| SB5066 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, and health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB5121 | Intro
Sine Die | Persons who may celebrate rites of marriage; members of the General Assembly. Authorizes any current member of the General Assembly to celebrate the rites of marriage anywhere in the Commonwealth without the necessity of bond or order of authorizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB5053 | Intro
Sine Die | Burning cross on property of another or public place with intent to intimidate; penalty. Increases the penalty for burning a cross on the property of another or public place with intent to intimidate from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SR552 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a provision to recess during the 2020 Special Session I of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB5051 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary prohibition against landlord termination of rental agreements or actions to obtain possession of a dwelling unit under certain circumstances. Prohibits the termination of rental agreements and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SR563 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Christina Mapes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR564 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Honorable Janine M. Saxe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB5011 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspection program. Abolishes the state motor vehicle safety inspection program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB5064 | Intro
Sine Die | Employers; reporting outbreaks of COVID-19. Requires employers to report for each worksite with 30 or more employees, or for any multi-employer worksite with 30 or more combined employees, to the local health department when the worksite has had five...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB5028 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; State Board of Health; emergency orders and regulations; authority over public and private elementary and secondary schools. Prohibits the Governor from issuing any rule, regulation, or order pursuant to his power...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB5041 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence; effective date. Amends the delayed enactment clause for Chapter 390 and the delayed enactment clause for Chapter 1130 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020 so that the provisions of such chapters will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB5088 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Changes from five to 14 days the amount of time that landlords who own four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| SB5003 | Engross
Sine Die | Commission on Civil Rights and Policing established; report. Establishes the Commission on Civil Rights and Policing for the purpose of reviewing civil justice, civil liberties, and policing in the Commonwealth and making policy recommendations to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| SB5068 | Engross
Sine Die | Student safety drills and student health screenings; waiver; emergency. Permits any school board to waive any mandatory student safety drill and any mandatory student health screening until such time as the General Assembly reconsiders such waivers d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB5101 | Engross
Sine Die | Private school employees and volunteers; essential workers; personal protective equipment during certain declared states of emergency; emergency. Provides that during any case in which the Governor has declared a state of emergency related to a commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB5052 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement agencies; body-worn camera systems. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Body-Worn Camera System Fund to assist state or local law-enforcement agencies with the costs of purchasing, operating, and maintaining body-wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB5080 | Pass | Telemedicine services; originating site. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| SR539 | Fail | Celebrating the life of Bruce Winston Edwards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB5096 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; personal protective equipment during certain declared states of emergency; essential workers; emergency. Provides that during any case in which the Governor has declared a state of emergency related to a communicable disease of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB5045 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission; Department of Planning and Budget; fiscal impact statements. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to prepare a fiscal impact statement reflecting the operating costs attributable to and necessa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| SB5043 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; Expungement Fee Fund created. Provides that final disposition may include (i) conviction of the original charge, (ii) conviction of an alternative charge, or (iii) dismissal of the proceedings. The bill also a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Failed to pass |
| SB5015 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 1289 of the 2020 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB5047 | Engross
Sine Die | Capitol Square Preservation Council; powers and duties; review and approval of plans for changes to artifacts contained within the Capitol Building. Grants the Capitol Square Preservation Council the authority to review and approve all plans or propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| SB5116 | Engross
Sine Die | In-home consumer-directed services; electronic visit verification; exception. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to implement an electronic visit verification system to confirm delivery of in-home services by providers of consumer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB5118 | Engross
Sine Die | Public utilities; Emergency Debt Repayment Plan. Requires every utility providing electric, gas, or water service that is subject to regulation by the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to develop an Emergency Debt Repayment Plan (EDRP) fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SR502 | Fail | Commending the Honorable Nolan Dawkins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB5029 | Pass | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| SB5100 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; COVID-19-related absences. Excuses from school attendance children diagnosed with COVID-19 or children with a household member diagnosed with COVID-19 while the child or household member is suffering from COVID-19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB5034 | Pass | Release of prisoners. Provides that any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense other than those enumerated in the bill as exceptions to eligibility and who is terminally ill as defined in the bill is eligible for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| SB5007 | Pass | Criminal cases; sentencing reform. Provides that in a criminal case the court shall ascertain the extent of the punishment unless the accused has requested that the jury ascertain punishment or was found guilty of capital murder. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043) |
| SB5038 | Pass | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042) |
| SB5030 | Pass | Policing reform. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony if they are in a position of authority over and carnally know without force, threat, or intimidation a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| SB5081 | Pass | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| SB5018 | Pass | Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners. Provides that any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense other than those enumerated in the bill as exceptions to eligibility and who is terminally ill as defined in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033) |
| SB5014 | Pass | Minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers; crisis intervention team training. Requires all law-enforcement officers involved in a crisis intervention team program to complete a comprehensive advanced training course developed by the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| SB5106 | Pass | Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends until at least July 1, 2022, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| SB5036 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license; limitations on events during public health emergency. Provides that no limitation on the number of special events that may be held by a local special events licensee shall be imposed during th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| SB5035 | Pass | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| SB5039 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of Governor; purchase of personal protective equipment during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat. Grants the Governor authority during a disaster caused by a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| SB5090 | Pass | Commissioner of Health; publication of information related to COVID-19; COVID-19 indicators. Requires that for the duration of the emergency declared by the Governor in response to COVID-19, the Commissioner of Health shall make available to the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| SB5083 | Pass | School boards; websites; COVID-19 virus mitigation plan; emergency. Requires each school board to post in a publicly accessible and conspicuous location on its website the plan outlining its strategies for mitigating the spread and public health risk...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| SB5042 | Pass | Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| SB5017 | Pass | Local correctional facility; definition. Provides that, for purposes of minimum standards for correctional facilities and enforcement of those standards, the term "local correctional facility" shall also include any facility owned, maintained, or ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) |
| SB5024 | Pass | Law-enforcement misconduct. Authorizes the Attorney General to file a civil suit or inquire into or seek to conciliate, through the Division of Human Rights, any unlawful pattern and practice against the Commonwealth or a locality whenever the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) |
| SB5117 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of the Governor; executive orders; penalty. Provides that a violation of an executive order declared by the Governor as the Director of Emergency Management shall be punishable either as a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015) |
| SB5033 | Pass | Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case. Requires a court to grant a motion to dismiss made by the Commonwealth, whether with or without prejudice, and with the consent of the defendant unless the cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020) |
| SR567 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR567ER) |
| SR566 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Conover.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR566ER) |
| SR565 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lois Saunier Hornsby.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR565ER) |
| SR562 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Manley Garber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR562ER) |
