| SB491 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Provides that the Director of the Department of Health Professions may disclose information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Proram about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| SB679 | Pass | Department of General Services; dashboard compilation of data derived from enhancement or remedial measures implemented by the Governor. Requires the Department of General Services to make available a dashboard compilation of purchase order reports f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| SB154 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses; performing arts facilities. Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license for persons operating food concessions at any performing arts facility located in the City of Norfolk o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| SB687 | Pass | Timber cutting; determination of damages; attorney fees. Clarifies that any person found liable for the unauthorized removal of, or the direction of unauthorized removal of, timber from another's land must also pay reasonable attorney fees incurred b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| SB765 | Pass | Commissioner of Highways; powers; emergency removal of snow and ice. Provides that the Commissioner of Highways has the authority to establish and use procedures as he deems necessary to ensure safe travel during an emergency or weather-related event...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| SB83 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; required agreements with law enforcement. Requires all mutual aid agreements and memoranda of understanding required between public or private institutions of higher education and adjacent local law-enforcement agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| SB542 | Pass | Delinquent sewer charges; lien; unlimited time. Allows a locality that provides water or sewer service to a property owner, rather than to a tenant, to place a lien on the property receiving the service in the amount of the number of months of delinq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| SB493 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); closed meeting not authorized for discussion of compensation matters for local governing bodies and elected school boards. Clarifies that nothing in the personnel exemption in the open meetings law of FOIA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB590 | Pass | When circuit courts open; Judicial Council. Allows the Judicial Council to determine when the circuit courts are open subject to the current allowances in the Code for holidays and safety concerns. The bill also clarifies that these provisions do not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| SB268 | Pass | Animal disease violations. Authorizes the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to assess civil penalties not to exceed $1,000 per violation in lieu of criminal penalties for violations of the laws controlling livestock and poultry diseases and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SB701 | Pass | Cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil; permitting of pharmaceutical processors to manufacture and provide. Authorizes a pharmaceutical processor, after obtaining a permit from the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) and under the supervision of a licensed pharmaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| SB710 | Pass | Appointing authority for Board of Directors of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Changes from the U.S. Administrator of General Services to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation the appointing authority for the two fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB607 | Pass | Safety and health program for public employees. Directs the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations for enforcing the occupational and health program applicable to employees of the Commonwealth, it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| SB296 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; criminal history record information check required. Requires that a criminal history record information check be part of the background investigation required for appointment or temporary registration as a special c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB358 | Pass | Hearsay; exception; children; certain felonies. Establishes a hearsay exception to certain out-of-court statements made by a child under the age of 13 at the time of trial in cases involving a violation or attempted violation of an "offense against c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB743 | Pass | Division of Energy; state certifying authority. Adds to the duties of the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy the duty of serving as the state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| SB363 | Pass | Rights of persons with disabilities in public places and places of public accommodation; fraudulent representation of a service or hearing dog; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and willfully fits a dog with a harness, collar, vest, sig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| SB382 | Pass | Local electoral boards; reassigning certain duties related to elections administration. Reassigns duties of the electoral boards related to elections administration to the general registrars. When performing these duties, the general registrars are a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| SB206 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; ex parte communications. Provides that, during the period that a hearing is pending, a hearing officer is prohibited from communicating with any person concerning the hearing without notice and opportunity for all parties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB125 | Pass | Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers. Provides that, for the purposes of a punitive damages award in a civil action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, in order to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| SB712 | Pass | Dental hygienists; remote supervision. Authorizes dental hygienists to practice, with certain requirements and restrictions, under the remote supervision of a licensed dentist. The bill directs the Board of Dentistry to promulgate regulations to impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| SB364 | Pass | Local option health insurance plan. Allows the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a plan under the local option health insurance plan with benefits similar to those in the state employee health insurance plan and that uses a single ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB464 | Pass | Gas-powered low-speed vehicles. Includes in the definition of "low-speed vehicle" gas-powered vehicles that have a maximum speed of more than 20 miles per hour but not more than 25 miles per hour and are manufactured to comply with safety standards c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| SB446 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); right to work. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Virginia to prohibit any agreement or combination between an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| SB664 | Pass | Ballots; candidates for school boards. Provides that the names of candidates for school boards shall be listed on the ballot in an order determined by the order of the priority of time of filing for that office. In the event that two or more candidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| SB7 | Pass | Appointed counsel for parents or guardians. Requires court-appointed counsel for a parent or guardian of a child in cases of alleged abuse or neglect or termination of parental rights to be selected from the list of attorneys who qualify as guardians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| SB576 | Pass | New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of disbursing fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| SB556 | Pass | Opiate addiction treatment; nonmethadone opioid replacements. Removes certain restrictions on licensure of providers who provide treatment for persons with opiate addiction using opioid replacements that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB392 | Pass | Release of lien against real property. Provides that a judgment creditor may record an instrument, upon payment of the fees for recordation of the instrument, releasing the lien of any judgment docketed against one or more parcels of real property, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| SB71 | Pass | Entry of divorce decrees; maintenance and support of spouses. Provides that a court may still decree as to maintenance and support of a spouse even where a party fails to prove his grounds for divorce, provided that a claim for support has been prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| SB308 | Pass | Vacancies in constitutional offices; special elections. Allows the governing body of a county or city in which a vacancy in a constitutional office has occurred to request in its petition for a writ of election that the circuit court order the specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB592 | Pass | Vital records; amending death certificates. Creates a process for amending certain information on a death certificate registered with the State Registrar. The bill requires a court order to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent, or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| SB316 | Pass | Contests of election for certain elections; service of process. Requires that contestees in a contest of (i) a primary election for the United States House of Representatives, the General Assembly, or a local office or (ii) any election for a local o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB463 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; certified nurse midwives; practicing in consultation with a licensed physician. Requires a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing in the category of certified nurse midwife to practice in consultation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| SB374 | Pass | Financial institutions; references to federal law. Updates references to the Federal Reserve Board and its regulations that were made obsolete by the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which, among other change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB381 | Pass | Election day program; permitted activities of participants. Allows election pages participating in the election day program for high school students to assist in the arrangement of voting equipment, furniture, and any other materials for the conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| SB315 | Pass | Voting equipment; locking and sealing of voting and counting machines after election. Provides that if a voting or counting machine secured by removal of a data storage device containing the only record of votes cast for any office or on any question...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| SB399 | Pass | Practitioners of the healing arts; temporary authorization to practice. Replaces the requirement for a temporary license or certification to practice medicine or the duties of a profession in the Commonwealth on a temporary basis with the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| SB555 | Pass | Learner's permit holder; passenger limits; use of cell phone; licensure requirements for persons under 18. Prohibits a holder of a learner's permit from (i) using a cell phone while driving and (ii) having more than one passenger under age 21. Curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB137 | Pass | Absentee ballots; electronic transmission by general registrars. Provides that when a voter who is eligible to request to receive certain absentee voting materials, including the absentee ballot, by electronic transmission so requests, the email addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| SB190 | Pass | Voting systems; use of direct recording electronic machines. Prohibits the use of direct recording electronic machines (DREs) in elections on and after July 1, 2020. The governing bodies of counties and cities have been prohibited from acquiring DREs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| SB377 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; tenant remedies. Provides that a general district court may (i) terminate a lease upon the request of the tenant or (ii) order the dwelling unit surrendered to the landlord if the landlord prevails on a request for possession...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB115 | Pass | Tax credit for contributions to political candidates; expiration. Sunsets the individual income tax credit for contributions to political candidates beginning with taxable year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB595 | Pass | Dead bodies; storage. Requires any institution that has initial custody of a dead human body to ensure, if the dead body is to be stored for more than 48 hours, that the dead body is maintained in refrigeration at no more than approximately 40 degree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0411) |
| SR43 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB368 | Pass | Public schools; standards of accreditation. Authorizes the Board of Education to review once every two years or once every three years the accreditation status of any school that is not on a triennial review cycle as a result of three consecutive yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0386) |
| SB551 | Pass | Physician assistants. Provides that it is unlawful for a person to use in connection with his name the words or letters "Physician Assistant" or "PA" unless he is a licensed physician assistant. The bill requires a physician assistant to enter into a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0450) |
| SR75 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR75ER) |
| SR96 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to a general district court judgeship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR96ER) |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Kathleen Flanagan McManus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
