VA Legislation | 2016 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB685	Intro Sine Die	Virginia taxable income; deduction for personal exemptions. Increases the deduction, for purposes of computing Virginia taxable income, for personal exemptions. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, a taxpayer may deduct $1,000 fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 7-N)
SB101	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
SB104	Intro Sine Die	Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $100 for a first violation, $250 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
SB76	Intro Sine Die	Service of process; common interest communities. Requires an employee of a common interest community to grant entry into the community to a person attempting to execute service on a party who resides within or is known to be within the community. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB722	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; apportionment of revenue. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation to consider, when reviewing whether the method of apportionment used to determine corporate tax liability in the Commonwealth was inapplicable or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB306	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 (12-Y 0-N)
SB762	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates; PROUD WOMAN VETERAN. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of Virginia Women Veterans bearing the legend PROUD WOMAN VETERAN. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB289	Intro Sine Die	Virginia taxable income; deduction for personal exemptions. Increases the deduction, for purposes of computing Virginia taxable income, for personal exemptions. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, a taxpayer may deduct $1,000 fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 7-N)
SB613	Intro Sine Die	Driver's license; marijuana possession. Revises the existing provision that a person loses his driver's license for six months when convicted of or placed on deferred disposition for a drug offense to provide that the provision does not apply to defe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB326	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; rate of taxation. Lowers the corporate income tax rate from six percent to 5.75 percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 3-N)
SB171	Intro Sine Die	Insurance; jury award of attorney fees for bad faith. Provides that in certain civil causes of action involving insurance contracts, either the court or the jury may award attorney fees upon a finding of bad faith. The bill is in response to the Supr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB390	Intro Sine Die	Temporary visitor's driver's licenses. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a temporary visitor's driver's license to an applicant who is unable to present valid documentary evidence of legal permanent residency in the United States or co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N)
SB258	Intro Sine Die	CTB; voting weighted by population. Provides that the votes of the nine nonlegislative citizen members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board who represent the nine highway construction districts shall be weighted on the basis of the population of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (13-Y 0-N)
SB682	Intro Sine Die	Construction in Hampton Roads; multimodal component. Requires that any construction or expansion project on a bridge or tunnel by the Department of Transportation or the Hampton Roads Accountability Commission include a multimodal component. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N)
SB741	Intro Sine Die	Tax administration; awards for detection of tax underpayments. Creates a program for the payment of monetary rewards to individuals who provide information to the Tax Commissioner that leads to the successful collection of taxes that are owed by othe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB421	Intro Sine Die	Hearsay; exception; children; certain sexual related offenses. Establishes a hearsay exception to out-of-court statements made by a child under the age of 10 in certain sexual related offenses, including sexual assault, sex trafficking, and pornograp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB105	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Housing Trust Fund; revenue deposits. Provides that 20% of annual recordation tax revenue in excess of $325 million shall be deposited into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB700	Intro Sine Die	Construction of highways; consider sea-level rise. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to determine the effect of sea-level rise on projects in Planning District 22 or 23. Such determination must be made in writing at least 60 days before final pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N)
SB380	Intro Sine Die	Behavioral Health Dockets; established. Establishes, by the Behavioral Health Docket Act (the Act), behavioral health courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judicial monitoring of intens... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-03 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB559	Intro Sine Die	Governor; performance review of state departments, agencies, and programs; scope of review; report. Directs the Governor to initiate on July 1, 2016, and every two years thereafter, an operational and programmatic performance review of all state depa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB353	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB617	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; certain members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn employees of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles who have the powers of sheriffs ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB531	Intro Sine Die	Secretary of the Commonwealth; establishment of digital document authentication standards. Requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to establish digital document authentication standards for use with all public records of the Commonwealth by July 1... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (13-Y 0-N)
SB426	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Community Impact Authority and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Community Impact Authority with the authority to (i) provide grants, investments, and loans to support job training programs, health care delivery systems, and affordable housing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (13-Y 0-N)
SB439	Intro Sine Die	Voter identification; photograph and identifying information contained in electronic pollbook; challenge of voter. Requires electronic pollbooks to contain a photograph and identifying information received by the Department of Elections from the Depa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB490	Intro Sine Die	Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act; applying for and casting military-overseas ballots. Provides that any active duty member of a uniformed service who has been called to duty for deployment to a combat zone shall be permitted to use his digita... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 6-N)
SB5	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credit. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired local government employees, local officers, general registrars, employees of a general registrar, and employees of local social services bo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SJR120	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of Governor; residency requirement. Increases from five to eight the number of years a person must have been a resident of and a registered voter in the Commonwealth in order to be eligible ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB541	Intro Sine Die	Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to two-year college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exceed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SJR113	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both cons... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB547	Intro Sine Die	Water and sewer service provided by locality. Provides that certain liens for the unpaid fees and charges of a lessee or tenant shall be placed only if the owner of the property has agreed in writing at the time service is initiated to be responsible... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB100	Intro Sine Die	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; charitable gaming; audit and administration fee; adjusted gross receipts. Limits the audit and administration fee to no more than 1.25 percent of the adjusted gross receipts of a charitable organizatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB523	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; firefighters and emergency medical services trainees. Includes persons enrolled in a Fire Service Training course offered by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs under the Line of Duty Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB65	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open enrollment period. Opens enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program between October 1, 2016, and January 1, 2017, for eligible employees not currently participating in the program. Any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR119	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commissio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB753	Intro Sine Die	Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission; repeal; transfer of funds to Medicaid. Repeals the enabling legislation of the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission (the Commission) and directs that all funds in the Tobacco Indemnification and Community... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 4-N)
SB244	Intro Sine Die	Local fuels tax. Authorizes localities to impose a local fuels tax, not to exceed five cents per gallon of fuel. The tax would be paid by the distributor at the point of sale to a retail distributor in the same manner as regional fuel taxes. The Comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB672	Intro Sine Die	Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans, including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 7-N)
SB371	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]	2016-02-02 Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N)
SB619	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; probation and parole officers. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act to include probation and parole officers whose death occurs as a direct or proximate result of the performance of their duty. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB168	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; annual supplement. Adjusts the annual supplemental allowance under the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System to continue until a member reaches Social Security retirement age. Current law would end the ben... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB681	Intro Sine Die	Annexation moratorium. Extends the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions by two years to 2020. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assembly fails to appropriate certain amou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Incorporated by Local Government
SB297	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; certain employees of the Department of Corrections. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act to include employees of the Department of Corrections with internal investigations authority whose death occu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB772	Intro Sine Die	Officers of elections; State Board to provide training online. Requires the State Board of Elections to provide on the Department of Elections website a training course for officers of election and requires the electoral boards to ensure that each of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-02 Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB26	Intro Sine Die	Problem-Solving Dockets; established. Establishes, by the Problem-Solving Docket Act (the Act), problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judicial monitoring of intensive tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB376	Intro Sine Die	Search warrants; person subject to arrest or who is unlawfully restrained. Authorizes the issuance of a search warrant to search for and seize any person who is subject to arrest or who is unlawfully restrained. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB183	Intro Sine Die	Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 4-N)
SB662	Intro Sine Die	Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday and designates Election Day in November as a state holiday. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N)
SB221	Intro Sine Die	Equal pay irrespective of sex. Amends existing law requiring equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex to (i) increase the penalty for a violation from double unpaid wages to triple unpaid wages plus reasonable attorney fees; (ii) prohibit employe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N)
SB500	Intro Sine Die	Register of funds expended; required posting by state agencies, localities, and school divisions. Requires every locality and school division located within the locality to post on the public government website of the locality a register of all funds... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 4-N)