| SJR35 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal ash ponds; mandatory testing of drinking water wells. Requires the owner or operator of any coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that is closed by capping in place to complete a survey of all drinking water wells within one mile of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide prioritization process project selection. Requires the total cost of a transportation project to be considered in evaluating projects under the statewide prioritization process. The bill requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to eva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Release of seized property; petition to stay release. Provides that any property seized shall be released to the owner or lienholder within one year from the date of seizure unless an information has been filed against the property or the attorney fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; recovery of costs associated with closure in place of coal ash facilities. Directs that in a biennial review of an investor-owned electric utility by the State Corporation Commission, any costs incurred by an investor-owned electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Payment of wages. Removes the exemptions that exclude newsboys, shoe shine boys, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, and theater cashiers from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act (Act). The Act's exclusion for babysitters is limited to those not employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; failure of employing Unemployment compensation; failure of employing unit to furnish reports; penalty. Provides that an employing unit that willfully fails or refuses to furnish a report required by the Unemployment Compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; THE AMERICAN LEGION. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for members and supporters of The American Legion bearing the legend THE AMERICAN LEGION.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary manslaughter; death of a fetus; penalty. Provides that any person who, as a result of driving under the influence, causes the death of the fetus of another is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The bill provides that if such person's con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases from 17 to 19 the membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) by requiring that one member be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts instead of, under curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Expert witnesses; government officer and employees; fees. Provides that no officer or employee of the Commonwealth or of any locality or political subdivision thereof who is called to testify as an expert witness shall charge a fee for providing such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; Transitional Rate Period; coal combustion residuals landfills. Shortens the duration of the Transitional Rate Period (Period) for any Phase II Utility. The measure provides that the Period ends December 31, 2017, which is the date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB419 | 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 on the basis of sex; (ii) prohibit employers from punishing employees for shari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of dealership or service facility; manufacturers. Provides that manufacturers of multistage trucks, defined in the bill, involved in the second or subsequent stage of construction or assembly of a multistage truck may also own, operate, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; issuance upon convictions for certain felonies; penalty. Authorizes a court to issue a protective order upon convicting a defendant for a felony offense of (i) violating a protective order, (ii) homicide set forth in Article 1 (&se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (ballot bill); special funds for transportation purposes. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, general election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution that would require the General Assembly to ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver education courses; virtual testing. Driver education courses; virtual testing. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow licensed computer-based driver education providers to offer driver education tests virtually for computer-based...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of the sale and use of consumer fireworks; Regulation of the sale and use of consumer fireworks; criminal and civil penalties. Authorizes a person to sell consumer fireworks, defined in the bill, if he possesses a federal permit to sell fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index; land-use assessment value. Requires the General Assembly to modify the current standards of quality funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability to pay to incorporate within the real e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Speed monitoring systems. Provides that a locality may, by ordinance, establish a speed enforcement program utilizing an automated speed monitoring system that creates recorded images of vehicles traveling at least 10 miles per hour in excess of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Cash proffers; impact fees. Removes various provisions granting localities authority to accept cash proffers as part of the conditional rezoning process. The bill repeals provisions that limit existing impact fee authority to (i) localities that have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and cancers of the colon, brain, and testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Closure of the Central Virginia Training Center prohibited. Provides that the Central Virginia Training Center shall not be closed and shall instead remain open.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemption from certain conditional rezoning proffer requirements. Provides that certain provisions enacted in 2016 related to conditional rezoning proffers shall not apply to any county that operates under the county executive form of government that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Impact fees for residential development. Repeals provisions that limit existing impact fee authority to (i) localities that have established an urban transportation service district and (ii) areas outside of such service districts that are zoned for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Deputy Sheriff Supplemental Salary Fund; creation and revenue source. Creates the Deputy Sheriff Supplemental Salary Fund to provide funds for qualified localities to supplement the salaries of deputy sheriffs. Twenty percent of local fines generated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the owner of the property or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain transportation districts; price floor. Establishes a floor on the 2.1 percent tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia by requiring that the average wholesale price upon which the tax is ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional proffers; public facility capacity; previously approved residential developments. Authorizes a locality to base its assessment of a public facility's capacity on the projected impacts specifically attributable to previously approved resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds colon cancer to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters and certain employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Iron Gate. Amends provisions related to the time of council elections to reflect the town council's recent transition to November elections and updates provisions related to the filling of vacancies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; City of Harrisonburg; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Local economic development expenditure. Provides that any local economic development expenditure shall be first approved by the local governing body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensee; commission for sales on licensed premises. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to pay a licensed distiller a commission of 20 percent of the retail price of any spirits sold by the distill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Step therapy protocols. Requires health benefit plans that restrict the use of any prescription drug through the use of a step therapy protocol to have in place a clear, convenient, and expeditious process for a prescribing medical provider to reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional zoning. Removes restrictions on the types of proffers a locality may request or accept in connection with a rezoning or proffer condition amendment as a condition of approval of a new residential development or residential use. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Community solar generation facilities. Authorizes the establishment of community solar generation facilities, which are required to be owned by a subscriber organization that has at least 10 subscribers. Subscribers will receive credits on their util...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; contracting for construction on a construction management basis. Authorizes state public bodies and public institutions of higher education to enter into contracts for construction on a construction management basis where the esti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB855 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy efficiency programs. Provides that an energy efficiency program proposed by an electric utility is in the public interest if the net present value of the benefits exceeds the net present value of the costs as determined by any three of four be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Same-sex marriage; gender-neutral terms. Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obligations of marriage. These prohibitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Provides that, in lieu of the biennial review proceedings previously required, Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) and Appalachian Power (AEP) will be subject to triennial reviews of their rates, terms, and conditions for gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualifications of notary; misdemeanor offense of moral turpitude. Provides that a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor offense of moral turpitude is not qualified to be commissioned as a notary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (2-Y 13-N) |
| SB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Gaming Commission; regulation of charitable gaming; administration of fantasy contest registrations. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commission (Commission) and vests the Commission with the control and regulation of charitable gaming in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Training of law-enforcement officers; reimbursement of costs. Requires a law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth that hires a law-enforcement officer from another law-enforcement agency to reimburse the agency that funded the training for the cost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; undergrounding distribution lines; reasonableness and prudence of costs. States that the General Assembly has determined that (i) the conversion of an investor-owned electric utility's existing overhead distribution tap lines with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
