VA Legislation | 2016 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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
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
SB178	Engross Sine Die	Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity. Requires the General Assembly, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to recognize the concealed handgun permit of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-26 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB157	Engross Sine Die	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; guidance documents. Requires that guidance documents developed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services be approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture. The bill also requires the Departme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
HB900	Engross Sine Die	Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has successfully graduated... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB601	Engross Sine Die	Child care providers; criminal history background checks. Requires all applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, and approval as a family day home by a family day system, all child day centers that are exempt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB671	Engross Sine Die	Treatment of a patient for Lyme disease. Provides that no health care provider who provides treatment for Lyme disease or other tick-borne disease in accordance with a clinical practice guideline maintained by the National Guideline Clearinghouse aft... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB4	Engross Sine Die	Weekend jail time. Replaces the provision limiting nonconsecutive days in jail for the purpose of allowing the defendant to retain gainful employment with a good cause standard and allows the court to sentence the defendant to nonconsecutive days in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 0-N)
HB936	Engross Sine Die	Certain students with limited English proficiency; standard diploma; credit flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to make provision in its regulations for flexibility for any student with limited English proficiency to earn the credits require... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB401	Engross Sine Die	Crohn's disease, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome; identification cards and information. Directs the Department of Health to develop a process for issuing identification cards to individuals diagnosed by a health care provider as having Crohn's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-25 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB783	Engross Sine Die	Brandishing a firearm; law-enforcement officer; penalty. Provides for a six-month mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction of a person for pointing, holding, or brandishing a firearm or similar weapon at someone who the person knows or has reason t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N)
HB274	Engross Sine Die	Hampton Roads Transportation Fund. Ensures that the moneys in the Hampton Roads Transportation Fund are distributed to the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission and allows the Commission to invest moneys in excess of those required t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 Incorporated by Transportation
HB1089	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Lottery Fund; administrative expenses. Reduces the cap on appropriations to the Virginia Lottery for the operation and administration of the lottery during any fiscal year, exclusive of agent compensation, from no more than 10 percent to no ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB290	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures pertaining to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration airfield. Requires the owner of residential real property located in any locality in which a National Aeronautics and Spa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB717	Engross Sine Die	Grapevine Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Grapevine Grant Fund and Program to fund grants to independent cideries, farm wineries, orchards, and vineyards that purchase materials for vines or fruit trees in order to establish or expand vineyards o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
HB725	Engross Sine Die	Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; membership. Allows the governing body of each participating county and city in the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) to appoint commissioners to the NVTC who are not members of the governi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-24 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (12-Y 1-N)
HB790	Engross Sine Die	Solid waste disposal fee; Pittsylvania County. Removes Pittsylvania County from the list of counties authorized to levy certain fees for the disposal of solid waste. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-23 To Senate Local Government Committee
HB1379	Engross Sine Die	Voter list maintenance; use of information received through certain list comparisons and data matching exchanges with other states. Requires the information received through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and the Interstate Vot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-23 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB335	Engross Sine Die	Public employment; inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal convictions, charges, and arrests. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-23 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB3	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); charter schools. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to grant the Board of Education the authority to establish charter schools within the school d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (5-Y 7-N 1-A)
HJR1	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (second resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-23 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (5-Y 7-N 1-A)
SB660	Engross Sine Die	Teacher dismissal; hearing officer. Prohibits school boards from appointing as a hearing officer an employee of the appointing school board or the spouse, child, parent, grandparent, or sibling of (i) any member of the appointing school board or (ii)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-22 Tabled in Education by voice vote
HB171	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio for certain mixed beverage licensees. Provides that for persons holding a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's license, in calculating the minimum 45 percent ratio of food to mixed... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-19 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB904	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. The bill sets out the privileges of this new license, including that the licensee may serve wine, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-19 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB835	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of licensed art instruction studios. Expands the privileges of an art instruction studio licensee to allow the consumption of lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages on its premises by any bona fide customer and p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-19 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB753	Engross 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]	2016-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB637	Engross Sine Die	Virginia High-Demand Occupation Forecast Advisory Committee; annual high-demand occupations forecast report. Creates the Virginia High-Demand Occupation Forecast Advisory Committee (the Committee) to compile and disseminate official information on th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-18 Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote
HB571	Engross Sine Die	School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB208	Engross Sine Die	Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-17 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB932	Engross Sine Die	Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Increases from quarterly to monthly the frequency of reporting by the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to the Governor, members of the House Appropriations Committee, and members of the Sen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
HB906	Engross Sine Die	Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise. Provides that the testimony of a minister of religion that would disclose information communicated to the minister of religion confidentially by a person who sought spir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB48	Engross 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]	2016-02-16 VOTE: DEFEATED (47-Y 50-N)
HB565	Engross Sine Die	Public charter schools. Makes several changes to the provisions for the establishment and operation of public charter schools, including (i) requiring public charter schools to be administered and managed by a nonprofit education organization under t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-16 To House Education Committee
HB759	Engross Sine Die	Taxes for certain local improvements; Orange County. Adds Orange County to those localities with authority to impose taxes or assessments upon the abutting property owners for the initial improving and paving of an existing street provided not less t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-16 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SJR6	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (second resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-15 Rejected by Senate (19-Y 21-N)
SJR93	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); charter schools. Provides by resolution for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to grant the Board of Education the authority to establish charter schools withi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-15 Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage
SB560	Engross Sine Die	Foreclosure advertisements; posted at courthouse and on circuit court website. Provides that, in lieu of newspaper advertisements, foreclosure sales shall be advertised at the courthouse and on the website of the circuit court for the county or city ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-15 Defeated by Senate (17-Y 21-N)
SB588	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); charter schools. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to grant the Board of Education the authority to establish charter schools within the school d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-15 Chair votes No
HB897	Engross Sine Die	Revocation and suspension of registration of tow truck drivers. Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall not revoke or suspend the registration of a tow truck driver convicted of a violent crime if such tow truck driver's civil rights hav... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB724	Engross Sine Die	Board of Corrections; powers and duties. Restores the authority of the Board of Corrections (the Board) to (i) ensure the development of long-range programs and plans for corrections services provided at the state and local levels; (ii) review and co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-10 Read third time and defeated by Senate (16-Y 24-N)
SB778	Engross Sine Die	Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-09 Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N)
SB48	Engross Sine Die	Concealed handgun permits. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-02-01 Chair votes No