| SB44 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| SB915 | Engross
Sine Die | Priority Needs Access Program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the Medicaid demonstration project (Project Number 11-W-00297/3) to create the Priority Needs Access Program to (i) increase the income eligibility for adul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Postrelease incarceration for violations of postrelease supervision. Clarifies that when a sentence is imposed upon conviction of a felony that includes an active term of incarceration and the court does not order a suspended term of confinement of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB757 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared state o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1469 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB661 | Engross
Sine Die | First offense assault and battery against a family or household member; enhanced penalty. Provides that the deferral and dismissal of a first offense of assault and battery against a family or household member will be treated as a prior conviction fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB889 | Engross
Sine Die | Tethering of dogs; local ordinance. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to adopt an ordinance restricting the tethering of a dog outdoors. The ordinance may limit the maximum number of hours or the weather conditions during which the dog ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint subcommittee of House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections to review gubernatorial appointments; membership. Provides for the Speaker of the House of Delegates to appoint the five delegates on the joint subcommittee of the House an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| SB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund. Creates the Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund to provide no-interest loans to any locality, school division, or public institution of higher education for energy conservation or efficiency projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB196 | Engross
Sine Die | Extensions of hearings to review findings by local departments of social services related to child abuse or neglect. Provides that a person who appeals a determination by a local department of social services related to child abuse or neglect to a he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB764 | Engross
Sine Die | Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board established. Establishes as an independent advisory board in state government a 13-member Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board, consisting of the President of Virginia Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House |
| SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; membership; Commissioner of Elections. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections (Board) from three members to five members, with representation given to each of the political parties having the highest and ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB571 | Engross
Sine Die | Unlawful consumption, purchase, or possession of alcohol. Clarifies that it is an affirmative defense to a charge of unlawful consumption, purchase, or possession of any alcoholic beverage if the defendant shows that such consumption, purchase, or po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1504 | Engross
Sine Die | Virtual Virginia; enrollment. Requires enrollment in the Virtual Virginia online learning program during the school year to be open, on a space-available basis, to each public high school student in the Commonwealth and each high school student in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1405 | Engross
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; membership; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections (Board) from three members to six members and increases the terms of Board members from four years to six years. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| SB877 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads; membership. Adds four legislative members, two from each house, to the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. The bill provides that nonlegislative members shall have experience in at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1201 | Engross
Sine Die | Health benefit plans offered by foreign health insurers. Authorizes any foreign health insurer to sell individual or group health benefit plans in the Commonwealth if it is approved to sell such plans in the foreign health insurer's domiciliary state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB366 | Engross
Sine Die | Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting to the Department of State Police when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess, transport, and carry a firearm, ammunition for a firearm, or a stun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1262 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of General Services; disposition of surplus motor vehicles. Provides that the Department of General Services shall permit surplus motor vehicles to be donated prior to public sale or auction to Virginia community college educational founda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB771 | Engross
Sine Die | Potomac Aquifer recharge monitoring; advisory board; Potomac Aquifer recharge monitoring; advisory board; laboratory established; SWIFT Project. Creates an advisory board and a laboratory to monitor the effects of the Sustainable Water Infrastructure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1540 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission on Civic Education; sunset; membership. Extends the sunset provision of the Commission on Civic Education from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020. The bill also increases the Commission's membership from 15 to 19 by adding one member of the Hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB769 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Distracted driving; handheld communications device. Provides that any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway while using a handheld personal communications device where such use substantially diverts the driver's attention from the operatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB712 | Engross
Sine Die | Naming highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities. Removes the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (the Board) to name any highway, bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility forming a part of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1516 | Engross
Sine Die | Prostitution-related crimes; minors; penalties. Increases to a Class 6 felony from a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is involved: (i) keeping, residing in, or visiting a bawdy place; (ii) aiding prostitution; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB424 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB685 | Engross
Sine Die | Cybersecurity Student Loan Repayment Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Cybersecurity Student Loan Repayment Grant Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council), whereby renewable gran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1336 | Engross
Sine Die | Spoliation of evidence; jury instruction. Provides that if a party has possession, custody, or control of evidence, as specified in the bill, that such party knows or reasonably should know may be material to pending or probable litigation, and such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB934 | Engross
Sine Die | Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent. Establishes a process for the sheriff or administrator in charge of a local or regional correctional facility to petition a court to authorize medical or mental health trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1580 | Engross
Sine Die | Violation of protective order or stalking; third or subsequent offense; penalty. Expands the offenses for which a conviction of a third or subsequent offense, when the offense is committed within 20 years of the first conviction and when either the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads; membership. Adds three legislative members, two from the House of Delegates and one from the Senate, to the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. The bill provides that nonlegislativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House |
| HB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform; membership. Removes the Speaker of the House of Delegates as a permanent member of the Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform and increases the number of Delegates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| HB1440 | Engross
Sine Die | Schedule I and Schedule II drugs. Adds MT-45 (1-cyclohexyl-4-(1,2-diphenylethyl)piperazine) to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act and Dronabinol [(-)-delta-9-trans tetrahydrocannabinol] in an oral solution in a drug product approved for marketing by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass |
| SB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared state o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-10
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1558 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Provides that, in lieu of the biennial review proceedings previously required, Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) and Appalachian Power (APCo) will be subject to triennial reviews of their rates, terms, and conditions for gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-09
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| SB169 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; robotics team competition program. Requires any nonprofit corporation founded in 1913 that currently organizes and governs interscholastic activities among the public high schools to establish, by July 1, 2021, a varsity level robotic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (18-Y 80-N) |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Provides that any firefighter or person employed as emergency medical services personnel may carry a concealed handgun while engaged in the performance of his offici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (35-Y 62-N) |
| HB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; lot owner rights. Provides lot owners the right to be informed of the count and outcome of a vote on any matter requiring a vote by a property owners' association's membership in proportion to the lot owner'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Zoning violation penalties. Increases the maximum fine for misdemeanor conviction of a zoning violation from $1,000 to $2,000. The bill also increases the maximum fine for failure to remove or abate the zoning violation after conviction from $1,500 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED #2 (48-Y 50-N) |
| HB885 | Engross
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems; authority of the Board of Health. Clarifies that the Board of Health shall have supervision and control over the maintenance, inspection, and reuse of conventional onsite sewage systems as well as alternative onsite sewage syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credits related to education; aggregate cap. Allocates 20 percent of any unissued credits in a fiscal year under the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credit program to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to be allocated to education pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB423 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; sexual orientation and gender identity. Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill defines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Net energy metering; eligibility limits. Increases the cap on the amount of capacity a renewable electric generating facility in an area served by an investor-owned electric utility may have and remain eligible to participate in the net energy meteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Combined sewer overflow systems discharges; report. Requires the State Water Control Board, every two years beginning on July 1, 2019, to provide a summary report on discharges during the previous two years from combined sewer overflow systems locate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Tethering animals; adequate shelter and space. Provides that outdoor tethering of a companion animal shall not meet the requirement that an animal be given adequate shelter, unless the animal is actively engaged in an agricultural or hunting activity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB917 | Engross
Sine Die | Handheld photo speed monitoring devices. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may operate a handheld photo speed monitoring device, defined in the bill, in or around a school crossing zone for the purpose of recording images of vehicles that are t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Handheld photo speed monitoring devices. Provides that the Department of State Police may operate a handheld photo speed monitoring device, defined in the bill, in or around a highway work zone for the purpose of recording images of vehicles that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB895 | Engross
Sine Die | Punitive damages cap. Raises the punitive damages cap from $350,000 to $500,000 for any action accruing on or after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
