| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Obstruction of justice; court clerks. Adds court clerks to the obstruction of justice statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Mediation; fees. Increases from $100 to $120 the fee paid to mediators appointed in custody, support, or visitation cases. The bill provides that, where a referral includes both custody or visitation and child or spousal support, the referral is cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuance of marriage licenses; conscience clause; State Registrar of Vital Records. Provides that a clerk or deputy clerk shall not be required to issue a marriage license if such clerk has an objection to the issuance of such license on personal, et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes a career progression program for state troopers and special agents based on years of satisfactory service. For State Troopers, the program provides for promotion to the rank...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB655 | 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] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB208 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Violations of protective orders; penalty. Provides that any person who commits any assault or bodily wounding upon or stalks any party protected by a protective order is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony is only applicable if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB86 | 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] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus sexual assault investigations. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to develop a curriculum on conducting campus sexual assault investigations and to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR42 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that pertains to the subject of balancing the feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $1500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed Carry Reciprocity Advisory Commission. Establishes the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Advisory Commission (the Commission) as a legislative commission. The Commission will review the laws of other states to determine whether the Commonwealth s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily injury; penalty. Removes the requirement that a threat of death or bodily injury be communicated in a writing for the offense of threatening to kill or do bodily injury to a person or any member of his family or for the enh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while texting; manslaughter; maiming; penalties. Provides that a person who as a result of driving while in violation of §46.2-1078.1, which prohibits the use of handheld devices in certain vehicles, unintentionally causes the death of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR121 | Intro
Sine Die | Public charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR94 | Intro
Sine Die | Opposing federal requirement of a law mandating a six-month driver's license suspension upon conviction of a marijuana offense. Expresses the opposition of the General Assembly to the enactment or enforcement of a law requiring a six-month revocation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment by computer; impersonating another; penalty. Provides that a person who uses a computer to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, make an obscene proposal, or threaten an illegal or immoral act with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William that does not have a newspaper of general circulation located within its boundary, legal notices may be published o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic violence-related misdemeanors; enhanced penalty. Punishes a misdemeanor offense of violating a protective order, assault and battery against a family or household member, or stalking as a Class 6 felony if the person charged had been previou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; funds for Department of State Police. Raises the vehicle registration fee an additional $1.25 per year on each July 1 from 2016 through 2025 and allocates the funds to the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; negligence resulting in death of or injury to a child; penalty. Provides that in any case in which a person operates or engages in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR6 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Rejected by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SJR93 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); charter schools. Provides by resolution for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to grant the Board of Education the authority to establish charter schools withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirements for use of construction management. Restricts the use of construction management procurements by public bodies unless (i) the total project cost is $50 million or more, (ii) a written determination is pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit unions. Adds credit unions as a qualified public depository for state funds. The bill also authorizes moneys to be paid into the state treasury to be deposited in credit unions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB148 | 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] | 2016-02-15
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB560 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreclosure advertisements; posted at courthouse and on circuit court website. Provides that, in lieu of newspaper advertisements, foreclosure sales shall be advertised at the courthouse and on the website of the circuit court for the county or city ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 21-N) |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct primary care agreements. Provides that the Commonwealth's insurance laws do not apply to direct primary care agreements. The measure further provides that (i) a direct primary care practice is not be subject to the jurisdiction of the State Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare supplement policies for individuals under age 65. Requires insurers issuing Medicare supplement policies in the Commonwealth to offer the opportunity of enrolling in a Medicare supplement policy to any individual who resides in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; net energy metering. Authorizes any eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator to enter into a contract to sell any net metering eligible energy exceeding the eligible customer-generator's or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Interest Community Board; membership. Increases the membership of the Common Interest Community Board from 11 to 14 by adding (i) one member who serves or has served on the governing board of a common interest community that is not professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Occupational safety and health; employer's liability for violation by contractor. Prohibits the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from issuing a citation or assessing a civil penalty against an employer for a violation of occupational safety and hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting; construction and professional services. Authorizes any public body to procure construction on a best value procurement basis. Under the bill, if proceeding on a best value procurement ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB588 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); charter schools. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to grant the Board of Education the authority to establish charter schools within the school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Chair votes No |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definition of small business. Changes the definition of small business to require the business, together with affiliates, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SJR90 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe after August 1, 2015, and communicated to the General Assembly on October 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ90ER) |
| SJR92 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe between October 1, 2015, and November 30, 2015, and communicated to the General Assembly on December 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ92ER) |
| SJR133 | Pass | Commending S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ133ER) |
| SJR134 | Pass | Commending the Virginia peanut industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ134ER) |
| SJR141 | Pass | Commending Charles Haley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ141ER) |
| SJR135 | Pass | Commending the Town of Tazewell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ135ER) |
| SJR132 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Robert E. Simon, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ132ER) |
| SJR138 | Pass | Commending the Saint Gertrude High School robotics team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ138ER) |
| SJR125 | Pass | Commending Mills E. Godwin High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ125ER) |
| SJR136 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe after December 1, 2015, and communicated to the General Assembly on January 7, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ136ER) |
| SJR137 | Pass | Commending Brian O'Connor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ137ER) |
| SJR139 | Pass | Commending the 30th anniversary of elementary school counseling in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ139ER) |
| SJR91 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons originally made by Governor McAuliffe between February 11, 2015, and July 31, 2015, reappointed on September 17, 2015, and communicated to the General Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ91ER) |
