| SB310 | Engross
Sine Die | Public animal shelters; notice to euthanize. Requires each public animal shelter to adopt a policy under which it waits a certain number of days before euthanizing a dog or cat when a person has notified the shelter of his intent to adopt or take cus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB571 | Engross
Sine Die | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Requires the court, in petitions for visitation filed by the grandparent of a child where either (i) the parent is the grandparent's child and is deceased, incarcerated, or incapacitated, or has had his parental r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Local arbitration agreements; disclosure of certain information. Requires a locality, for any procurement contract for goods and services except for construction, construction-related services, transportation construction, or transportation-related c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB300 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring; rural and underserved populations. Amends the State Plan for Medical Assistance Services to require the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary and clinically effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Purchase of service handguns or other weapons by retired sworn law-enforcement officers. Removes the requirement that a sworn law-enforcement officer be employed in a full-time capacity at the time of his retirement to purchase his service handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB495 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; jewelry store license. Creates a jewelry store license, which (i) may be granted to a permanent retail establishment in which at least 75 percent of its annual sales come from the sale of jewelry and (ii) authorizes the li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB972 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; Public Safety Trust Fund. Imposes an additional $4 vehicle registration fee to be deposited into the Public Safety Trust Fund, established by the bill. The revenues in the Public Safety Trust Fund would be used to address s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB335 | Engross
Sine Die | Hunting and fishing license; military service. Authorizes any resident who is on active duty with, has been honorably discharged after at least six months of service in, or has retired from any branch of the United States Armed Forces to apply for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB687 | Engross
Sine Die | Bicycles; signage and road markings. Requires the Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs in high pedestrian, Segway, bicycle, moped, animal, and animal-drawn vehicle traffic volume areas signs that say "Share the Road" and that note...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB919 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption for broadband providers. Establishes a sales and use tax exemption for broadband providers that purchase technology for improving existing broadband infrastructure. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1058 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate income tax returns of affiliated corporations. Provides that, for taxable years 2020 through 2021, certain affiliated corporations may elect to switch to or from consolidated corporate income tax return filing status under certain condition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain counties and cities. Imposes a regional motor vehicle fuels sales tax at a rate of 7.6 cents per gallon and gasoline and 7.7 cents per gallon of diesel fuel in any county or city outside of the Northern Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB570 | Engross
Sine Die | State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children in foster ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program (the Program). The bill provides that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1357 | Engross
Sine Die | Sale of wildlife mounts permitted. Exempts from the prohibition against selling wild animals any Virginia resident selling a wildlife or fish mount that was taken legally and that underwent the taxidermy process legally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1019 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; additional retirement allowance; retirement age. Changes the age through which a retired law-enforcement officer covered under the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) is entitled to receive an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1614 | Engross
Sine Die | Victims of human trafficking; affirmative defense to prosecution for certain offenses. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for prostitution and keeping, residing in, or frequenting a bawdy place if, at the time of the offense leading to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
| HB1588 | Engross
Sine Die | Oversize and overweight vehicles; route designation; City of Lexington. Requires an entity issuing an oversize or overweight permit to a vehicle that is traveling through or near the City of Lexington, when the designation of a route is appropriate, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| 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 |
| HB863 | Engross
Sine Die | Persons other than ministers who may celebrate rites of marriage; filing of the marriage record. Provides that a marriage license application shall allow parties to a marriage to designate an officiant to celebrate the rites of marriage, provided tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N) |
| 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) |
| HB1633 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Education; school modernization loan interest rate subsidy payments; eligibility. Requires the Board of Education to establish a program to use Literary Fund proceeds to subsidize interest payments on certain loans made by the Virginia Publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB547 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Energy and Economy Transition Council established. Establishes the Virginia Energy and Economy Transition Council, consisting of 30 members, to develop plans to assist the Commonwealth in transitioning from the use of fossil fuel energy to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; initial triennial review. Establishes requirements for the first scheduled triennial review proceeding for Virginia Electric and Power Company that is scheduled to be conducted in 2021. The measure directs that such initi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; task force; shortage of certified sexual assault nurse examiners in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish a task force to study the shortage of certified se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| HJR207 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Fairfax County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| 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 |
| HJR272 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Walmart Supercenter Store 2805.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
