| SB444 | Pass | Sales and use tax; refunds. Prohibits any taxpayer failing to give a dealer at the time of purchase an exemption certificate that was issued by the Department of Taxation from receiving interest on a refund claim for any period prior to the date the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB46 | Pass | Commonwealth Space Flight Fund; transfer of funds. Extends through fiscal year 2023-2024 the annual transfer from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Commonwealth Space Flight Fund and increases the transfer from $9.5 to $15.8 million to reflect the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| SB646 | Pass | Fantasy Contests Act; registration required; conditions of registration; civil penalty. Creates the Fantasy Contests Act (the Act), which applies to fantasy contests with an entry fee offered in Virginia. The bill defines "fantasy contest" as any onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB631 | Pass | Workers' compensation; fee schedules for medical services. Directs the Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) to adopt regulations establishing fee schedules setting the maximum pecuniary liability of the employer for medical services prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| SB640 | Pass | Insurance policies and annuity contracts; exemption from creditors' claims. Provides that the cash surrender value or proceeds of any policy of life insurance or annuity contract, the withdrawal value of an optional settlement or deposit with any com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| SB87 | Pass | Circuit court clerks; disaster recovery plan for electronic land records. Requires circuit court clerks to maintain a disaster plan for recovery of any land record in possession of the clerk that is maintained as an electronic record. The bill has a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| SB642 | Pass | Virginia Beach arena. Extends from 2043 to 2050 an existing contingent sunset provision relating to the Virginia Beach arena.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| SB395 | Pass | Investor-owned electric utilities; energy efficiency. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to evaluate the establishment of uniform protocols for measuring, verifying, validating, and reporting the impacts of energy efficiency measures impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB305 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; required notices related to the handling of asbestos. Requires the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to provide with every asbestos worker's license a notice, in English and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| SB621 | Pass | Structured settlements. Amends the Structured Settlement Protection Act (the Act) to provide that the structured settlement obligor and the annuity issuer may rely on a court order approving a transfer of structured settlement payment rights in redir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| SB170 | Pass | Nonsuits; tolling of limitations; contractual limitation periods. Provides that a voluntary nonsuit tolls both a contractual limitation period and a statutorily governed limitation period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| SB562 | Pass | Health benefit plans; federal law changes. Authorizes health carriers to sell, issue, or offer for sale any health benefit plan that would otherwise not be permitted to be sold, issued, or offered for sale due to conflict with the requirements of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| SB287 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2017, reports by dispensers to the Prescription Monitoring Program (the Program) shall be made within 24 hours or the dispenser's next business day, whichever comes later. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| SB564 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; exclusions for school personnel licensure applications. Excludes records of an application for licensure or renewal of a license for teachers and other school personnel, including transcripts or other documents submitted i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| SB286 | Pass | Motor vehicles equipped with television and video. Provides that motor vehicles may be equipped with visual displays of moving images if the equipment is factory-installed and has an interlock device that disables the equipment when the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| SB688 | Pass | Limited liability companies; registered agent. Authorizes a limited liability company (LLC) to designate an officer of the LLC as its registered agent. An officer of an LLC is defined in this measure as an employee of the LLC, other than a member or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| SB479 | Pass | Retired law-enforcement officers; concealed handguns. Clarifies provisions relating to the authority of retired law-enforcement officers, special agents of the State Corporation Commission and Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, members of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| SJR63 | Pass | Study; Department of Social Services; child day programs exempt from licensure; report. Requests the Department of Social Services to (i) review all categories of child day programs exempt from licensure under § 63.2-1715, (ii) formulate recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ63ER) |
| SB182 | Pass | Local gas road improvement and Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority tax; use of revenues. Authorizes localities that comprise the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority to use a portion of the revenues collected from the local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| SB181 | Pass | Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse. Revises provisions of the Code related to the elective share of the surviving spouse of a decedent dying on or after January 1, 2017, to track revisions made to the Uniform Probate Code by the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| SB109 | Pass | Commissioners in eminent domain proceedings. Requires commissioners in eminent domain proceedings to be summoned at least 30 days prior to service. Under current law, such summons is required at least one week prior to service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| SB264 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; practicing outside of a patient care team. Provides that in cases in which a physician who is serving as a patient care team physician dies, becomes disabled, retires from active practice, surrenders his license or has it suspend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| SJR159 | Pass | Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ159ER) |
| SJR166 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Sherri Moyer Brooks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ166ER) |
| SB249 | Pass | Financial exploitation of adults. Provides that upon receipt of a report or during an adult protective services investigation of suspected financial exploitation of an adult who is 60 years old or older or incapacitated in which financial losses to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| SB362 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedures; transportation-related construction. Provides that a public body may establish purchase procedures not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| SJR165 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Samuel Earl Newton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ165ER) |
| SJR162 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Darwin E. Rogers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ162ER) |
| SJR168 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Edward E. Brickell, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ168ER) |
| SJR174 | Pass | Commending Merck's Elkton plant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ174ER) |
| SJR161 | Pass | Commending the recipients of the 2016 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ161ER) |
| SJR173 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Phillip Riddel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ173ER) |
| SJR171 | Pass | Commending Fred Whyte.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ171ER) |
| SJR167 | Pass | Commending the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ167ER) |
| SJR160 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peggy Ann Tyree-Wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ160ER) |
| SB325 | Pass | Department of Taxation; disclosure of certain tax information. Permits the Department of Taxation (the Department) to disclose to a taxpayer whether the taxpayer's employer submitted withholding records to the Department as required. The bill also re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| SJR175 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lydia Marie Kiser.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ175ER) |
| SJR169 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dana McLeod.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ169ER) |
| SJR170 | Pass | Commending Second Street restaurant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ170ER) |
| SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; tobacco. Requires each school board, by July 1, 2017, to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the use of tobacco products on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity. The bill also replaces the term "e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
VOTE: DEFEATED #2 (38-Y 60-N) |
| SB175 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; sharing of information. Provides that information on concealed handgun permittees in the Virginia Criminal Information Network shall not be shared with law enforcement in states that do not have reciprocity agreements with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| SB299 | Pass | Amber lights on public transit buses. Allows publicly owned or operated transit buses to use flashing amber lights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| SJR164 | Pass | Commending The Omni Homestead Resort.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ164ER) |
| SJR88 | Pass | Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study specific early childhood development programs, prenatal to age five, in the Commonwealth in order for the General Assembly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ88ER) |
| SR56 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Senior Trooper Michael P. Dooley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR56ER) |
| SB21 | Veto | Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to receive approval from the General Assembly for a state implementation plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SR57 | Pass | Commending James D. Campbell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR57ER) |
| SR60 | Pass | Commending Maryann Horch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR60ER) |
| SB458 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; suspensions. Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
VOTE: DEFEATED (43-Y 55-N) |
| SR58 | Pass | Commending the National Education Association Read Across America program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR58ER) |
