enforcement officers from stopping, boarding, or inspecting a noncommercial vessel without a reasonable and articulable suspension that there exists a violation of boating safety r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB797 | Engross
Sine Die | Photo red; enforcement. Establishes a procedure by which the operator of a traffic light signal violation monitoring system will mail a "notice of violation" to the alleged violator. If the matter is not resolved within 45 days from the mailing of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate income tax subtraction. Provides that if a previously inverted corporation makes a capital investment of at least $5 million to open a facility or business operation in the Commonwealth, then the first $5 million of the corporation's profit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB921 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of revenues by Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Adds towns to the list of localities whose transportation projects can benefit from revenues from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. The bill also requires that such cities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Governor's Powering Economic Growth Program. Establishes the Governor's Powering Economic Growth Program to award incentives in the form of reduced electricity rates to qualified economic development projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB903 | Engross
Sine Die | Problem-Solving Dockets; established. Establishes the Problem-Solving Docket Act (the Act). The bill allows the establishment of problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for political boundaries, equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, contiguity, compactness, and communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1455 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth of Virginia Veterans Bond Act of 2015. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia General Obligation Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount not exceeding $67 million, subject to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of at least $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB960 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Juvenile Justice; juveniles on probation; funding for re-entry and release services. Allows funding currently being used for re-entry and release services, including residential placement or treatment services, for juveniles on parole s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1061 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; electronic pollbooks; photographs. Requires electronic pollbooks to contain a photograph and identifying information received by the State Board of Elections from the Department of Motor Vehicles for each registered voter for whom the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for earning workforce training credentials; New Economy Industry Credential Assistance Training Grants. Establishes a grant program that would pay grants to certain individuals enrolled at a two-year or four-year public institution of higher e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1332 | Engross
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Expands the purposes for which the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission can distribute funds to include providing proton therapy telemedicine and scientific r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1071 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; penalties. Raises the civil penalty that may be included with a special order from $10,000 to $25,000. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Impersonation on social networking site; civil cause of action. Provides that if a person intentionally and maliciously defames or defrauds another person by credibly impersonating him on a social networking site, the person impersonated may seek an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Human trafficking; advisory council created; report. Creates an advisory council in the executive branch of government for the purpose of studying human trafficking in the Commonwealth, providing recommendations for the prevention of human traffickin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR354 | Pass | Commending the Archeological Society of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ354ER) |
| SB929 | Engross
Sine Die | State agencies; use of third-party commercial carrier for service, delivery, or transmission of notices. Authorizes state agencies under Titles 2.2 and 54.1 of the Code of Virginia to use a third-party commercial carrier when service, delivery, or tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Confidentiality of juvenile records. Provides that juvenile records for offenses that would be felony larceny if committed by an adult shall not be open to the public. Under current law, all juvenile records of delinquent acts that would be a felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Filing fees; motions to modify custody or visitation orders. Provides for a $25 filing fee for a petition for the modification of a custody or visitation order filed in the juvenile and domestic relations district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1189 | Engross
Sine Die | Obtaining records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service; authentication of contents of communications. Provides that, in obtaining contents of electronic communications, a provider of electronic communication servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB926 | Engross
Sine Die | Notice provisions; third party commercial carrier. Provides that, in Titles 16.1, 17.1, 18.2, and 19.2, when service, delivery, or transmission of any notice or paper in any proceeding is authorized to be accomplished by mail, ordinary mail, register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Weekend jail time. Replaces the provision limiting nonconsecutive days for the purpose of allowing the defendant to retain gainful employment with a good cause standard and allows the court to sentence the defendant to nonconsecutive days in jail onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR284 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the House of Representatives and the Gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR362 | Pass | Commending Elaine K. Echols.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ362ER) |
| SJR226 | Pass | Commemorating the 240th anniversary of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights in 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ226ER) |
| SB738 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open enrollment period for members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System. Opens the enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program from October 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015, for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Educational improvement scholarships tax credit; eligible schools; requirements. Requires that any national norm-referenced achievement test used by a nonpublic school that is not accredited by the Virginia Council for Private Education be approved b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Adoption leave benefit. Creates a new classification of paid leave for a state employee who adopts an infant. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB785 | Engross
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] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1234 | Engross
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] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2015 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
