| SB408 | Pass | Unclaimed property; payment of property of deceased owner. Provides a means for the State Treasurer to pay unclaimed property of a deceased owner to a claimant who provides certain evidence of his entitlement to payment, including (i) a certificate o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; eligibility; use of funds. Makes several changes to the student eligibility criteria for Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program grants, including (i) removing the requirement that the recipient be a dependent, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB277 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; membership. Increases the number of nonlegislative citizen members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission from 13 to 14 by increasing from one to two the members who represent Loudoun County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0374) |
| SB466 | Pass | Guardianship; communication between incapacitated person and others. Provides that a guardian shall not unreasonably restrict an incapacitated person's ability to communicate with, visit, or interact with other persons with whom the incapacitated per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0404) |
| SR94 | Pass | Commending the Princess Anne High School girls' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR94ER) |
| SR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Colonel Wesley L. Fox, USMC, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB43 | Pass | Time of municipal elections. Clarifies that a city or town may move the time of its local elections to the November general election pursuant to statutory authority notwithstanding any contrary provisions of its charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0402) |
| SB427 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; students whose parent has decided to not have his child take. Prohibits the Board of Education from including in its calculation of the passage rate of a Standards of Learning assessment for the purposes of state ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0387) |
| SB413 | Pass | Northern Virginia Tansportation Authority. rovides that the population criterion required for decisions of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority shall be the estimates, not the projections, made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0375) |
| SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Rules of the Senate; news media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR184 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Virginia Urological Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Vincent Johns Thomas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB776 | Pass | Public schools; residency of children in kinship care. Allows a child receiving kinship care from an adult relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0388) |
| SR79 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB99 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; spouse of military service member killed in action. Clarifies that "killed in action" includes a determination by the U.S. Department of Defense of "died of wounds received in action" for purposes of the real property tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB652 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interest Act; prohibited contracts; exceptions for certain contracts entered into by an officer or employee of a soil and water conservation district. Provides an exception to the prohibition against officers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| SB90 | Pass | Discovery rule; statute of limitations. Provides that the period of limitations for filing a cause of action for injury resulting from implanted medical devices accrues from the time the person knew or should have known of the injury and its causal c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Frank Beamer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB423 | Pass | Asset forfeiture. Prohibits a law-enforcement agency from requesting, requiring, or otherwise inducing a person who asserts a lawful right to property seized for the purpose of forfeiture to waive his interest in or rights to the property until an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0423) |
| SB566 | Pass | Involuntary psychiatric admission from local correctional facility. Clarifies that for the purposes of petitioning for the involuntary psychiatric treatment of an inmate in a local correctional facility, the petition shall be filed by the sheriff or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| SB89 | Pass | Local electoral boards; meeting minutes. Requires the posting of minutes of the local electoral boards' meetings on the local electoral board's website or the official website of the county or city when such means are available. Minutes of meetings a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0403) |
| SB70 | Pass | Source of pendente lite support award. Provides that any award or order made by the court pending a suit for divorce, annulment, or separate maintenance shall be paid from the post-separation income of the obligor unless the court, for good cause sho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| SR95 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Police Chief George T. Owens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR95ER) |
| SB737 | Engross
Sine Die | Payment of public employees for time away from their official duties; employee organizations; penalty. Prohibits public employers from paying leave or benefits to any public employee to directly or indirectly work for or on behalf of an employee orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB707 | Pass | Failure to appear; service of process. Provides that a summons for failure to appear on a mailed summons may be served by any person authorized to serve process. Under existing law, any person age 18 or older who is not a party or otherwise intereste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB366 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; disabled veterans and the spouse of a service member killed in action. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the residence of a disabled veteran, or the residence of the spouse of a service member killed in ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| SR86 | Pass | Commending Smith Mountain Lake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR86ER) |
| SJR148 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending David Bailey Associates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR90 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Thomas E. Gallahue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR90ER) |
| SR89 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Teena D. Grodner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR89ER) |
| SR97 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to a juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR97ER) |
| SR91 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Ian M. O'Flaherty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR91ER) |
| SR88 | Pass | Commending the Sleepy Hollow Citizens' Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR88ER) |
| SB342 | Pass | Criminal defendants; orders for competency and sanity evaluations and hospitalization. Requires the clerk of court to provide a copy of an order for an evaluation for sanity, competency to stand trial, or competency restoration to the appointed evalu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0449) |
| SR87 | Pass | Commemorating the 235th anniversary of the defense of Richmond in 1781.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR87ER) |
| SB291 | Pass | Physical evidence recovery kits. Establishes a comprehensive procedure for the collection and analysis of physical evidence recovery kits for victims of sexual assault, including those who elect at the time of the exam not to report a sexual assault ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| SR93 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Patricia Keys Fick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR93ER) |
| SR92 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Walter Willson Craigie, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR92ER) |
| SB467 | Pass | Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Exempts from licensure any child day program that is (i) an instructional program offered by a public school that serves preschool-age children or that satisfies compulsory attendance laws or the Individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0442) |
| SJR85 | Pass | Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a two-year joint committee consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education and six members of the Senate to study...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ85ER) |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary admission; contents of preadmission screening report; notice of hearing. Provides that the community services board that prepares the preadmission screening report admitted into evidence at a person's involuntary admission hearing, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR74 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR74ER) |
| SJR214 | Pass | Commending Robert A. Stalzer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ214ER) |
| SJR196 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ196ER) |
| SR78 | Pass | Commending Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Iota Omega Chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR78ER) |
| SJR189 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Maurice Taylor Bey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ189ER) |
| SJR192 | Pass | Commending Swans Creek Elementary School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ192ER) |
| SR85 | Pass | Commending the Woman's Club of Norfolk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR85ER) |
| SJR97 | Pass | Study; Joint Commission on Technology and Science; Commonwealth's aerospace industry; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to (i) identify strategies to grow Denbigh High School's Aviation Academy and encourage its t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ97ER) |
| SJR198 | Pass | Commending Myron D. Rummel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ198ER) |
