VA Legislation | 2017 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB900	Intro Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1420	Intro Sine Die	Incapacitated persons; abuse and neglect; financial exploitation of incapacitated persons; penalty. Provides that any responsible person who abuses or neglects an incapacitated adult and such abuse or neglect results in any bodily injury, other than ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB1142	Intro Sine Die	Campaign finance; filing and reporting requirements applicable to certain tax-exempt organizations. Removes the exemption of organizations holding tax-exempt status under ? 501(c)(4) of the United States Internal Revenue Code from the filing and repo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1103	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); closed meeting violations; civil penalty. Provides that in addition to any penalties imposed under FOIA, if the court finds that a member of a public body voted to certify a closed meeting and at the time o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB1436	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); definition of public body. Expands the definition of public body under FOIA to include any foundation that exists for the primary purpose of supporting a public institution of higher education and that is e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB902	Intro Sine Die	Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill requires the State Boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1294	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited. Replaces the $100 annual cap on gifts to (i) members of and candidates for the General Assembly and their immediate family me... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Rules Committee
SB1373	Intro Sine Die	Group homes. Provides that any entity intending to locate a public or private detention home, group home, or other residential care facility in a locality shall give the chief administrative officer of that locality and the president of any home owne... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB924	Intro Sine Die	Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; collection and use of personal information by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that, unless a criminal or administrative warrant has been issued, law-enforcement and regulatory agencies sh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB1096	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses; licensed child care provider. Provides that a lot owner who is a licensed child care provider operating within his personal residence pursuant to state law and in compliance with local... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB1402	Intro Sine Die	Marine Resources Commission; lease of oyster-planting ground; ground use plan. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to determine whether, for certain oyster-planting grounds, an application for assignment, transfer, or renewal of a lease also requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB1550	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]	2017-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1528	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; small business and microbusiness procurement enhancement program. Codifies the Governor's Executive Order 20 (2014) establishing a statewide small business and microbusiness procurement enhancement program. The bill e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
SB1472	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; accident reports; filing claims; civil penalty. Requires an employer's accident report filed with the Workers' Compensation Commission to include the signature of the injured employee or his personal representative. The measure... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB1541	Intro Sine Die	Financial institutions; confidentiality of information. Provides that the scope of the prohibition on the State Corporation Commission's disclosure of personal information does not encompass any information pertaining to an individual's ownership int... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB1275	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting; construction and professional services. Authorizes any public body to procure construction on a best value procurement basis using a numerical scoring system consisting of (i) technical ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 7-N)
SB1489	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; presumption that death or disease due to coal pneumoconiosis. Specifies that the standards prescribed by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission for determining whether the death or total disability of an employee was due... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
SB1423	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; viewshed mitigation payments. Requires that any viewshed mitigation payment made by an electric utility be used by the recipient only to implement renewable energy projects, to conduct energy-related research and development progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB824	Intro Sine Die	Paid sick days for employees; civil penalties. Requires private employers to give to each full-time employee paid sick days. Paid sick days would accrue at a rate of no less than one hour for every 50 hours worked in 2018 or, if an employer commences... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
SB1466	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; infectious disease presumption; correctional officers. Provides that correctional officers are entitled to a presumption that hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, MRSA, or HIV causing the correctional officer's de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB1575	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Real Estate Appraiser Board; appraisal management companies; compensation of appraisers. Requires an appraisal management company to compensate appraisers at a rate that is customary and reasonable for appraisal services performed in the mar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SB1513	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; assignment of benefits. Prohibits insurers issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, corporations providing... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1238	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Chief Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Chief Executive Officer; powers and duties. Requires the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Au... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB1372	Intro Sine Die	Consumer finance loans; rate of interest. Increases, from $2,500 to $4,000, the threshold under which consumer finance loans are subject to a maximum interest rate of 36 percent per year. Under this measure, a licensed consumer finance lender may cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB1572	Intro Sine Die	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; regulation of land surveyor photogrammetrists. Provides for the licensure of land surveyor photogrammetrists by the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 4-N)
SB1080	Intro Sine Die	Equal pay irrespective of sex. Amends the existing law requiring equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex to (i) prohibit unequal provision of benefits and privileges; (ii) prohibit employers from punishing employees for sharing salary informatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 5-N)
SB1327	Intro Sine Die	Licensure of doctors of medical science. Establishes criteria for license as a doctor of medical science and establishes the Advisory Board on Doctors of Medical Science. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB1246	Intro Sine Die	Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; special education programs. Grants, for a period of three years, eligibility for funding from the state pool of funds available through the Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
SB1537	Intro Sine Die	Certain school board employees; training program on bullying. Requires each school board to require each school board employee in the local school division, including student support positions but excluding all other support services positions, to pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB929	Intro Sine Die	Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA); membership composition. Increases from 17 to 18 the membership of the NVTA and provides that the additional nonlegislative citizen member represent towns that receive funds for urban highway systems. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 4-N)
SB1471	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Requires the Governor to seek to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or other carbon trading program with an open auction of carbon allowances. The Department of Environmental Quality is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N)
SB1141	Intro Sine Die	Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Repeals the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB1593	Intro Sine Die	Prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits any candidate to the General Assembly or statewide office from soliciting or accepting campaign contributions from a public service corporation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N)
SB1291	Intro Sine Die	Well permit applications; disclosure of trade secrets. Authorizes the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (the Department) to require disclosure of chemical ingredient names, chemical abstracts numbers, or the amount or concentration of chemical... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N)
SB1335	Intro Sine Die	Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits local school boards from requiring the use of any electronic textbook in any course in grades six through 12 unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2019, (i)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1233	Intro Sine Die	Temporary detention; certified evaluators. Allows emergency physicians, psychiatrists, and certain psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric clinical nurse specialists, licensed clinical psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and license... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (16-Y 0-N)
SB1133	Intro 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]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
SB1477	Intro Sine Die	Students with blindness or visual impairments. Makes several changes to provisions relating to students with blindness or visual impairments, including (i) requiring a learning media assessment (LMA) to be administered as part of the initial evaluati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB1292	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (? 59.1-336 et s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N)
SB1235	Intro Sine Die	Family life education; required. Requires each local school board to implement the Standards of Learning for the family life education program developed by the Board of Education or a family life education program consistent with the guidelines devel... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
SB1157	Intro Sine Die	Lobbyist disclosure; reporting by certain political subdivisions. Requires the governing body of any association or other nonstock corporation that is established by a political subdivision or combination of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (6-Y 7-N)
SB1346	Intro Sine Die	Associate-degree-granting institutions; transfer credit information. Requires each associate-degree-granting institution of higher education to (i) designate in its course catalog each course that is offered in an associate degree program at such ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1556	Intro Sine Die	Board of Education; graduation requirements. Requires the Board of Education's graduation requirements to require a student to earn at least one verified credit in each of the following subjects: mathematics, reading, writing, science, and history an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1163	Intro Sine Die	School principals; incident reports. Provides that school principals are not required to report criminal misdemeanors or status offenses to law enforcement if in the principal's discretion, based on a totality of the circumstances and consistent with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB1089	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, P.L. 89-10, as a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1114	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Veteran Entrepreneurship Grant Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Veteran Entrepreneurship Grant Program and Fund to provide grants to eligible providers of educational, training, or other services to veterans in the areas of startin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
SB1375	Intro Sine Die	Certificate of Public Need program. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need program. The bill (i) removes specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotrips... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB1579	Intro Sine Die	Short-term rental of property. Affirms the rights of localities to regulate the short-term rental of property, defined as the provision of space suitable for sleeping or lodging for fewer than 30 days. If a locality allows short-term rentals, the loc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Incorporated by Local Government
SB1500	Intro Sine Die	School Health Advisory Board. Establishes the School Health Advisory Board in the executive branch to advise the General Assembly on pending legislation concerning health policy that affects elementary and secondary schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N)
SB1547	Intro Sine Die	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; penalty. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; penalty. Prohibits the conversion of any contributed moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property by any person to the personal use of a candid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)