| VA | SB1427 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1106 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1100 | Intro | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the 2020 Special Session I Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1105 | Engross | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. 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 petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
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| VA | SB1301 | Engross | Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1211 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1109 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract clause requiring subcontractor reporting of payments to employees and independent contractors. Requires any contract awarded by a state agency or an agency of local government to require the contractor to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB1975 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; survivors of criminal sexual assault and certain other sex crimes. Declares eligible for counseling at no cost and a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at any public instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office). The bill enumerates the duties and powers of the Office, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Construction Fund and Program. Establishes the School Construction Fund as a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires the Department of Education to establish the School Construction Program for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as fingerprint examiners. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a law-enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain children with disabilities; one-year high school extensions permitted. Requires any child with a disability who receives special education and related services, reaches age 22 after September 30, 2020, and is scheduled to complete high school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation; at or above national average. Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. The bill requires state funding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1929 | Intro
Sine Die | School Equity and Staffing Act; Standards School Equity and Staffing Act; Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing home staffing and care standards; study. Requires regulations establishing the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum number of hours of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period, which minimum increa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2024. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco retail licensing; penalties. The bill prohibits any person from selling any tobacco product at retail without first obtaining a license from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (the Authority). The bill prohibits the sale of tobacco prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2260 | Intro
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] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Provides that if a retired law-enforcement officer was employed by a local school division as a school security officer on January 1, 2020, and had a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; Department of Corrections Special Investigations Unit. Adds agents of the Department of Corrections Special Investigations Unit to the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS). The bill provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries from conditions resulting from repetitive and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | Group Violence Intervention Board; Division of Group Violence Intervention; Project Ceasefire Grant Fund; Project Exit Grant Fund. Establishes the Group Violence Intervention Board to coordinate and assist federal, state, and local group violence int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick time. Requires public and private employers Paid sick time. Requires public and private employers with 35 or more full-time equivalent employees to provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with earned paid sick time and paid sick ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1771 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guard members. Provides for taxable years 2021 through 2025 a nonrefundable tax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB2253 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic Development Access Program, bonded projects. Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor; broadband service territory maps. Requires the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor to develop and maintain a map of private broadband provider service territories, including accurate average broadband speeds in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
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| VA | HB1941 | Intro
Sine Die | Required release of video or audio recording; discharge of firearm or use of stun weapon or chemical irritant by law-enforcement officer. Requires that, whenever a law-enforcement officer (i) discharges a firearm or (ii) uses a stun weapon or chemica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1753 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission Accreditation Grant Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission Accreditation Grant Fund (the Fund) and the Virginia Law Enforcement Professio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; Department of Environmental Quality; pilot program; engineered septic systems. Requires the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Quality, in partnership with the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of educational placement transition of certain students with disabilities. Requires the Department of Education and relevant local school board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
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| VA | HB1542 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; Department of Motor Vehicles officers. Establishes a presumption that hypertension or heart disease causing the death or disability of a full-time sworn member of the enforcement division of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
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| VA | HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB366 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; learning management system. Directs the Department of Education to obtain a statewide learning management system for use in public schools by the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Flood Insurance Fund; low-income Virginians. Creates a Flood Insurance Fund and directs the Executive Director of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Resources Authority to establish a program to use the Fund to subsidize the purchase of flood ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
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| VA | HB602 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; scholastic records; charges. Provides that, upon request, scholastic records shall be furnished electronically once per academic quarter and physically once per academic year at no charge to the student who is the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
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| VA | HB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; Cybersecurity Advisory Council created; report. Creates the Cybersecurity Advisory Council to (i) assist the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency with the developmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1297 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; members. Increases from three to five the number of members of the State Corporation Commission. The measure requires that the new members be initially elected for a six-year term during the earlier of the 2021 Regular S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB723 | Engross
Sine Die | Bail; data collection and reporting standards; report. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) collect data relating to bail determinations for any person who is held in custody pending trial or hearing for an offense, civil or cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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 |
