| HB2185 | Pass | Sales tax; exemption for personal protective equipment; emergency. Establishes a retail sales and use tax exemption for personal protective equipment, defined in the bill. The exemption is available to any business that has in place a COVID-19 safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055) |
| HB1763 | Pass | Tax credit; agricultural best management practices. Creates an enhanced individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2021 through 2024 for the implementation of certain agricultural best management practices by the taxpayer that are r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) |
| HB1834 | Pass | Electric utilities; closure of carbon-emitting generating units. Requires each owner of a large carbon-emitting power plant to provide notice to relevant localities and state agencies about the decision to close the plant within 30 days of making suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041) |
| HB2064 | Pass | Recording an electronic document; electronic notarial certificate; emergency. Provides that if a clerk has an eRecording System, the clerk shall follow the provisions of the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. The bill further provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078) |
| SB1429 | Pass | Disposition of property previously used by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. Authorizes the Governor to lease a portion of property previously used by the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069) |
| SB1326 | Pass | Local cigarette taxes; regional cigarette tax boards. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth, where practical, to encourage local cigarette stamping and tax collection to be accomplished through regional cigarette tax boards, defined in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) |
| SB1438 | Pass | Combined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax; technical amendments. Provides that, for purposes of the combined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax that is currently authorized for Rappahannock and Madison Counties, the rate limit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) |
| SB1162 | Pass | Tax credit; agricultural best management practices. Creates an enhanced individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2021 through 2024 for the implementation of certain agricultural best management practices by the taxpayer that are r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| SB1242 | Pass | Personal appearance by two-way electronic video and audio communication; entry of plea, nolle prosequi, or dismissal; revocation proceedings. Provides that with the consent of the court and all parties, an appearance in a court may be made by two-way...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086) |
| HB2008 | Pass | Health insurance; authorization of drug prescribed for the treatment of a mental disorder. Requires that any provider contract between a carrier and a participating health care provider with prescriptive authority, or its contracting agent, contain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066) |
| HB2117 | Pass | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Requires that funds expended for private special education services under the Children's Services Act only be expended on educational programs that are licensed by the Board of Education or an equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| SB1447 | Pass | Fees for management and disposal of solid waste; Buckingham County. Adds Buckingham County to the list of counties authorized, by ordinance and after a public hearing, to levy a fee for the management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0063) |
| HB2311 | Pass | Objects of antiquity; removal from battlefield; penalty. Adds land owned by a battlefield preservation organization and land on which such organization holds an easement to the category of lands on which it is unlawful to intentionally damage, distur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| SB1251 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments. Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginia relating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changes to federal law and conform terminology to federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| SB1142 | Pass | Persons who may celebrate rites of marriage; members of the General Assembly; statewide elected officials. Authorizes any current member of the General Assembly and the current Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General to celebrate the rite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087) |
| HB2071 | Pass | Transportation projects; resiliency. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to determine whether a project has been designed to be or the project sponsor has committed that the design will be resilient when evaluating projects for the Six-Yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| SB1464 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemicals to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the sche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073) |
| SB1154 | Pass | Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; reports to designated protection and advocacy system. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Commissioner) to add written reports of the facts of al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065) |
| HB2179 | Pass | Refunding bonds; emergency. Alters the principal and interest requirements, maturity date, and allowable discount for previously issued refunding bonds. The bill contains an emergency clause and has an expiration date of June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| SB1134 | Pass | Refunding bonds; emergency. Alters the principal and interest requirements, maturity date, and allowable discount for previously issued refunding bonds. The bill contains an emergency clause and has an expiration date of June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| SB1392 | Pass | Consumer Data Protection Act. Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. The bill applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| HB2307 | Pass | Consumer Data Protection Act. Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. The bill applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| HB2288 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; requirement to submit list of subcontractors. Requires bidders or offerors on contracts for construction of $250,000 or more to submit along with their bid or proposal a list of all subcontract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities. Exempts a member of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, or a member of a veterans service organization that is Congressionally chartered or officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2331 | Engross
Sine Die | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses. Eliminates mandatory minimum sentences of confinement for certain crimes. The bill also provides a petition process for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter referendum; issuance of state general obligation bonds for school facility modernization. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly shall issue state general obligation bonds in the amount of $3 billion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1305 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; subcontractor workforce requirements. Requires all public bodies in a locality with a population in excess of 25,000 and covered institutions, defined in the bill, to include in every construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR322 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1115 | Engross
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; federal hemp producer license; emergency. Updates Virginia's industrial hemp laws to address the new hemp producer license issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bill changes drug laws to exclude the industrial hemp posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1363 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties. Restores the authority of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to (i) ensure the development of long-range policies, programs, and plans for corrections services provided at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2193 | Engross
Sine Die | Settlement agreements; stay of dismissal. Provides that, in any case in which a plaintiff or counterclaim plaintiff is seeking a civil judgment against a defendant or counterclaim defendant, if the parties enter into a written settlement agreement, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; license plate readers. Prohibits law-enforcement and regulatory agencies from using license plate readers to collect and maintain personal information on individuals without a warrant. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SB1171 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure requirements; industrial development authorities and economic development authorities. Requires the executive director and members of each industrial development authority and economic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Acts of Assembly, 2020 Special Session I. Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Acts of Assembly, 2020 Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1437 | Engross
Sine Die | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor offense or an administrative violation. The bill provides that an accused shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1401 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB5002 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Small Business Procurement Enhancement Program, and Women-owned and Minority-owned Business Procurement Enhancement Program established; report. Establishes the Small Business Procurement Enhanceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1123 | Engross
Sine Die | Will contest; presumption of undue influence. Provides that in any case contesting the validity of a decedent's will where a presumption of undue influence arises, the burden of producing evidence and the burden of persuasion as to the factual issue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1443 | Engross
Sine Die | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses. Eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| HB2074 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental justice; interagency working group. Establishes the Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group as an advisory council in the executive branch of state government to further environmental justice in the Commonwealth and directs each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Failed to pass |
| SB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence; report. Provides that a person who was convicted of a felony offense, or who was adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would have been a felony offense if committed by an adult, may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1246 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; mandatory processing of returned absentee ballots before election day; central absentee voter precinct in the office of the general registrar. Requires certain actions to be taken to process absentee ballots that are returned by mail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1180 | 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] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a pilot program to provide a fixed reimbursement for the costs of broadband services to households currently participating in the Supplemental Nut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board established. Establishes the Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1106 | 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 for the purposes of repairing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1211 | 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 moneys in the Public Safety Trust Fund are to be used to eliminate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1226 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation Board; determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Compensation Board shall consider workload totals comprehensively, including the use of diversion programs and specialty dockets, when deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
