| HB1618 | Engross
Sine Die | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury investigations. Provides that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate any condition that involves or tends to promote criminal violations of any law of the Commonwealth. Under current law, the jurisdiction of a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia State Crime Commission |
| HB1455 | Engross
Sine Die | Invoice for unpaid tolls; mail. Authorizes toll facility operators to mail invoices for two or more unpaid tolls by first-class mail or certified mail. The bill provides that a rebuttable presumption that the owner or operator of the vehicle has rece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1418 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; workplace harassment; civil actions by private parties. Creates a cause of action against any employer employing more than five employees who discharges or engages in an unlawful discriminatory act against any employee on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB988 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; electric school bus projects. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia to implement projects designed to encourage the proliferation of school buses that are fueled in whole or in part by electricity, along with associated charging and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
VOTE: DEFEATED (43-Y 54-N) |
| HB1530 | Engross
Sine Die | No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement. Removes the corroborating witness requirement for no-fault divorces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HB1116 | Engross
Sine Die | Political parties; notification of adoption of primary election; certification of candidates. Directs the state political party chairmen, or their designees, to notify the Department of Elections of the party's adoption of a primary election for any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Defeated by Senate (14-Y 26-N) |
| SB806 | Engross
Sine Die | Ex parte requests for investigative services or expert assistance in criminal cases. Allows a defendant or his attorney, when such defendant is charged with a felony offense or Class 1 misdemeanor and is financially unable to pay for expert assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Individual income tax subtraction for certain low-income and middle-income students. Establishes an individual income tax subtraction starting in taxable year 2021 for any financial assistance received by a student through the Get Skilled, Get a Job,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB501 | Engross
Sine Die | Adoption and foster care; persons authorized to conduct home studies. Allows home studies for purposes of adoption or foster care placements to be conducted by any person who has completed the home study training program established by regulations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Custodial interrogations; recording. Provides that any law-enforcement officer shall, if practicable, make an audiovisual recording of the entirety of any custodial interrogation of a person conducted in a place of detention. The bill provides that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; pardons. Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction for misdemeanors and certain felonies if he has been granted a simple pardon for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Grandfathering certain nonconforming use. Removes the requirement that in order for a wall build on residential property to be grandfathered as a valid nonconforming use, the residential property owner must have been informed by a local official that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1076 | Engross
Sine Die | Property conveyance; Governor; Chickahominy Indian Tribe. Authorizes the Governor to purchase, in a form approved by the Attorney General and for an amount of up to $2.5 million, land located in Charles City County for the purpose of conveyance to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB458 | Engross
Sine Die | Microloans for Veterans Program and Fund; creation and administration. Creates the Microloans for Veterans Program and Fund to be administered by the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority (the Authority). The bill directs the Virginia Community...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1081 | Engross
Sine Die | COPN; demonstration of public need and compliance with State Medical Facilities Plan. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, an application for a certificate of public need for the introduction of a specialty-level n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB705 | Engross
Sine Die | Issuance of United States passports by clerk's office. Provides that a clerk of a circuit court shall collect whatever fee is specified by the U.S. Department of State for processing and issuing a United States passport, of which $10 shall be paid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB790 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; provide benefits to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1057 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credits for retired state employees, constitutional officers, and other employees. Increases annually the amount of the health insurance credit for retirees who rendered at least 30 years of creditable ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB187 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF; time limitations. Removes the time limitations on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that limited Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW) participants to receiving TANF for a maximum of 24 consecutive months. The provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB878 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of court-appointed counsel; waivers. Allows court-appointed counsel for parents in child welfare cases to submit a waiver application for additional compensation of $120 in district court and $158 for cases appealed to the circuit court....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1657 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority; dissolution; conveyance of property. Provides that the board of the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority may by resolution divest itself of property owned by the authority and may convey all such prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
Sine Die | Public School Assistance Fund and Program created. Creates the Public School Assistance Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing grants to school boards to be used solely for the purpose of rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB937 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Community College System; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Scholarship Pilot Program. Directs the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to establish and administer a two-year Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Scholarsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB807 | Engross
Sine Die | Larceny; subsequent offenses; penalty. Eliminates the enhanced Class 6 felony applicable for a third or subsequent offense of petit larceny.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB671 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; return to employment by certain retired employees. Provides that a political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System may hire up to two retirees at a time to return to work in full-time positions. Such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB344 | Engross
Sine Die | Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Committee for Courts of Justice; name change. Updates the Code of Virginia by providing that any reference to the "Senate Finance Committee" or the "Senate Committee on Finance" means the Senate Committee on Financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Rules Committee |
| SB1007 | Engross
Sine Die | Stormwater management; inspections. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require that a long-term maintenance agreement for any best management practice that is a wet pond provide for inspections no more frequently than eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Hope Card Program; permanent protective orders. Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to develop and implement a Hope Card Program (the Program) for the issuance of a Hope Card to any person who has been issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Persons acquitted by reason of insanity. Makes various changes to the provisions regarding confinement hearings and conditional release procedures for persons who have been acquitted of a violent felony by reason of insanity. Under current law, such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia-Korea Advisory Board; report. Establishes a nine-member Virginia-Korea Advisory Board in the executive branch of state government to advise the Governor on ways to improve mutually beneficial trade relationships between the Commonwealth and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for teaching material expenses. Establishes an individual nonrefundable income tax credit of up to $250 for licensed teachers in taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2025, for the purchase price of mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB338 | Engross
Sine Die | State Police Officers' Retirement System; exception to mandatory retirement requirement. Allows an exception from compulsory retirement at age 70 for any member of the State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) who receives written approval fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB564 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Hearing Loss Identification and Monitoring System; language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Expands the responsibilities of the advisory committee of the Virginia Hearing Loss Identification and Monitoring System to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB5 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Education; uniform minimum standards for modern public school buildings. Requires the Board of Education to prescribe by regulation uniform minimum standards for the erection of modern public school buildings and the modernization of existin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB841 | Engross
Sine Die | George Mason University; establishment of a school of medicine. States that it is the sense of the General Assembly that George Mason University shall be encouraged to take steps to investigate and pursue the potential of establishing a school of med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB518 | Engross
Sine Die | Changing the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations to begin in odd-numbered years. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
