| SB772 | Pass | Claims; Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice. Provides for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice, also known as the Norfolk Four, who were ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| SB407 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemption for the Division of Capitol Police. Exempts personal information systems maintained by the Division of Capitol Police that deal with investigations and intelligence gathering relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| SB489 | Pass | Capitol Square Preservation Council. Changes the title of the chief officer of the Capitol Square Preservation Council from the Executive Director to the Chief Administrative Officer and authorizes the Council to enter into partnerships, joint ventur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| SB153 | Pass | Elections; form of ballot; order of independent candidates. Defines "time of filing for the office" for purposes of determining the order on the ballot of independent candidates as the time at which the candidate has filed his petition signature page...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SB76 | Pass | Teacher licensure; approval of teacher education programs. Specifies that for the purpose of Board of Education regulations for the approval of teacher education programs, the term "education preparation program" includes four-year bachelor's degree ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| SB101 | Pass | Family life education curricula. Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual harassment usin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB386 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; SWaM program; participation of service disabled veteran-owned businesses. Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to service disabled veteran-owned businesses shall be credited toward the small business, wome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB124 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB379 | Pass | 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] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| SB51 | Pass | Income withholding orders. Repeals the requirement, enacted in 1993, that an employer request that each new employee disclose whether the employee has an income withholding order. This requirement has been superseded in practice by requirements that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB315 | Pass | Hearing aid specialists; exemptions for the sale of hearing aids. Allows licensed audiologists who have earned a doctoral degree in audiology to obtain a license to engage in the practice of fitting or dealing in hearing aids without the prerequisite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| SB198 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries and graves; Portsmouth. Adds the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in the City of Portsmouth, with 266 eligible gravesites, to the list of historical African American cemeteries for which qualifying charitable organizations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| SB258 | Pass | Department of Health Professions; subpoenas. Provides that a subpoena issued by the Director of the Department of Health Professions or his designee may be delivered by (i) any person authorized to serve process under ?§8.01-293, (ii) investigat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| SB821 | Pass | New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority; annual contributions. Authorizes the Board of the New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority to develop an allocation formula to determine each participating political su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| SB137 | Pass | Notification of local appropriation to acquire property rights; Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field. Requires that the member of the House of Delegates and the member of the Senate of Virginia representing the area in which the Fentress Naval Auxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| SB535 | Pass | Personal injury claim; disclosure of insurance policy limits. Provides that in a civil action for personal injuries sustained from a motor vehicle accident, regardless of the amount of losses sustained by an injured person, an insurance company shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| SB20 | Pass | Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| SB171 | Pass | Henrietta Lacks Commission; report; sunset. Creates the Henrietta Lacks Commission to establish through a public-private partnership the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center in Halifax County as a cancer research and treatment center designed to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| SB211 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; groundwater and surface water. Authorizes a locality to show in the locality's comprehensive plan the locality's long-range recommendations for groundwater and surface water availability, quality, and sustainability. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB14 | Pass | Service of process on county attorney. Removes the requirement that in an action against a supervisor, county officer, employee, or agent of the county, each member of the county board be served; instead, only the county attorney, or the clerk of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| SB57 | Pass | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer. Relocates the existing section prohibiting fleeing from a law-enforcement officer to a more logical location with prohibitions for obstructing justice and resisting arrest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| SB71 | Pass | Service of process on domestic limited liability company. Extends to domestic limited liability companies the rules for service of process on a domestic corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| SB95 | Pass | Security freezes for protected consumers. Provides that sufficient proof of authority for a person to place a security freeze for a protected consumer includes a birth certification or a written, notarized statement signed by a representative that ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB78 | Pass | Trust decanting; authorized fiduciary. Reinstates the restriction in Virginia's former trust decanting law that limits the type of fiduciary who may exercise the decanting power to a disinterested trustee. The bill also reinstates the former provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| SB374 | Pass | Cattle Industry Board; assessment from sale of cattle. Renames the Beef Industry Council as the Cattle Industry Board (the Board) and renames the Virginia Beef Industry Fund as the Virginia Cattle Industry Fund (the Fund). The bill simplifies the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| SB186 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft by a locality; search warrant; exception. Authorizes a state or local government department, agency, or instrumentality having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations to utilize an unmanned aircraft syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| SB900 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption for surviving spouses of certain disabled veterans. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, election to approve or reject an amendment to the real property tax exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| SB601 | Pass | Trespass towing. Exempts Planning District 16 (George Washington) from any requirement by a towing advisory board for written authorization, in addition to a written contract, in the event that a vehicle is being removed from private property. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| SB884 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control. Increases the alcoholic beverage general license application fee from $65 to $195. The bill also increases the application fee for mixed beverage special event licenses from $15 to $45 and increases the state tax on wine s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| SB152 | Pass | Assistants to general registrars; full-time status. Clarifies that when determining the number of assistant registrars to serve in the office of the general registrar, the electoral board may include any to serve full-time. Currently, Russell County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB347 | Pass | Statewide cancer registry; information on firefighters. Provides that one purpose of the statewide cancer registry shall be to collect data to evaluate potential links between exposure to fire incidents and cancer incidence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB305 | Pass | 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] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| SB298 | Pass | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; deadline extensions. Clarifies that the authority of the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council (Council) to grant extensions from the deadline for filing disclosure forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| SB210 | Pass | Virginia State Bar; Clients' Protection Fund; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023, the sunset provision on the Supreme Court's authority to adopt rules assessing members of the Virginia State Bar an annual fee of up to $25 to be deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB130 | Pass | Elections; removal and revision of obsolete provisions. Repeals and revises several obsolete elections-related statutes. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| SB332 | Pass | Retail sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions. Amends the existing exemption from sales tax for agricultural produce and eggs sold at a farmers market or roadside stand. Currently, the exemption applies only if the individual selling the produce ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| SB128 | Pass | TNC partner vehicles; interior trade dress. Provides that transportation network company (TNC) partner vehicles may be equipped with certain removable illuminated interior trade dress devices that assist passengers in identifying and communicating wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| SB882 | Pass | Prescription refill; approval. Provides that a prescriber may authorize a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to approve additional refills of a prescribed drug for no more than 90 consecutive days, provided that (i) the drug is classified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| SB388 | Pass | Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; board of directors. Increases the minimum number of members of the board of directors of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association from five to nine an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| SB271 | Pass | Notification of tax return data breach. Requires paid income tax return preparers to notify the Department of Taxation within a reasonable time period if they discover that an unauthorized person has accessed a taxpayer's return information. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| SB918 | Pass | Professional and occupational regulation; authority to suspend or revoke licenses, certificates, registrations, or permits; default or delinquency of education loan or scholarship. Provides that the Board of Education, the Board of Accountancy, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB946 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts; audits. Eliminates a requirement that the Auditor of Public Accounts audit certain entities annually. The bill provides for the Auditor to perform an audit for these entities as the Auditor determines necessary. This bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| SB492 | Pass | Towing; fees. Increases the maximum hookup and towing fee for passenger vehicles from $135 to $150. The bill contains a technical amendment. This bill is identical to HB 800.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| SB176 | Pass | Life insurance; claims of creditors. Repeals a provision that excludes, from the protections from claims of creditors that are afforded life insurance policies and annuities, the cash surrender or loan value of a policy under which the right to chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB831 | Pass | Practice of funeral services; sale of certain items. Provides that when arrangements for funeral services have been made by a licensed funeral service establishment, funeral service licensees shall accept caskets provided by third parties in accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| SB560 | Pass | Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services. Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to administer Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services to assist individuals with disa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| SB594 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Provides that the Middleburg town council may, notwithstanding any other provision of law, levy a tax on business personal property, as described in the Code of Virginia, without regard to the existence of, or rate of, ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| SB573 | Pass | Green job creation tax credit; extends sunset provision. Extends through taxable year 2020 the sunset date for the green job creation tax credit. Under current law, the credit expires for taxable years beginning on January 1, 2018. This bill is ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB16 | Pass | Security freezes; fees. Reduces the maximum amount that a credit reporting agency may charge to place, remove, or lift a security freeze on a consumer's credit report from $10 to $5. This bill is identical to HB 1027 and incorporates SB 18, SB 22, SB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB451 | Pass | Local government; authority to require abatement of criminal blight on real property. Authorizes any locality to enact an ordinance that requires corrective action to address criminal blight conditions on certain real property. The bill defines crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
