| SB856 | Pass | Mass transit in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to the administration of and revenues for mass transit in the Commonwealth, specifically as it relates to funding of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and the disbursem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856) |
| SB378 | Pass | Coal tax credits. Reinstates the Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. The credit, which expired on July 1, 2016, can be earned on and after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2023, and only for metallurgical coal. This bill is identical t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855) |
| SB526 | Pass | Trespass; unmanned aircraft system; report; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of another and come within 50 feet of a dwelling house (i) to coerce, intimidate, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
| SB823 | Pass | Wireless support structures; public rights-of-way use fees. Establishes an annual wireless support structure public rights-of-way use fee to be charged to wireless services providers and wireless infrastructure providers in connection with a permit f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| SB942 | Pass | State sales and use tax; Historic Triangle. Creates a one percent state sales and use tax in the Historic Triangle. Fifty percent of the revenues will be used to market, promote, and advertise the Historic Triangle as an overnight tourism destination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0850) |
| SB278 | Pass | Eminent domain proceedings; payment of funds to owner or attorney. Requires that any funds due to the owner, whether such funds are in the possession of the court or are outstanding, shall be payable to the owner or, with consent of the owner, to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| SB249 | Pass | Taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles. Provides that all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road vehicles shall be subject to the motor vehicle sales and use tax but exempt from the retail sales and use tax. Current law pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| SB405 | Pass | Zoning for wireless communications infrastructure. Establishes parameters regarding applications for zoning approvals for certain wireless support structures. Applications for certain new wireless support structures that are 50 feet or less above gro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| SB902 | Pass | Property tax exemption for solar energy equipment and facilities. Limits the property tax exemption for solar equipment and facilities owned and operated by a business, which exemption currently applies to 80 percent of the assessed value of certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB755 | Pass | Pension de-risking; annuities. Limits the subsequent transfers of group annuity contracts that are purchased to fund retirement benefits pursuant to a pension de-risking transfer. The measure requires that a transfer to an insurer that does not have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB343 | Pass | School boards; employment of certain individuals. Permits any school board to employ an individual who, at the time of the individual's hiring, has been convicted of a felony, provided that such individual (i) was employed in good standing by a schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) |
| SB669 | Pass | Involuntary mental health treatment; minors; access to firearms. Provides that a person who, while a minor 14 years of age or older, was ordered to involuntary inpatient or outpatient treatment or was subject to a temporary detention order and agreed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB267 | Pass | Sexually violent predators; assessment protocol. Provides that each month the Director of the Board of Corrections (the Director) shall review a database of prisoners convicted of sexually violent offenses and, using an evidence-based assessment prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| SB631 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; course credit. Makes several changes relating to course credit at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Virginia Community College System to develop a 15-cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| SJR21 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property tax; exemption for flooding remediation, abatement, and resiliency efforts. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a county, city, or town to partially exempt any real estate subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB539 | Pass | Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Removes certain programs from the list of child day programs exempt from licensure and clarifies that such programs are not considered child day programs and therefore are not subject to licensure. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| SB899 | Pass | Property conveyance; Camp 7 parcel located in Clark County. Provides that the Commonwealth shall not convey, sell, or otherwise dispose of certain real property identified as a 65+/- contiguous acre parcel within Clarke County (hereinafter "the Camp ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB108 | Pass | Orders of publication to enforce tax lien; limited-value property. Provides that an order of publication for the enforcement of a lien for taxes owed on real property that has a value of $50,000 or less need be published only once. Under current law,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| SB812 | Pass | Definition of qualified mental health professional. Broadens the definition of "qualified mental health professional" to include employees and independent contractors of the Department of Corrections who by education and experience are professionally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| SB726 | Pass | CBD oil and THC-A oil; certification for use; dispensing. Provides that a practitioner may issue a written certification for the use of cannabidiol (CBD) oil or THC-A oil for the treatment or to alleviate the symptoms of any diagnosed condition or di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB149 | Pass | Smoking in outdoor amphitheater or concert venue; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality, by ordinance, to designate reasonable no-smoking areas within an outdoor amphitheater or concert venue owned by the locality. The bill requires such ordinance t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |
| SJR76 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax; exemption for surviving spouse of a disabled veteran. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the principal residence of the surviving spouse of a disabled military veteran ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB883 | Pass | Income tax; modification for certain companies; grants. Establishes an income tax modification for companies that, from 2018 through 2024, either (i) invest at least $5 million in new capital investment in a qualified locality and create at least 10 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| SB672 | Pass | Health insurance; small employers; self-employed persons. Revises the definition of "small employer" for purposes of health insurance to provide that it includes a self-employed person. The measure also provides that an individual who is the sole sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| SB896 | Pass | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain areas of the Commonwealth; price floor. Establishes a floor on the 2.1 percent sales tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads by requiring that the average distributor pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| SB622 | Pass | Local transportation plan; secondary system road construction program allocation; undergrounding utilities. Provides that if the adopted local transportation plan designates corridors planned to be served by mass transit, a portion of its allocation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB545 | Pass | Court reporters; prohibited actions; civil penalties. Establishes ethical standards and requirements for the provision of court reporting services, including prohibiting providers of court reporting services from (i) entering into contracts for more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| SB995 | Pass | Regulation of outdoor advertising in sight of public highways; exceptions. Provides that signs that are related to public safety, provide directional information, or provide public information may be situated or installed in highway rights-of-way. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| SB922 | Pass | Electric utilities; rates and tariffs. Directs the State Corporation Commission to exclude any debt associated with an electric utility's securitized bonds that are the obligation of non-Virginia jurisdictional customers from the capital structure an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB506 | Pass | Child-caring institutions. Directs the Commissioner of Social Services to issue a license to a facility operated or conducted under the auspices of a religious institution established in 1978 and located in Atkins, Virginia, at the intersection of Pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB536 | Pass | Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP; duty of in-network providers to submit claims. Extends the duty of in-network providers of health care services to submit claims to an insurer for health care provided to an individual covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB273 | Pass | Public schools; instructional time. Requires local school boards to provide (i) a minimum of 680 hours of instructional time to students in elementary school, except for students in half-day kindergarten, in the four academic disciplines of English, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| SB657 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusion of records related to public safety. Excludes from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act information held by the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority that is categorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| SB991 | Pass | Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance; Broadband Advisory Council; expiration. Extends the expiration of the Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance and the Broadband Advisory Council from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| SB851 | Pass | Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act. Creates the Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act to establish procedural guarantees for correctional officers when allegations are made against such officers involving matters that may lead to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| SB796 | Pass | 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 of each legislative branch agency to complete se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| SB28 | Pass | Medical research on dogs and cats; prohibition on use of state funds. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated, granted, or awarded by the Commonwealth by any person or entity, public or private, to directly fund medically unnecessary research cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB983 | Pass | Election precincts not to be changed between certain dates. Prohibits counties, cities, and towns from creating, dividing, abolishing, or consolidating any precincts or otherwise changing the boundaries of any precinct between February 1, 2019, and M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| SB353 | Pass | Property conveyance; Department of Conservation and Recreation; Economic Development Authority of Henrico County; White Oak Technology Park. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convey certain real property adjacent to the Whit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| SB569 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from licensure any person who is performing work directly under the supervision of a licensed contractor and is (i) a student in good sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| SB226 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; veterinarians. Requires veterinarians who dispense controlled substances to report certain information about the animal and the owner of the animal to the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB227 | Pass | New College Institute; powers and duties of board. Requires the board of directors of the New College Institute to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive community colleges to meet specialized noncredit workforce training needs id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| SB636 | Pass | Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives and ensure permanency for children for whom adoption or being returned home are not appropriate p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB587 | Pass | Conveyance of certain property in Caledon State Park. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to quitclaim and release all of its right, title, and interest in an unimproved parcel of land near the southwest corner of Caledon State P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| SB105 | Pass | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| SB394 | Pass | Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman. Establishes the Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman (the Office) within the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The Office's duties include (i) receiving, reviewing, and attem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB930 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited conduct relating to contracts; exceptions; officer or immediate family member of an officer of Marine Resources Commission. Adds an officer or immediate family member of an officer of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| SB103 | Pass | Teacher licensure; reciprocity; spouses of Armed Forces members. Requires the Board of Education to provide for teacher licensure by reciprocity for any spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| SB996 | Pass | Animal shelters; vaccinations; administration of biological products. Authorizes the operator or custodian of a public animal shelter to vaccinate animals that are confined in such shelter to prevent the risk of communicable diseases. The bill also p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| SB971 | Pass | Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Plan. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and adopt an Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement plan and evaluate financing options for Interstate 81 corridor improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
