| SB543 | Veto | Inverse condemnation proceeding; reimbursement of owner's costs. Directs the court to reimburse a plaintiff for the costs of an inverse condemnation proceeding for "damaging" property if a judgment is entered for the plaintiff. Under current law, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB449 | Pass | Virginia Growth and Opportunity Act; report. Establishes the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board to administer grants from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund for regional economic and workforce development projects. The bill provides that reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| SB459 | Pass | Virginia Collaborative Economic Development Act. Creates the Virginia Collaborative Economic Development Performance Grant Fund (the Fund). The Fund will be administered by the Go Virginia Board. Two or more localities that collaborate and adopt a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| SB611 | Pass | Notice of tort claim against the Commonwealth, transportation district, or locality; statute of limitations. Provides that the bar to a tort claim against the Commonwealth, a transportation district, or a locality for failure to file a written statem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB692 | Pass | Lobbyist reporting, the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; annual filing of required disclosures; definition of gift; separate report of gifts; definition of procurement transact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| SB748 | Pass | Economic Development Infrastructure Act of 2016. Authorizes an electric or natural gas public utility to conduct an Economic Development Program (Program). Under such a Program, the utility is authorized to acquire utility right-of-way for a qualifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB369 | Pass | Telemedicine pilot program. Directs the Center for Telehealth of the University of Virginia and the Virginia Telehealth Network to establish a pilot program to expand access to and improve coordination and quality of health care services in rural are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| SB767 | Veto | Form of ballot; party identification of candidates. Provides that, except where the provisions of a local charter provide to the contrary, any candidate nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB690 | Pass | Local tax officials; electronic dissemination of tax bills and tax documents. Authorizes treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, and other local tax officials to convey tax bills and other tax documents via electronic means, with the consent of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| SB41 | Veto | Religious freedom; solemnization of marriage. Provides that no person shall be (i) required to participate in the solemnization of any marriage or (ii) subject to any penalty, any civil liability, or any other action by the Commonwealth, or its polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB612 | Veto | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 26 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB44 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated or claimed for the coal employment and production incentive tax credit to $7.3 million in each fiscal year. An electricity generator must file an application with the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB731 | Pass | Bond; certain capital projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority and the Virginia College Building Authority to issue bonds in a total aggregate amount not to exceed $2,235,432,677 plus costs to fund certain capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| SB375 | Pass | Pickup or panel truck; definitions. Amends the definitions of "pickup or panel truck" and "truck" for purposes of Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles) so that pickup or panel trucks registered for personal use and with a gross weight in excess of 7,500 pounds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| SB589 | Pass | Education improvement scholarships tax credit; reporting and other requirements. Modifies the tax credit by (i) making the current required report based upon donations qualifying for the credit and scholarships awarded from such donations as of June ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| SB515 | Pass | Mobile food vending in commuter lots in Planning District 8; fees; security. Allows mobile food vending units to apply for a permit and pay a fee to the Department of Transportation that would allow them to sell food in commuter lots in Planning Dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| SB270 | Veto | Compliance with detainers; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Prohibits the Director of the Department of Corrections, sheriff, or other official in charge of a facility from releasing an incarcerated alien for whom a detainer has been receive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 26 afiirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB734 | Pass | Public charter schools. Makes several changes to the provisions for the establishment and operation of public charter schools, including making changes and providing greater specificity regarding (i) the applicability of various laws, regulations, po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB282 | Pass | Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund. Establishes the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| SB574 | Pass | Officers of election; required training. Requires each officer of election to receive training before the first election in which he will be serving as an officer of election. Such requirement applies to each term for which he is appointed. Each offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| SB246 | Pass | Grants for science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) competition teams at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2017 to establish STEM competition teams at qualified schools. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| SB240 | Pass | Virginia Tort Claims Act; filing of claim where agency alleged to be liable is the Department of Transportation; electronic filing. Provides that, where a claim against the Commonwealth alleges that the Department of Transportation is liable, notice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| SJR127 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); right to work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Assigned Chapter 736 (effective 7/1/16) |
| SJR70 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| SB407 | Pass | Onsite sewage systems; civil penalties. Provides that any locality that has a record of the location of conventional onsite sewage systems and alternative discharging systems and that meets certain other criteria may adopt an ordinance establishing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB61 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $40,987,000 plus financing costs for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB329 | Pass | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Reduces from nine to seven the number of directors on the Board of Directors (the Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority) and alters the methods of their appointment and their powers and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB57 | Pass | Number of district court judges. Increases from seven to eight the number of juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the 19th Judicial District (Fairfax, Fairfax County) and increases from three to four the number of general district...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| SB626 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB625 | Pass | Transfers to the Port Opportunity Fund; evaluation and report. Provides that when the Virginia Port Authority's revenues exceed its costs by at least 5%, the Authority will transfer to the Port Opportunity Fund up to 5% of the revenues, not to exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB478 | Pass | Eminent domain; reimbursement of costs. Provides that costs and fees may be awarded in compensation actions initiated by public service companies, public service corporations, railroads that have been delegated the power of eminent domain, or governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB237 | Pass | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; condemnation of common area; valuation. Provides that, for the purposes of condemnation, the value of a portion of a common area of a property owners' association shall be based on the common area's highest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB645 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exempt records concerning critical infrastructure information. Defines the term "critical infrastructure information" for purposes of FOIA. The bill also provides that any public body receiving a request fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| SB417 | Pass | Department of Social Services; unauthorized practice of law. Allows designated nonattorney employees of a local department of social services to (i) initiate a case on behalf of the local department by appearing before an intake officer and (ii) comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| SB64 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain data centers. Extends the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for certain data centers from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2035, and eliminates the sunset date of June 30, 2020, for provisions of the exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB336 | Pass | Board of Education; high school graduation requirements. Removes existing provisions related to standard and advanced studies diplomas and standard and verified units of credit and requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| SB494 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusions; rule of redaction; no weight accorded to public body's determination. Reverses the holding of the Virginia Supreme Court in the case of Department of Corrections v. Surovell, by setting o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB207 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; reconsideration of formal hearings. Provides a procedure for a party to file a petition for reconsideration of an agency's decision from a formal hearing under the Administrative Process Act (APA). The bill requires the ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB452 | Pass | Medical school; clinical rotations. Requires any public institution of higher education that awards medical degrees to create and support at least one clinical rotation in a hospital or clinic located in a medically underserved area of the state as d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB665 | Pass | Public middle school athletics; pre-participation physical examination. Prohibits a public middle school student from participating on or trying out for any school athletic team or squad with a predetermined roster, regular practices, and scheduled c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB582 | Pass | Credit unions; voluntary mergers. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC), notwithstanding field of membership requirements, to approve a merger of two Virginia state-chartered credit unions if (i) at least one of the merging credit unions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB567 | Pass | Temporary detention; notice of recommendation; communication with magistrate. Provides that the magistrate conducting a temporary detention hearing shall consider, if available, information provided by the person who initiated emergency custody. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB454 | Pass | Juvenile court; retained jurisdiction; procedures; penalties. Specifies procedures to be used for adults under the age of 21 who are subject to the retained jurisdiction of the juvenile court for criminal offenses committed as juveniles. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| SB445 | Pass | Real property tax assessment; date to fix tax rate. Changes from April 15 to May 15 the date by which a county, city, or town is required to fix the real property tax rate for taxes due on or before June 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB27 | Pass | Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; appointment of counsel to represent servicemember. Requires the plaintiff in a case in which counsel has been appointed under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to deliver all documents or information concerni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB438 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; personal social media accounts. Prohibits a public or private institution of higher education from requiring a student to disclose the username or password to any of such student's personal social media accoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB126 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses for certain properties. Provides that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may grant mixed beverage licenses to establishments located on property fronting Kanawha Ridge Road, located within approxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB120 | Pass | Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons; rebutting presumption. Provides that a locality that has authorized by ordinance the installation and operation of a video-monitoring system on school buses for recording violations of unlawfully pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB245 | Pass | Comprehensive community colleges; dual enrollment agreements. Requires each comprehensive community college to enter into agreements with the local school divisions it serves to facilitate dual enrollment of eligible students into a Career Pathways p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB579 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited distillery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that for limited distilleries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (ii) land otherwise permitted b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
