| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2, 2018 Special Session I Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1788 | Intro
Sine Die | City of Virginia Beach; sports or entertainment project. Grants the City of Virginia Beach certain powers relating to construction of a sports or entertainment project and any related facilities. Among those powers is the authority to (i) issue bonds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| SB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Carnal knowledge; bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender by an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pretria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against a family or household member; enhanced penalty. Reduces from two prior convictions to one prior conviction the required number of prior convictions of assault and battery against a family or household member before the Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1620 | Intro
Sine Die | Violation of provisions of protective orders; entering the lands, buildings, or premises owned or leased by protected party prohibited; penalties. Provides that any person subject to a protective order who enters the lands, buildings, or premises own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1603 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking; prevention and awareness; offenses Human trafficking; prevention and awareness; offenses related to prostitution and human trafficking; penalties. Provides that any person who commits an act of aiding prostitution or illicit sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1504 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of federal law-enforcement officers; penalty. Adds to the definition of law-enforcement officer for purposes of the crime of assault and battery any special agent or law-enforcement officer of the United States Department of Justi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1743 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal ash management. Prohibits the construction of any Coal ash management. Prohibits the construction of any landfill or impoundment for the storage of coal combustion residuals located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, defined in the bill as a CCR u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Paramilitary activities; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity if such person assembles with another person with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person who is subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) for subjecting another person to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animals; care; local ordinances. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance that parallels and makes more stringent the state law regarding the care of companion animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Trigger activators designed to increase the rate of fire of firearms; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, which includes a trigger crank ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1508 | Intro
Sine Die | Obstruction of justice; concealing evidence of an abduction; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person with actual knowledge of the commission by another of any felony offense to knowingly and willfully make any materially false statemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation of prosecutions; misdemeanor sex offenses against minors. Extends the statute of limitations period for prosecuting certain misdemeanor sex offenses where the victim is a minor at the time of the offense to 20 years after the victim reache...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Aggravated sexual battery by false representation or subterfuge; penalty. Provides that any person who sexually abuses another person by false representation or subterfuge that is part of a massage, medical procedure, or physical therapy is guilty of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1688 | Intro
Sine Die | Disorderly conduct; students. Provides that a student at any elementary or secondary school shall not be guilty of disorderly conduct in public places if the disorderly conduct occurred on school property or a school bus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1726 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of mail voter registration application forms; certain public and private institutions of higher education. Requires the Department of Elections to provide a reasonable number of mail voter registration application forms to public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; task force; cyber centers of excellence. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint members to a task force for the purpose of establishing a program and standards for the designation of any public middle s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | Timber sales; theft; accounting; penalty. Provides that a person who buys and removes timber from a landowner's property is guilty of larceny if he fails to pay the landowner by the date specified in their agreement, or if there is no written agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1680 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill (i) removes specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotripsy, magne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2116 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of the remains of a decedent; right to control. Establishes a priority order for the right to control the disposition of the remains of a decedent; the location, manner, and condition of disposition; and the arrangements for funeral goods...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric, terminally ill, or permanently physically disabled prisoners. Provides that any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, who is terminally ill as defined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2397 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1824 | Intro
Sine Die | Sick leave for state employees; certain disabled veterans. Provides an additional 96 hours of sick leave to disabled veterans, defined in the bill as veterans with a disability rating by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of at least 60 percent,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2476 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fees. Declares the governing board of any public institution of higher education for which the average increase in the amount of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees over the most rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2603 | Intro
Sine Die | Apprenticeship program; discrimination. Prohibits a sponsor of a registered apprenticeship program from discriminating against an apprentice or applicant for apprenticeship on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2203 | Intro
Sine Die | Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal history background checks; repeal sunset and contingency expiration. Repeals the sunset and contingency expiration of the requirement that the following individuals undergo fingerprint-based national c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Local enterprise zone; traffic plan. Requires that, upon petition of a locality that has adopted a local enterprise zone development taxation program, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Virginia Economic Development Partnershi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; Advisory Council. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (the Department) to create a Wildlife Corridor Action Plan (the Plan) that assesses the connections between core habitat areas, lists potential proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | My Virginia Plan Program; multiple employer plan for My Virginia Plan Program; multiple employer plan for private employers and their employees. Establishes the My Virginia Plan Board (the Board) and directs the Board to create the My Virginia Plan P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2695 | Intro
Sine Die | Crime victim rights; definition of victim. Expands the definition of "victim," for purposes of the Crime Victim and Witness Rights Act (§19.2-11.01 et seq.), to include (i) a person who has suffered physical, psychological, or economic harm as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance rate reviews; minimum anticipated loss ratios; pharmacy benefit price spread. Requires the State Corporation Commission (Commission) to treat the price spread on any contract between the issuer of a health benefit plan and its pharma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1903 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissemination of criminal history record information; limitations. Limits the criminal history information that the Central Criminal Records Exchange, or the criminal justice agency in cases of offenses not required to be reported to the Exchange, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2162 | Intro
Sine Die | Kinship foster care; notice; family assessments. Requires local boards of social services, when identifying foster care placement options, to (i) determine whether the child has any relatives who may be eligible to become a kinship foster parent, (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2330 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental Justice Advisory Council established; consideration for environmental justice. Establishes the Environmental Justice Advisory Council (the Council), consisting of 19 members, to advise the Governor on environmental justice in the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1875 | Intro
Sine Die | Official emblems and designations; state soft drink. Designates Northern Neck Ginger Ale as the official soft drink of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Rainwater harvesting; water for human consumption. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing rainwater harvesting systems a provision recognizing rainwater harvesting systems that produce water that meets minimum health and aes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses; combined annual mixed beverage special events and mixed beverage caterer's licenses; agritourism resorts. Allows "agritourism resorts," as defined in the bill, to obtain annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1781 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle safety inspections; maximum charges. Increases from $12 to $15 the maximum amount a safety inspection station can charge for an inspection of a motorcycle and increases from $16 to $25 the maximum amount a safety inspection station can charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2010 | Intro
Sine Die | Using flame producing instrument or device with intent to intimidate; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, uses any flame producing torch or other flame producing instrument or device ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2334 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; enforcement; authority of investigators. Provides that any complaint alleging an act or omission of a regulant that is within the jurisdiction of any regulatory board under the Department of Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; FOIA Ombudsman; powers and duties; report. Requires the Attorney General to appoint a Virginia Freedom of Information Act Ombudsman (Ombudsman) to promote compliance by state agencies with the provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers of Real Estate Board; active duty military spouses; license reciprocity. Requires the Real Estate Board to issue a real estate license to any applicant whose spouse is the subject of a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2495 | Intro
Sine Die | Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months. Prohibits localities from spraying pesticides intended to suppress an infestation of the fall cankerworm during the period between March 1 and August 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2697 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens the period that a utility's customer who switches from an investor-owned electric utility to a licensed competing supplier is barred from returning as a customer of its utility from five years to 90 da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; disclosure of landlord and tenant remedies. Requires a landlord or managing agent to provide to each tenant, on or before the date that the rental agreement is to commence, a clear and conspicuous written...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Bank franchise tax credit for student loan refinancing. Provides a credit against the bank franchise tax starting in taxable year 2019 in the amount of 20 percent of a bank's student loan refinancing expenses. The bill defines eligible expenses to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; free exercise of religion on campus. Provides that, except as otherwise permitted by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, no public institution of higher education shall p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2759 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; electronic peer-to-peer motor vehicle rental services; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Taxation, to convene a work group to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
