| SB569 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; distribution of liter tax and markup on wine and cider produced by farm wineries. Clarifies that the liter tax and markup collected on wine and cider produced by farm winery licensees are to be deposited in the Virginia Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| SB169 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Request for Proposal for architectural or engineering services. Provides that in the case of the selection process for a Request for Proposal for architectural or engineering services, the public body shall not reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| SB736 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; City of Harrisonburg; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| SB309 | Pass | Annexation. Extends the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions by six years to 2024. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assembly fails to appropriate certain amounts for loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) |
| SB328 | Pass | Nurse aide education programs. Requires observational and reporting techniques to be included in the curriculum of nurse aide education programs used to prepare nurse aides for certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| SB658 | Pass | Technical changes; registration exemptions. Clarifies that a person with a registration exemption is not required to obtain a registration certificate, license plates, or decals and makes the corresponding grammatical clarification throughout Article...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) |
| SB634 | Pass | Secure Commonwealth Panel; membership; reporting. Adds the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs to the Secure Commonwealth Panel and changes from quarterly to annual the Panel's report to the Governor concerning the state's emergency preparednes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| SB414 | Pass | Land Bank Entities Act. Authorizes the establishment of a land bank entity by any locality or two or more localities combined to assist in addressing vacant, abandoned, and tax-delinquent real properties. Under the bill, the locality has the option o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159) |
| SB769 | Pass | Bedford; references to the former City of Bedford. Removes references to the former City of Bedford in certain sections of the Code. Bedford reverted to town status in 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164) |
| SB107 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Nathan-Michael W. Smith Memorial Bridge. Designates the Route 301 bridge in Prince George County at Exit 45 over Interstate 95 the Trooper Nathan-Michael W. Smith Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134) |
| SB774 | Pass | DMAS; request for proposals. Directing the Department of Medical Assistance Services to issue a Request for Proposal for statewide nonemergency medical transportation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114) |
| SB674 | Pass | Charter; Town of Tazewell. Provides for an interim appointment and special election to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor or a member of the town council. The bill lengthens from one month to 12 months the time period during which a planning commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| SB192 | Pass | Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices. Restores the ability of insurers, when sending certain types of notices, including notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a motor vehicle, commercial liability, or homeown...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| SB176 | Pass | Consent to organ donation. Eliminates the requirement that a person indicate his willingness to make an anatomical gift every time he renews or replaces his license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| SB314 | Pass | Acquisition of nutrient offset credits. Allows a new or expanding facility registered under the Watershed General Permit to acquire nutrient offset credits, on land located in the same tributary as the facility, on which best management practices hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| SB198 | Pass | Carrying concealed weapons; exceptions. Adds any employee with internal investigations authority designated by the Department of Corrections pursuant to subdivision 11 of § 53.1-10 of the Code of Virginia retired from the Department of Correctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| SB615 | Pass | Purchase of weapons other than handguns by certain officers. Allows officers of certain agencies to purchase, at a fair market price and with approval of the agency head, weapons other than handguns that are issued for personal use of an officer so l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| SB513 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements of prescribers of opioids. Requires a prescriber to obtain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program at the time of initiating a new course of treatment that includes the prescribing of opioids...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113) |
| SJR40 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Recognizes the existence of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB742 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain transportation districts. Changes the regional gas tax in Hampton Roads from a percentage to a cents per gallon tax that decreases as the price of gas increases. The regional gas tax in Hampton Roads would hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program. Establishes the Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program and reallocates to the I-73 Fund the $40 million from state recordation taxes that is currently allocated annually to the U.S. Ro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB609 | Engross
Sine Die | Academic credit; industry credentials. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt a policy for the award of academic credit to any student enrolled in a comprehensive community college who has successfully completed a third-party indust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| SB557 | Pass | Reformulated gasoline; sale by marina. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) program for conventional ethanol-free gasoline sold by a marina for marine use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| SB691 | Pass | Production of industrial hemp. Clarifies that it is lawful for a person with a license to manufacture industrial hemp products or engage in scientific, agricultural, or other research involving the applications of industrial hemp and that no person s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) |
| SB349 | Pass | Free fishing days. Removes the prohibition against fishing without a license in waters stocked with trout by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries or other public body on days designated by the Department as free fishing days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0063) |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Publishing pardons by the Governor; Article V, Section 12 of the Constitution of Virginia. Prohibits the Division of Legislative Automated Systems from posting on its website absolute pardons granted by the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB538 | Pass | Students who are English language learners; alternative assessments. Requires the Board of Education to consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| SB250 | Pass | Local school boards; transportation agreements with nonpublic schools. Authorizes local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools to provide student transportation to and from school field trips. Current law authorizes such agreem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0057) |
| SB37 | Pass | Black vultures; agreements for control. Authorizes the Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries to enter into agreements with local and state agencies or other persons for the control of black vultures and other wildlife that pose a danger to agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| SB232 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Revises the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB598 | Pass | Erosion and sediment control; stormwater management program. Clarifies that certain flow rate capacity and velocity requirements for plans approved on and after July 1, 2014, shall be satisfied by compliance with Virginia Stormwater Management Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066) |
| SB651 | Pass | Animal control officers; training. Requires animal control officers hired on or after July 1, 2017, to complete a basic animal control course within one year after the date of hire, or within two years of the date of hire if the officer is attending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060) |
| SB152 | Pass | Sale of furs and animal parts; adoption of regulations. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries (the Board) to adopt regulations allowing the sale of furs or furbearer products. The bill authorizes the Board to adopt regulations providing e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) |
| SB367 | Pass | Hunting of coyotes; county or city ordinances. Adds the hunting of coyotes with a rifle of a caliber larger than .22 rimfire to the list of firearm-hunting topics about which a county or city is authorized to adopt ordinances. Current law allows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) |
| SB93 | Engross
Sine Die | Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act. Creates the Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act to establish procedural guarantees for correctional officers when allegations are made against such officers involving matters that may lead to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Continued to 2017 with amendment(s) in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB502 | Pass | School efficiency reviews; scope and costs. Eliminates the 25 percent match required of local school divisions that request an efficiency review from the Department of Planning and Budget. This provision was in conflict with the current appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| SB643 | Pass | U.S. Department of the Interior; monitoring by VMRC; Assateague Island National Seashore. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to monitor any effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior to expand federal jurisdiction regarding fishing o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) |
| SB673 | Pass | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; consolidation of programs; opt-out for certain localities; penalties. Combines existing statutory programs relating to soil erosion and stormwater management, directing the State Water Control Board (th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| SB529 | Pass | Menhaden quotas. Increases the total allowable landings for menhaden from 144,272.84 metric tons per year to 158,700.12 metric tons per year. The bill also repeals the sunset provision that would have removed the Virginia Marine Resources Commission'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065) |
| SJR33 | Pass | Commending the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ33ER) |
| SB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Cutting of grass, weeds, and other foreign growth. Provides that in local grass cutting ordinances as applied to vacant developed property, foreign growth includes overgrown shrubs and trees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB49 | Pass | Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person who is subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) for family abuse to possess a firearm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) |
| SJR154 | Pass | Commending the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ154ER) |
| SJR155 | Pass | Commending Virginia 4-H.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ155ER) |
| SB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Special use permit; camping in tent or recreational vehicle. Prohibits any locality from barring or requiring a special use permit for camping by a landowner and his family or nonpaying guests in a tent or recreational vehicle on the landowner's prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB69 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting a valid identification card that contains a photograph of the voter and is issued by any private entity that is licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB715 | Pass | Firearms shows; voluntary background checks; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to be available to perform background checks for non-dealer sales at firearms shows if requested by a party involved in a transaction. The promoter of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| SB610 | Pass | Recognition of out-of-state concealed handgun permits; photo identification. Provides that the holder of an out-of-state concealed handgun permit who is at least 21 years of age is authorized to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia if (i) the other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| SJR153 | Pass | Commending Law Enforcement United.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ153ER) |
| SJR172 | Pass | Commending Community Residences, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ172ER) |
