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HJR359Engross

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Commending the Virginia Urological Society.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SR43Engross

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Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
HJR475Engross

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Commending Bobby Conner.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HJR44Engross

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Commending the Honorable John C. Watkins.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HB622Engross

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Entering vehicle; interference with rights of owner. Provides that any person who, without the consent of the owner or other person in charge of a motor vehicle, enters into a motor vehicle occupied by such owner or other person with the intent to in...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House
SB440Engross

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Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; eligibility; use of funds. Makes several changes to the student eligibility criteria for Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program grants, including (i) removing the requirement that the recipient be a dependent, ...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
HB773Engross

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Government Nondiscrimination Act; creation. Creates the Government Nondiscrimination Act (the Act), which prohibits a government entity from taking any discriminatory action against a person on the basis that such person believes, speaks, or acts in ...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House
HJR415Engross

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Commending Robert Brown, Sr., and Julia Mathis Brown.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HJR399Engross

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Commending the Save 50 Task Force.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HB568Engross

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Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive a grant from the institution's appropr...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House
SB737Engross

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Payment of public employees for time away from their official duties; employee organizations; penalty. Prohibits public employers from paying leave or benefits to any public employee to directly or indirectly work for or on behalf of an employee orga...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
HB180Engross

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Drug treatment court for City of Winchester and Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Warren. Authorizes the establishment of drug treatment courts in the City of Winchester and Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Warren. The bill limits the jurisdiction...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House
SJR148Engross

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Commending David Bailey Associates.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HJR385Engross

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Commending the Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HB289Engross

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Local regulation of driving in flooded areas; penalty. Allows localities to by ordinance prohibit any person from operating a motor vehicle or watercraft on a flooded street in such a manner as to increase the level of floodwaters to a level that cau...
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House
HJR283Engross

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Commending the Honorable Walter A. Stosch.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HJR351Engross

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Commending the Honorable James Martin Scott.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
HJR317Engross

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Commending the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SB39Engross

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Unlawful transport of alcoholic beverages; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to whom an alcoholic beverage may not lawfully be sold (persons who are under age 21, interdicted, or intoxicated) to knowingly transport alcoholic beve...
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2016-03-10
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 2-N)
SB669Engross

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Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. Provides that cities and towns that receive highway maintenance payments from the Commonwealth based on moving-lane miles of highway will not have such payments reduced if moving-lane miles of highway are ...
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2016-03-10
To House Transportation Committee
HJR401Engross

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Celebrating the life of Thomas Clay Wood.
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2016-03-10
Agreed to by Senate
SB23Engross

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Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 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 cla...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB111Engross

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Punitive damages cap. Raises the punitive damages cap from $350,000 to $500,000 for any action accruing on or after July 1, 2016.
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1197Engross

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Internet publication of personal information of law-enforcement officers; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to publish, sell, solicit, or trade on the Internet the personal information of any law-enforcement officer or...
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2016-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB343Engross

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Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; cancer. Provides an affirmative defense in a prosecution for the possession of marijuana if the marijuana is in the form of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil possessed pursuant to a valid writt...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB19Engross

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Telemedicine; pilot program. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, to establish a three-year telemedicine pilot program designed to reduce patient use of emergency department facilities for the...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB24Engross

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Virginia Public Building Authority; Military Mission Improvement and Expansion projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to finance or assist in the financing of certain activities connected with Military Mission Improvement and Exp...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB191Engross

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Voter referendum; independent redistricting commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly should adopt a resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would establish an inde...
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2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB677Engross

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Fees for concealed handgun permits. Makes the $10 fee that the clerk of court is now required to charge for processing a concealed handgun permit application or issuing a concealed handgun permit discretionary with the clerk.
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB215Engross

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Juvenile facilities; room segregation; regulations. Requires the Board of Juvenile Justice to promulgate regulations on the use of room segregation in juvenile detention homes and juvenile correctional facilities that (i) include relevant definitions...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB359Engross

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Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2021. The bill requires that ...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB433Engross

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Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives and ensure permanency for children for whom adoption or being returned home are not appropriate p...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB768Engross

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Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit. Raises from 80 to 85 miles per hour the speed above which a person who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the Commonwealth is guilty of reckless driving regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit.
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SJR87Engross

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Study; Virginia Housing Commission; mandatory recycling programs for multifamily residential dwellings; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the feasibility of requiring (i) the owner of every multifamily residential dwelling and ...
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2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee
SB188Engross

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Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons who will be age 65 or older on the date of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee.
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2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB247Engross

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Search warrants; person subject to arrest. Authorizes the issuance of a search warrant to search for and seize any person for whom a warrant or process for arrest has been issued.
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB683Engross

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Training centers; communications with individuals. Provides that if an individual has submitted a letter to a training center director stating that he does not wish to leave the facility, community services board staff or Department of Behavioral Hea...
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2016-03-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB711Engross

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Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote. Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote in the legislative branch of state government. The Commission is charged with pla...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB216Engross

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Parole; limitation on the application of parole statutes; exception. Provides that an incarcerated person who was sentenced by a jury prior to June 9, 2000 for a felony that is not a violent offense is eligible for parole if the offense was committed...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB50Engross

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Courthouse and courtroom security; assessment. Increases from $10 to $20 the maximum amount a local governing body may assess against a convicted defendant as part of the costs in a criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to fund courth...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
HB1270Engross

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Companion animal care advisory committee established. Authorizes the State Veterinarian to establish by January 1, 2017, a seven-member advisory committee to make recommendations and serve as a resource in the development of policies related to the c...
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2016-03-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB535Engross

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Virginia Behavioral Health Practitioner Student Loan Repayment Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Behavioral Health Practitioner Student Loan Repayment Fund and Program to provide student loan repayment grants to eligible behavioral health pr...
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SJR73Engross

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Study; Department of Social Services; feasibility of lessening restrictions of barrier crime statutes applicable to kinship foster care and adoptive placements in the Commonwealth; report. Requests the Department of Social Services (the Department) t...
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2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee
SB436Engross

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Fostering Futures program. Establishes the Fostering Futures program to provide services and support to individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 who were formerly in foster care as a minor and are transitioning to adulthood and self-sufficiency.
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2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee
SB510Engross

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Authenticity and reasonableness of medical bills; presumption; who may identify and provide testimony. Allows a plaintiff's guardian, agent under an advance directive, agent under a power of attorney, or next friend to identify a medical bill and pro...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB393Engross

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Preliminary protective orders; contents of order. Provides that if a preliminary protective order is issued in an ex parte hearing where the petition for the order is supported by sworn testimony and not an affidavit, the court issuing the order shal...
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2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB422Engross

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Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits. Increases from $9 million to $11 million the maximum amount of tax credits that may be issued each year by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for education-related programs and increases from $8 million ...
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2016-03-08
To House Finance Committee
SJR89Engross

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Study; Virginia Housing Commission; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the impact of tenant bankruptcy proceedings on landlords in Virginia.
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2016-03-08
To House Rules Committee
SB153Engross

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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...
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2016-03-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SJR1Engross

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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 ...
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2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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