| SB980 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a statewide e-filing system for civil case filings. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, beginning July 1, 2019, no petition, pleading, motion, order, or decree filed in a civil case in a circuit court, including any agreement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB777 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of certain offenses, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea, or who was adjudicated delinquent upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB454 | Engross
Sine Die | Inoperable vehicles; James City County. Authorizes James City County to prohibit any person from keeping, unless shielded or screened from view, on any property zoned or used for residential purposes, or on any property zoned for commercial or agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 52-N) |
| HB622 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offenses prohibiting entry onto school property; penalty. Provides that an adult who has been convicted of any felony offense for which registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required where the victim of the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender; bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases to a Class 6 felony from a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for an owner or employee of a bail bond company that posted bond for a person to carnally know such perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the minimum liability coverage amount from $20,000 to $50,000 for injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident. The bill applies to motor vehicle insurance policies is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1606 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Eliminates the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB338 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicaid; work requirement; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to apply for a waiver to implement a work requirement for able-bodied adult recipients of medical assistance services. The bill requires the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB611 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; exception. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner (Commissioner) to accept and review applications and issue a certificate of public need for new neonatal care services in Planning District 5, provided that certain condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB541 | Engross
Sine Die | Alternative treatment options for certain veterans; report. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to consider the efficacy of alternative treatments available for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder and rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1320 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; division-level performance assessments; resource guide. Requires the Department of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division a resource guide on the local development and implementation of performance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HJR19 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Continues for one additional year the Joint Committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Required local effort for basic aid; debt service on projects in certain school divisions. Permits any local school board that governs a school division (i) in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or fiscally distressed by the Appalac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB246 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Code Commission; duties. Limits the duties of the Virginia Code Commission relating to the codification of laws enacted by the General Assembly to codifying only those laws for which the General Assembly has expressed its intent for such law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR137 | Engross
Sine Die | Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Charles C. Green et al. v. County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia et al.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB1210 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-election audits. Defines "post-election audit" to mean a process conducted after an election to confirm the accurate reporting of the results of the election and directs the State Board of Elections to establish a work group tasked with developi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase or prescription of drugs and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1414 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license to hunt bear, deer, and turkey; fee. Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create a special license for hunting bear, deer, and turkey, to cost $23 for a resident age 16 or older and $150 for a nonresident age 16 or older....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 9-N) |
| HJR41 | Engross
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] | 2018-02-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 9-N) |
| SB654 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Health Club Act; automated external defibrillator required in health clubs. Requires each health club location to have a working automated external defibrillator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Health, Welfare and Institutions (11-Y 9-N) |
| HB692 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing; composite index. Requires the Department of Taxation's calculation of true values as applied to the Commonwealth's composite index of local ability-to-pay to take into account an arrangeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB427 | Engross
Sine Die | Filling vacancies in the United States Senate. Removes the language limiting the date at which a special election can be held to fill a vacancy occurring in the representation of the Commonwealth in the United States Senate. Currently, when such a va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 0-N) |
| HB362 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; definition of "law-enforcement officer"; security division of the Virginia Lottery. Removes from the definition of law-enforcement officer, as it applies to an investigator who is a sworn member of the securit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1541 | Engross
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] | 2018-02-27
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| HB734 | Engross
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] | 2018-02-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 9-N) |
| SB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Expands the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits program by including, as eligible scholarship recipients, children enrolled in or attending nonpublic pre-kinderg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (11-Y 11-N) |
| SB583 | Engross
Sine Die | Western Virginia Transportation Fund; revenues. Creates the Western Virginia Transportation Fund (Fund), to be used by the West Virginian Transportation Commission, also created by the bill, to fund transportation projects in Planning Districts 1, 2,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1252 | Engross
Sine Die | Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Requires Kentucky Utilities (KU) to establish a pilot program for certain third party power purchase agreements. The measure provides that participation in the service territories of KU and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB277 | Engross
Sine Die | Guardians ad litem for children; report requirements; certification form. Requires guardians ad litem appointed to represent a child in a matter to conduct an investigation in compliance with certain standards. The bill further requires the guardian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Committee on District Courts; membership. Reduces from two to one the number of senators appointed to the Committee on District Courts (the Committee) and provides for the Speaker of the House of Delegates to appoint the two delegates on the Committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB672 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspension of license for unsatisfied judgments and after certain accidents. Repeals the suspension of license requirement for unsatisfied judgments and after certain accidents. The bill further provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Mot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1280 | Engross
Sine Die | Application for public assistance; eligibility; review of records. Requires entities processing applications for medical assistance and other public assistance to conduct a review of death records and records relating to incarceration status, employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB136 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses. Allows annual mixed beverage special events licenses to be issued to localities for use at special events conducted on the premises of a museum for historic interpretation tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 4-N 2-A) |
| HB675 | Engross
Sine Die | Onsite treatment works; effluent quality standards and maintenance requirements. Directs the Board of Health to publish a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action for the regulations for alternative onsite sewage systems no later than October 1, 2018, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB330 | Engross
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary school students; topical sunscreen. Permits any public elementary or secondary school student to possess and use unscented topical sunscreen in its original packaging on a school bus, on school property, or at a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; educational programs. Requires educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to include presentations relating to (i) board members' primary duty ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB676 | Engross
Sine Die | Children who are deaf or hard of hearing; services; advisory subcommittee. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that each child who is deaf or hard of hearing is (i) as linguistically ready for kindergarten as his peers who are not deaf or hard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB900 | Engross
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 person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N) |
| HB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; state parks. Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks. The bill authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to retain up to 15 percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 3-N) |
| HB1473 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fee increases; notice and public comment. Prohibits the governing board of each public institution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (7-Y 6-N) |
| HB1033 | Engross
Sine Die | Deemed consent to testing of bodily fluids. Allows a magistrate or a general district court to issue an order requiring a person to provide a blood specimen for testing for human immunodeficiency virus or the hepatitis B or C virus when exposure to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1325 | Engross
Sine Die | Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts. Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Turns in certain residential areas in certain counties; resident stickers. Allows counties that operate under the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) by ordinance to develop a program to issue permits to residents of a designat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1424 | Engross
Sine Die | Recounts; number permitted; tie votes. Provides that if, after a recount of an election, the recount court finds that each party to the recount has received an equal number of votes, it shall direct a determination by lot, but that no right to a reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB266 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; exception. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner (Commissioner) to accept and review applications and issue a certificate of public need for new neonatal care services in Planning District 5, new ambulatory surgery cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Health, Welfare and Institutions (16-Y 6-N) |
| HB1015 | Engross
Sine Die | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury investigations. Expands the purview of multi-jurisdiction grand juries to allow the investigation of any criminal violation of Virginia law punishable as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
Defeated by Senate (8-Y 32-N) |
| HB634 | Engross
Sine Die | Two-way video testimony; reports by Chief Medical Examiner. Provides that any testimony offered by either party in a preliminary hearing or sentencing hearing, or offered by the accused in any hearing other than a trial, from the Chief Medical Examin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB88 | Engross
Sine Die | Marijuana field test; evidence at trial. Provides that a law-enforcement officer is permitted to testify as to the results of any field test approved by the Department of Forensic Science regarding whether or not any plant material is marijuana in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB745 | Engross
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] | 2018-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB79 | Engross
Sine Die | Dog boarding establishments; group play requirements; notice; penalties. Requires an employee of a dog boarding establishment to be present at all times that a dog is able to have physical contact with another dog. The bill limits the number of dogs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
