VA Legislation | 2020 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB770	Intro Sine Die	Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2023. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia Chief Workforce Advisor
SB663	Intro Sine Die	Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia Bar Association
SB858	Intro Sine Die	Naturopathic doctors; license required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate naturopathic doctors, defined in the bill as an individual, other than a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry, who may diagnose, treat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Department of Health Professions
SB1086	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; coverage for infertility treatment. Requires health insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans, including plans administered by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to provide coverage for infertilit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Health Insurance Reform Commission
SB192	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; physical therapist office visit; cost-sharing requirements. Prohibits health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations whose policies, contracts, or plans incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Health Insurance Reform Commission
SB638	Intro Sine Die	Affordable housing near Metrorail station. Provides that in any locality with an existing or planned Metrorail station, such locality shall require that at least 10 percent of new residential dwelling units in any building that is at least six storie... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia Housing Commission
SB839	Intro Sine Die	Permitted provisions in the zoning ordinance; worker protection. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance certain conditions as part of the grant of a special exception that permits development at a floor area ratio (FAR) greater than... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia Housing Commission
SB1006	Intro Sine Die	Business entities; annual registration. Authorizes domestic and foreign stock corporations with less than 5,000 authorized shares, domestic and foreign nonstock corporations, and domestic and foreign limited liability companies to prepay up to five y... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the State Corporation Commissionn
SB1017	Intro Sine Die	Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of certain offenses, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea, or who was adjudicated delinquent, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia State Crime Commission
SB837	Intro Sine Die	Corrections Private Management Act; name change; private management prohibited. Removes the authority of the Director of the Department of Corrections pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (the Act) to enter into contracts with prison co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Department of Corrections
SB431	Intro Sine Die	Provision of mental health services to a minor; access to health records. Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide mental health services to a minor on the basis that the parents of such minor refuse to agree to limit their access to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Department of Health Professions
SB383	Intro Sine Die	Lobbying; notification to local clerk; penalty. Requires an individual who is compensated to influence or attempt to influence a local government officer or employee regarding local government action to provide notice of such status to the clerk of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-04-08 Letter sent to the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council
SB29	Intro Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 854 of the 2019 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-03-03 To House Appropriations Committee
SB30	Intro Sine Die	Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-03-03 To House Appropriations Committee
SB398	Intro Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; foundations; annual reporting requirements. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an annual report regarding foundations associated with the institution setting forth foundation expen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB784	Intro Sine Die	Transmission lines; relocation and undergrounding. Requires that any transmission line of 230 kilovolts or less that is proposed to connect to a proposed new substation that has received local final development plan approval be placed underground if ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB33	Intro Sine Die	Consumer finance companies. Requires the State Corporation Commission, as a condition of licensing a consumer finance company, to find that the applicant will not make consumer finance loans at the same location at which the applicant makes payday lo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB243	Intro Sine Die	Balance billing; emergency services. Provides that when a covered person receives covered emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider, the covered person is not required to pay the out-of-network provider any amount other than the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1016	Intro Sine Die	Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process. Provides that the economic development factor shall be weighted at least twice as much as the congestion mitigation factor in highway construction districts with higher-than-average unemployme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB950	Intro Sine Die	Appropriation of funds for Governor's personal security staff. Provides that no funds shall be appropriated for the employment of any member of the Governor's personal security staff if the Governor takes any action to deny law-abiding citizens of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB260	Intro Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fees; public comment; notice of meeting. Requires the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to provide students and the public 15 days' prior notice of the date and location o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB800	Intro Sine Die	Real property tax exemption for certified pollution control equipment and facilities. Advances the sunset date of the real property tax exemption for solar photovoltaic (electric energy) projects greater than 20 megawatts from 2024 to 2021. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB552	Intro Sine Die	Regional alternative education programs; funding. Requires the funding transferred from the Department of Education to the relevant school divisions in support of a regional alternative education program to be based on each such school division's nee... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1077	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Act (the Act), "telephone solicitation call" includes any text message sent to any wireless telephone with a Virginia area code, or to a wirel... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB529	Intro Sine Die	Admissibility of statements of a deceased or incompetent party; hearsay exception. Provides that statements made by a deceased or incompetent party when such party was competent shall not be excluded as inadmissible hearsay, provided that such statem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB1001	Intro Sine Die	Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-12 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB477	Intro Sine Die	Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on state property; concealed handgun prohibition. Provides that the risk management plan established by the Division of Risk Management shall include coverage for any claim made by or on behalf of an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-11 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB476	Intro Sine Die	Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on public school or college property; concealed handgun prohibition. Provides that the risk management plan established by the Division of Risk Management shall include coverage for any claim made by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-11 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB906	Intro Sine Die	Property; landlord and tenant; noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent. Removes provisions limiting the discretion of the court in actions for possession based upon nonpayment of rent and actions for rent by a landlor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-11 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB767	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; payment to out-of-network providers. Provides that when a covered person receives covered emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider or receives out-of-network services at an in-network facility, the covered pers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 8-N)
SB749	Intro Sine Die	Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; regulation; insurance; taxation. Establishes taxation, insurance coverage, sale of insurance, disclosure, safety recall, airport operation, and recordkeeping requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platfo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB999	Intro Sine Die	Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act. Makes several changes to the process and procedures afforded to law-enforcement officers under the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act, clarifying several existing rights and setting fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 3-N)
SB785	Intro Sine Die	Mortgage loan originators; exemption. Exempts retailers of manufactured or modular homes and employees of such retailers from the licensing and other requirements applicable to mortgage loan originators. The exemption applies if the retailer or emplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1060	Intro Sine Die	Dismissal of action by court without prejudice. Provides that, for good cause shown or upon agreement of all parties, the court may dismiss an action without prejudice and the plaintiff may recommence such action within the original period of limitat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB274	Intro Sine Die	Motion picture theaters; required open-captioned showings. Requires any motion picture theater that has four or more separate auditoriums to provide two scheduled showings of a motion picture that engages open captions for a particular showing of an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB387	Intro Sine Die	Charitable gaming; special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be granted to a qualified organization that has already received a general permi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB802	Intro Sine Die	Death penalty executions; moratorium. Imposes a moratorium on executions. The bill does not affect any other matter of law related to the death penalty, including bringing and trying capital charges, sentencing proceedings, imposition of the death pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB997	Intro Sine Die	Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue. Provides that certain crimes relating to threats and harassment may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 5-N)
SB1052	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Charitable Gaming Board; regulations of the Board; electronic or mechanical equipment used in the conduct of charitable gaming. Increases the number of electronic pull tabs that may be placed in the social quarters of a qualified organizatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB618	Intro Sine Die	Referrals to specialty dockets. Provides that any court may refer a defendant to a local specialty docket if such specialty docket exists within that jurisdiction. The bill provides that a court that has received a referral shall have jurisdiction ov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB866	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Creates a cause of action against any employer employing more than five but fewer than 15 persons who engages in an unlawful discriminator... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
SB750	Intro Sine Die	Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; taxation. Provides that peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms, as defined in the bill, are rentors for the purposes of taxation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB952	Intro Sine Die	High-nicotine vapor products; specialty retail facility; penalty. Prohibits the sale of nicotine vapor products that contain more than 20 milligrams of nicotine per milliliter at retail except at a retail facility that generates at least 50 percent o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 9-N 1-A)
SB823	Intro Sine Die	Writs of actual innocence. Provides that a person who was convicted of a felony or who was adjudicated delinquent by a circuit court of an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult may petition for a writ of actual innocence based on bi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 7-N)
SB309	Intro Sine Die	Deferred dispositions; property crimes; larceny and receiving stolen goods. Provides that a court, upon such plea if the facts found by the court would justify a finding of guilt, without entering a judgment of guilt and with the consent of the accus... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-10 Incorporated by Judiciary
SB765	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; provider contracts; business practices; Health insurance; provider contracts; business practices; penalties. Prohibits a carrier from unilaterally amending a provider contract or any material provision, addenda, schedule, exhibit, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB522	Intro Sine Die	Balance billing; emergency and elective services. Requires health care facilities and health care providers to determine if providers scheduled to deliver elective services to a covered person are in the network of the covered person's managed care p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-09 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
SB379	Intro Sine Die	Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens from Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens from five years to three years the period that a customer who switches from an investor-owned electric utility to a licensed competing supplier is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB474	Intro Sine Die	Health care provider panels; vertically integrated carriers; public hospitals. Requires any vertically integrated carrier to offer to every public hospital participation in each provider panel or network established for each of the vertically integra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB426	Intro Sine Die	Fair share fees. Authorizes an employer, pursuant to an agreement between the employer and a labor union or labor organization, to require as a condition of employment any employee who is not a member of such labor union or labor organization and is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2020-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N)