| SB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualifications of law-enforcement officers; psychological examination. Requires as a minimum qualification for employment as a law-enforcement officer that, subsequent to a conditional offer of employment, all prospective law-enforcement officers und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal street gang predicate offenses; penalty. Expands the definition of a predicate criminal act associated with gang activity to include a felony violation of (i) obtaining money by false pretense and (ii) identity theft.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissemination of juvenile record information; emergency medical services agency applicants. Provides that juvenile record information maintained in the Central Criminal Records Exchange may be disseminated (i) to the State Health Commissioner or his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission (the Commission) as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB316 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; disposition of surplus materials. Permits employees departing state employment to purchase at fair market value mobile technology devices that an employer issued to the employee during the course of state employment. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Jurisdiction; offenses against children. Provides that a juvenile and domestic relations district court has jurisdiction over offenses against the person of a child, including those offenses where the identity of the child is unknown. In prosecution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissemination of juvenile record information; emergency medical services agency applicants. Provides that juvenile record information maintained in the Central Criminal Records Exchange may be disseminated (i) to the State Health Commissioner or his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Rights of parents with a disability. Provides that a parent's disability, as defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis of the denial or restriction of such parent's custody or visitation rights. The bill requires a party who alleges that a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; limitations on causes of action. Allows courts to award front pay in addition to back pay as damages for discharging an employee in violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act (§2.2-3900 et seq.). The bill also removes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against a family member; child witness as a sentencing consideration. Provides that if a defendant is convicted of assault and battery against a family or household member and a minor who is a family or household member of the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Interest on child support arrearages. Provides that no interest shall accrue on arrearages for child support obligations when the order for such support was entered on or after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies the li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation decisions; communication to parties required in writing. Requires judges to communicate the basis of a custody or visitation decision to the parties in writing. Current law allows such a decision to be communicated either orall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Adultery; civil penalty. Reduces the penalty for adultery from a Class 4 misdemeanor to a civil penalty of not more than $250.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 9-N) |
| SB194 | 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
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | False and fraudulent insurance claims; civil penalties and damages. Establishes a cause of action for knowingly obtaining, attempting to obtain, or causing to be obtained, by deception, control over the property of any insurer by making a false or fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid medical leave; civil penalties. Requires private employers with 50 or more employees to give to each full-time employee paid medical leave. Paid medical leave would accrue at a rate of no less than one hour for every 50 hours worked in 2019. In ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Life insurance on minors; consent of parents. Prohibits an insurer from issuing in Virginia a life insurance policy on a minor without the written consent of the minor's parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Banks; loan applicant verification. Requires banks that receive a loan application form that names an existing customer as the applicant to contact the customer and verify that the customer has applied for the loan. The duty applies when the loan app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Use sick leave for the care of immediate family members. Requires employers with a sick leave program to allow an employee to use his sick leave for the care of an immediate family member. The measure applies only to employers that have 25 or more em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Fee for filing certain petitions in juvenile and domestic relations district court. Repeals the $25 filing fee that is charged for commencement of a custody or visitation case in the juvenile and domestic relations district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR10 | Pass | Commending Tidewater Community College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ10ER) |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent. Establishes a process for the sheriff or administrator in charge of a local or regional correctional facility to petition a court to authorize medical or mental health trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SJR18 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nathan Watts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ18ER) |
| SJR22 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Ulmo Shannon Randle, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ22ER) |
| SJR24 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Dual Language Educators Network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ24ER) |
| SJR17 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ17ER) |
| SJR23 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Arvil Buford Welcher.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ23ER) |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for parole; at liberty between offenses. Provides that a person convicted of three separate felony offenses of murder, rape, or robbery by the presenting of firearms or other deadly weapon, or any combination of such offenses, shall be el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB704 | Intro
Sine Die | Private preschool programs; background checks. Provides that any employee of a certified preschool or nursery school program operated by an accredited private school who has submitted to fingerprinting and provided personal descriptive information fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; child sexual abuse. Requires the Board of Education to include in its Standards of Learning for family life education standards for age-appropriate instruction in the prevention, recognition, and awareness of child abduction, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; domicile; individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares, absent congressional intent to the contrary, that any individual currently granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Food establishment inspections; exemptions; yogurt. Exempts from inspections by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services private homes where the resident processes and prepares yogurt that has an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower, sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (4-Y 9-N) |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; informed written consent. Provides that a woman seeking an abortion may waive in writing any requirement establishing a mandatory time period or mandating that a physician provide to or review with the woman specific information or material...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the W.T Woodson High School boys' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken from Senate calendar |
| SB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Agriculture easements; validity; termination. Prohibits a restriction imposed by a conservation easement from being enforced against any occupied single-family dwelling structure, including any outbuilding, shed, barn, garage, or driveway, or the lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Online Virginia Network Authority. Adds the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System and one nonlegislative citizen member appointed by the State Board for Community Colleges to the members of the board of trustees of the Online Virginia N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of dog or cat not obtained from releasing agency or animal rescue; prohibition. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances prohibiting the sale in a pet shop of any dog or cat that was not obtained from a Virginia releasing agency or a nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SR6 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Frances Virginia Matthews Clarke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR6ER) |
| SB369 | Intro
Sine Die | All-Payer Claims Database. Provides that participation in the All-Payer Claims Database by (i) issuers of individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; cognitive impairment. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and the Alzheimer's Association, to inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; sexually explicit communications and images. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines for a family life education curriculum instruction as appropriate for the age of the student regarding the dangers and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuition Assistance Grant Program; eligible institutions. Removes the requirement for private institutions of higher education to operate on a not-for-profit basis in order to be eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; medically accurate information. Requires the curriculum guidelines established by the Board of Education on family life education to include instruction in medically accurate information on human reproduction. This bill was inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance of abortions; informed written consent. Eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | All-Payer Claims Database. Provides that participation in the All-Payer Claims Database by (i) issuers of individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SR9 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph C. Smiddy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR9ER) |
| SR10 | Pass | Commending the Manassas Symphony Orchestra.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR10ER) |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulations governing hospitals; facilities performing abortions. Removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Conversion therapy prohibited. Prohibits any health care provider or person who performs counseling as part of his training for any profession licensed by a regulatory board of the Department of Health Professions from engaging in conversion therapy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
