| SB242 | Engross
Sine Die | Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1047 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; narrow network plans. Prohibits a health carrier from offering more than one narrow network plan, as defined in the bill, in a geographic region if any two narrow network plans offered by the health carrier would have the two lowest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB920 | Engross
Sine Die | Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortion or selective reduction unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB438 | Engross
Sine Die | Judicial performance evaluation program; risk assessment tool; use of alternative sanction. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to use sentencing guidelines to determine the cost of incarceration for an offender who receives the mini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB591 | Engross
Sine Die | Economic development incentives for gasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities. The bill provides that gasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities, defined in the bill, shall be eligible for grants from the Commonwealth's Development Oppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Construction Fund and Program. Establishes the School Construction Fund as a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires the Department of Education to establish the School Construction Program for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB634 | Engross
Sine Die | Alternative and efficient energies; subsidies and rebates. Creates incentive programs relating to the adoption of alternative and efficient energies. The bill establishes the Energy Efficiency Subsidy Program to fund grants to subsidize residential e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; requiring Virginia licensed health practitioners to conduct medical reviews. Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act (LODA), the Virginia Retirement System shall requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; catastrophic health plans. Authorizes health carriers to offer catastrophic plans on the individual market and to offer such plans to all individuals. The measure provides that a catastrophic plan is deemed to provide an essential h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB116 | Engross
Sine Die | Death penalty; severe mental illness. Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, as defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. The bill establishes procedures for determini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of a unit in the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Eminent domain; remnants and remainders. Repeals the provision of the Code of Virginia declaring that the acquisition of residual parcels when acquiring land for highway rights-of-way is in the public interest and is a public use. The bill provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB930 | Engross
Sine Die | Establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of establishing and maintaining a Mental Health Crisis Intervention Hotline. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of (i) establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Congressional and legislative district boundaries; Congressional and legislative district boundaries; alignment with boundaries of counties and cities; review of a voter's registration. Provides that, for purposes of congressional, Senate, and House ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material by minors; penalties. Provides that a minor who (i) knowingly transmits, distributes, publishes, or disseminates to another minor an electronically transmitted communication containing sexu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB769 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental proceedings; findings of fact. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to give deference to findings of fact by a presiding officer based on the evidence presented in any formal proceeding where the parties are operating u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR53 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; DEQ; revised priority ranking criteria for grants from the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund to include reduction of nitrogen pollution; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to study revised priority ranking criteria fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets; use by juries. Requires that the jury be given the applicable discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets during a sentencing proceeding and that the court instruct the jury that the sentencing guide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Sentencing in a criminal case; jury trial. 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB989 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional transient occupancy tax in Spotsylvania County. Authorizes Spotsylvania County to impose an additional transient occupancy tax at a rate of four percent, for a total maximum rate of nine percent. The bill requires that revenue from the add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 48-N 1-A) |
| SB1043 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (9-Y 12-N) |
| SB1080 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; Urban Teacher Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Urban Teacher Fund and Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the purpose of providing grants to persons employed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB723 | Engross
Sine Die | Bail; data collection and reporting standards; report. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) collect data relating to bail determinations for any person who is held in custody pending trial or hearing for an offense, civil or cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB493 | Engross
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 or permanen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (9-Y 12-N) |
| SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Robbery; penalty. Defines "robbery" and creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery by causing serious bodily injury is guilty of robbery in the first degree, which is punishable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Destruction of criminal history information for certain charges and convictions. Provides that a court shall enter an order of destruction for police and court records, in the absence of good cause shown to the contrary by the Commonwealth, for a def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB366 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; learning management system. Directs the Department of Education to obtain a statewide learning management system for use in public schools by the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB253 | Engross
Sine Die | Deeds of trust; fiduciary duties. Specifies that a trustee under a deed of trust has only the duties, rights, and obligations imposed and conferred on it by the deed of trust or by statute. The bill further requires that a trustee shall comply with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB97 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Provides that it is an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any political jurisdiction or its employees or appointed commissions to discriminate in the application of local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Water and sewer service charges; tenant or lessee. Reduces the maximum potential responsibility of a property owner for a tenant's unpaid water and sewer charges by capping the dollar amount of such property owner's responsibility at $300.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB916 | Engross
Sine Die | Towing fees. The bill raises from $25 to $30 the additional fee that can be charged for towing a vehicle at night, on weekends, or on a holiday. The bill requires localities in Planning District 8 and Planning District 16 to set such additional fee a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB346 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; contractors; boiler and pressure vessel operator license. Creates a two-tiered category of licensure administered by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation's Board for Contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; VDACS; sources, scale, and prevention of food waste in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) to study, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and stakeholde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR39 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; effect of abolishing jury sentencing on the justice system; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to (i) identify the most common charges tried before juries within the Commonwealth and determine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Rules Committee |
| SB992 | Engross
Sine Die | Carbon trading program; allocation of allowances; new facility. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board (the Board) to allocate allowances for three years to any electric power generating facility that was permitted prior to the June 26, 2019, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB1034 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; behavioral assessments and interventions. Directs the Department of Education to review and revise the Guidelines for Conducting Functional Behavioral Assessment and Developing Positive Behavior Intervention Supports and Stra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 4-N) |
| SJR66 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Joint Subcommittee to Study the Development of a Framework for Regulated Adult-Use of Cannabis and Medical Cannabis; report. Establishes the Joint Subcommittee to Study the Development of a Framework for Regulated Adult-Use of Cannabis and Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (15-Y 3-N) |
| SB362 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Services; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; data collection. Allows the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to contract with any hospital in the Commonwealth that furnishes the treatment option of hyperbaric oxygen therap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Commission on Health Care; association health plans for the individual market; review. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (JCHC) to examine and review the implications of the establishment, implementation, and administration of a progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| SB915 | Engross
Sine Die | Barbers and cosmetologists; training requirement. Prohibits the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology from requiring completion of more than 1,200 hours of training in the field for which an applicant for a license to practice barbering or cosmetology se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in General Laws (15-Y 7-N) |
| SJR81 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; JCOTS to study consumer data privacy in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to establish an advisory committee to study consumer data privacy in the Commonwealth. The advisory committee is directed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| SJR79 | Engross
Sine Die | Commemorative commission; State Capitol; statue of Booker T. Washington. Expresses the General Assembly's support for and calls upon the Governor to establish a commemorative commission to honor Booker T. Washington with a statue in the State Capitol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (15-Y 2-N) |
| SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Animal shelter euthanasia rate. Requires any public or private animal shelter or releasing agency to annually file with the State Veterinarian (i) a copy of its intake policy, (ii) the number of animals on which a euthanasia procedure was performed, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF; feminine hygiene products. Requires the Board of Social Services to provide monthly payments for menstrual supplies in the amount of $10 to each female who is at least 10 years of age but not older than 55 years of age and is considered part of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 2-N) |
| SB569 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a menta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB352 | Engross
Sine Die | Guardianship and conservatorship; supported decision-making alternative. Requires a guardian ad litem in a proceeding for the appointment of a guardian or conservator to include in his report to the court information as to whether a supported decisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB602 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary detention; transportation; change of provider. Establishes procedures for changing the transportation provider designated to provide transportation to a minor or a person who is the subject of a temporary detention order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions |
| SB993 | Engross
Sine Die | State Health Commissioner; local health director; additional degrees. Allows the State Health Commissioner and local health directors to either be physicians, as required under existing law, or possess a Doctor of Public Health degree, a Master of Pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1049 | Engross
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; notice and participation. Clarifies the role of individuals identified and requested by a person in the involuntary commitment process to assist him in the process. The bill sets out such authorized individuals' right to recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB983 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; definition of "medical care facility." Adds to the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required any facility located in Planning District 20 that has common ownership with an affiliate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
