| SJR51 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; indigent defense; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the feasibility and costs of establishing a comprehensive indigent defense system at the appellate level in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB506 | Engross
Sine Die | Waiver of tax penalties for small businesses. Waives any tax penalties related to taxes administered by the Department of Taxation for a small business during its first two years of operation as long as the business enters into an installment agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SJR157 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe after January 7, 2016, and communicated to the General Assembly on January 26, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ157ER) |
| SJR186 | Pass | Commending the Arlington County Civic Federation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ186ER) |
| SJR185 | Pass | Commending the Historic Lexington Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ185ER) |
| SJR179 | Pass | Commending Beville Middle School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ179ER) |
| SB775 | Engross
Sine Die | DMAS; Medicaid application. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to verify income, using Virginia Employment Commission data, for Medicaid applicants and recipients who claim no earned or unearned income. The same protocols wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Judicial creation of trusts. Clarifies that a circuit court may create and establish a trust upon petition of an interested party. The bill states that its provisions are declarative of existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB385 | Engross
Sine Die | Foster and adoptive parents; waiver. Provides the same criminal conviction waiver process for foster and adoptive parents that is currently available to persons who seek to operate, volunteer at, or work at child welfare agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB705 | Engross
Sine Die | Liability of sanctuary cities for certain injuries and damages. Provides that a sanctuary city, defined in the bill as any locality that adopts any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB327 | Engross
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] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB686 | Engross
Sine Die | Presidential primary; voter pledge prohibited; emergency. Prohibits a political party holding a presidential primary from requiring voters to sign any pledge when offering to vote in that primary. Current law allows the political party to determine t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; toxic waste site inventory. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to inventory by July 1, 2017, nonfederally managed toxic waste sites in the Commonwealth and publish the inventory at that time and annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB602 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grant Program. Extends the award of Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grants for eligible projects on and after July 1, 2016, in the aggregate amount of not more than $6 million in any fiscal year and an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB31 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission; criteria for remedial redistricting plans. Provides for the establishment of the Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission when any congressional or state legislative district drawn as required by Article II...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB508 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; addback for Captive REIT dividends. Provides that the voting power or value of the beneficial interests or shares in a real estate investment trust (REIT) that is held in a segregated asset account of a life insurance corporatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB106 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person. Allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without providing an excuse for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the statutory list of specific reasons allowing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Prostitution; minors; penalties. Allows a petition for a child in need of services to be substituted for a delinquency petition for minors arrested for prostitution if the minor is willing to participate in specialized services for those engaged in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB729 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of unmanned aircraft system to commit crime or obstruct services; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he knowingly uses or attempts to use an unmanned aircraft system (i) to commit or attempt to commit a crime, (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB322 | Engross
Sine Die | Telephone systems within correctional facilities. Requires telephone systems in state correctional facilities to charge the lowest available rates and not impose any additional commissions or fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB113 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA); membership composition. Increases from 17 to 18 the membership of the NVTA and provides that the additional nonlegislative citizen member represent towns that receive funds for urban highway systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB116 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia-Korea Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia-Korea Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve mutually beneficial trade relationships between the Commonwealth and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The Board would expire on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB760 | Engross
Sine Die | Malicious impersonation using computer; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to knowingly and with malice impersonate a living individual without his authorization through the use of a computer and with the intent to defrau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR182 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor McAuliffe on or after February 10, 2016, and communicated to the General Assembly on February 23, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ182ER) |
| SB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for political boundaries, equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, contiguity, compactness, and communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR83 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Department of Medical Assistance Services and Department of Social Services; conferral of authority to local departments of social services to investigate Medicaid fraud cases; report. Requests that the Department of Medical Assistance Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB22 | Engross
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] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB372 | Pass | Obsolete tax statutes. Repeals obsolete tax-related statutes. This bill is a recommendation of the Code Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| SB389 | Pass | Permitting or licensure; locality shall not require consent of homeowners' association. Prohibits a locality from requiring consent of a condominium association, homeowners' association, or real estate cooperative prior to the issuance of a permit, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| SB361 | Pass | Tree conservation ordinance. Provides that the ordinance may allow a locality to post signs on private property that is proposed to be redeveloped with one single family home that notifies the public that an infill lot grading plan is pending for rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| SB424 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; photo identification. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) shall design and approve the issuance of photo-identification cards to every person who is issued a private secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| SB745 | Pass | Notice to customers of renewable electric power options. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to post on its website the names, telephone numbers, and available hyperlinks of suppliers of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB229 | Pass | Purchase of flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia by public bodies. Provides that whenever a state or local public body or school division purchases a flag of the United States or a flag of the Commonwealth for public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| SB241 | Pass | Service of process on domestic corporations. Allows process on a Virginia corporation to be served on its registered agent by substituted service if such registered address is a single-family residential dwelling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| SB58 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credits. Modifies the existing research and development expenses tax credit and creates a similar tax credit for businesses with Virginia research and development expenses in excess of $5 million for the taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| SB128 | Pass | Personal injury and wrongful death actions; disclosure of physical address of insured person. Requires an insurance company to disclose the physical address of an insured person, if known, upon request of an injured person, personal representative, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| SB122 | Pass | Charter; Town of Damascus. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| SB51 | Pass | The Virginia Retirement System; technical corrections. Makes technical corrections to programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System, some of which will become effective on January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| SB163 | Pass | Local regulation of driving in flooded areas; penalty. Allows localities to by ordinance prohibit any person from operating a motor vehicle or watercraft on a flooded street in such a manner as to increase the level of floodwaters to a level that cau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| SB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; employment of special counsel. Provides that when entering into a contract with special counsel, the Office of the Governor or Office of the Attorney General, as applicable, must make a copy of the contract available t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB162 | Pass | Family violence fatality review teams; definition of fatal family violence incident. Specifies that for the purpose of referring such incident to a local family violence fatality review team, "fatal family violence incident" means any fatality that o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| SB160 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Permits Arlington County to impose an additional transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed one-fourth of one percent. The revenues from the tax shall be spent solely for the purpose of promoting touris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB348 | Pass | Pesticide Control Act; civil penalties; process. Clarifies the process by which the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services assesses a penalty for a violation of the Virginia Pesticide Control Act (VPCA), aligning the provisions of the VPCA with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| SB127 | Pass | Uniform Powers of Appointment Act. Codifies the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act (the Act), which governs the use of an estate planning tool that permits the owner of property to name a third party and give that person the power to direct the distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| SB580 | Pass | Income tax credit; food crop donations to a food bank. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning in 2016 for food crops that are grown by a person engaged in the business of farming and donated by such person to a nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB38 | Pass | Department of General Services; disposition of surplus materials; animals trained for police work. Allows the handler last in control of an animal especially trained for police work to purchase the animal for the price of $1. The bill also allows an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| SB210 | Pass | Automobile clubs. Repeals provisions relating to the licensure of automobile clubs by the State Corporation Commission, including provisions regarding the authority of insurance agents to negotiate automobile club contracts on behalf of licensed auto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| SB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonds; tolls on I-66. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $1.5 billion plus financing costs to finance the costs of acquiring, constructing, and equippin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB248 | Pass | Physical evidence recovery kit examination; minors. Provides that if a parent or guardian of a minor refuses to consent to a physical evidence recovery kit examination of the minor, the minor may consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| SB354 | Pass | Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors. Extends the statute of limitations to one year after the victim reaches 18 years of age for misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge of offender by employee of bail bond co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
