| HB622 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB773 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB568 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| SB737 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB180 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB289 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| SB39 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 2-N) |
| SB669 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB23 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Punitive damages cap. Raises the punitive damages cap from $350,000 to $500,000 for any action accruing on or after July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB343 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB19 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB24 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB677 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB215 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB359 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB433 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB768 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB188 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB247 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB683 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB436 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB510 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB393 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB422 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB153 | 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] | 2016-03-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
