| HB177 | Engross
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB983 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; definition of "medical care facility." Adds to the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required any facility located in Planning District 20 that has common ownership with an affiliate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1621 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Urban Agriculture Advisory Council created; report. Creates the Virginia Urban Agriculture Advisory Council as an advisory council in the legislative branch of state government to encourage urban agriculture and contribute to building a loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1026 | Engross
Sine Die | Pharmacists; initiating treatment, dispensing, and administering of controlled substances. Includes in the practice of pharmacy initiating treatment, dispensing, and administering of certain drugs and devices by a pharmacist, provided that such pharm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (12-Y 10-N) |
| SB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Inpatient psychiatric services; in-home follow-up nursing services upon discharge. Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to promulgate regulations that require each provider of inpatient psychiatric services to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB967 | Engross
Sine Die | Eminent domain; notice of intent to file certificate. Provides that the notice required to be sent to a landowner prior to an authorized condemnor recording a certificate of take or certificate of deposit shall state that (i) the certificate of take ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
VOTE: Reconsideration rejected (47-Y 53-N) |
| SB664 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the minimum motor vehicle liability insurance coverage amounts from $25,000 to $35,000 in cases of bodily injury to or death of one person, from $50,000 to $70,000 in cases of bodily injury...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Failed to report (defeated) in Labor and Commerce (9-Y 10-N) |
| SB400 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Data Commission; report. Establishes the Virginia Data Commission as a permanent legislative commission. The Commission will study, report, and make recommendations on all areas of data governance and analytics in the Commonwealth to ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Tabled in Communications, Technology and Innovation (12-Y 9-N) |
| SB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Allows any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, who (i) is 55 years of age or older and has served at least 15 years of the sentence imposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1391 | Engross
Sine Die | Deeds of trust; fiduciary duties. Specifies that a trustee under a deed of trust has only the duties, rights, and obligations imposed and conferred on it by the deed of trust or by statute. The bill further requires that a trustee shall comply with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (13-Y 2-N) |
| HB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Cruelty to children; penalty. Increases the penalty from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony for any person employing or having custody of a child to willfully cause or permit such child to be tortured physically or psychologically, tormented, mutil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB326 | Engross
Sine Die | Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction; recommendation of leniency. Provides that a jury may, in ascertaining the punishment for a person convicted of a felony or Class 1 misdemeanor, recommend that the sentence imposed be suspended in wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; seizure management and action plans; training. Provides for the submission and utilization of seizure management and action plans for students with a seizure disorder. The bill requires that school nurses and certain school division e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| HB707 | Engross
Sine Die | Conservation of trees; Town of Vienna. Allows the Town of Vienna, by ordinance, to require that a subdivision or development provide for the preservation or replacement of trees on the development site such that the minimum tree canopy 10 years after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB1042 | Engross
Sine Die | Wills; presumption of undue influence. Codifies the common law test for establishing undue influence upon a testator in the execution of a will. The bill further provides that if evidence is presented to establish the elements required for such a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB416 | Engross
Sine Die | Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer with 25 employees or more from (i) requiring as a condition of employment that a prospective employee provide or disclose the prospective employee's wage or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1288 | Engross
Sine Die | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; permit to restore rights; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of stalking, sexual battery, assault and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1108 | Engross
Sine Die | City council salaries. Removes the statutory salary caps for members of city councils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB1182 | Engross
Sine Die | Protective order; family abuse; financial relief; temporary spousal support. Allows the court to order the respondent in a protective order issued in a case of family abuse to order financial or other relief for the protection or well-being of the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB189 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration. Provides for local jails to be compensated for the actual cost of incarcerating convicted felons at the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual jail cost report. Current law provides f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Tabled in Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB46 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application form contents. Removes the requirement that a person applying for an absentee ballot provide supporting information regarding the reason he is eligible for an absentee ballot. The applicant will still be required to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (19-Y 1-N) |
| HB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages at school-sponsored activities; penalty. Prohibits persons from possessing or drinking alcoholic beverages while attending a public elementary or secondary school-sponsored ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; school zones and school property; penalty. Adds school crossing zones and school property to the locations in which a driver is prohibited from holding a handheld personal communications device in his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption for menstrual supplies. Provides that menstrual cups and pads, pantyliners, sanitary napkins, tampons, and other products used to absorb or contain menstrual flow shall be fully exempt from sales and use tax. The exemption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Appropriations (1-Y 21-N) |
| HB57 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary election. Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the change of date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 19-N) |
| SB911 | Engross
Sine Die | Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle charging spots; civil penalties. Prohibits a person from parking a vehicle that is not a plug-in electric vehicle in a space reserved for charging electric vehicles. A violation is subject to a civil penalty of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1187 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; online sales of spirits by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. Allows the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to include provisions in its agency agreements with licensed distillers operating gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Transportation design standards; modifications. Authorizes a Residency Engineer of the Virginia Department of Transportation, a licensed engineer designated by a Residency Engineer, or a licensed engineer selected by a Resident Administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB382 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, health maintenance organizations, and the Commonwealth's Medicaid program to provide coverage for prosthe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB824 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses; Internet orders and shipments. Allows the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to include provisions in its agency agreements with licensed distillers operating government stores that allow suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB869 | Engross
Sine Die | Supplementing compensation of public defender. Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of their deputies or employees, above the salary of any such offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB251 | Engross
Sine Die | Prostitution-related crimes; minors; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for an adult to visit a bawdy place with a minor when he knows that the bawdy place is used or to be used for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution. The bill also adds felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR9 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; State Crime Commission; reinstatement of Study; State Crime Commission; reinstatement of discretionary parole; report. Directs the State Crime Commission to study the reinstatement of discretionary parole, which was abolished in 1995.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Tabled in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| HB734 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; rolling conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; nonconformance with certain amendments. Provides that Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to the In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1619 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; subtraction for low-income military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. Provides an income tax subtraction for the military retirement income received by a veteran who has been rated with a 100 percent service-connecte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1563 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration penalty. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Expectorating in public places; repeal. Repeals the crime of expectorating in public places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Defeated by Senate (14-Y 24-N) |
| HB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB610 | Engross
Sine Die | Limitations period; previously time-barred actions; sexual abuse; two-year time period to file. Creates a two-year time period, on or after July 1, 2020, but before July 1, 2022, within which persons previously time-barred from filing an action for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1063 | Engross
Sine Die | Common-law crime of suicide. Abolishes the common-law crime of suicide. Suicide is currently a common-law crime in Virginia, although there is no statutorily prescribed punishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Guardianship and conservatorship petitions; identifying characteristics of the respondent. Adds certain identifying characteristics of the respondent to the content requirements of a petition for the appointment of a guardian, a conservator, or both ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB148 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving under the influence. Provides that the provisions regarding driving or operating a motor vehicle, engine, or train while intoxicated and the provisions regarding operating a motor vehicle by a person under the age of 21 after illegally consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Sanctions; improper purpose; claims filed in retaliation for certain actions. Provides that for the purpose of awarding sanctions improper purpose includes certain claims filed in retaliation for or in order to discourage actions taken by victims of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (7-Y 4-N) |
| SB681 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of experts in criminal cases. Increases from $750 to $1,200 the maximum fee that the court may pay for professional services rendered by each psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatory that the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriff of a county disclose to a school principal all instances where a juvenile at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Tabled in Courts of Justice (10-Y 9-N) |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Release of balloons; prohibition. Reduces the number of balloons per hour that a person may release without penalty from 49 to one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB291 | Engross
Sine Die | Mortgage brokers; prohibition on dual compensation. Clarifies the existing provisions that prohibit a licensed mortgage broker from negotiating, placing, or finding a mortgage loan that will be used to finance the purchase of residential property if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB52 | Engross
Sine Die | Opioid addiction treatment pilot program. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department), in partnership with community services boards, a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, and telemedicine networks, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB644 | Engross
Sine Die | Pipeline construction projects; violations; cumulative effect; civil penalties. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations to penalize the accrual of violations of the State Water Control Law by any large natural gas transmission pipe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Pipeline construction; certification requirement; minimum diameter; stop work orders. Reduces from 36 inches to 24 inches the minimum inside diameter of a natural gas transmission pipeline for which an individual Virginia Water Protection Permit, rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N) |
