| SB416 | Pass | Limited Residential Lodging Act; penalty. Establishes the Limited Residential Lodging Act (the Act), which allows persons to rent out their primary residences or portions thereof for charge for periods of less than 30 consecutive days or do so throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| SB553 | Pass | Nursing facilities; audio-visual recording. Directs the Board of Health (the Board) to promulgate regulations governing audio-visual recording of patients in nursing homes by July 1, 2017, and requires the Department of Health to convene a workgroup ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB420 | Pass | Voter registration; information required on voter registration application; adjudication of incapacity or felony conviction. Removes the requirement that a person registering to vote who states that he was (i) previously adjudicated incapacitated and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB476 | Pass | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Allows an elected official of any of the four counties embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (the Commission) who serves on the county's governing body and has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| SB460 | Pass | Voter registration; notification to other states of a person's registration in Virginia. Requires the general registrars, when registering any person who was previously registered in another state, to notify the appropriate authority in that state of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB780 | Pass | Home instruction or religious exemption; information disclosure. Provides that a division superintendent or local school board may disclose, to the extent provided by the written consent of a student's parent, certain information that is provided by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB9 | Pass | Civil immunity; first responders; forcible entry of motor vehicle to remove unattended companion animal. Provides that first responders who forcibly enter a motor vehicle to remove an unattended companion animal that is at risk of serious bodily inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB517 | Pass | Utilization of service disabled veteran businesses by state agencies. Requires every state agency to include as a component of any small business enhancement measure pursuant to § 2.2-4310 of the Code of Virginia a goal of a minimum of three per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB443 | Pass | Nutrient credit certification; timeline for consideration. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) to establish a timeline for consideration of applications for land conversion projects. The Department of Environmental Quality will be requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| SB204 | Pass | Real estate settlement agents. Adds to provisions relating to real estate settlement agents a new term, "closing disclosure," defined in the bill as the combined mortgage loan disclosure statement of final loan terms and closing costs prescribed unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| SB573 | Pass | Career and technical education; three-year licenses. Directs the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of three-year licenses to qualified individuals to teach high school career and technical education courses in specific subject areas for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB544 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; judges exempt. Provides that a judge or justice of the Commonwealth may carry a concealed handgun throughout the Commonwealth without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| SB680 | Pass | General Assembly; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; fiscal impact statements for executive orders. Provides that, at the request of the chairman of any committee of the Senate or House of Delegates, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB750 | Pass | Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund; political contributions; reporting. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to provide to the Governor, his campaign committee, and his political action committee a quarterly report listing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB352 | Pass | Official emblems and designations. Designates Nelsonite as the state rock of Virginia. The bill also adds to § 1-510, which consolidates official state emblems and designations, two designations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| SB695 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; wine and beer licenses for certain properties. Provides that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may grant retail on-premises wine and beer licenses to persons operating a concert and dinner-theater venue on property fron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB728 | Pass | Punitive damages; injury by intoxicated drivers; admission of evidence. Provides that, when considering what amount of punitive damages to award in a civil action for personal injury or death resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle while into...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB388 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; failure to make required statement. Makes it a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for a supplier to fail to provide to a consumer, or to fail to use or include in any written document or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB732 | Pass | Assisted living facilities; hospice care. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no assisted living facility shall be required to provide or allow hospice care if such hospice care restrictions are included in a disclosure statement tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| SB758 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license. Allows farm winery licensees to trade fruits or agricultural products grown or produced on such farms with other farm winery licensees and provides that such fruit or agricultural products shall be con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| SB563 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; materials and equipment used to drill natural gas and oil. Extends the sunset from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2022, for the sales and use tax exemption for machinery and tools, materials, and supplies used to drill, extract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB278 | Pass | Criminal history background checks; continued employment of individuals convicted of an offense. Prohibits assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, licensed and registered child welfare agencies, and family day homes approved by family day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB294 | Pass | Retaliatory actions by state officers and employees against persons providing testimony before a committee or subcommittee of the General Assembly. Prohibits officers and employees of a state agency from retaliating or threatening to retaliate agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB418 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; installation of artificial turf and track surfaces. Excludes the purchase of installation of artificial turf and track surfaces and all associated and necessary construction from the prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB360 | Pass | Superintendent of Public Instruction; teacher exit questionnaire. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and provide to local school divisions a model exit questionnaire for teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB253 | Pass | Confidentiality of information about victims of certain crimes. Provides that, in order to ensure the safety of any adult or child victim of a violation of § 18.2-48, 18.2-355, 18.2-356, 18.2-357, or 18.2-357.1 and their families, programs and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB293 | Pass | Virginia National Guard Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia National Guard Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program and Fund to provide leisure, recreation, and lodging opportunities for Virginia National Guard m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB230 | Pass | Income tax withholding; employer penalties. Codifies provisions in the current general appropriation act that (i) require all employers to electronically file withholding tax returns and (ii) require the annual withholding tax return and employee wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB746 | Pass | Recovery of costs and attorney fees from agency; actions brought in violation of law or for an improper purpose. Provides that a person who contests an agency action in a civil case brought under the Administrative Process Act and who substantially p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB337 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; Virginia War Memorial Division; names and homes of record designation for Virginians "Killed in Action." Clarifies that Virginians Killed in Action (i) as a result of military operations against terrorism, (ii) as a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB285 | Pass | Bail appeal; presumption against bail. Requires a district court to stay the imposition of its order granting bail in cases where there was a presumption against bail if the court receives notice that the Commonwealth is going to appeal the court's d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB597 | Pass | Appeal of local tax assessments; confidentiality. Provides that, prior to the release of any confidential tax information pursuant to a discovery order, with regard to an application for relief to a circuit court to correct erroneous assessments of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB117 | Pass | 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] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB578 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited brewery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that for limited breweries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (ii) land otherwise permitted by a lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB313 | Pass | Virginia College Building Authority; projects; participating institutions. Permits any organization that is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is owned or controlled by a public inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB468 | Pass | Local stormwater utility; public-private partnership. Authorizes the creation of public-private stormwater management programs, to be known as stormwater management private property programs, and adds contracting for the construction and operation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| SB323 | Pass | Violation of protective order; firearm or other deadly weapon; penalty. Provides that any person who violates a protective order with which he has been served while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB457 | Pass | Asset forfeiture; burden of proof. Changes the Commonwealth's burden of proof to clear and convincing evidence from preponderance of the evidence in proving that the property is subject to forfeiture in civil asset forfeiture cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| SB288 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; advisory opinions for local officers and employees. Removes the provision that allows a county, city, or town attorney to issue to a local officer or employee an advisory opinion that would shield...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| SB339 | Pass | Stalking; penalty. Provides that contacting or following or attempting to contact or follow the person at whom stalking conduct is directed after being given actual notice that the person does not want to be contacted or followed is prima facie evide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB709 | Pass | Recalled motor vehicles. Requires a manufacturer or distributor that establishes a program that prohibits dealers from selling used motor vehicles that have been issued a safety recall and remain unremedied to provide a remedy for each such vehicle o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| SB425 | Pass | Higher education; student mental health policies. Specifies that the contact person designated by a memorandum of understanding between a public four-year institution of higher education and a mental health care provider to be notified when a student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SB781 | Pass | Transport of prisoners. Provides that the sheriff or administrator in charge of a local or regional correctional facility and the employees of the facility acting on the direction of such sheriff or administrator have the authority to transport a pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB704 | Pass | Overtime compensation; fire protection employees. Broadens the definition of "fire protection employee" for the purposes of determining eligibility for overtime compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| SB179 | Pass | Small Business Investment Grant Fund; administration; qualifications. Changes the administration of the Small Business Investment Grant Fund from the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to the Virginia Small Business Financing Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB719 | Pass | Permits for vehicles transporting watercraft. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue permits for vehicles transporting boats or other watercraft that exceed an outside width of 102 inches but do not exceed an outside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB338 | Pass | Higher education; study abroad programs. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to develop guidelines for study abroad programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| SB133 | Pass | Trafficking in persons; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action against individuals who engage in (i) abduction of any person for the purpose of prostitution, any child under 16 years of age for concubinage, or any minor for the purpose of manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| SB434 | Pass | Special license plates; PROTECT POLLINATORS. Changes the special license plates for supporters of pollinator conservation bearing the legend PROTECT POLLINATORS from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing and provides for the moneys to be allocated to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SB415 | Pass | Legal age for marriage; 18 years of age. Provides that both parties to a marriage must be 18 years of age or older or emancipated at the time of solemnization by removing exceptions that allow marriage at a minimum age of 16 with the consent of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
