| SR24 | Pass | Commending Sonnie P. Penn Elementary School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR24ER) |
| HJR183 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nellie Jane Hinderman McLeod.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ183ER) |
| HJR177 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ177ER) |
| HJR166 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph C. Stiles, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ166ER) |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Doctorate of medical science; licensure and practice. Establishes requirements for licensure and practice as a doctorate of medical science. The bill provides that it is unlawful to practice as a doctorate of medical science unless licensed by the Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HJR161 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Faye Delores Watford Mitchell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ161ER) |
| SR23 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Father Gerard Creedon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR23ER) |
| HJR184 | Pass | Commending idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis researchers and clinicians in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ184ER) |
| HJR182 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Buckner Gamby, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ182ER) |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional teacher licensure; grace period. Allows an individual who seeks a provisional teacher license to satisfy certain licensure requirements, such as demonstrating proficiency in the use of educational technology for instruction and completing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; exception. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to accept, review, and issue a certificate of public need for the establishment of a new ambulatory surgery center located in Planning District 23 that will provide ortho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HJR173 | Pass | Commending Melanie Kelly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ173ER) |
| SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable Gaming Board; Texas Hold'em poker events. Allows a qualified organization to conduct Texas Hold'em poker events in conjunction with its charitable gaming activities. The conditions under which a qualified organization may manage, operate o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HJR162 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Mary Louise Esherick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ162ER) |
| HJR61 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, USN.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ61ER) |
| HJR163 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ163ER) |
| HJR164 | Pass | Commending Bay Aging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ164ER) |
| HJR150 | Pass | Commending the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ150ER) |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; NO BULLY ZONE. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for members and supporters of the Parents Against Bullying organization bearing the legend NO BULLY ZONE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal combustion residuals unit; closure. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to require the closure of any coal combustion residuals (CCR) surface impoundment located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The bill requires that such closure in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulations regarding breweries, wineries, and distilleries and the Specific Travel Services (Logo) Signing program. Directs the Department of Transportation to amend its regulations to exempt breweries, wineries, and distilleries from the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Citizen water quality monitoring; use as evidence in enforcement actions. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to use certain results of citizen water quality testing as evidence in enforcement actions. Such evidence is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permit; expiration date. Extends from five to 15 years the validity of a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fee increases; public comment. Prohibits the governing board of each public institution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees without providing s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 3-N) |
| HB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Sewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria; ammonia. Directs the State Water Control Board not to adopt certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) freshwater ammonia water quality criteria (the Criteria) until all other states in EP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Relocation of certain billboard signs. Provides that a lawfully erected billboard sign may be relocated whenever such billboard sign is affected by the construction of a pedestrian bridge. The bill requires the Department of Transportation to place a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Local ability to pay; certain counties. Requires that the composite index of local ability to pay for any county within which there is a school division composed of a town be calculated as if there were no such school division composed of a town with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exemptions; courts of record; courts not of record; the Office of the Executive Secretary. Exempts the judiciary, including courts of record, courts not of record, and the Office of the Executive Secretary of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report if the consumer has not previously requested the placement of a security freeze from the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal ash ponds; flaws in closure plans; delay of permit. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Director) to delay the issuance of a permit for the closure of a coal ash pond if the Department of Environmental Quality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; I SUPPORT WOMEN VETERANS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of Virginia women veterans bearing the legend I SUPPORT WOMEN VETERANS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SJR35 | Intro
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] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal ash ponds; mandatory testing of drinking water wells. Requires the owner or operator of any coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that is closed by capping in place to complete a survey of all drinking water wells within one mile of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide prioritization process project selection. Requires the total cost of a transportation project to be considered in evaluating projects under the statewide prioritization process. The bill requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to eva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Release of seized property; petition to stay release. Provides that any property seized shall be released to the owner or lienholder within one year from the date of seizure unless an information has been filed against the property or the attorney fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1557 | Intro
Sine Die | Intangible personal property; personal property used in manufacturing. Clarifies that personal property used directly in manufacturing in the locality in which the tax is assessed is classified as intangible personal property. Current law does not re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; recovery of costs associated with closure in place of coal ash facilities. Directs that in a biennial review of an investor-owned electric utility by the State Corporation Commission, any costs incurred by an investor-owned electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Payment of wages. Removes the exemptions that exclude newsboys, shoe shine boys, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, and theater cashiers from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act (Act). The Act's exclusion for babysitters is limited to those not employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; failure of employing Unemployment compensation; failure of employing unit to furnish reports; penalty. Provides that an employing unit that willfully fails or refuses to furnish a report required by the Unemployment Compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; THE AMERICAN LEGION. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for members and supporters of The American Legion bearing the legend THE AMERICAN LEGION.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; student discipline. Prohibits students in preschool through grade three from being suspended or expelled except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, or certain criminal acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Education (12-Y 10-N) |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary manslaughter; death of a fetus; penalty. Provides that any person who, as a result of driving under the influence, causes the death of the fetus of another is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The bill provides that if such person's con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
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, eligible to attend, or attending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (11-Y 11-N) |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases from 17 to 19 the membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) by requiring that one member be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts instead of, under curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Expert witnesses; government officer and employees; fees. Provides that no officer or employee of the Commonwealth or of any locality or political subdivision thereof who is called to testify as an expert witness shall charge a fee for providing such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes; fees. Prohibits a credit reporting agency from requiring a consumer to pay a fee to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report. Currently, a consumer may be required to pay a fee of no more than $10 to place a security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; Transitional Rate Period; coal combustion residuals landfills. Shortens the duration of the Transitional Rate Period (Period) for any Phase II Utility. The measure provides that the Period ends December 31, 2017, which is the date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Equal pay irrespective of sex. Amends the existing law requiring equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex to (i) prohibit unequal provision of benefits and privileges on the basis of sex; (ii) prohibit employers from punishing employees for shari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
