| SB704 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan initiatives; nutrient management plans; stream exclusion. Sets December 31, 2025, as the target date to achieve the water quality goals contained in Virginia's final Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1186) |
| SB94 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; Commonwealth Energy Policy. Adopts findings that climate change is an urgent and pressing challenge for Virginia, that swift decarbonization and a transition to clean energy are required to meet the urgency of the challenge, and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1191) |
| HB240 | Pass | Absentee voting; annual applications for eligible absentee voters. Provides that any person who is eligible for an absentee ballot pursuant to law and who is likely to remain so eligible for the remainder of the calendar year shall be eligible to fil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1156) |
| SB760 | Pass | Licensure of psychologists; Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed psychologists to practice in Compact member states, pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1162) |
| HB1184 | Pass | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1189) |
| HB1573 | Pass | Rabid animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for an owner of a dog or cat who permits such dog or cat to stray from his premises when he knows or has been told by the local health department, law-enforcement agency, animal control agency, or any oth... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1183) |
| SB345 | Pass | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions. Adds correctional officers and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1152) |
| SB710 | Pass | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1187) |
| HB572 | Pass | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1188) |
| HB1371 | Pass | TANF; diversionary cash assistance. Imposes a minimum threshold of $1,500 on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) diversionary cash assistance. The bill provides that any person who receives TANF diversionary cash assistance waives his elig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1159) |
| HB873 | Pass | Discovery in criminal cases. Establishes requirements and procedures for discovery by an accused and by the Commonwealth in a criminal case. The bill requires a party requesting discovery to request that the other party voluntarily comply with such r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1167) |
| SB250 | Pass | Medicare supplement policies for certain individuals under age 65. Requires each insurer issuing Medicare supplement policies or certificates in the Commonwealth to offer the opportunity of enrolling in at least one of its issued Medicare supplement ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1161) |
| HB1205 | Pass | Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to give certain information about an unlawful discharge of a deleterious substance into state waters to the Virginia Department of He... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1182) |
| SB95 | Pass | Health insurance; essential health benefits; preventive services. Requires a health carrier offering or providing a health benefit plan, including (i) catastrophic health insurance policies and policies that pay on a cost-incurred basis; (ii) associa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1160) |
| HB56 | Pass | Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1145) |
| SB868 | Pass | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the Virginia ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1140) |
| SB859 | Pass | Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized; definition of hospital. Amends the definition of hospital, for purposes of emergency absentee voting by or late absentee ballot applications for persons who... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1163) |
| SB577 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1134) |
| HB1526 | Pass | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1193) |
| SB631 | Pass | Abandoned and stolen shopping carts; local regulation. Provides that any locality with a County Manager Plan or Urban County Executive form of government may, by ordinance, provide that it is unlawful for any person to place, leave, or abandon on any... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1174) |
| SB1003 | Pass | Computer crimes; monetary harm; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who, without the intent to receive any direct or indirect benefit, maliciously sends an electronically transmitted communication containing a false repr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1178) |
| SB321 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; eligibility for veteran status under state and local laws; change in treatment of certain discharges. Provides that any person who was separated from active military, naval, or air service with an other than honorable... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1172) |
| HB1049 | Pass | Prohibited discrimination; sexual orientation and gender identity. Prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodation, public contracting, apprenticeship programs, housing, banking, and insurance on the basis of sexual orientation or gender... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1137) |
| SB1089 | Pass | Visiting state correctional facilities; strip searches of those entering. Provides that no child under the age of 18 who is seeking entrance to a state correctional facility shall be strip searched or subjected to a search of any body cavity under an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1181) |
| SB179 | Pass | Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1171) |
| HB1078 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; process for competitive negotiation; including employment of persons with a disability as a factor in evaluating proposals. Provides that, except with regard to contracts for architectural, professional engineering, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1158) |
| HB1 | Pass | Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by abse... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1149) |
| HB1017 | Pass | Research and development in the Commonwealth. Creates the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (the Authority) to oversee and support research, development, and commercialization, as well as related investment and seed-stage fund... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1164) |
| SB138 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officers; training and reporting requirements. Adds regional public bodies to the types of public bodies that must designate a FOIA officer. The bill also changes the frequency for required FOIA officer train... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1141) |
| HB932 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians; removal of certification requirement. Removes the certification requirement for, and associated regulatory authority over, the occupation of nat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1168) |
| SB436 | Pass | Establishment of the Virginia Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms List; penalty. Creates the Virginia Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms List (the List) that prohibits the possession, transportation, and sale of firearms to any person who voluntarily register... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1173) |
| SB632 | Pass | Public utilities; energy storage capacity in the Commonwealth. Provides that it is the objective of the General Assembly that 2,700 megawatts of aggregate energy storage capacity be placed into service on or before July 1, 2030. The bill provides tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1190) |
| HB1422 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan initiatives; nutrient management plans; stream exclusion. Sets December 31, 2025, as the target date to achieve the water quality goals contained in Virginia's final Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1185) |
| SB1029 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet shop license; distiller participation in tastings. Allows distillers to participate in tastings held by gourmet shop licensees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1179) |
| SB833 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tasting licenses. Increases from four to 12 the number of tasting licenses that may be issued to a person per year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1177) |
| HB1586 | Pass | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; allocation of funds. Provides that increases in service approved by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board shall not be included in the calculation of the annual increase in total oper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1133) |
| HB798 | Pass | Employment; prohibited retaliatory action. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, threatening, discriminating against, penalizing, or taking other retaliatory action against an employee regarding the employee's compensation, terms, con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1136) |
| HJR103 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1195) |
| HB201 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1153) |
| SB576 | Pass | Research and development in the Commonwealth. Creates the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (the Authority) to oversee and support research, development, and commercialization, as well as related investment and seed-stage fund... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1169) |
| HB1250 | Pass | Community Policing Act; data collection and reporting requirement. Prohibits law-enforcement officers and State Police officers from engaging in bias-based profiling, defined in the bill, in the performance of their official duties. The bill directs ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1165) |
| HB1362 | Pass | General registrars; certification requirement; removal from office. Provides for a certification program to be conducted by the State Board of Elections for the general registrars. The bill requires each general registrar to complete the certificatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1148) |
| HB827 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; reasonable accommodation for the known limitations of persons related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Requires em... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1138) |
| SB1023 | Pass | State correctional facilities; visitation. Sets visitation and search policies for visitors to state correctional facilities, including the circumstances under which visits may include or exclude personal contact. The bill prohibits strip searches an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1170) |
| SB111 | Pass | Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by abse... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1151) |
| SJR18 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, a 16-member Commission tasked with establishing districts for the United States House of Representative... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1196) |
| SB153 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; cost estimates; response time. Provides that if a requester asks for a cost estimate in advance of a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, the time to respond is tolled for the amount of time that elapses b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1142) |
| HB213 | Pass | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification; student identification card issued by out-of-state institution of higher education. Adds to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification a valid student photo identification card issued ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1154) |
| SB1065 | Pass | Department of General Services; identifying high-risk structures; desirability and feasibility of certain key boxes. Directs the Department of General Services (the Department) to (i) determine which state-owned structures have a higher likelihood of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1180) |
| SB270 | Pass | Practice of pharmacy; regulation by Board of Pharmacy; report. Provides that compounding of drugs provided to the Department of Corrections for the purpose of carrying out an execution by lethal injection shall constitute the practice of pharmacy and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1166) |