| HB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1984 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal holidays; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR724 | Intro
Sine Die | Green New Deal; Recognizing the need for a Green New Deal in Virginia which promotes a Just Transition to a clean energy economy through lifting working families. States that the General Assembly supports the movement Green New Deal Virginia, focused...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1672 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for paid leave for organ donors. Establishes a tax credit, for taxable years 2019 through 2023, of 35 percent of an employer's expenses in providing paid leave to an employee for the purpose of making an organ donation. The credit i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1775 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective services for adults by local departments of social services; multidisciplinary teams. Allows local departments of social services to foster, when practicable, the creation, maintenance, and coordination of hospital and community-based mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | Background checks; persons providing care for elderly or disabled. Allows any person who provides or seeks to provide unsupervised care or assistance to an elderly or disabled person to request a national fingerprint criminal background check on hims...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | High school STEM internship tax credit; report. Creates a tax credit for a business that hosts a junior or senior in a Richmond City Schools high school as an intern in a STEM or high-demand field for a semester during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; conformity; increase in standard deduction; refundable income tax credit for low-income taxpayers; Revenue Stabilization Fund. Advances the Commonwealth's conformity with federal tax law to December 31, 2018, starting with taxable year 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpayment of wages; private action. Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages. The measure provides that if the court finds that the employer knowingly failed to pay the wages, it shall also a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting information for persons incarcerated in local correctional facilities. Provides that the Board of Corrections shall make, adopt, and promulgate rules and regulations regarding the provision of information on absentee voting to all persons conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2407 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent foster care; eligibility. Allows local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to place in permanent foster care, pursuant to a court order, a child who is 14 years of age or older but less than 16 years of age an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HJR672 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation arrangements; best interests of the child; domestic abuse; child abuse. Requires the court to consider domestic abuse, defined in the bill, and child abuse in addition to, under current law, family abuse and sexual abuse when d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who negligently leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed or voluntarily registered family day homes; storage of firearms. Requires that firearms, other weapons, and ammunition in a licensed or voluntarily registered family day home be stored in a locked closet, cabinet, or container during the fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies the licensing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | Recounts; procedure for certain ballots. Requires recount officials to segregate all ballots for which there is a question regarding the ballot's validity prior to beginning the redetermination of the vote in another precinct. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR583 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitution of the United States; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2373 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 years of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR669 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; Glass-Steagall Act; infrastructure bank. Urges the Congress of the United States to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act and develop an infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious and charitable matters; charitable or civic organization contracts; report. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to submit an annual written report to the Governor and the General Assembly, by October 1 of each yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; codification of ordinances; affirmative defense. Requires each locality to codify all ordinances, in permanently bound or loose-leaf form or in an online format so as to be easily accessed by other governmental entities and the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; statute of limitations on actions on construction contracts; statute of limitations on actions on performance bonds. Provides that no action may be brought by a public body on any construction contract, including cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR636 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Social Services; creation of database and resource to obtain background information on personal caregivers; report. Requests the Department of Social Services to study the feasibility and cost of creating a database and resource ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Expands the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits program by including, as eligible scholarship recipients, childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission to conduct annual proceedings to determine if Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power are making satisfactory efforts to meet object...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Safety Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of certain children who are victims of bullying, certain crimes, and certain other violent acts to apply to the school division in which the child resides for a one-year, renewable Child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1789 | Intro
Sine Die | Railroads; crew size; civil penalty. Requires a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of railroad freight in the Commonwealth to operate with a crew of at least two individuals, unless such movement involves hostler service or ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety belt system use in motor vehicles. Requires all occupants of motor vehicles to utilize a safety belt system. Current law requires the use of safety belts only by (i) occupants under the age of 18, (ii) drivers, and (iii) passengers 18 years of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpayment of wages; discriminatory actions prohibited. Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric cooperatives; rates. Authorizes any electric cooperative to (i) increase or decrease its rates without State Corporation Commission approval for any of its services, rather than only for distribution services, at any time if such adjustments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR629 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study reduction or elimination of tolls on Midtown and Downtown Tunnels in Hampton Roads; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of reducing or eliminating tolls on the Midtown and D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1999 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Emergency Management; responsibilities of Department of Emergency Management; responsibilities of political subdivisions; provision of emergency preparedness information to individuals with limited English proficiency, disabilities, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1684 | Intro
Sine Die | Waiver of extradition; bail. Requires a judge to revoke the bail of any person who waives extradition proceedings in writing and remand such person to custody to await transfer to the demanding state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Local departments of social services; bonuses. Allows local departments of social services to provide for the payment of monetary bonuses to their officers and employees upon the approval of the local board of social services. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1692 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance; determination of income; personal needs allowance. Provides that, when determining the income of a recipient of medical assistance services who is receiving long-term care in a medical institution or intermediate care facility, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorized skateboards or foot-scooters; operation; local authority. Authorizes localities to prohibit or regulate the operation of companies providing motorized skateboards or foot-scooters for hire. The bill authorizes localities to regulate certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Landfills; waste disposal fee; Greenhouse Gas Fund. Requires any person owning or operating a permitted solid waste management facility to collect from each person disposing waste at such facility a fee of $1 for every 500 pounds of waste, or fractio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2658 | Intro
Sine Die | Stationary blinds in the public waters; minimum distance from shore. Provides that no stake or stationary waterfowl blind that is erected in the public waters be located less than 150 yards from a riparian owner's shoreline at the mean low water mark...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines; (ii) in the permitting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons and others; notification of relatives. Prohibits a guardian of an incapacitated person from prohibiting or restricting such incapacita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; act of domestic terrorism enhancement. Provides that in addition to any increase in the midpoint of an initial recommended sentencing range already calculated for a defendant's criminal history, a defenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1886 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Compact on Washington Area Professional Football Team Franchise Facility Incentives. Establishes an interstate compact among the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia (the party states) that prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; erroneous benefits estimate; adjustment for certain members. Provides that certain members of the Virginia Retirement System who retire early, if such members relied on an erroneously high estimate of benefits in their dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary election and May general election. Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas or oil drilling units; escrowed proceeds; Coalfield Region Elderly Assistance Fund; Coalfield Region Tourism Fund. Provides that proceeds of certain gas or oil wells, escrowed because the owner's identity and location remain unknown, shall be pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Inquiry and report of immigration status; persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes; certain victims or witnesses of crimes. Removes provisions requiring (i) jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmate taken into custody at a j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1793 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; lock-down drills; notice to parents. Requires every public school to provide the parents of enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the school conducts any lock-down drill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate 81 Corridor Transportation Commission; funding. Creates the Interstate 81 Corridor Transportation Commission, embracing the localities located in Planning Districts 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The Commission would be responsible for allocating any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
