| SR59 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Leonard Spady, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR59ER) |
| SR61 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jay Cochran, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate (SR61ER) |
| SJR35 | Pass | Advance Care Planning Month. Designates April, in 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Advance Care Planning Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ35ER) |
| SR65 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate (SR65ER) |
| SB271 | Engross
Sine Die | Adoption leave benefit. Creates a new classification of paid leave for a state employee who adopts an infant. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR80 | Pass | Study; Virginia Housing Commission to study mandatory disclosure of relevant information to purchasers of historic properties without homeowner associations; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study mandatory disclosure of relevant in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ80ER) |
| SB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreign business entities; consent to jurisdiction and service of summons for witness or subpoena duces tecum. Provides that authorization from the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) for a foreign business entity to transact business in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB740 | Engross
Sine Die | Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits school boards requiring the use of any electronic textbook in any course in grades six through 12 unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2019, (i) each stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Passed by indefinitely in Education by voice vote |
| SB25 | Pass | General illumination lights; motorcycles. Increases from four to five the maximum number of lights allowed on a motorcycle and used for general illumination ahead of the motorcycle. Current law restricts all motor vehicles to no more than four lights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| SB600 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation. Clarifies that certain appointments currently subject to approval by the Senate Committee on Rules be approved by the Chair of the Senate Committee on Rules. The bill also provides that the Chair ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) |
| SB727 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to noncriminal records. Clarifies public access to noncriminal records maintained by public bodies engaged in criminal law-enforcement activities. The bill reverses an April 2015 Virginia Supreme Cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184) |
| SB266 | Pass | Sheriffs; standard vehicle markings. Allows sheriffs' offices to use marked motor vehicles painted in any solid color. Current law requires the sheriff to obtain the concurrence of the local governing body to use any color other than dark brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| SB17 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2017 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB480 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) |
| SB448 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Harry Lee Henderson Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate 66 bridge in Warren County the "Trooper Harry Lee Henderson Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| SB437 | Pass | Military medical personnel; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services, in collaboration with the Department of Health Professions, to establish a pilot program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain dele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| SB608 | Pass | Confiscation, reporting, and return of firearms by law enforcement. Replaces current requirements that law-enforcement agencies report information regarding confiscated firearms to the Department of State Police with a requirement that such informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214) |
| SB373 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food sale requirements. Provides that a business may be considered a restaurant for purposes of mixed beverage licenses if it regularly sells foods, rather than meals, prepared on the premises. The bill also provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB451 | Pass | Charter; Town of Dayton. Removes an outdated reference to a council composed of seven members. The town's charter was amended in 2011 to reduce the size of the council from seven to six members. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| SB193 | Pass | Unfair claim settlement practices; appraisal of motor vehicle repair costs. Authorizes the repair facility or the insurer making the appraisal of the cost of repairing a motor vehicle that has been damaged as the result of a covered loss to prepare a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183) |
| SB453 | Pass | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; licensing of home inspectors. Provides that beginning July 1, 2017, home inspectors must be licensed by the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors (the Board). Currently, home in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0161) |
| SB124 | Pass | Parole; transition assistance prior to parole or release. Requires the Department of Corrections to offer prisoners prior to release the opportunity to participate in a transition program to include advice for job training opportunities, recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| SB351 | Pass | Treasury Board; meetings. Changes the required number of regularly scheduled meetings of the Treasury Board from monthly to at least six times per year. The bill eliminates compensation for board members, which is defined as any amount paid in additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072) |
| SB455 | Pass | Department of Social Services; information sharing. Requires the Department of Social Services to provide access to information regarding a medical assistance applicant's receipt of public assistance from programs administered by the Department to en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111) |
| SB281 | Pass | Charter; Town of Herndon. Removes the authority of the mayor to take command of the police during emergencies and deputize assistant policemen to maintain order and enforce laws during such emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) |
| SB209 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; insurance assessments. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to recover omitted assessments pertaining to its regulation of insurers for the most recent three years. The measure also establishes a procedure f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193) |
| SB280 | Pass | Charter; Town of Herndon. Amends the town's boundary description to reflect a recent boundary line adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156) |
| SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Pilot project for mixed beverage licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; alternative calculation for the 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio based on price paid by the licensee. Creates a two-year pilot project that directs participating mix...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB136 | Pass | Electrical transmission line siting; hearing requested by locality. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to hold at least one hearing in the area that would be affected by construction of an electrical transmission line of 138 kV or more, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192) |
| SB527 | Pass | Bomb threats; reimbursement of expenses incurred in emergency response. Authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of a felony violation of the bomb threat statute or the statute that penalizes the incitement of a bomb th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| SB201 | Pass | Division of fees among physicians. Clarifies rules prohibiting division of fees among physicians licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the Commonwealth and provides that rules prohibiting division of fees among physicians shall not prohibit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| SB211 | Pass | Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day or an average of 100 minutes per week during the regular school year for students in grades kindergarten through five. This requirement becomes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155) |
| SB150 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of information technology goods and services; contractor liability. Prohibits a public body from requiring that an offeror state any exception to any liability provisions in responding to a Request for Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174) |
| SB283 | Pass | Crab pots; recreational gear license; turtle excluder device. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to charge recreational gear license fees of $36 for crab pots with turtle excluder devices and $46 for crab pots without such devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| SB346 | Pass | Family and Children's Trust Fund; exempt from taxation. Clarifies that the Family and Children's Trust Fund performs an essential governmental function and thus gifts, contributions, grants, devises, or bequests, whether personal or real property, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110) |
| SB536 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; spirits tastings by distiller licensee. Allows a distiller licensee that has been appointed as an agent of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to give samples of spirits to persons to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| SB205 | Pass | Purchase of handguns by certain officers. Adds employees of the Department of Corrections with internal investigations authority to the list of retired law-enforcement officers who may purchase their service handguns for $1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| SB233 | Pass | Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Creates the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact to (i) protect the public through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107) |
| SB653 | Pass | Charter; Town of South Hill. Updates the town's boundary description and replaces a reference to the town treasurer with "finance director." The bill also provides that the town manager, not the mayor, shall have power over the police forces. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162) |
| SB85 | Pass | Regulation of water and sewer utilities. Makes water and sewer companies subject to the rules of the State Corporation Commission (SCC) regarding meetings and communications between SCC commissioners and any party, or between commissioners and staff,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| SB465 | Pass | Request for Proposal of design-build projects. Allows for the submission and consideration of alternative technical concepts, defined in the bill, during the Request for Proposal process of a design-build transportation project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| SB212 | Pass | Health regulatory boards; membership and terms. Amends statutes governing membership and terms of various health regulatory boards. The bill (i) provides that members appointed by the Governor to serve on the Board of Health Professions for four-year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105) |
| SB666 | Pass | Issuance of certain special license plates. Prohibits the DMV from issuing to registered sex offenders special license plates relating to children or children's programs or with revenues paid to funds for the benefit of children or renewing the regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| SB91 | Pass | Registration of vehicles owned or used by emergency medical services agencies. Requires, upon application, the issuance of permanent license plates for emergency medical services vehicles owned by or under the exclusive control of a commercial or pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133) |
| SB103 | Pass | Charter; City of Hopewell; passage of emergency measures; Hopewell Water Renewal Commission. Raises from four to five the number of city council member votes required to pass an emergency measure and changes the name of the Hopewell Regional Wastewat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| SB78 | Pass | Boundary agreement between Loudoun County and any town within Loudoun County; attachment of GIS map to petitions. Allows Loudoun County and any town located within Loudoun County, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0153) |
| SB79 | Pass | Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. Allows any locality to fund the cost of participation in mental health treatment and counseling programs by a member of a volunteer fire or rescue company. A mental health progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| SB350 | Pass | Prisoners unable to give consent for medical or mental health treatment. Adds licensed professional counselors and licensed clinical social workers to the list of providers who are required by court order to inform the court and the prisoner's attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| SB265 | Pass | Health professions; Nurse Licensure Compact. Replaces the current Nurse Licensure Compact to which Virginia is a party with a revised version. The current Nurse Licensure Compact is a multistate nursing compact that provides the structure for the rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) |
| SB225 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council. Extends from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2018, the expiration of the Autism Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106) |
