| SB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; reporting requirements. Directs the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to, when sending any memorandum to a public institution of higher education recommending or mandating diversity of any desc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1767 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Powhatan County. Directs the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to distribute moneys from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund for (i) the stimulation of econom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (15-Y 7-N) |
| HR230 | Engross
Sine Die | Salaries, session expense Salaries, session expense payments, and contingent and incidental expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) |
| HJR574 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for a Joint Assembly Providing for a Joint Assembly and establishing a schedule for the conduct of business coming before the 2021 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
VOTE: REJECTED (55-Y 45-N) |
| SR90 | Pass | 2021 Senate operating resolution. 2021 Senate operating resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
Agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| HB1712 | Intro
Sine Die | Food packaging; PFAS chemicals; penalty. Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or distribution for sale or use of any food packaging containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS chemicals), defined in the bill as a class of fluorinate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| 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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons whose employment is covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and for persons whose earning capacity is impaired by physical def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund and Grant Program; firearm and ammunition tax. Establishes the Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund (the Fund), to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department), to dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; disbursement of surplus funds; prohibited conversion to personal use. Amends the current laws regarding the disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee so that such restrictions would apply ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections 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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB946 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance; doulas. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of medical assistance for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's online privacy protection. Prohibits any person who operates a website for commercial purposes and who collects or maintains personal information from or about the users of or visitors to such website or online service from releasing perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| HB1507 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of marijuana. Allows for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Possession of marijuana. Allows for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to establish a two-year resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits. The bill requires the calculation of earned sentence credits to apply retroactively to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Motion picture theaters; required open-captioned showings. Requires any motion picture theater that has four or more separate auditoriums to provide two scheduled showings of a motion picture that engages open captions for a particular showing of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; enrollment by pregnant individuals. Requires health carriers to allow pregnant individuals to enroll in a health benefit plan at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy, with the pregnant individual's coverage being eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Biometric data; employer policy on storage, protection, and destruction; civil penalty. Establishes the parameters for the capture and safekeeping of biometric data by employers. The bill defines "biometric data" as a retina or iris scan, fingerprint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| SJR39 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; effect of abolishing jury sentencing on the justice system; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to (i) identify the most common charges tried before juries within the Commonwealth and determine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters; 16-year-olds permitted to vote. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be 18 years of age, any person who is 16 years of age or older and is otherwise q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1432 | Engross
Sine Die | Certain early childhood care and education programs; parents of enrolled children; car seats for field trips. Requires the Department of Social Services to adopt regulations to require the parent of any child who attends any certified preschool, chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1392 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; FOIA Ombudsman; powers and duties; report. Requires the Attorney General to appoint a Virginia Freedom of Information Act Ombudsman to promote compliance by state agencies with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public middle school or high school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Education and Health 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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be granted to a qualified organization that has already received a general permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB253 | 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; business advisory committee. Establishes a business advisory committee, consisting of business and industry leaders in the Commonwealth, to advise the State Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Prompt payment by contractors to subcontractors. Provides that contracts under the Virginia Public Procurement Act shall include a payment clause requiring the contractor to pay a subcontractor within seven days after receipt of amounts paid to the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Diagnostic medical sonography; certification. Defines the practice of "diagnostic medical sonography" as the use of specialized equipment to direct high-frequency sound waves into an area of the human body to generate an image. The bill provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Students in grades six, seven, and eight; computer science or introduction to technology course required. Requires each student in grades six, seven, and eight, starting in the 2025–2026 school year, to complete at least one semester-long or ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for simple larceny or concealment of goods or merchandise when (i) the goods or merchandise consisted of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1372 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensing of retailers of vapor products; penalty. Requires any person that engages in the retail sale of vapor products to register with the Department of Taxation as a retail dealer. The bill authorizes the Department to charge an application fee n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug price transparency. Requires every health carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, wholesale drug distributer, and drug manufacturer to report information about prescription drug prices and related information to the Department of Health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness. The measure directs the standards to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Tourism Authority; marketing model for casinos. Directs the Executive Director of the Virginia Tourism Authority to develop a state and local tourist marketing model for casinos in the Commonwealth that shall include (i) identification of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB947 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; acquittals. Provides that a court that enters a judgment acquitting a person of a criminal charge shall also enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charge. Cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB830 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for possession of a controlled substance, marijuana possession, and underage alcohol possession when (i) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal shelters; confinement and disposition of animals. Increases from five to 10 the number of days an animal confined by a public or private animal shelter or releasing agency shall be kept prior to disposal of the animal unless sooner claimed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; community policy and management teams; use of funds. Provides that the state pool of funds for community policy and management teams may be used for residential or nonresidential services in a public school setting and to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB854 | Intro
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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for mammograms. Requires health insurers, on and after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for low-dose screening mammograms at rates that are more frequent than is currently required if the covered individual has a family...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession; Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decrimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | Local authority to restrict nutrient credit usage. Authorizes the governing body of any locality, by ordinance, to restrict the total nutrient credits that are generated in the locality and used in an adjacent eight-digit hydrologic unit code or four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Health and the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality; program to remediate septic systems in recurrently flooded areas of Resource Protection Areas. Directs the Commissioner of Health and the Director of the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
