| SB990 | Pass | Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund. Creates the Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund to be administered by the Virginia Tourism Authority to support the local, regional, national, and international airp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1120) |
| HB390 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; license and fee reform. Reorganizes all alcoholic beverage control licenses pursuant to the three-tier structure and license privileges, consolidates many licenses with common privileges, aligns license fee amounts with en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1113) |
| HB1103 | Pass | Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies; local option pilot program. Provides that elections for local governing bodies may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill defines as the method of casting and tabulating votes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1054) |
| HB1037 | Pass | Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans. Prohibits carriers from issuing in the Commonwealth, on or after July 1, 2021, any short-term limited-duration medical plan with a duration that exceeds three months or that can be renewed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1076) |
| HB1186 | Pass | Disposal of solid waste fees; Russell County. Allows Russell County to levy fees by ordinance, and after a public hearing, for the disposal and management of solid waste at a county collection or disposal facility not to exceed the actual cost incurr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1117) |
| SB236 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1071) |
| SB105 | Pass | Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat. Provides that any history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat that occurred no earlier than 10 years prior to the filing of a petition for c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1075) |
| SB200 | Pass | Income tax credits for housing choice vouchers; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Ar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1032) |
| HB1519 | Pass | Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans; report; sunset. Creates the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discriminati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1043) |
| HB1602 | Pass | Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund. Creates the Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund to be administered by the Virginia Tourism Authority to support the local, regional, national, and international airp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1119) |
| SB433 | Pass | Invocation of constitutional rights in domestic relations cases; adverse inference. Allows the trier of fact in a civil domestic relations proceeding to draw an adverse inference if a party or witness in such a proceeding refuses to answer a question... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1062) |
| HB857 | Pass | Segregated accommodations and segregation districts for residences. Repeals Acts of Assembly that implemented (i) separate accommodations for white and African American passengers on steamboats and (ii) designation of segregation districts for reside... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1050) |
| HB2 | Pass | Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111) |
| SB393 | Pass | Child day programs; potable water; lead testing. Requires licensed child day programs and certain other programs that serve preschool-age children to develop and implement a plan to test potable water from sources identified by the U.S. Environmental... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1085) |
| HB1257 | Pass | Drinking water supplies; maximum contaminant levels. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations establishing maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in public drinking water systems for (i) perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate, and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1097) |
| HB19 | Pass | Voter identification; repeal of photo identification requirements; additional forms of identification accepted; signed statement in lieu of required form of identification; penalty. Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1064) |
| HB298 | Pass | Misdemeanor sexual offenses where the victim is a minor; statute of limitations. Increases the statute of limitations for prosecuting misdemeanor violations where the victim is a minor from one year after the victim reaches the age of majority to fiv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1122) |
| HB799 | Pass | Child day programs; potable water; lead testing. Requires licensed child day programs and certain other programs that serve preschool-age children to develop and implement a plan to test potable water from sources identified by the U.S. Environmental... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1084) |
| SB794 | Pass | Utility easements; location of broadband facilities. Declares that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that (i) easements for the location and use of electric and communications facilities may be used to provide or expand broadband or other communic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1131) |
| HB1513 | Pass | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees other than teachers. Requires school divisions to provide a health insurance credit of $1.50 per year of service to non-teacher employees of a local school division with at least 15 years... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1091) |
| HB668 | Pass | Field investigations permit; archaeologist qualifications; penalty. Establishes standards for education, experience, ability, and other factors for a field supervisor who is identified in an application to the Director of the Department of Conservati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1106) |
| SB888 | Pass | Commission on School Construction and Modernization established; report. Establishes the Commission on School Construction and Modernization for the purpose of providing guidance and resources to local school divisions related to school construction ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1044) |
| HB402 | Pass | Public schools; lock-down drills; frequency; exemptions. Requires every public school to hold at least one lock-down drill after the first 60 days of the school session, in addition to the two lock-down drills required to be held during the first 20 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1040) |
| HB1269 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Provides that the board of trustees of the Veterans Services Foundation may be assisted in the administration of the Foundation by volunteers and staff members employed by the Executive Director. The bill also (i) adds a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1128) |
| HB784 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1070) |
| HB259 | Pass | Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant is likely to remain incompetent for the foreseeable future due to an ongoing and irreversible medical condition and prior medical or educational records a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1121) |
| HB928 | Pass | Chesterfield County School Board; recovery high school. Permits the Chesterfield County School Board to establish a recovery high school in the school division as a year-round high school (i) for which enrollment is open to any high school student wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1042) |
| SB792 | Pass | Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber ne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1027) |
| HB1434 | Pass | Local tax exemption; solar energy equipment. Changes the local property tax exemption for solar energy projects from an 80 percent exemption for the life of the project to a step down scale of an 80 percent exemption in the first five years, 70 perce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1028) |
| HB1521 | Pass | Chapters of Acts of Assembly of previous years repealed. Repeals chapters of the Acts of Assembly of 1914, 1916, and 1920 related to the establishment and expansion of the Central State colony for "feeble-minded colored persons" and repeals a chapter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1057) |
| HB1080 | Pass | Firearms or other weapons on school property. Provides that no school board may authorize or designate any person to possess a firearm on school property other than those persons expressly authorized by statute. The bill also clarifies that no exempt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1037) |
| HB271 | Pass | Public schools; school resource officers; data. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1039) |
| SB818 | Pass | Behavioral health dockets; established. Establishes, by the Behavioral Health Docket Act (the Act), behavioral health courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judicial monitoring of intens... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1096) |
| SB910 | Pass | Instructional positions; students identified as having limited English proficiency. Requires, effective with the 2020-2021 school year, state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support 18.5 full-time equivalent instru... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1035) |
| SB612 | Pass | Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol; replacement of Robert E. Lee statue in National Statuary Hall Collection. Creates the Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol to determine whether the Robert E. Le... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1098) |
| SB423 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1094) |
| HB1251 | Pass | Health insurance; payment to out-of-network providers. Provides that when an enrollee receives emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider or receives out-of-network surgical or ancillary services at an in-network facility, the enr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1080) |
| SB545 | Pass | Appeals of right in general district court; appeals of final orders or judgments entered in the same action or related action. Provides that there shall be an appeal of right to a court of record from any order entered or judgment rendered in a gener... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1049) |
| HB1705 | Pass | Yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians; stopping. Clarifies the duties of vehicle drivers to stop when yielding to pedestrians at (i) clearly marked crosswalks, whether at midblock or at the end of any block; (ii) any regular pedestrian crossing in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1031) |
| HB1537 | Pass | Memorials for war veterans. Provides that a locality may remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover any monument or memorial for war veterans on the locality's public property, not including a monument or memorial located in a publicly owned cemetery,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1101) |
| HB870 | Pass | Statute of limitations; sexual abuse. Provides that for a cause of action accruing on or after July 1, 2020, every action for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse shall be brought within 10 years after the cause of action accrues. This bi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1125) |
| HB1271 | Pass | Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber ne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1026) |
| HB831 | Pass | Utility easements; location of broadband and other communications facilities. Declares that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that (i) easements for the location and use of electric and communications facilities may be used to provide or expand br... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1132) |
| SB700 | Pass | Indexing of wills. Provides that, at the time of qualification of an executor, every will shall be indexed in the name of the decedent and such executor. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1063) |
| HB648 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; redisclosure. Provides for the mutual exchange of information between the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Emergency Department Care ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1066) |
| SB389 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; license and fee reform. Reorganizes all alcoholic beverage control licenses pursuant to the three-tier structure and license privileges, consolidates many licenses with common privileges, aligns license fee amounts with en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1114) |
| HB868 | Pass | Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed competitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbent ele... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1107) |
| HB1725 | Pass | Circuit court judges; administrative assistants. Provides that an employee hired and paid by a county or city to assist with the administration of a circuit court judge's office shall serve at the sole discretion and under the sole supervision of suc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1061) |
| SB1040 | Pass | School board member compensation; City of Winchester. Authorizes the City of Winchester to compensate its school board members with an annual salary not to exceed $4,500. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1046) |
| SB636 | Pass | Obsolete Acts of Assembly; racial inequity. Repeals numerous obsolete and discriminatory Acts of Assembly from the early 20th century. This is a recommendation of the Governor's Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law. The purpose of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1056) |