| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Prioritization of statewide transportation projects; exceptions. Provides that projects on U.S. Route 460 and U.S. Route 121 are not subject to the prioritization process that the Commonwealth Transportation Board applies to projects eligible for sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; alcohol; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person who is under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs to carry a loaded firearm on or about his person in a public place and that a person found guilty is ineligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Toll violations at all-electronic toll facilities; administrative fees and period of nonpayment. Lowers the administrative fee that is paid after 30 days of nonpayment of an unpaid toll from $100 to $50 and lengthens such period of nonpayment from 30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolling additional capacity and designations of HOV and HOT lanes on Interstate 66. Prohibits tolls on any component of Interstate 66 outside the Capital Beltway existing prior to July 1, 2016. The bill provides that if additional lanes are added to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | HOV and HOT lane penalties; increased fines for subsequent offenses. Provides that increased fines for subsequent violations of the high-occupancy requirement on HOV and for driving an unauthorized vehicle on the HOT lanes shall be imposed only after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | State health insurance program; participation by certain local school division employees. Provides for the participation by employees of a school division in the state employee health plan. If the local school board elects to participate in the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; regional membership. Increases from 17 to 19 the membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board by the addition of two nonlegislative citizen members: one from the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; adjusted for inflation. Adjusts Virginia's individual income tax brackets, standard deduction, and personal exemption amounts annually beginning with the 2016 taxable year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; e-cigarettes. Expands the definition of "smoking" in the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act to include vapor products. Vapor stores are excluded from the scope of Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (8-Y 4-N) |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar thermal system tax credit. Establishes beginning in 2016 an individual and corporate income tax credit for solar energy space heating, water heating, space cooling, and industrial or commercial process heating systems placed in service. The cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain transportation districts. Increases the tax on the sales price charged by a distributor for fuels sold to a retail dealer in Hampton Roads from 2.1% to 5.1%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain transportation districts; price floor. Places a floor on the 2.1 percent tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads by ensuring that the tax is not imposed on a sales price ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; rate of taxation. Lowers the rate of taxation for each income bracket by one-quarter percent each year for four years beginning in taxable year 2017. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020, income will be taxe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Cable franchises. Provides that local ordinances to adopt a cable franchise shall require that a cable operator make service available in areas where the average occupied residential household density is not less than 20 occupied residential dwelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Method of nominating party candidates; incumbent selection. Removes the power of incumbent officeholders in some cases to insist on a primary as the method of nominating political party candidates and removes the power of General Assembly incumbents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacant building registration. Requires either that a vacant building be vacant for 12 months or that it meet the definition of "derelict building" under §15.2-907.1 before cities and certain towns may require the building's owner to register it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (9-Y 3-N) |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia adjusted gross income; sale of certain crops to craft breweries. Provides an income tax subtraction, for purposes of computing Virginia adjusted gross income, for farmers who sell certain crops to Virginia craft breweries. The bill defines a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher expenses tax credit. Creates a tax credit, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, of up to $500 for teachers who paid for materials used in teaching students in an elementary or secondary school, provided that such payments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualified equity and subordinated debt investments tax credit. Raises the cap on the total amount of credits that may be issued under the qualified equity and subordinated debt investment tax credit from $5 million to $9 million for calendar years be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Incorporates SB749 |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to disburse moneys from the Fund in the form of grants to private entities that own dams in order to protect public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax credit; return of budget surplus. Establishes a refundable individual income tax credit that is a portion of the general fund surplus for the corresponding fiscal year. If $50 million or more in general fund surplus remains afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax. Modifies the individual income tax by establishing a flat 5.75% tax on all taxable income. The bill also increases the standard deduction from $6,000 to $15,000 for married persons and from $3,000 to $7,500 for single individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Local stormwater utility; payment to BMP operator accepting runoff. Requires any locality that operates a local stormwater management program to pay the private operator of a nutrient-reducing best management practice (BMP) if it requires such operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB501 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits, without the prior statutory approval of the General Assembly, any percent increase in in-state tuition or instructional fees for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Local environmental cleanup programs. Allows localities to establish a voluntary environmental cleanup program to provide recognition to retailers that establish practices such as credit to consumers who use reusable bags or the recycling of plastic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 6-N) |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard deduction; adjusted for inflation. Adjusts the individual income tax standard deduction annually beginning with the 2017 taxable year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), for all items, from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB330 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition at a public institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; meetings to hear complaints. Requires the State Board of Elections to meet on the Tuesday immediately preceding any election to hear and consider action on any complaints received by the Department of Elections. The bill als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualified Equity and Subordinated Debt Investments Tax Credit. Raises the cap on the total number of credits that may be issued per year under the qualified equity and subordinated debt investments tax credit from $5 million to $9 million for calenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; contributions from out-of-state sources prohibited. Prohibits any candidate for the General Assembly or his campaign committee from soliciting or accepting a contribution from any person, corporation, campaign committee, political c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Local planning commission; action on proposed plat; commercial real estate. Shortens the period within which a local planning commission or other agent must act on a proposed plat, site plan, or plan of development that solely involves parcels of com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (9-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal income tax relief. Reduces imposition of the personal income tax by increasing the maximum income within each bracket by $1,000 and phasing out the lowest income bracket. Beginning January 1, 2017, the four brackets would be: 0% on the fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local preference for businesses participating in Virginia Registered Apprenticeship program. Authorizes a locality to give preference to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder who (i) is a resident of Virginia, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of relief from collateral criminal consequences. Creates a procedure whereby a person who has been convicted of certain crimes can petition the court for a certificate of relief that will remove collateral consequences of the conviction. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; line extensions to serve megasites. Authorizes electric utilities to recover through their base rates the cost of extending lines to provide industrial-grade service to a megasite that is available for an economic development proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; parity of coverage for oral chemotherapy medications. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations, whose policies provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment, to provide cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; mandatory renewable portfolio standard. Converts the existing voluntary renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program to a mandatory program. Under the new program, investor-owned electric utilities are required to make investments i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; prescription drugs; tiers. Prohibits a health carrier offering a health benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs from implementing a formulary that places a prescription drug on the highest cost-sharing tier un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); noncriminal incidents and reports. Clarifies that the FOIA exclusion for noncriminal incidents and reports applies to any public body that engages in criminal law-enforcement activities and does not rely on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; net energy metering; standby charges. Increases the size of electrical generating facilities operated by residential or agricultural net energy metering customers that are subject to a monthly standby charge from those with a capa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; agricultural net energy metering. Allows an otherwise-eligible agricultural customer-generator to participate in an electric utility's net energy metering program if it is to be served by multiple meters located on one pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Judicial Nominations Commission; local judicial nomination committees. Creates a 15-member statewide Judicial Nominations Commission (Commission), elected by the General Assembly, to recommend appellate judicial candidates to the General Assembly and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; efficient biomass. Excludes inefficient biomass from the definition of renewable energy. The measure provides that renewable energy includes any biomass energy capacity, efficient or otherwise, in operation prior to January 1, 2016,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); limitation on exemption for certain criminal investigative files. Limits the application of the criminal investigative file exemption by providing that nothing in FOIA shall be construed to authorize the wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive telephone companies. Provides that an entity controlled by or related to a competitive telephone company shall not be considered an alternative provider of wireline or terrestrial wireless communications services. Currently, an incumbent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Provides a mechanism for a person convicted of a nonhomicide offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, while the person was a juvenile, and who is sentenced to life or a term of confinement that would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; report. Prohibits a state or local government agency from taking certain actions relating to access to electronic communication information from a service provider, access to electronic device informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of relief from collateral criminal consequences. Creates a procedure whereby a person who has been convicted of certain crimes can petition the court for a certificate of relief that will remove collateral consequences of the conviction. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property. Repeals a provision, enacted in 2004, that allows interstate natural gas companies to enter upon property to make examinations, tests, land auger borings, appraisals, and surveys without the writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 2-A) |
