VA Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
SB987	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides that whenever the lowest responsive and responsible bidder is a resident of another state that allows a percentage preference for resident contractors, a like pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1270	Intro Sine Die	Admission of incapacitated persons pursuant to advance directive or by guardian; transportation; pilot program. Provides that when the employee or designee of a local community services board who is conducting the evaluation of an individual required... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N)
SB711	Intro Sine Die	Voter registration; duties of State Board of Elections and general registrars. Requires general registrars to conduct and complete within 30 days of the receipt of precinct lists from the State Board of Elections a cross-check of precinct list voters... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB1357	Intro Sine Die	Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; duty of counsel to exercise due diligence in representation of a servicemember. Requires any counsel appointed to represent a defendant pursuant to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to exercise due diligence ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N)
SB990	Intro Sine Die	Domestic violence leave for employees. Requires employers to allow an employee to take domestic violence leave, with or without pay, if the employee or the employee's family member is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Domest... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SB1337	Intro Sine Die	Voter registration; voter list maintenance. Extends the current prohibition against periodic list maintenance within the 90 days preceding a federal primary or general election to all primary and general elections. The bill also requires that the pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB1299	Intro Sine Die	Public procurement; products manufactured in the United States. Requires public contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building or public works to contain a provision that the iron,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 4-N)
SB1420	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; IT procurement; terms and conditions; limitation on contractor liability. Provides that terms and conditions relating to the liability of a contractor contained in any solicitation for the procurement of information t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (11-Y 0-N)
SB902	Intro Sine Die	Minors; procedures for collection of physical evidence. Allows a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse to perform a physical evidence recovery kit examination for an unemancipated minor whom he reasonably su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 9-N)
SB1180	Intro Sine Die	Custody and visitation agreements; best interests of the child. Requires the court to consider any history of abuse of persons other than family members when determining the best interests of the child for the purposes of custody and visitation arran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N)
SB1438	Intro Sine Die	State and local government employees; prohibited use of state funds to pay membership dues for private organizations. Prohibits the use of state funds to pay the individual membership dues or enrollment fees of a state or local employee to join a pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (5-Y 10-N)