| SR92 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Charles L. Moseley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR373 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Apheresis Associates of Northern Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 3, Special Session I, of the Acts of Assembly of 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; reporting by certain political subdivisions. Requires political subdivisions composed of, or managed or controlled by, one or more counties, cities, towns, or other local or regional political subdivisions to file a separate regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR254 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Water Act; opposition. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to recognize the Commonwealth of Virginia's opposition to the proposed rule regarding the Clean Water Act definition of "waters of the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of attorney for the Commonwealth or deputy attorney for the Commonwealth; penalty. Adds attorney for the Commonwealth and deputy attorney for the Commonwealth to the list of persons for which an enhanced penalty applies if such pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Enticing, etc., real estate licensee with intent to commit certain felonies; penalty. Criminalizes the conduct of enticing, soliciting, or requesting a real estate licensee to enter a dwelling house in the licensee's professional capacity with the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Practitioner-owned distributorships. Prohibits a practitioner from using a medical device in the provision of services to a patient if the medical device was supplied directly or indirectly by a medical device distributor in which the practitioner or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; third party power purchase agreements. Replaces the pilot program enacted in 2013 that authorized certain third party power purchase agreements providing financing of certain renewable generation facilities. The measure requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitlement to certain sales tax revenues; developments of regional impact. Allows an existing development of regional impact to be expanded into an adjoining county that has a portion of Interstate 81 within its boundaries and that has an agreement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Local economic development. Provides that the Virginia income tax net revenue and sales and use tax generated by certain corporations or limited liability companies within a qualified locality shall be transferred to the qualified locality under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; lifetime permits. Provides for the issuance of concealed handgun permits for Virginia residents that do not expire. Currently, such permits must be renewed every five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR286 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin Butler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | Felony homicide; felony drug offenses; penalty. Provides that the killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, from the use of a controlled substance in violation of a felony drug offense involving the manufacture, sale, gif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of emissions from existing power plants; withdrawal of proposed federal guidelines. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed emissions guidelines for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; local representation. Allows the chief elected officer of each locality within Planning District 23 to have a representative from the same governing body serve on the Hampton Roads Transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR227 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States to transfer the title of public lands to the western states. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that Congress should engage in good faith communication, cooperation, and consultation to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public School Educational Technology Grants Program; leases of educational technology. Permits eligible school divisions to apply for grants to lease educational technology under the Virginia Public School Educational Technology Grants Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Public assistance; changes in custody. Requires any circuit or district court entering an order changing or establishing custody to forward a copy of the order to the local board of social services in the city or county in which any person receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse (a defined term) of a child 13 or 14 years old from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms at gun shows; voluntary background check; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to be available to perform background checks for non-dealer sales at gun shows if requested by a party involved in a transaction. The pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited conduct by legislators; retaliation. Prohibits a member of the General Assembly from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing views on matters of public concern or for exercising any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR308 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of counsel to challenge federal rules establishing carbon emission guidelines for existing electric utility generating units. Requests the Joint Rules Committee to employ legal counsel to represent the Commonwealth in litigation challengin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act. Creates the Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act to establish procedural guarantees for correctional officers when allegations are made against such officers involving matters that may lead to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by localities. Allows localities required to advertise legal notices by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality or posting on the locality's website to advertise such notices on radio or televi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB1253 | 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 misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge by employee of bail bond company, sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB777 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gift-free legislator; penalty. Provides that a member of the General Assembly may identify himself as a gift-free legislator by selecting such an option on the Statement of Economic Interests, thereby indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR302 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); general warrants of search or seizure prohibited. Clarifies that the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, businesses, lands, papers, and eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1345 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; establishing the Virginia Independent Ethics Review Commission; penalty. Establishes the Virginia Independent Ethics Review Commission, a seven-memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Obscene sexual display; third offense; penalty. Adds engaging in an obscene sexual display, i.e., actual or explicitly simulated masturbation in a public place, to the list of misdemeanor sex offenses for which the penalty for a third offense of any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; assault and battery; penalty. Provides that a person who is the subject of a protective order who commits an assault and battery resulting in bodily injury on the person protected by the order is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Impersonation via computer; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 3 misdemeanor for a person to use a computer to knowingly and intentionally assume the identity of another living individual, without authority and with the intent to harm, where a reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1338 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property. Repeals a provision, enacted in 2004, that allows interstate natural gas companies to enter upon property to make examinations, tests, land auger borings, appraisals, and surveys without the writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR290 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Expresses support for the establishment of the Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; computer equipment and software used in certain data centers. Removes the June 30, 2020, sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for computer equipment and software used in certain data centers. The bill also incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Limit on appropriations. Limits the growth in appropriations from state sources to the growth of Virginia's population plus the rate of inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; testimony under oath before committee or subcommittee. Authorizes the chairman or at least one-third of the total membership of a committee or subcommittee to request any person addressing the committee or subcommittee to take an oa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyist reporting; disclosure statement. Amends the lobbyist disclosure form to require the listing of the matters of general concern for which the lobbyist works on behalf of the principal and each (i) legislative action, (ii) executive action, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; significant infrastructure limited licensee; allocation of advance deposit account wagering. Authorizes the Virginia Racing Commission (VRC) to issue a significant infrastructure limited license to the owner or operator of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against family or household member; penalty. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member, when the person has been previously convicted of an offense of (i) assault and battery agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Median income taxpayers tax credit. Creates a $250 nonrefundable tax credit for taxpayers who have one or more dependents under the age of 18 and whose family adjusted gross income is within 25 percent, above or below, of the statewide median househo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1250 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; gifts; penalty. Amends the portion of the lobbyist disclosure form on which gifts are disclosed. The amended Schedule B requires disclosure of any gift to an executive or legislative official with a value of more than $50 of whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR279 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; dangers of Tannerite; report. Establishes a nine-member joint subcommittee to study the dangers of Tannerite and, if necessary, identify the potential need to (i) restrict the amounts of Tannerite that can be purchased lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR240 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JCHC; older Virginians' access to oral health care; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study older Virginians' access to oral health care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession or transportation of firearms following convictions for certain misdemeanor crimes; restoration of rights; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of stalking, assault and battery of a family or household member, or sexual batte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record checks; barrier crimes. Sets out the list of barrier crimes for (i) individuals seeking employment at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities, and private providers licensed by the Department of Beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 2-N) |
| SB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedure for construction. Clarifies that small purchase procedures for purchases not expected to exceed $100,000 may be used to procure construction. Under the bill, where small purchase procedures ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB1457 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
