| SB556 | Pass | Speeding fines; certain roads. Adds a $15 penalty, in addition to all other penalties, for driving in excess of the posted speed limit on U.S. Routes 15 and 17 in Fauquier County, when such additional penalty is indicated by appropriately placed sign...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0892) |
| SB651 | Pass | Fairfax County; policemen's pension and retirement board. Increases from seven to eight the number of members on the policemen's pension and retirement board created in a county that has adopted the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0895) |
| SB377 | Pass | Teacher grievance procedures; hearing; three-member fact-finding panel. Permits a school board to conduct a teacher grievance hearing before a three-member fact-finding panel consisting of one member selected by the teacher, one member selected by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875) |
| SB996 | Pass | Capitol Police; concurrent jurisdiction. Provides that a Capitol Police officer who is a detector canine handler has concurrent jurisdiction with the law-enforcement officers of another jurisdiction that has requested the assistance of the Capitol Po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0897) |
| SB603 | Pass | Involuntary admission; transportation; transfer to local law enforcement. 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 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0880) |
| SB244 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bluefield. Amends the town's charter by (i) increasing the number of council members from five to six, (ii) allowing the mayor to vote only to break ties rather than on all matters, (iii) clarifying that the council may act by motion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0889) |
| SB392 | Pass | Local school boards; lead testing; report; parental notification. Requires each local school board's plan to test and remediate certain potable water sources to be consistent with guidance published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0884) |
| SB313 | Pass | New College Institute; board of directors, nonlegislative citizen members; representatives of business and industry from the Commonwealth. Increases from seven to 10 the nonlegislative citizen members of the board of directors of New College Institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0878) |
| SB444 | Pass | Election recounts; reorganization of sections; technical amendments. Reorganizes sections related to election recounts. The bill makes technical amendments and is a recommendation of the Code Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0886) |
| SB589 | Pass | Zoning administrators; notice of decisions and determinations. Requires a zoning administrator to provide notice to an adjacent property owner of any decision or determination by the zoning administrator that could impair the ability of such adjacent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0893) |
| SB541 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Amends the charter of the Town of Middleburg by clarifying the powers and duties of the mayor, the town council, and the appointed town officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0891) |
| SB422 | Pass | Health regulatory boards. Clarifies the meaning of "license" as used by the Boards of Funeral Directors and Embalmers and Physical Therapy and the conditions under which a license may be denied, suspended, or revoked by the Board of Veterinary Medici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0885) |
| SB652 | Pass | Fairfax County; policemen's retirement system. Authorizes any person who has been a member of another county retirement system and who withdraws therefrom and becomes a member of the policemen's retirement system established by a county that has adop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0896) |
| SB386 | Pass | Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System; trauma data; confidentiality. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to disclose certain confidential data in the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System, including info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0883) |
| SB208 | Pass | Mechanics' liens; right to withhold payment. Specifies that the use of funds paid to a general contractor or subcontractor and used by such contractor or subcontractor before paying all amounts due for labor performed or material furnished gives rise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) |
| SB240 | Pass | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0888) |
| SB1020 | Pass | Public schools; alternative school discipline process. Allows a school board to adopt an alternative school discipline process to provide a principal and parties involved in an incident involving assault, or assault and battery without bodily injury,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876) |
| SB224 | Pass | Additional sales and use tax in Gloucester County; appropriations to incorporated towns for educational purposes. Authorizes Gloucester County to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, as determined by the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0865) |
| SB60 | Pass | Timing of required submission of capital outlay bill. Requires the Governor to submit, in each legislative session, a prefiled bill with amendments to the current six-year capital outlay plan enacted into law. Under current law, the Governor is requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0864) |
| SB230 | Pass | Grantor's tax and regional transportation improvement fee. Provides that, for purposes of the grantor's tax and regional transportation improvement fee (the regional WMATA capital fee), the grantor and grantee may arrange that the grantee pay all or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0866) |
| SB323 | Pass | Board of Education; high school graduation requirements; certain substitutions. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit a student who is pursuing an advanced diploma and whose individualized edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874) |
| SB647 | Pass | Zoning; development approvals. Provides for the transition of certain existing development approvals when a subject property shifts from one jurisdiction to another due to annexation, boundary adjustment, or other cause. The bill contains a grandfath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0894) |
| SB213 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; study; Personal Maintenance Allowance and impact on employment. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a work group to evaluate the current Personal Maintenance Allowance amount f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0882) |
| SB562 | Pass | Rebuilt vehicles; issuance of title. Allows a title to be issued for a rebuilt vehicle without an inspection by the Department of Motor Vehicles if (i) the rebuilder has been licensed as an auto recycler, salvage pool, or vehicle removal operator in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0867) |
| SB578 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0861) |
| SB801 | Pass | Subpoena duces tecum; attorney-issued subpoena duces tecum; criminal cases. Provides that in any criminal case a subpoena duces tecum may be issued by the attorney of record who is an active member of the Virginia State Bar at the time of issuance, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB527 | Pass | Virginia Commercial Driver's License Act; intent and purpose. Repeals the statement of intent and purpose in the Virginia Commercial Driver's License Act (the Act). The bill does not affect any substantive provisions of the Act. This bill is a recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB783 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; carbon market participation. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to participate in any carbon market for which submerged aquatic vegetation restoration qualifies as an activity that generates carbon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| SB828 | Pass | Carbon-free energy and clean energy. Provides that "carbon-free energy" or "clean energy," as used in the Code of Virginia, includes electric energy generated from a source that does not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the process of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| SB492 | Pass | Sex offenses requiring registration. Clarifies the registration and reregistration obligations imposed upon a person convicted of a foreign sex offense for the purposes of registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| SB454 | Pass | Charter; Town of Blacksburg; public hearings. Clarifies provisions related to public hearings in the Town of Blacksburg by providing that if the town council plans to conduct a public hearing related to a proposed ordinance but to delay action on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| SB590 | Pass | Advanced recycling; incentives in income tax, sales tax, and machinery and tools tax. Postpones from 2020 to 2025 the sunset date of the income tax credit for purchase of equipment for processing recyclable materials. Starting in taxable year 2020, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB656 | Pass | Exchange of offender medical and mental health information and records. Provides that a health care provider who has been notified that a person to whom he has provided services within the last two years is committed to a local or regional correction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| SB385 | Pass | Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception. Requires that the State Corporation Commission promulgate regulations requiring (i) certain otherwise exempted engineers to be licensed with the Department of Professional and Occupational Regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| SB585 | Pass | Guardianship for incapacitated persons. Provides that if the respondent to a guardianship or conservatorship petition is between 17 and a half and 21 years of age and has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), the guardian ad litem appointed to repr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855) |
| SB185 | Pass | Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice programs, and hospice facilities; possession and administration of cannabidiol or THC-A oil. Allows nursing home, assisted living facility, hospice program, and hospice facility employees and staff m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB776 | Pass | Wetlands protection; living shorelines. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to promulgate and periodically update minimum standards for the protection and conservation of wetlands and to approve only living shoreline approaches to shore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB848 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; report date. Changes from November 1 to December 15 the annual reporting date of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding the performance of the Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| SB448 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; contracting firms; president of the institution; delegation. Allows a president of a public institution of higher education to delegate to an officer or administrator of the institution his obligation to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| SB401 | Pass | Immunity of persons at public hearing; attorney fees; costs. Allows for the award of reasonable attorney fees and costs to any person who has a subpoena against him quashed in an action for statements made at a public hearing before the governing bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| SB487 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts; limitations. Increases the aggregate limit for architectural and engineering services contracts (i) for localities for projects performed in a one-year contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
| SB284 | Pass | Charter; City of Charlottesville; city organization; council. Modernizes and reorganizes aspects of the charter of the City of Charlottesville. The bill updates and repeals various provisions to conform to state and federal law as well as current cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB255 | Pass | Additional transient occupancy tax in Prince George County. Authorizes Prince George County to impose an additional transient occupancy tax at a rate of up to two percent, for a total maximum rate of seven percent. The revenue from the additional tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| SB280 | Pass | Health insurance; mental health parity; required report. Codifies an existing requirement that the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance make an annual report regarding claims information for mental health and substance use disorder bene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB979 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; applicability to nominations and elections for directors of soil and water conservation districts. Removes the exemption to the applicability of the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB365 | Pass | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; health care provider credentialing work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group of stakeholders to gather information and make recommendations on how the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB772 | Pass | Transportation of bait fish for sale; penalty. Prohibits the transportation for sale outside of the Commonwealth of river herring, alewife, threadfin shad, or gizzard shad, or the carcass or any part thereof, collected from the inland waters for use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB350 | Pass | Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund. Establishes the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund administered by the Department of Emergency Management to provide matching funds to localities to install, maintain, or repair infrastr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| SB579 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Makes numerous changes to the provisions governing the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The bill changes the number of classifications of offenders who are required to register under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| SB845 | Pass | Local school boards; mold testing; parental notification. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a plan to test and, if necessary, a plan to remediate mold in public school buildings in accordance with guidance issued by the U.S. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
