| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of disposable plastic shopping bags prohibited; local option. Allows any locality by ordinance to prohibit the distribution, sale, or offer of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers. The bill exempts from any such prohibition reus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 7-N) |
| SJR68 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; partisan balance of districts. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, an eight-member commission tasked with establishing the districts for the United States ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) |
| SJR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR47 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); exemption from taxation of certain motor vehicles. Exempts privately owned motor vehicles used for nonbusiness purposes from property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Tree conservation; local ordinances. Authorizes any locality in Planning District 8 to adopt certain ordinances providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Currently, only a locality in Planning District 8 that meets ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (12-Y 0-N) |
| SJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign fundraising during special and reconvened sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session, including a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 5-N 1-A) |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance agents; waiver of continuing education requirements. Authorizes the insurance continuing education board to waive, on the basis of financial hardship, the requirements relating to the number of continuing education course credits that an ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign fundraising prohibited during certain periods. Extends current restrictions related to campaign fundraising during regular sessions of the General Assembly to certain additional periods. The bill subjects the Governor and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 7-N) |
| SJR79 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory minimum punishments. Repeals the Code section that defines "mandatory minimum" for purposes of imposing punishment upon a person convicted of a crime as the entire term of confinement, the full amount of the fine, and the complete requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Number of general district court judges; Twenty-Third Judicial District. Increases from four to five the number of general district court judges in the Twenty-Third Judicial District (Roanoke, Salem, Roanoke County).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; community policing. Revises the powers and duties of the Department of Criminal Justice Services by combining and streamlining duties related to the promotion of community policing by providing training, techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Objections to business records as evidence. Provides that, if a pro se party receives written notice, a copy of the record, and certification from a proponent of a business record and subsequently retains counsel, counsel may file any objections with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Buying, receiving, or concealing stolen goods. Adds the word "knowingly" to the statute that provides that if a person buys, receives, or aids in concealing stolen goods that he knows are stolen he is guilty of larceny even if the principal offender ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Defrauding certain businesses; penalty. Provides that failure to pay for services or to obtain credit from a barbershop, body-piercing salon, cosmetology salon, esthetics spa, nail salon, tattoo parlor, waxing salon, or massage therapist with the int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum number of circuit court judges. Increases from five to six the maximum number of circuit court judges in the 23rd Judicial Circuit (Roanoke, Salem, Roanoke County).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Public guardian or conservator acting as trustee for trust of incapacitated person. Excepts from the definition of "trust business" the holding of assets as a trustee of a trust if the trustee (i) is a designee under the Virginia Public Guardian and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of at least $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; electronic identification information; registration requirements. Under current law a registered sex offender must reregister within 30 minutes following a change of the offender's electronic mail address information, any insta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process on Sunday. Eliminates the prohibition of service of process on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court of Virginia from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account on which the interest is required to be paid to any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Jury trial; scheduling. Prohibits the first day of a jury trial from being scheduled on a general election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party. Expands the type of persons against whom an injured employee may bring a cause of action to recover damages for injury, occupational disease, or death to include statutory coemployees. The m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Adultery; civil penalty. Reduces the penalty for adultery from a Class 4 misdemeanor to a civil penalty of not more than $250.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Investment Grant Fund; administration; qualifications. Changes the administration of the Small Business Investment Grant Fund from the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to the Virginia Small Business Financing Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Private police department; Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. Allows the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation to establish a private police department to provide law-enforcement services for the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Number of judges; general district court; 25th Judicial District. Adds a fourth judge to the maximum number allowed in the 25th Judicial District, general district court (Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Buena Vista, Covington, Craig, Highland, L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary injunctions; factors for consideration. Provides that, in assessing whether to award a temporary injunction, a court shall review the following factors: (i) the likelihood of irreparable harm to the party seeking the temporary injunction if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (3-Y 12-N) |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial development authorities; airports. Provides that the term "industrial park" includes an industrial airpark and grants industrial development authorities the power to operate an airport facility located within or adjoining an industrial par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-15
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending West Springfield High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-15
Stricken from House calendar |
| HR70 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Robinson Secondary School girls' lacrosse team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-15
Stricken from House calendar |
| HB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; large and small employers. Deletes provisions that as of January 1, 2016, changed the definition of a "large employer," for purposes of a group health plan or health insurance coverage, from an employer who employed an average o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-14
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; large and small employers. Deletes provisions that as of January 1, 2016, changed the definition of a "large employer," for purposes of a group health plan or health insurance coverage, from an employer who employed an average o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-14
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; large and small employers. Deletes provisions that as of January 1, 2016, changed the definition of a "large employer," for purposes of a group health plan or health insurance coverage, from an employer who employed an average o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-14
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB9999 | Intro
Sine Die | Test od a bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-15
Committee Referral Pending |
