VA Legislation | 2018 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB646	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; fuel factor; gas pipeline capacity. Directs the State Corporation Commission to disallow an electric utility's request to recover fuel costs resulting from the purchase by the public utility or its affiliate or subsidiary of a gre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 1-N)
SB459	Intro Sine Die	Governor's Secretaries; reporting substance abuse data and information. Requires every Secretary to identify an agency within his secretariat to receive such data and information related to substance abuse as the Secretary may specify and requires ev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB830	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Open Data Initiative Act. Creates the Virginia Open Data Initiative Act to increase public awareness of and access to the data created by and available from state agencies. The bill provides for appointment by the Governor of a Chief Data Of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB284	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; solar generation capacity; public interest. Declares that the construction or purchase of certain solar generation facilities, or the purchase of the energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from the facilities, is in the pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 0-N)
SB927	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; applicability. Provides that the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act (§55-508 et seq.) shall be applicable to any development established prior to the former Subdivided Land Sales Act (§55-33... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N)
SB3	Intro Sine Die	Same-sex marriages; civil unions. 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 prohibitions are ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB142	Intro Sine Die	Appeal to circuit court; failure to appear. Provides that a person's failure to appear in circuit court in accordance with the condition of his bail, recognizance, or promise to appear constitutes a withdrawal of an appeal, provided that the person i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
SB502	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; Department of State Police; exemption for purchase of aviation equipment. Exempts from competitive sealed bidding the purchase of aviation equipment by the Department of State Police for use by the Department. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB798	Intro Sine Die	Presentence reports; access by work release programs. Authorizes the court to provide a copy of a presentence report to the director or administrator of a work release program if the person who is the subject of the report is under consideration for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N)
SB850	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]	2018-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N)
SB662	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; competition. Limits the scope of the provision that allows individual retail customers to aggregate or combine their demands in order to meet the five megawatt threshold above which they are permitted to purchase electric energy f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB82	Intro Sine Die	Electric utility regulation; agricultural net energy metering. Allows an otherwise eligible agricultural customer-generator to participate in an electric utility's net energy metering program if it is to be served by multiple meters located on one pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB270	Intro Sine Die	School property; unrecorded encumbrances. Provides that whenever a school board or governing body acquires real property for the purpose of constructing a school facility, the real property shall not be subjected to or restricted by any unrecorded co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
SB655	Intro Sine Die	Appraisal management companies; cap on fees; disclosure. Caps the markup that an appraisal management company adds to the cost of an appraisal conducted by an independent appraiser at 20 percent. The bill also requires the appraisal management compan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 1-N)
SB650	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; local preference for businesses participating in Virginia Registered Apprenticeship program. Authorizes a locality to develop and implement a bidding system that gives preference to the lowest responsive and responsib... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 9-N)
SB83	Intro Sine Die	Renewable energy; third-party power purchase agreements. Replaces the pilot program initially enacted in 2013 that authorized certain third-party power purchase agreements providing financing of certain renewable generation facilities. The measure re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB461	Intro Sine Die	Direct service providers; disclosure of information by employers. Provides that a current or former employer of a direct service provider may disclose information about the direct service provider's employment to a prospective employer of the direct ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB955	Intro Sine Die	Electric utility regulation; suspension of reviews of earnings; Transitional Rate Period. Provides that the Transitional Rate Period for Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) will conclude on December 31, 2018, and its next biennial review w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-N)
SB711	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; community renewable projects. Electric utilities; community renewable projects. Requires the State Corporation Commission to adopt rules under which community renewable projects are authorized to operate. A community renewable pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB311	Intro Sine Die	Community solar gardens. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish standards for the operation of community solar gardens. A community solar garden is defined in the bill as a solar energy system that (i) has a nameplate capacity of not ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB791	Intro Sine Die	Immunity of employers and potential employers; reports of violent behavior. Provides civil immunity to an employer who makes a report to a potential employer or law-enforcement agency of violent or threatened violent behavior, as defined in the bill,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB837	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; retail competition. Reduces the amount of the demand of an investor-owned electric utility's customer that makes the customer eligible to purchase electric power from any licensed supplier from five megawatts to one megawatt. The ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB719	Intro Sine Die	Data sharing; substance abuse data. Establishes a Substance Abuse Data Sharing and Analytics Clearinghouse (the Clearinghouse), to be administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Resources in consultation with the Substance Abuse Data Sharing an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Incorporated by General Laws and Technology
SB817	Intro Sine Die	Life insurance on minors; limits. Prohibits an insurer from issuing in Virginia a policy of life insurance upon the life of an individual under the age of five years. The bill also caps the amount of life insurance that may be issued on the life of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
SB285	Intro Sine Die	Utility rates; voluntary rate design schedules or riders. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to enter its final order on certain petitions filed by an investor-owned electric utility within eight months of the filing of the petition. The... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 0-N)
SB909	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of income to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill defines "source of income" as any source that law... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB50	Intro Sine Die	Same-sex marriages; civil unions. 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 prohibitions have... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-05 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB482	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; spirit samples. Increases the amount of spirits that may be offered as a sample at government stores and special events from one-half ounce to one ounce and the amount that can be offered in a mixed drink from one and one-... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-02 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
SB756	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; conduct not prohibited; donations of beer by brewery licensees to charitable nonprofit mixed beverage special event licensees or banquet licensees. Provides that any brewery licensee may donate beer that it has manufacture... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
SB483	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; distiller's license; remote store location and tasting room. Allows a distiller licensee who operates a government store for the sale of spirits to add to the license one additional location that is not on the licensed pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-02 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
SB467	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. The bill sets out the privileges of this new license, including a requirement that at least 60 per... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-02 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (11-Y 4-N)
SB190	Intro Sine Die	Substitute teachers; duration of teaching period. Permits temporarily employed teachers to substitute for a contracted teacher for a temporary period not to exceed 125 teaching days during the contracted teacher's absence. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB990	Intro Sine Die	Stormwater; State Water Control Board; regulations. Authorizes the State Water Control Board (the Board) to adopt stormwater regulations that provide any definitions, equations, or protocols needed to implement the runoff reduction method of demonstr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB223	Intro Sine Die	Prescription drug price gouging prohibited. Prohibits unconscionable price increases in the price of essential off-patent or generic drugs, authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to designate drugs as essential drugs, and establishes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB838	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Conservation Police Review Board. Creates a six-member review board composed of a State Police officer and a criminal defense lawyer, both appointed by the Governor; a recreational angler and a hunter, appointed by the Speaker of the House o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB439	Intro Sine Die	Office of the Student Loan Ombudsman. Establishes the Office of the Student Loan Ombudsman within the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The Office of the Student Loan Ombudsman is required to provide timely assistance to any student loa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Incorporated by Education and Health
SB303	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; tobacco products and nicotine vapor products. Requires each school board to (i) develop and implement a policy to prohibit the use of tobacco products and nicotine vapor products on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-spo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB721	Intro Sine Die	Health care services; payment estimates. Requires practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine and hospitals to provide a patient or the representative of a patient scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB962	Intro Sine Die	Herd shares; written shared herd ownership agreements; requirements; penalty. Requires a person to enter into a written agreement with the owner of a herd of milk-producing animals in order to obtain an ownership interest in the owner's milking herd ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N)
SB862	Intro Sine Die	Pharmacy drug disposal program. Requires that each pharmacy participate in a pharmacy drug disposal program in order to properly dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. Under current law, participation in such program is voluntary. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB274	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Increases from 540 hours to 990 hours the minimum instructional hours in a school year for students in kindergarten. The bill directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2020, e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
SB160	Intro Sine Die	Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Departmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB638	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Community College System continued as the Virginia College System. Renames the Virginia Community College System as the Virginia College System. The bill also renames the Chancellor and State Board for Community Colleges as the Chancellor of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N)
SB357	Intro Sine Die	Death certificates; electronic filing required. Requires a death certificate, for each death that occurs in the Commonwealth, to be electronically filed with the State Registrar. Under current law, death certificates may be filed electronically or no... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB881	Intro Sine Die	Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; membership. Increases the membership of the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers from nine to 10 by adding one nonlegislative citizen member and increases from five to six the number of members that const... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB940	Intro Sine Die	Combined sewer overflow system; notice of discharge. Requires the owner or operator of any combined sewer overflow (CSO) system to immediately report any discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage to the Department of Environmental Quality (t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB366	Intro Sine Die	School personnel; staffing ratios; school nurses. Excludes school nurse positions from requirements for student support positions and instead requires each local school board to employ at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position in each e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB865	Intro Sine Die	Standards of Quality; reading diagnostic tests. Requires that the first reading diagnostic test administered to a student in kindergarten through grade three include a rapid alphabet naming component and that local school divisions report the results... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB713	Intro Sine Die	Standards of Quality; mathematics intervention services. Requires local school divisions to identify students in grades 10, 11, and 12 who are at risk of graduating without the necessary skills to take college-level mathematics coursework, as demonst... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB870	Intro Sine Die	Certain educational institutions; designation of governing boards. Renames as boards of trustees the boards of visitors of certain educational institutions in the Commonwealth, including baccalaureate public institutions of higher education. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)