| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Kathleen Flanagan McManus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Colonel Wesley L. Fox, USMC, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Rules of the Senate; news media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR184 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Virginia Urological Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Vincent Johns Thomas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR79 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Frank Beamer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary admission; contents of preadmission screening report; notice of hearing. Provides that the community services board that prepares the preadmission screening report admitted into evidence at a person's involuntary admission hearing, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 665 of the 2015 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of §2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and to provide a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Limited Residential Lodging and Short-term Rental Lodging Act; penalty. Establishes the Limited Residential Lodging and Short-term Rental Lodging Act (the Act), which allows (i) property owners to rent out their homes or portions thereof for a charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Obstruction of justice; court clerks. Adds court clerks to the obstruction of justice statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Mediation; fees. Increases from $100 to $120 the fee paid to mediators appointed in custody, support, or visitation cases. The bill provides that, where a referral includes both custody or visitation and child or spousal support, the referral is cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuance of marriage licenses; conscience clause; State Registrar of Vital Records. Provides that a clerk or deputy clerk shall not be required to issue a marriage license if such clerk has an objection to the issuance of such license on personal, et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes a career progression program for state troopers and special agents based on years of satisfactory service. For State Troopers, the program provides for promotion to the rank...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; assault and battery; penalty. Provides that a person who is the subject of a protective order who commits an assault and battery resulting in bodily injury on the person protected by the order is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Violations of protective orders; penalty. Provides that any person who commits any assault or bodily wounding upon or stalks any party protected by a protective order is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony is only applicable if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse (a defined term) of a child 13 or 14 years old from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus sexual assault investigations. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to develop a curriculum on conducting campus sexual assault investigations and to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR42 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that pertains to the subject of balancing the feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $1500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed Carry Reciprocity Advisory Commission. Establishes the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Advisory Commission (the Commission) as a legislative commission. The Commission will review the laws of other states to determine whether the Commonwealth s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily injury; penalty. Removes the requirement that a threat of death or bodily injury be communicated in a writing for the offense of threatening to kill or do bodily injury to a person or any member of his family or for the enh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while texting; manslaughter; maiming; penalties. Provides that a person who as a result of driving while in violation of §46.2-1078.1, which prohibits the use of handheld devices in certain vehicles, unintentionally causes the death of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR121 | Intro
Sine Die | Public charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR94 | Intro
Sine Die | Opposing federal requirement of a law mandating a six-month driver's license suspension upon conviction of a marijuana offense. Expresses the opposition of the General Assembly to the enactment or enforcement of a law requiring a six-month revocation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment by computer; impersonating another; penalty. Provides that a person who uses a computer to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, make an obscene proposal, or threaten an illegal or immoral act with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB251 | 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] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic violence-related misdemeanors; enhanced penalty. Punishes a misdemeanor offense of violating a protective order, assault and battery against a family or household member, or stalking as a Class 6 felony if the person charged had been previou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; funds for Department of State Police. Raises the vehicle registration fee an additional $1.25 per year on each July 1 from 2016 through 2025 and allocates the funds to the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; negligence resulting in death of or injury to a child; penalty. Provides that in any case in which a person operates or engages in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirements for use of construction management. Restricts the use of construction management procurements by public bodies unless (i) the total project cost is $50 million or more, (ii) a written determination is pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit unions. Adds credit unions as a qualified public depository for state funds. The bill also authorizes moneys to be paid into the state treasury to be deposited in credit unions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; third-party power purchase agreements. Replaces the pilot program enacted in 2013 that authorized certain third-party power purchase agreements providing financing of certain renewable generation facilities. The measure requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct primary care agreements. Provides that the Commonwealth's insurance laws do not apply to direct primary care agreements. The measure further provides that (i) a direct primary care practice is not be subject to the jurisdiction of the State Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare supplement policies for individuals under age 65. Requires insurers issuing Medicare supplement policies in the Commonwealth to offer the opportunity of enrolling in a Medicare supplement policy to any individual who resides in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; net energy metering. Authorizes any eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator to enter into a contract to sell any net metering eligible energy exceeding the eligible customer-generator's or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Interest Community Board; membership. Increases the membership of the Common Interest Community Board from 11 to 14 by adding (i) one member who serves or has served on the governing board of a common interest community that is not professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Occupational safety and health; employer's liability for violation by contractor. Prohibits the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from issuing a citation or assessing a civil penalty against an employer for a violation of occupational safety and hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting; construction and professional services. Authorizes any public body to procure construction on a best value procurement basis. Under the bill, if proceeding on a best value procurement ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definition of small business. Changes the definition of small business to require the business, together with affiliates, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; consumption of samples by brewery tour guides. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to adopt regulations that prescribe the terms and conditions under which tour guides employed by certain licensed breweries may c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Provides that a mixed beverage restaurant licensee meets the required food-beverage ratio if its gross receipts from the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages amount to at least (i) $5,000 per month ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificates of public need; conditions. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to condition the approval of a certificate of public need upon an agreement of the applicant to support charitable organizations specifically concerned with the provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | False statements to members of the General Assembly; state employees and appointees. Provides that any state employee or person serving in an appointed position who knowingly and willfully makes any materially false statement or representation to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need program. Clarifies that the Certificate of Public Need program is established to address cost containment in the delivery of health care services, indigent care, and the health care needs of underserved populations; quality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assesments; administration time frame. Provides that, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, the Standards of Learning assessments in grades three through five shall be administered over two consecutive school days and limited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SJR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking of minors. Establishes a work group to study safe harbor policy for minor victims of human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
