| SR33 | Pass | Commending the Louisa County High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR33ER) |
| SR30 | Pass | Commending Mulberry Baptist Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR30ER) |
| SR20 | Pass | Commending Thierry G. Dupuis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR20ER) |
| SR26 | Pass | Commending VersAbility Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR26ER) |
| SR32 | Pass | Commending Mark Lee Fischer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR32ER) |
| SR29 | Pass | Commending the Hanover High School girls' tennis team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR29ER) |
| SJR114 | Pass | Commending Michelle Cottrell-Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ114ER) |
| SR28 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR28ER) |
| SR27 | Pass | Commending the National Counseling Group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR27ER) |
| SR25 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Elbert T. Knight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR25ER) |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; behavioral health in state correctional facilities; report. Requests that the Department of Corrections, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, study the provision of patient-centered behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB416 | Engross
Sine Die | Venue in criminal cases; concurrent jurisdiction; obsolete provisions. Provides that the courts of a locality have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of any other adjoining locality over criminal offenses committed in or upon the premises, build...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; post-service restrictions. Extends the "revolving door" prohibition applicable to state officers and employees and members of the General Assembly. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR104 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ104ER) |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; factors for project selection. Requires travel time reliability to be one of the factors used by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in its statewide prioritization process for project selection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB970 | Engross
Sine Die | Official emblems and designations; state grape. Official emblems and designations; state grape. Designates the muscadine grape as the state grape.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities. Advances the date rate reviews are scheduled to resume for Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) from 2022 to 2021. The review will use the three 12-month test periods beginning January 1, 2018, and ending December 31, 2020. The measure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving with animal prohibited. Prohibits any person, while operating a moving motor vehicle, to (i) have an animal on his lap, (ii) permit an animal to impede his free access to and use of vehicle controls, or (iii) obstruct his vision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB757 | Engross
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] | 2018-02-13
Read third time and defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Party nominating methods. Prohibits political parties from selecting a nomination method for its candidates for statewide or General Assembly district office, the U.S. House of Representatives, or the U.S. Senate that has the practical effect of excl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-N) |
| SB820 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration by political party affiliation; primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2019, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an indep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 20-N) |
| SB26 | Engross
Sine Die | Method of nominating party candidates; certain incumbents to determine method. Provides that incumbent constitutional officers shall have the right to determine the method of making party nominations for that constitutional office. If the incumbent c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Premium Security Plan. Creates the Premium Security Plan (the Plan), a state-based reinsurance program to stabilize premiums for individual health benefit plans sold on the exchange. The measure provides that moneys provided from general fund appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Employment Commission; development of a plan for a paid family-medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC), in consultation with a work group composed of representatives of interested groups, to develop a plan fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Turns in certain residential areas; resident stickers. Allows counties by ordinance to develop a program to issue permits to residents of a designated area that will allow such residents to make turns into or out of the neighborhood during certain ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 20-N) |
| SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission study of cryptocurrencies; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct a study of the effects of the growth of cryptocurrencies. The Commission shall report its findings to the members of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR110 | Pass | Commending the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ110ER) |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees; high-speed Internet access. Allocates a portion of Public Rights-of-Way Use fees collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation and certain localities to be used for the deployment and expansion of high-speed In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB975 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of educational placement transition of certain students with disabilities. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a pilot p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Secretary of Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Secretary of Commerce and Trade; global reform waiver. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to apply for a waiver to allow for transfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SJR60 | Pass | Commending Virginia public school bus drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ60ER) |
| SJR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate conventions; selection of commissioners and committee procedures. Adopts procedures for selecting and replacing commissioners to represent the Virginia General Assembly at interstate conventions. The procedures clarify the scope of authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Continues for one additional year the Joint Committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR65 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Corrections; solitary confinement; report. Requests the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to study the use of solitary confinement, including segregation and other forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR40 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; aviation and aerospace certification of teachers and curriculum; report. Establishes a 13-member joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to study how Virginia can meet the future wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) exa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR41 | Intro
Sine Die | Airport development; environmental approvals. Encourages the Federal Aviation Administration to delegate to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Aviation the administration of environmental approvals needed to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; feasibility of eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of an eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Excludes Planning District 8 from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related to a member of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention; report. Directs the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century to study alternative models of emergency custody and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on Autism. Establishes the Commission on Autism as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Commission is to review and make recommendations for the improvement of services and programs for ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; reorganize as Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority. Reorganizes the existing Virginia-Israel Advisory Board, renamed the Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority, as an independent authority. The bill provides that the current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Requires General Assembly members, full-time legislative staff of General Assembly members compensated with state appropriations, and full-time employees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR82 | Pass | Commending William J. Vakos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ82ER) |
| SJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee to study the 2016 conditional rezoning proffer reform bill; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Local Government and the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns to study the 2016 conditional r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR61 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dennis Patrick Mullins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ61ER) |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR58 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product; report. Requests the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to study the use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
