| VA | HB5049 | Pass | Acquisition and use of military property by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that no state or local law-enforcement agency shall acquire or purchase (i) weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles; (ii) aircraft that are configured for combat or are combat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 55 (effective 3/1/21) |
| VA | HB5103 | Engross | Appropriation; Department of Elections. Appropriates $2,000,000 to the Department of Elections to be used to provide prepaid postage for the return of absentee ballots for the November 3, 2020, election. The bill requires that such prepaid postage be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR5011 | Intro | Women's Suffrage Month. Designates August, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Women's Suffrage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB5109 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officer training and qualifications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to develop a uniform curriculum and lesson plans for the compulsory minimum entry-leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0048) |
| VA | HB5058 | Pass | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| VA | HB5046 | Pass | Telemedicine services; originating site. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| VA | HB5064 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Changes from five to 14 days the amount of time that landlords who own four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| VA | HB5111 | Intro | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary prohibition against landlord termination of rental agreements or actions to obtain possession of a dwelling unit under certain circumstances. Prohibits the termination of rental agreements and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5043 | Pass | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041) |
| VA | HB5068 | Pass | Emergency relief payments exempt from creditor process; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) |
| VA | HB5108 | Pass | Criminal Justice Services Board; Committee on Training; membership and responsibilities. Changes the membership of the Criminal Justice Services Board and its Committee on Training by requiring that some members be representatives of a social justice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) |
| VA | HB5104 | Pass | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officer, etc.; disclosure of information. Provides that any sheriff or chief of police, the director or chief executive of any agency or department employing deputy sheriffs or law-enforcement officers, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032) |
| VA | HB5069 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits a law-enforcement officer from using a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties and provides for disciplinary sanctions on an officer who uses a neck restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| VA | HB5050 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of Governor; purchase of personal protective equipment during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat. Grants the Governor authority during a disaster caused by a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| VA | HB5055 | Pass | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) |
| VA | HB5045 | Pass | Carnal knowledge of a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, juvenile detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| VA | HB5051 | Pass | Decertification of law-enforcement officer. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to adopt standards of conduct applicable to law-enforcement and jail officers and due process procedures for decertification based on serious misconduct i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| VA | HB5099 | Pass | Search warrants; provide notice of authority. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant. The bill provides that, for all authorized search warrants, the law-enforceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) |
| VA | HB5029 | Pass | Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an excessive use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who while in the performance of his official duties witnesses another law-enforcement officer engaging or attempting to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| VA | HB5072 | Pass | Law-enforcement misconduct. Authorizes the Attorney General to file a civil suit or inquire into or seek to conciliate, through the Division of Human Rights, any unlawful pattern and practice against the Commonwealth or a locality whenever the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018) |
| VA | HB5098 | Pass | Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony when a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) |
| VA | HB5047 | Pass | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. However, the bill provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016) |
| VA | HB5062 | Pass | Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case. Requires a court to grant a motion to dismiss made by the Commonwealth, whether with or without prejudice, and with the consent of the defendant unless the cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| VA | HB5048 | Pass | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| VA | HB5087 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | HR621 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR621ER) |
| VA | HB5052 | Pass | Legal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | HB5059 | Pass | Certain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| VA | HB5113 | Pass | Certain school boards; student meals; participation in the Community Eligibility Provision. Requires each school board that governs a local school division that contains any public elementary or secondary school that is eligible to participate in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002) |
| VA | HB5030 | Engross | Monuments and memorials for war veterans; authority of localities. Changes the authority of a locality from the authority to "contextualize or cover" to the authority to "alter" a monument or memorial for war veterans located within the geographical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-05
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR608 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-02
Bill text as passed House (HR608ER) |
| VA | HR607 | Pass | Commending the House Clerk's Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-29
Bill text as passed House (HR607ER) |
| VA | HR588 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-25
Bill text as passed House (HR588ER) |
| VA | HB5028 | Engross | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, health care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB5090 | Engross | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, to the types of law-enforcement and criminal records required to be released in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB5116 | Engross | Paid quarantine leave. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB5112 | Engross | Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer; penalty. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HR550 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nathaniel Thomas Connally, Jr., M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Bill text as passed House (HR550ER) |
| VA | HR551 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Hospital Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Bill text as passed House (HR551ER) |
| VA | HR544 | Engross | Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR532 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Captain Michael Francis Ott, Jr., USN, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR565 | Pass | Commending Captain Paul Lanzilotta, USN.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Bill text as passed House (HR565ER) |
| VA | HB358 | Pass | Project labor agreements; public procurement. Authorizes any public body, including any state or local government, when engaged in procuring products or services or letting contracts for construction, manufacture, maintenance, or operation of public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1203) |
| VA | HB789 | Pass | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1215) |
| VA | HB1211 | Pass | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources or been claimed as a dependent on an individual tax return fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1227) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB421 | Pass | Control of firearms by localities. Authorizes any locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1205) |
| VA | HB1004 | Pass | Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Prohibits any person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) from knowingly possessing a firearm wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1221) |
| VA | HB1420 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; charge for late payment of rent; restrictions. Provides that a landlord shall not charge a tenant for late payment of rent unless such charge is provided for in the written rental agreement, and that no such late charge shall exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1231) |
| VA | HB981 | Pass | Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; fund. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to incorporate into regulations previously adopted by the State Air Pollution Control Board certain provisions establishing a carbon dioxide cap ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1219) |
