| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil action for trespass; vicarious liability. Provides that any person arrested for or convicted of criminal trespass shall be liable for any property damage caused during the commission of such trespass. The bill also provides that any person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Rights of persons with disabilities; procedures for certain actions; notice and opportunity to cure. Provides that before bringing a civil action based on the failure to remove an architectural barrier, as defined in the bill, to access into an exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits for a claim for unins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Waiver of immunity; insurance coverage. Provides that no person who is sued in a civil cause of action and who is immune from liability under Virginia law may claim such immunity if his actions that gave rise to the civil cause of action would otherw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (2-Y 13-N) |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license suspensions for certain non-driving related offenses. Removes the existing provisions that a person's driver's license is suspended (i) when he is convicted of or placed on deferred disposition for a drug offense or (ii) for nonpayme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Lease-option real estate contracts; requirements of the owner; default. Establishes contract provisions for when an owner of real property enters into a contract with a purchaser to lease the real property and the contract includes an option to purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving. Expands the prohibition on using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle to all communications unless the device is specifically designed to allow voice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB100 | Engross
Sine Die | New sentencing hearing; abolition of parole. Provides that a person who was sentenced by a jury prior to the date of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v. Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Court held that a jury s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Denial of motion to compel arbitration; appeal. Provides that no appellate court has jurisdiction to review a trial court's interlocutory order denying a motion to compel arbitration. The bill further provides that an interlocutory appeal shall be pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Value engineering. Raises the minimum project cost requiring the use of value engineering from $5 million to $15 million. The bill exempts projects that are designed utilizing (i) a design-build contract or (ii) the Public-Private Transportation Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of certain revenues by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Allows revenues of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority distributed to localities to be used, as determined solely by the applicable locality, to fund new sidewalk p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation of local jails for costs of incarceration. Provides that a jail be compensated for the housing of a convicted felon based on the actual costs of incarceration and that a felon not be moved to a jail until an agreement to pay actual costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Deposition of local governing body. Provides that when a local governing body is named as a deponent, it shall designate one or more members of such body to serve as a deponent on its behalf. The bill provides that such designee and his testimony sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Education improvement scholarships tax credits; eligibility; payout penalty. Expands the education improvement scholarships tax credits program by including as eligible scholarship recipients children who are eligible to enter pre-kindergarten. In ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Third-party voter registration groups; registration, disclosure, and recordkeeping requirements. Requires any individual or group that will be distributing and collecting voter registration applications to register as a third-party registration group...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Electors for President and Vice President; allocation of electoral votes by congressional district. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that a vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting a valid identification card that contains a photograph of the voter and is issued by any private entity that is licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; notice and public access not required for certain voter registration events. Provides that voter registration conducted in a high school and voter registration events sponsored or conducted by an entity or organization which the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle sales and use tax; minimum tax. Lowers the minimum sales and use tax on the sale of a motor vehicle in the Commonwealth from $75 to $35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | City of Richmond gas utility; service territory. Designates the areas that constitute the service territory of the City of Richmond's natural gas utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; notice and public access not required for certain voter registration events. Provides that voter registration conducted in a high school and voter registration events sponsored or conducted by an entity or organization which the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (5-Y 8-N) |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the general registrar; open five days a week. Provides that the office of the general registrar in all counties and cities is to be open a minimum of five days a week. Under current law, counties with a population of less than 10,000 and ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB7 | Intro
Sine Die | Statements of organization; campaign depository account number required. Requires the statement of organization filed by candidates and candidate campaign committees to include the account number of the campaign depository in addition to the name of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | License taxes; interest rate for certain refunds. Authorizes a locality to establish the interest rate for a tax refund due to a taxpayer's overstatement of gross receipts for purposes of determining the amount due for a business license tax at a rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Election day voter registration; pilot program. Requires the State Board of Elections to develop a pilot program for election day voter registration, by which a person who (i) offers to vote on election day but is not a registered voter, (ii) provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential candidates; federal tax returns and state income tax returns required for ballot access. Requires any person seeking the nomination of the national political party for the office of the President or Vice President, in order to have his n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 5-N) |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Form of ballot; party identification of candidates. Provides that any candidate nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the name of his political party, unless a provision of a local charter provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of certain monuments and memorials. Provides that for any monument or memorial erected prior to 1900, notwithstanding any Act of Assembly regarding the preservation of monuments or memorials enacted prior to 1900, the governing body of the lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB746 | Intro
Sine Die | Accelerated sales and use tax payments. Prohibits any requirement that a dealer remit accelerated sales and use tax payments, except as provided in a general appropriation act under the following circumstances: (i) if payments are required for dealer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood assistance tax credits. Reduces the amount of the neighborhood assistance tax credit from 65 percent to 50 percent of the value of donations to neighborhood organizations. The reduction will be phased in over a three-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition charges; members of the Virginia National Guard. Declares eligible for in-state tuition charges any member of the Virginia National Guard, regardless of the active status or domicile of such individual. The bill conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Form of ballot; party identification of candidates. Allows any candidate who has been nominated by a political party or in a primary election to choose whether to be identified on the ballot by the name of his political party. Currently, only candida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposable plastic shopping bags; local option. Allows any locality by ordinance to prohibit the distribution, sale, or offer for sale of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers. The bill exempts from any such prohibition reusable bags of a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Children's Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB178 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary delegation of parental or legal custodial powers; child-placing agency. Allows a parent or legal custodian of a minor to delegate to another person by a properly executed power of attorney any powers regarding care, custody, or property of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Assisted conception; parentage presumption. Makes the relevant law regarding children born as a result of assisted conception applicable to both same-sex and opposite-sex married couples. The bill also provides that a person is presumed to be the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Professions and occupations; home inspectors; assertion as to presence or absence of radon. Provides that no home inspector shall make any assertion as to the presence or absence of radon, or amount thereof, in a residential building, nor conduct or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared state o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; manufactured home park; sale of park; notice; penalties. Requires that a manufactured home park owner notify residents and prospective residents of the intent to sell the park; consider offers to purchase the park ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for limited drug refills. Requires health benefit plans to cover a limited refill for up to a five days' supply of a Schedule VI drug that is dispensed by a pharmacist for a covered person whose dispensed drugs are lost, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Disorderly conduct in public places; right to detain. Provides that the person in charge of any public building, place, conveyance, meeting, operation, or activity may detain any person who engages in disorderly conduct for a period not to exceed one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Debit card holds; disclosures. Requires a merchant that initiates a hold on a debit card transaction that is more than 25 percent of the actual transaction, or $50, whichever is greater, to disclose at the time and point of the sale that a hold will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Common interest communities; reserves for capital Common interest communities; reserves for capital components; budget. Requires the budget for a common interest community to include a statement detailing the amount of any shortage or excess of total...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a process for identifying and relocating fiber optics and other communications infrastructure during road construction projects; Department of Transportation. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall convene a work group of stake...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing; installation and maintenance of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. Creates a statewide standard for the installation and maintenance of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in rental property. The bill requires a landlord to (i) install a smoke a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family leave program. Establishes a program under which certain employees of employers with 50 or more employees will be eligible for paid family leave for days they take leave from work to provide qualified caregiving, which is defined in the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Statements made by child to an intake officer or probation officer. Provides that a statement made by a child during or after the intake process, or during or after a mental health screening or other court-ordered evaluation or assessment, and prior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program; awards. Establishes criteria for and limits on reimbursements provided for nursing or attendant care provided by an adult relative or legal guardian of an admitted claimant under the Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Rent-to-Own Real Estate Contracts Act; civil penalties. Creates the Virginia Residential Rent-to-Own Real Estate Contracts Act that establishes contract requirements and prohibitions for installment land contracts and lease-optio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Condominium Act and the Property Owners' Association Act; contents of association disclosure packet; unfunded capital reserves. Provides for the disclosure packets required upon the resale of a unit under the Virginia Condominium Act or a lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (10-Y 0-N) |
