| SB577 | Engross
Sine Die | Immunity of persons; attorney fees and costs. Allows the award of reasonable attorney fees and costs to any person who has a suit against him dismissed pursuant to the immunity provided to him for statements made when appearing at a public hearing be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Dissemination of criminal history record information; civil actions. Provides that any person or entity who is regularly engaged in the business of disseminating or publishing, for a fee, criminal history record information and who knowingly dissemin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR71 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; placement options for individuals with brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, or dementia who experience aggression; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (the Commission) to study placemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB587 | Engross
Sine Die | Attorneys for the Commonwealth; prosecution of compulsory school attendance cases. Provides that if the attorney for the Commonwealth declines to prosecute violations of compulsory school attendance laws by a child alleged to be a child in need of se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB636 | Engross
Sine Die | State Council of Higher Education; longitudinal data system; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and maintain a virtual, comprehensive longitudinal data system fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; disclosure of salaries of public employees. Provides that public access to records of the official salaries or rates of pay of public employees whose annual rate of pay is the annual equivalent of twice the federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Improper driving; jury. Provides that a jury hearing a case involving a person charged with reckless driving where the accused's degree of culpability is slight may find the accused not guilty of reckless driving but guilty of improper driving, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; prohibited publication of registrant employment information. Prohibits the placement of the name of the employer of a Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry registrant on the Internet registry...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Compactness standard for congressional and state legislative districts. Requires congressional and legislative districts to be composed of compact territory, meaning districts are not to be oddly shaped or have irregular or contorted boundaries, unle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB603 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person available 21 days prior to election. Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving after forfeiture of license. Provides that a person may be guilty of an offense of driving or operating a motor vehicle (i) after his driver's license has been revoked for certain offenses, (ii) in violation of the terms of a restricted licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR95 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Commission on Youth; Department of Social Services' administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program; report. Directs the Commission on Youth to (i) evaluate the Department of Social Services' administration of the Tempora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| HB812 | Engross
Sine Die | Limited Residential Lodging Act; penalty. Establishes the Limited Residential Lodging Act (the Act), which allows property owners to rent out their homes or portions thereof for charge for periods of less than 30 consecutive days or do so through a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB67 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; sexual orientation and gender identity. Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SJR96 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education, VCCS, and DOE; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Community College System, and the Department of Education to jointly study strategies for improving college rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB552 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusion from mandatory disclosure; names and training records of law-enforcement officers and fire marshals. Provides that the names and training records of law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Filing of petitions and motions by designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services; practice of law; duties of local directors of social services. Allows designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB350 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill removes various behavioral health facilities from the list of medical care facilities and projects subject to the requirement of a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HJR90 | Engross
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] | 2016-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; definition of gift; technical amendment. Clarifies that gifts to certain members of an individual's family are not considered gifts. Currently, the definition of gift says that gifts from certain members of an individual's family...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB779 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; required filings for multiple positions or offices. Provides that the filing of a single current statement of economic interests by an individual required to file such form shall satisfy the filin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; required information on disclosure forms. Removes from the Code the formatted forms of the lobbyist disclosure statement, the Statement of Economic Interests for state and local government of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; public access to requests for opinions and related records. Provides that records relating to formal advisory opinions or informal advice of the Council or its designee, including records of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB1361 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist reporting; disclosure of certain persons attending entertainment events not required. Provides that a principal is not required to disclose the name of a legislative or executive official, or a member of his immediate family, who attends a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB868 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; definition of procurement transaction. Provides that for purposes of the laws governing lobbyists and lobbyist disclosure, the definition of procurement transaction is limited to those in which the stated or expected value of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
