| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Unmanned aircraft systems; invasion of privacy; civil action; criminal violations. Creates a civil cause of action for the physical and constructive invasion of privacy where a person uses an unmanned aircraft system to enter into the airspace above ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission (the Commission) as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill specifies the licensing requirements for casino gaming and imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (5-Y 7-N 3-A) |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility vegetation management activities; civil penalties. Requires utilities to give notice by first-class mail of planned vegetation management activities to customers, landowners, and local governments. The notice, which is required to be sent bot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Storage Consortium. Establishes the Virginia Energy Storage Consortium as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth for the purpose of positioning the Commonwealth as a leader in research, development, commercialization, manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); time period for responding to requests for records. Allows any county, city, or town with a population of less than 10,000 to have an additional 30 working days to respond to a FOIA request in cases where i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; collection and use of personal information by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that, unless a criminal or administrative warrant has been issued, law-enforcement and regulatory agencies sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owner's Association Act; home-based businesses. Provides that an association may not prohibit a lot owner from operating a home-based business within his personal residence if the operation of the home-based business is in complianc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving under the influence; private property. Provides that a person cannot be found guilty of driving under the influence if such person is in a motor vehicle that is on private property and such vehicle is not in motion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SJR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; juvenile records; employment; report. Directs the Commission on Youth to study expungement of juvenile court records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee on the death penalty in Virginia; report. Establishes a seven-member legislative joint subcommittee to study the death penalty in Virginia. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall, among other things, (i) provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR75 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Housing Commission; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the impact of a tenant's delinquency in paying separately metered utilities pursuant to a rental agreement on landlords in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of distiller's license. Allows distiller's licensees to (i) sell at retail the brands of alcoholic beverages that the licensee owns at premises described in the license for on-premises consumption and in closed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SJR107 | Intro
Sine Die | Cross-jurisdictional transportation for persons with disabilities. Urges localities to make a collaborative effort to provide affordable cross-jurisdictional public transportation to persons with disabilities by modifying and expanding current transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; encouraging employers in the Commonwealth to pay their employees a living wage. Encourages employers in the Commonwealth to pay their employees a living wage. The resolution notes that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has set up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Death penalty executions; moratorium. Imposes a moratorium on executions. The bill does not affect any other matter of law related to the death penalty, including bringing and trying capital charges, sentencing proceedings, imposition of the death pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 6-N) |
| SJR59 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Transportation to study toll relief. Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a survey of other states' toll relief programs and evaluate potential methods of toll relief for citizens of the Commonwealth. The Department shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR81 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; teacher salary compression; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study compression in the teacher salary scale in local school divisions, analyze the effect of comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; child sexual abuse. Requires the Board of Education to include in its standards of learning for family life education standards for age-appropriate instruction in the prevention, recognition, and awareness of child abduction, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning; history and social science. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for history and social science instruction on the importance of the Battle of Great Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The bill require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB540 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood education. Requires, on and after July 1, 2021, all school divisions to provide early childhood education programs for four-year-olds and five-year-olds who are not eligible to attend kindergarten or at-risk early childhood education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug price transparency. Requires every manufacturer of a prescription drug that is made available in the Commonwealth and has a wholesale acquisition price of $10,000 or more for a single course of treatment to report to the Commissione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain school divisions; plan to fund and phase in full-day kindergarten. Requires each local school board that does not offer a full-day kindergarten program for each kindergarten student in the school division to develop a plan to fund and phase i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Erosion and sediment control plans; utility company projects. Clarifies that the permission given to utility companies to file annually general erosion and sediment control standards and specifications with the Department of Environmental Quality doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Veterans Recovery Program. Creates the Virginia Veterans Recovery Program for the purpose of providing diagnostic services, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and support services to eligible veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal combustion by-product impoundments; closure requirements. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to require the closure of surface impoundments of coal combustion by-products, commonly called coal ash ponds, by July 1, 2020. The bill ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management regulations; water quality and quantity design criteria; unenforceable unless amended. Prohibits the enforcement of any design criterion concerning water quality or quantity contained in Part II B of the stormwater management re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Labeling of drug products compounded by nonresident outsourcing facilities. Prohibits any person from administering any drug product compounded by an outsourcing facility located outside the Commonwealth for any purpose unless such drug product is la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Nurse practitioners. Eliminates the requirement that a nurse practitioner practice as part of a patient care team with a practice agreement with a patient care physician. The bill also eliminates a Board of Health pilot program authorizing certain nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medicaid Services; asset location and recovery. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to contract with a vendor for location and recovery of unreported assets of deceased Medicaid recipients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Dredging; TMDL credits; request for assignment of credits equivalent to street sweeping. Requests the Chesapeake Bay Program, a regional partnership directing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, to approve a certain type of dredging as a creditabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Students with limited English proficiency; alternative to the eleventh grade Standards of Learning end-of-course English reading assessment. Requires the Board of Education to authorize the use of an English language proficiency assessment such as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2018, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires any person who unlawfully discharges any deleterious substance into state waters to notify the State Water Control Board (the Board), the Department of Environmental Quality (the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Commonwealth Resilience Fund established. Requires the Governor to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that established a regional CO2 electric power sector cap and trade program and establishes the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Bridge structures; attachment to locality; annual service fee. Provides that a bridge constructed and operated in accordance with Chapter 581 of the Acts of Assembly of 2009, known as the Jordan Bridge, is not within either locality to which it is at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB521 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession, underage alcohol possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Free use of toll facilities; motorcycles. Allows motorcycles free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that a court that enters a nolle prosequi for a criminal charge shall, upon motion of the person charged, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage license; authorization for marriage officiant. Allows the parties to a marriage to designate an officiant, who shall be 18 years of age or older and not a party to the marriage, on their application for a marriage license. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostitution; affirmative defense. Provides an affirmative defense to prostitution if the person was induced by another through the use of force, threat, intimidation, coercion, or deception to engage in prostitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB526 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspections; single sticker. Provides that passage of a motor vehicle safety inspection is a condition to registration or registration renewal. Motorists would be provided with a safety inspection decal that indicates the month o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; rate of taxation. Lowers the corporate income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Davey Reedy. Provides relief in the amount of $961,489 to Davey Reedy, who was incarcerated from 1988 until 2009 after being convicted of two counts of first degree murder and arson in the daytime. On December 21, 2015, Governor McAuliffe gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; exemption for certain nonprofit entities. Provides exemptions from sales and use tax and local license taxes for certain nonprofit veterans organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
