| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Flavored tobacco products; sale prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale, distribution, offering for sale or distribution, or causing the sale or distribution of flavored tobacco products, as that term is defined in the bill, and imposes a civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Provision of telecommunications services by local governments. Authorizes any locality to provide any telecommunications service, including cable television services, Internet, broadband, telephone service, and wireless Internet service, within its b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; per student enrollment-based funding; noncredit workforce training programs. Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to public institutions of higher education to include funding for each Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets; use by juries. Requires that the jury be given the applicable discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets during a sentencing proceeding and that the court instruct the jury that the sentencing guide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1080 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; Urban Teacher Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Urban Teacher Fund and Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the purpose of providing grants to persons employed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Resource Protection Areas; improvement plans. Directs the State Water Control Board, in promulgating regulations that establish criteria for use by local governments to determine the ecological and geographic extent of Chesapeake Bay Preservation Are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1010 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal fiscal impact statements. Provides that no bill resulting in an increase in net periods of imprisonment or commitment shall be (i) reported from a standing committee of the House of Delegates or the Senate or (ii) passed by the House of Dele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional state sales tax on firearms and ammunition; use of proceeds; Student Mental Health and Safety Fund and Program. Imposes an additional sales and use tax on the retail sale of firearms and ammunition. The amount of the tax shall be 10 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; VDACS; sources, scale, and prevention of food waste in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) to study, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and stakeholde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR58 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); uniform schedule of elections for members of the General Assembly and statewide offices. Provides for a uniform schedule for general elections of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; misdemeanor convictions. Allows a person convicted of a misdemeanor to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if (i) such person has been free from an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1109 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; combined reporting requirements; disclosures. Requires, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, unitary combined reporting for Virginia corporate income tax purposes. The bill also requires corporations, beginni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1717 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard deduction from Virginia taxable income; increasing. Increases the standard deduction for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2026, from $4,500 to $6,000 for single individuals and from $9,000 to $12,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB456 | Intro
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 |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on mandatory minimum punishment. Provides that mandatory minimum punishments shall not apply to any sentence imposed for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; health insurance for local school board employees. Allows local school boards to elect to have all of their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of such employees and retirees, be eligible to part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education and Department of Environmental Quality; sixth grade science curriculum. Directs the Department of Education to coordinate with the Department of Environmental Quality to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1599 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; staffing ratios; librarians. Requires school boards to employ librarians in accordance with the following ratios: in elementary schools, one part-time to 299 students, one full-time at 300 students, and two full-time at 700 students; i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| HB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; graduation requirements; English as a second language courses. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit English as a second language (ESL) courses to satisfy credit requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Minority Business Commission; report. Establishes a 13-member legislative Commission to promote the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned businesses. The bill provides that the Commission sunsets on July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1713 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB490 | Intro
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, or assault a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1112 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment; covenants not to compete. Declares that any contract, including a provision of an employment agreement, entered into on or after July 1, 2020, by which an employee is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1677 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; retail customer choice. Replaces the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act with a system under which retail customers will be able to purchase electricity from the retail electric provider of their choice. The measure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; student growth measurement system. Directs the Department of Education to obtain an individualized student growth measurement system that tracks and analyzes student growth indicators. The bill requires that the student growt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; certain misdemeanor and felony larceny convictions. Allows a person convicted of a misdemeanor or felony larceny offense where the value of the property stolen was less than $500 to file a petition for expunge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile community correctional centers and facilities; establishment; placement of juveniles. Changes the term "juvenile correctional centers and facilities" to "juvenile community correctional centers and facilities." The bill further provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1543 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage and workers' compensation; inmates as employees. Requires the entity that operates the correctional facility at which an inmate performs labor to be paid therefor at a rate not less than the Commonwealth's minimum wage. The measure also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | State subsidy of property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and surviving spouses. Requires the Commonwealth to subsidize local real estate tax relief for disabled veterans and surviving spouses of members of the armed forces killed in action when...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional alternative education programs; funding. Requires the funding transferred from the Department of Education to the relevant school divisions in support of a regional alternative education program to be based on each such school division's nee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protection; discharge for protective order prohibited. Prohibits an employer from discharging, taking other retaliatory personnel action, or otherwise discriminating against an employee solely on the basis that such employee has filed for or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Development Authority; power to make loans; loans to finance payments on student debt. Permits the Virginia Housing Development Authority (HDA) to make mortgage loans, including federally insured mortgage loans, to finance the purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal fiscal impact statements. Provides that no bill resulting in an increase in net periods of imprisonment or commitment shall be (i) reported from a standing committee of the House of Delegates or the Senate or (ii) passed by the House of Dele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB672 | Engross
Sine Die | State, regional, and local planning; climate change. Establishes a policy of the Commonwealth to prevent and to minimize actions that contribute to the detrimental effects of climate change in the Commonwealth. The bill requires any state agency to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources 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] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Water and sewer service charges; tenant or lessee. Reduces the maximum potential responsibility of a property owner for a tenant's unpaid water and sewer charges by capping the dollar amount of such property owner's responsibility at $300. Water and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; misdemeanor and felony convictions. Allows a person convicted of a criminal offense to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if such person (i) has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Division of Human Rights; duties. Clarifies that the duties of the Division of Human Rights shall include receiving and investigating all complaints alleging unlawful discriminatory practices that are filed within the applicable statute of limitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House General Laws Committee |
