| 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 |
| HB5102 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee safety; Voluntary Protection Program. Requires that an employer that hires a crew of 50 or more temporary employees during any declared public health emergency due to COVID-19 is required to participate in the Voluntary Protection Program (V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB5060 | Intro
Sine Die | Crisis intervention team program; annual report. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report annually by November 1 to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB5140 | Intro
Sine Die | Long-term care facilities; public health emergency; patient visitation; end of life. Provides that during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, every hospital, nursing home, nursing facility, ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5142 | Intro
Sine Die | Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case. Provides that, upon the agreement of the Commonwealth and the defendant, a trial court may defer proceedings; defer entry of a conviction order, if none, or de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5138 | Intro
Sine Die | Intentional injury to property or a monument or memorial; penalty. Reduces from a Class 6 felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for damages of $1,000 or more for the crime of intentional injury or destruction of (i) any property, real or person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5139 | Intro
Sine Die | Projecting laser at law-enforcement officer; penalties. Increases from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for any person who intentionally projects a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR5001 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); executive power; state of emergency; special session. Limits the authority of the Governor to issue an executive order declaring a state of emergency that restricts, limits, or prohibits otherwise lawful ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB5141 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of marijuana. Legalizes simple possession of marijuana. Current law provides a civil penalty of no more than $25 for the simple possession of marijuana. The bill also provides that simple possession of marijuana or its use by a child young...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5107 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Quality Profiles; teacher data. Requires the Department of Education to include on each School Quality Profile data on teachers' race and proficiency in any language other than English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB5143 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; penalty. Increases the penalty for committing an assault or an assault and battery against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5009 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; in-person instruction; student home internet access; emergency. Requires each school board to provide in-person instruction to any student whose primary residence is not capable of receiving Internet access at speeds greater than 10 MB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB5008 | Intro
Sine Die | School closure; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that a public school in the Commonwealth is closed for in-person instruction for 30 or more days during a school year, the parent of an enrolled student who withdraws his child fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| HJR5013 | Intro
Sine Die | U.S. Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| HB5020 | 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] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB5022 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain public elementary and secondary schools; Certain public elementary and secondary schools; alternative supervision. Permits any school board to enter into an operating contract with a not-for-profit entity (operating entity) to (i) require the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB5021 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining; prohibited considerations during negotiations. Prohibits any local ordinance or resolution granting or permitting collective bargaining from permitting consideration during collective bargaining negotiations of any action or di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB5004 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing driver's licenses; ceremony. Makes discretionary the requirement to conduct a formal, appropriate ceremony when issuing original driver's licenses to persons under the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR5005 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); executive power; emergency powers; limitations. Provides that the Governor shall have the powers and duties related to states of emergency as provided by general law, except that no declared state of emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB5057 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain health care providers; licensure or certification by endorsement. Requires the Board of Health to issue a certification by endorsement to any applicant for certification as an emergency medical services provider who holds a valid, unrestricte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5111 | 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] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB5075 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5077 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credits and deductions; child and dependent care expenses. Provides an income tax credit to individuals and married persons filing a joint return in an amount equal to the federal tax credit provided for household and dependent care servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB5033 | Intro
Sine Die | Child care tax credit. Establishes an individual nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable year 2020 of up to $1,000 for eligible child-care expenses incurred and paid between September 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020, due to the closure of Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB5144 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Health; public health emergency; virtual visitation. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require such entities to adopt protocols to ensure that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5071 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining; law enforcement; transparency and accountability. Prohibits a county, city, or town from entering into a collective bargaining contract with a labor union or other employee association representing law-enforcement officers or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB5026 | Intro
Sine Die | Locality responsible for damages caused by inadequate police response. Provides that in any instance in which a locality intentionally or negligently fails to provide an adequate police response so as to prevent damage to the property of a property o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5114 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officer conduct during an arrest or detention; use of force; prohibited practices. Prohibits the use of excessive force, defined in the bill as any force that is objectively unreasonable given the totality of the circumstances, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HR582 | Intro
Sine Die | Racism; public health crisis. Recognizes that racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| HB5081 | Intro
Sine Die | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB5119 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary applicability to certain occupants of hotels, motels, extended stay facilities, or boardinghouses. Provides that, from the effective date of the bill until 90 days after the expiration or revoca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB5067 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of a person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass; public officials; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass another person, to publish the primary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR5011 | Intro
Sine Die | Women's Suffrage Month. Designates August, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Women's Suffrage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| HB5086 | Intro
Sine Die | Mobile crisis co-response team programs. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall support the development and establishment of a mental health first response an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB5118 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; benefits; one-week waiting period. Eliminates the one-week waiting period for an eligible unemployed individual to receive benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB5080 | Intro
Sine Die | Projecting laser at another person unlawful; penalties. Provides that if any person intentionally projects a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser at another person with the intent to cause bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB5121 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Health; public health emergency; patient visitation; notice to family; emergency. Requires each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice facility to allow each patient to receive visits, either virtually or in person, at l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5149 | Intro
Sine Die | Dumping trash; personal protective equipment. Adds personal protective equipment to the list of items that are prohibited from being dumped on public or private land without authorization and provides for an additional $500 fine when the dumping invo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB5117 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; Emergency Debt Repayment Plan. Public utilities; Emergency Debt Repayment Plan. Requires every utility providing electric, gas, or water or wastewater service to develop an Emergency Debt Repayment Plan (EDRP) for residential custom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB5122 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; work group; plan for equitable distribution of vaccines and other medications; report; emergency. Directs the Department of Health to convene a work group, which may be a work group previously convened for a related purpose, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB5120 | Intro
Sine Die | Guests of transient lodging facilities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; suspending self-help evictions; emergency. Suspends provisions of the Code of Virginia that allow an innkeeper or property owner of a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vaca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House General Laws Committee |
