| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary admission; contents of preadmission screening report; notice of hearing. Provides that the community services board that prepares the preadmission screening report admitted into evidence at a person's involuntary admission hearing, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 665 of the 2015 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of §2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and to provide a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Preschool Initiative; local matching funds. Removes the requirement for local governing bodies to commit to providing the required matching funds in order to qualify for grants under the Virginia Preschool Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of resources to enforce the Affordable Care Act. Prohibits the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Critical National Security Language Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the Critical National Security Language Grant Fund and the Critical National Security Language Grant Program within the Department of Education for the purpose of awa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1022 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Creates the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame as a public body with a board of directors (the Board) consisting of 21 members, of whom six are to be members of the House of Delegates, four are to be members of the Senate, six...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB763 | Intro
Sine Die | Local law enforcement and State Police; enforcement of federal regulations. Prohibits local law enforcement or the Department of State Police from cooperating with a federal agency through the furnishing of police services for the purpose of enforcin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; training and beneficiary identification. Requires that the training that law-enforcement and public safety officers receive concerning the Line of Duty Act benefits to which they and their beneficiaries are entitled be conducted sem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Trust Fund; use of funds. Provides that the proceeds from the sale of vacant buildings and land resulting from the closure or downsizing of any state training center that are deposited in the Behavioral He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Magistrates; appointment and supervision. Reinstates supervisory control over the magistrate system with the chief circuit court judge and the Committee on District Courts and abolishes magisterial regions. In 2008, appointment of and supervisory aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on the Preservation of the History of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Virginia; report. Establishes an 11-member legislative commission to identify the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia and determine ways to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1125 | 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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; tracking teacher turnover; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to track public elementary and secondary school teacher turnover by cause, geographic area, school division, and subject area, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone systems within correctional facilities; commission payments. Prohibits entities or agencies of the Commonwealth or political subdivisions thereof from receiving commission payments from companies that provide inmate telephone services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Visually impaired students; Braille. Requires each visually impaired student to be evaluated by a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired and requires the student to receive instruction in Braille or the use of Braille unless the team responsible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease; prevention pilot program. Directs the Department of Health to conduct a two-year point of disease Lyme disease prevention pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition at a public institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance for local employees. Allows local school boards and local governing bodies to elect to have all their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of employees and retirees, eligible to participate in the state employee health i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB764 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Auditor of Public Accounts; Commonwealth Data Point. Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts (the Auditor) to incorporate in the Commonwealth Data Point the following enhancements: (i) graphs, charts, or other visual displays of aggregated data showi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Adaptive Learning Tools Grant Fund established. Establishes the Adaptive Learning Tools Grant Fund for the purpose of establishing a grant program whereby the Department of Education awards grants on a competitive basis to local school divisions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB856 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax rate on food. Reduces the state sales and use tax rate on food from 1.5 percent to one percent by eliminating the 0.5 percent sales and use tax on food that is currently paid into the Transportation Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Care Innovation Fund. Establishes the Virginia Health Care Innovation Fund to consist of certain funds resulting from savings to the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance, to be used to improve access to health care in the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Frank and Amy Taylor. Provides $1,183 in relief to Frank and Amy Taylor from general funds allocated to the Department of Health to reimburse them for an emergency pump-out and repair of their sewage disposal system. The system was inspected ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers to the Port Opportunity Fund. Creates an exception to an annually determined transfer to the Port Opportunity Fund if the Secretary of Transportation determines that the transfer is not in the long-term interest of the Virginia Port Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Local law enforcement and State Police; enforcement of executive actions or orders. Prohibits local law enforcement or the Department of State Police from cooperating with a federal agency through the furnishing of police services for the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; certification expiration for temporarily disabled persons. Prohibits the expiration of a state certification of any person subject to the Line of Duty Act who, as a result of the performance of his duties, has become temporarily men...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Includes stepchildren between the ages of 16 and 29 of certain military service members in the definition of "qualified survivors and dependents" for the purposes of eligibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary recall of retired judges; who may be recalled. Allows persons retired under the Virginia Retirement System to sit as temporary recalled judges if they have prior service as a judge and such persons do not engage in the practice of law withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1301 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacy benefits administrators; explanation of benefits. Requires pharmacy benefits administrators to provide an explanation of benefits (EOB) to persons covered under health benefit plans for whom they processed or paid a claim for prescription dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | Administration of stormwater management programs. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to operate stormwater management programs that regulate land-disturbing activities that disturb from 2,500 square feet to up to one acre in localities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund. Creates the Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund to provide no-interest loans to any locality, school division, or public institution of higher education funded by 40 percent of annual revenue over $325...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited practices by mixed beverage licensees; exception. Allows a mixed beverage licensee to transfer spirits from the original larger bottle or container that was purchased by the licensee to a smaller one, provided t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers to the Port Opportunity Fund. Removes the requirement that if the Virginia Port Authority's revenues exceed expenditures by at least five percent the Authority transfer five percent of that year's revenues from terminal operations to the Po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law; restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting to the Department of State Police when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess, transport, and carry a firearm, ammunition for a fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Fines under certain local ordinances paid to local school division and Literary Fund. Provides that fines imposed under certain local ordinances dealing with DUI, disposition of children in juvenile and domestic relations district courts, and appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Requires school divisions to provide a health insurance credit of $4 per year of service to all retired members of local school divisions with at least 15 years of total creditable servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; support services positions; licensed behavior analysts and licensed assistant behavior analysts. Includes licensed behavior analysts and licensed assistant behavior analysts as support services positions in a local school divisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth. Initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth. The bill creates two new matching grant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | State Inspector General; lean government initiative. Requires the State Inspector General to implement the lean government initiative. The bill defines "lean government initiative" as a business-oriented system for organizing and managing product dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB902 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of the Commonwealth Genomics and Personalized Medicine Authority. Creates the Commonwealth Genomics and Personalized Medicine Authority (the Authority) as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority's purpose is to encourage c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB683 | 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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Closure of the Southwestern Virginia Training Center and the Southeastern Virginia Training Center prohibited. Provides that the Southwestern Virginia Training Center and the Southeastern Virginia Training Center shall not be closed and shall instead...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Extended foster care services and support. Creates the Extended Foster Care Services and Support Program to provide foster care services and support, including foster care maintenance payments, to qualifying individuals age 18 to 21 who were formerly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1036 | Intro
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] | 2016-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
