| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Veterans Recovery Program. Creates the Virginia Veterans Recovery Program for the purpose of providing diagnostic services, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and support services to eligible veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal combustion by-product impoundments; closure requirements. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to require the closure of surface impoundments of coal combustion by-products, commonly called coal ash ponds, by July 1, 2020. The bill ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management regulations; water quality and quantity design criteria; unenforceable unless amended. Prohibits the enforcement of any design criterion concerning water quality or quantity contained in Part II B of the stormwater management re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Labeling of drug products compounded by nonresident outsourcing facilities. Prohibits any person from administering any drug product compounded by an outsourcing facility located outside the Commonwealth for any purpose unless such drug product is la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer finance companies; motor vehicle title loans. Prohibits any consumer finance company from making loans secured by a non-purchase money security interest in a motor vehicle at any location where a motor vehicle title lender is authorized to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Nurse practitioners. Eliminates the requirement that a nurse practitioner practice as part of a patient care team with a practice agreement with a patient care physician. The bill also eliminates a Board of Health pilot program authorizing certain nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medicaid Services; asset location and recovery. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to contract with a vendor for location and recovery of unreported assets of deceased Medicaid recipients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB169 | Intro
Sine Die | HOT lanes enforcement and notification by a HOT lanes operator and the Department of Transportation. Requires a HOT lanes operator to notify the registered owner of a vehicle that entered or used HOT lanes without payment of the toll. Such notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Dredging; TMDL credits; request for assignment of credits equivalent to street sweeping. Requests the Chesapeake Bay Program, a regional partnership directing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, to approve a certain type of dredging as a creditabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Students with limited English proficiency; alternative to the eleventh grade Standards of Learning end-of-course English reading assessment. Requires the Board of Education to authorize the use of an English language proficiency assessment such as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2018, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires any person who unlawfully discharges any deleterious substance into state waters to notify the State Water Control Board (the Board), the Department of Environmental Quality (the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of curing ovarian cancer bearing the legend OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Commonwealth Resilience Fund established. Requires the Governor to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that established a regional CO2 electric power sector cap and trade program and establishes the Commonw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of relief from collateral criminal consequences. Creates a procedure whereby a person who has been convicted of certain crimes can petition the court for a certificate of relief that will remove collateral consequences of the conviction. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Bridge structures; attachment to locality; annual service fee. Provides that a bridge constructed and operated in accordance with Chapter 581 of the Acts of Assembly of 2009, known as the Jordan Bridge, is not within either locality to which it is at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB521 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Cover sheets; multiple deeds or instruments concerning the same interest in real property; certificates of satisfaction. Allows one cover sheet to be used for multiple deeds or instruments filed concerning the same interest in real property. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Free use of toll facilities; motorcycles. Allows motorcycles free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Void provisions of contracts for sale or lease of consumer goods or services. Prohibits a contract for sale or lease of consumer goods or services from containing a provision requiring a consumer to waive his right to make a statement regarding the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that a court that enters a nolle prosequi for a criminal charge shall, upon motion of the person charged, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage license; authorization for marriage officiant. Allows the parties to a marriage to designate an officiant, who shall be 18 years of age or older and not a party to the marriage, on their application for a marriage license. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostitution; affirmative defense. Provides an affirmative defense to prostitution if the person was induced by another through the use of force, threat, intimidation, coercion, or deception to engage in prostitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Parenting time. Replaces "visitation" with "parenting time" in statutory language relating to the custody and visitation of minor children. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB526 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspections; single sticker. Provides that passage of a motor vehicle safety inspection is a condition to registration or registration renewal. Motorists would be provided with a safety inspection decal that indicates the month o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Requests for medical records; fee limits and penalty for failure to provide. Provides that when documents are requested or subpoenaed, the requester or subpoenaing party has the option of specifying that the documents are to be produced by the health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; rate of taxation. Lowers the corporate income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Davey Reedy. Provides relief in the amount of $961,489 to Davey Reedy, who was incarcerated from 1988 until 2009 after being convicted of two counts of first degree murder and arson in the daytime. On December 21, 2015, Governor McAuliffe gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; exemption for certain nonprofit entities. Provides exemptions from sales and use tax and local license taxes for certain nonprofit veterans organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; deduction for personal exemptions. Increases the deduction, for purposes of computing Virginia taxable income, for personal exemptions. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, a taxpayer may deduct $1,000 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records. Provides that a court that enters a nolle prosequi for a criminal charge shall, upon motion of the person charged, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $100 for a first violation, $250 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process; common interest communities. Requires an employee of a common interest community to grant entry into the community to a person attempting to execute service on a party who resides within or is known to be within the community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; apportionment of revenue. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation to consider, when reviewing whether the method of apportionment used to determine corporate tax liability in the Commonwealth was inapplicable or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Length of the school term; waiver; early course mastery. Permits the Board of Education to waive, on a course-by-course basis, the requirement that the length of the school term be at least 180 teaching days or 990 teaching hours in any school year i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage license; authorization for marriage officiant. Allows the parties to a marriage to designate an officiant, who shall be 18 years of age or older and not a party to the marriage, on their application for a marriage license. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PROUD WOMAN VETERAN. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of Virginia Women Veterans bearing the legend PROUD WOMAN VETERAN.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; deduction for personal exemptions. Increases the deduction, for purposes of computing Virginia taxable income, for personal exemptions. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, a taxpayer may deduct $1,000 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB613 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; rate of taxation. Lowers the corporate income tax rate from six percent to 5.75 percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance; jury award of attorney fees for bad faith. Provides that in certain civil causes of action involving insurance contracts, either the court or the jury may award attorney fees upon a finding of bad faith. The bill is in response to the Supr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary visitor's driver's licenses. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a temporary visitor's driver's license to an applicant who is unable to present valid documentary evidence of legal permanent residency in the United States or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | CTB; voting weighted by population. Provides that the votes of the nine nonlegislative citizen members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board who represent the nine highway construction districts shall be weighted on the basis of the population of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards for guardians ad litem appointed in custody and visitation cases; certification form; substitute judges in custody and visitation proceedings. The bill requires a guardian ad litem appointed in a custody or visitation case to submit to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Construction in Hampton Roads; multimodal component. Requires that any construction or expansion project on a bridge or tunnel by the Department of Transportation or the Hampton Roads Accountability Commission include a multimodal component.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax administration; awards for detection of tax underpayments. Creates a program for the payment of monetary rewards to individuals who provide information to the Tax Commissioner that leads to the successful collection of taxes that are owed by othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearsay; exception; children; certain sexual related offenses. Establishes a hearsay exception to out-of-court statements made by a child under the age of 10 in certain sexual related offenses, including sexual assault, sex trafficking, and pornograp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund; revenue deposits. Provides that 20% of annual recordation tax revenue in excess of $325 million shall be deposited into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
