| SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity. Requires the General Assembly, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to recognize the concealed handgun permit of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB601 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; criminal history background checks. Requires all applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, and approval as a family day home by a family day system, all child day centers that are exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SR51 | Pass | Commending the Westfield High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR51ER) |
| SB671 | Engross
Sine Die | Treatment of a patient for Lyme disease. Provides that no health care provider who provides treatment for Lyme disease or other tick-borne disease in accordance with a clinical practice guideline maintained by the National Guideline Clearinghouse aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
Sine Die | Weekend jail time. Replaces the provision limiting nonconsecutive days in jail 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 0-N) |
| SR53 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Hill Brauer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR53ER) |
| SR54 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Korff, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR54ER) |
| SB401 | Engross
Sine Die | Crohn's disease, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome; identification cards and information. Directs the Department of Health to develop a process for issuing identification cards to individuals diagnosed by a health care provider as having Crohn's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SR55 | Pass | Commending the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR55ER) |
| SB545 | Pass | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances conformity with the federal tax code from December 31, 2014, to December 31, 2015, and repeals the expiration date for conforming with enhancements to the federal earned income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) |
| SB290 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures pertaining to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration airfield. Requires the owner of residential real property located in any locality in which a National Aeronautics and Spa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB717 | Engross
Sine Die | Grapevine Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Grapevine Grant Fund and Program to fund grants to independent cideries, farm wineries, orchards, and vineyards that purchase materials for vines or fruit trees in order to establish or expand vineyards o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB284 | Pass | Recreational oyster harvest. Limits to public oyster grounds or unleased bottom open for harvest during the legally prescribed oyster season the taking of one bushel of oysters in any one day for personal use for purposes of the current exemptions (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007) |
| SB344 | Pass | Sunday hunting; rails. Exempts any person who hunts Rallidae, the family of birds that includes rails and other wetland birds, from the prohibition on hunting on Sunday. The exemption is subject to geographical limitations established by the Director...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| SB252 | Pass | State Forester; century forest program. Directs the State Forester to establish a program to honor families whose property has been in the same family for 100 years or more, includes at least 20 contiguous acres of managed forest, and meets certain r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| SB335 | Engross
Sine Die | Public employment; inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal convictions, charges, and arrests. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB307 | Pass | Beach restoration; expedited permit. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to develop an expedited process for issuing a permit for emergency sand restoration activities on a publicly owned beach when the erosion is caused by a discrete, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| SB1 | Pass | Excise tax on peanuts. Extends from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2021, the sunset of the $0.30 per 100 pounds excise tax on all peanuts grown in and sold in Virginia. The proceeds from the tax are used for promoting the sales and use of Virginia peanuts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) |
| SB356 | Pass | Virginia Pollinator Protection Strategy. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) to develop and maintain a pollinator protection strategy (the Strategy) to promote the health of and mitigate the risks to pollinato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| SB292 | Pass | Sediment reduction credits. Authorizes Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permittees to acquire and use sediment reduction credits as part of a compliance strategy for implementing the Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Currently, MS4s have similar author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| SJR48 | Pass | Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Designates September, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Blood Cancer Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ48ER) |
| SJR129 | Pass | Public Transportation Safety Day. Designates April 29, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Public Transportation Safety Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ129ER) |
| SJR49 | Pass | Lymphoma Awareness Day. Designates September 15, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Lymphoma Awareness Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ49ER) |
| SB660 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher dismissal; hearing officer. Prohibits school boards from appointing as a hearing officer an employee of the appointing school board or the spouse, child, parent, grandparent, or sibling of (i) any member of the appointing school board or (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| SJR101 | Pass | Purple Heart State. Designating Virginia as a Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ101ER) |
| SJR102 | Pass | Purple Heart Day. Designates August 7, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Purple Heart Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ102ER) |
| SJR61 | Pass | Virginia Constitution Day. Designates June 29, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Virginia Constitution Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ61ER) |
| SJR62 | Pass | Wear Red Day. Designates the first Friday in February, in 2017 and in each succeeding year, as Wear Red Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ62ER) |
| SJR27 | Pass | International Assistance Dog Week. Designates the first full week in August, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as International Assistance Dog Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ27ER) |
| SJR145 | Pass | Commending Scott K. York.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ145ER) |
| SJR150 | Pass | Commending Beloved Yoga.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ150ER) |
| SJR144 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Roy C. Kinsey, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ144ER) |
| SJR156 | Pass | Commending Savannah Morgan Lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ156ER) |
| SJR151 | Pass | Commending Leila Gordon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ151ER) |
| SJR143 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Elaine Nunez McConnell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ143ER) |
| SJR152 | Pass | Commending Jim Elder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ152ER) |
| SJR142 | Pass | Commending the Page County High School softball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ142ER) |
| SJR163 | Pass | Commending the Washington Redskins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ163ER) |
| SJR146 | Pass | Commending Kristen C. Umstattd.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ146ER) |
| SJR147 | Pass | Commending Robert R. Lindgren.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ147ER) |
| SJR149 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Stewart Bryan III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ149ER) |
| SR47 | Pass | Commending Arthur P. Bushnell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR47ER) |
| SR46 | Pass | Commending the Prince William County Bar Association, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR46ER) |
| SR49 | Pass | Commending the Lake Braddock Secondary School coed cross country team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR49ER) |
| SR45 | Pass | Commending the Greater Manassas Baseball League 8U all-star softball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR45ER) |
| SR52 | Pass | Commending West Springfield High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR52ER) |
| SR50 | Pass | Commending the Robinson Secondary School girls' lacrosse team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR50ER) |
| SB637 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia High-Demand Occupation Forecast Advisory Committee; annual high-demand occupations forecast report. Creates the Virginia High-Demand Occupation Forecast Advisory Committee (the Committee) to compile and disseminate official information on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| SR48 | Pass | Commending the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR48ER) |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Limited Residential Lodging and Short-term Rental Lodging Act; penalty. Establishes the Limited Residential Lodging and Short-term Rental Lodging Act (the Act), which allows (i) property owners to rent out their homes or portions thereof for a charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
