| SB5016 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of parole statutes for juveniles and persons committed upon felony offenses committed on or after January 1, 1995. Repeals the abolition of parole. The bill also provides that the Virginia Parole Board shall establish procedures for consi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB5114 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; in-person instruction; Internet access; emergency. Requires each school board to make available in-person instruction to each enrolled student when any residential area in the local school division is not capable of receiving Internet ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB5108 | Intro
Sine Die | Local control of firearms; concealed handgun permit. Provides that any local ordinances that prohibit the possession, carrying, or transportation of any firearms, ammunition, or components or combination shall not apply to a person who has a valid co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB5023 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaration of disaster; health care providers; immunity. Provides that, in cases in which a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat has been declared and in the absence of gross negligence, a health care provider who withho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| HB5040 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity from civil claims related to the transmission of or exposure to the COVID-19 virus; emergency. Provides immunity to persons, as defined in the bill, from civil causes of action arising from any act or omission alleged to have resulted in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB5012 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; certain civil actions. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may bring an action against any person, group of persons, organization, or corporation, or the head of such organization or corporation, to recover damages, toge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Tabled in Courts of Justice (13-Y 8-N) |
| HB5015 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole, investigation prior to release. Provides that the Parole Board shall contact the victim prior to making any decision to release any inmate on discretionary parole and that the victim may present virtual testimony to the Board concerning the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Tabled in Courts of Justice (12-Y 9-N) |
| HB5097 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil cause of action; intentional act or act of gross negligence by member of the Virginia Parole Board. Creates a civil cause of action against a member of the Parole Board for injury to or death of a person that is caused by a prisoner who is rele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Tabled in Courts of Justice (12-Y 9-N) |
| SR522 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Richard Duane West, M.D., F.A.C.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Bill text as passed Senate (SR522ER) |
| SR523 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Michael George Mumejian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-26
Bill text as passed Senate (SR523ER) |
| HB5105 | Intro
Sine Die | Rapid diagnostic testing; essential workers; emergency. Requires that when the Commissioner of Health determines that a communicable disease of public health significance exists in the Commonwealth, he shall ensure that any available rapid diagnostic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (11-Y 10-N) |
| HB5018 | Intro
Sine Die | Public health emergency; reports of suspected violations of orders and regulations; penalty; emergency. Provides that any system created by the Department of Health to receive information regarding an alleged violation of an order or regulation of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5023 | Intro
Sine Die | Public health emergency; emergency orders and regulations; Public health emergency; emergency orders and regulations; limitations. Provides that any emergency order or regulation adopted by the Board of Health shall be valid for no more than 45 days ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5083 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care coverage; qualified health plans. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services, in collaboration with the State Corporation Commission, to contract with health carriers to offer qualified health plans on the health benefit excha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (19-Y 3-N) |
| HB5076 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; minimum qualifications. Changes the minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers to provide that all such officers who enter upon the duties of such office shall not have been convicted of or pled guilty or no contest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5070 | Intro
Sine Die | Public health emergency; immunizations. Eliminates the authority of the Board of Health or Commissioner of Health to require, during an epidemic of a disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists, that a person receive such vaccine d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5082 | Intro
Sine Die | Vaccines; requirements for inclusion on list of required vaccines. Provides that no vaccine shall be added to the list of required vaccines if (i) the vaccine is derived from human fetal tissue, (ii) the vaccine modifies the ribonucleic acid (RNA) or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5007 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; executive orders; limitation on duration of executive orders declaring a state of emergency; civil penalty. Provides that executive orders declaring a state of emergency, and any other executive orders pertaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5025 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; executive orders or order of the Board or Commissioner of Health; communicable diseases of public health threat; limitation on scope. Provides that no executive order or order of the Board or Commissioner of Healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5010 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 60 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5027 | Intro
Sine Die | Board and Commissioner of Health; order; appeal; award. Provides that any person who operates a business in the Commonwealth that is forced to close as a result of any emergency order of the Board of Health or Commissioner of Health who contests such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5044 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum standards for citizen complaints against law enforcement; investigation time limits. Requires that law-enforcement agencies shall ensure, at a minimum, that in the case of all written citizen complaints, the time limits for conducting an inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5092 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5039 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 45 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| HB5016 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; exception. Eliminates the authority of the Commissioner of Health to require immunization of individuals who object to such administration on religious grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB5103 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for parole; murder. Provides that any person convicted of murder where the location of the body of the victim is unknown and the Parole Board has probable cause to believe that such person convicted has information concerning the location...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 6-N) |
| HR514 | Pass | Amending and readopting Rule 4 Amending and readopting Rule 4 of the Rules of the House of Delegates, pertaining to conducting a session of the House, or a committee or other legislative branch public body meeting, by
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
Bill text as passed House (HR514ER) |
| HR501 | Pass | Commending Ruth Stokes Boatwright.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
Bill text as passed House (HR501ER) |
| SB5075 | Intro
Sine Die | Injury to property or persons by persons unlawfully or riotously assembled; penalty. Provides that any person or persons, unlawfully or riotously assembled, who pull down, injure, or destroy, or begin to pull down, injure, or destroy, the property of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB5060 | Intro
Sine Die | Obstructing emergency services personnel in performance of mission; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to interfere with fire protection services personnel while such personnel are performing their duties. The bill also increases the penalty for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5054 | Intro
Sine Die | Displaying noose on property of another or a highway or other public place with intent to intimidate; penalty. Increases the penalty for displaying noose on property of another or a highway or other public place with intent to intimidate from a Class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5061 | Intro
Sine Die | Abusive language to another; penalty. Clarifies that the crime of using abusive language to another applies to persons cursing or abusing law-enforcement officers or emergency personnel who are performing their assigned duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5056 | Intro
Sine Die | Riots; acts of violence; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 6 felony if a person commits an act of violence during a riot. The bill also increases the penalty for carrying a firearm during a riot from a Class 5 felony to a Class 4 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB5057 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawful assembly; acts of violence; penalty. Provides that if a person commits an act of violence during an unlawful assembly, such person is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also increases the penalty for carrying a firearm during an unlawful a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5006 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; pardons. Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction for misdemeanors and certain felonies if he has been granted a simple pardon for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5058 | Intro
Sine Die | Remaining at place of riot or unlawful assembly after warning to disperse; penalty. Increases the penalty for remaining at place of riot or unlawful assembly after warning to disperse from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5063 | Intro
Sine Die | Decertification of law-enforcement officers; acts that compromise integrity or credibility. Requires the sheriff, chief of police, or agency administrator to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board in writing within 48 hours of becoming aware that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB5074 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency medical services and equipment at the site of a riot or unlawful assembly; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to damage the operation of any equipment or apparatus used for fighting fires or for protecting property or human l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB5084 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall support the development an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5073 | Intro
Sine Die | Riots and unlawful assemblies; dangerous weapons; penalty. Provides that (i) a projectile of any kind; (ii) a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser; (iii) a blunt instrument; or (iv) a shield is a dangerous weapon for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB5062 | Intro
Sine Die | Picketing or disrupting tranquility of home; penalty. Increases the penalty of picketing or disrupting tranquility of home from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5009 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain alcohol-related offenses. Allows a person to petition for expungement of a deferred disposition dismissal for underage alcohol possession or using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offense occurred prior to the person's twe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SR514 | Pass | Celebrating the life of R. Wayne Browning, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR514ER) |
| SR515 | Pass | Celebrating the life of David McMath Parker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR515ER) |
| SB5044 | Intro
Sine Die | Extension of approvals to address housing crisis. Extends from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022, the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals. The bill also expands the scope of such measures that will be subject to the ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Local Government |
| SB5046 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on mandatory minimum punishment. Provides that mandatory minimum punishments shall not apply to any sentence imposed for an offense committed on or after January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB5112 | Intro
Sine Die | Decertification of law-enforcement officers; acts that compromise integrity or credibility. Requires the sheriff, chief of police, or agency administrator to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board in writing within 48 hours of becoming aware that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 3-N) |
| SR520 | Pass | Commending Disabled American Veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR520ER) |
| SB5110 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession, underage alcohol possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB5040 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General; criminal cases involving certain felonies committed by law-enforcement officers. Provides that the Attorney General, with the concurrence of the local attorney for the Commonwealth, may assist in the prosecution of certain felony of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 4-N) |
