| VA | HB2790 | Pass | Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person voting available beginning on second Saturday immediately preceding election. Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person beginning on the second Saturday immediately preceding any electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| VA | HB1815 | Pass | Assisted living facilities; emergency electrical power source; disclosure to prospective residents. Directs the State Board of Social Services to adopt regulations that require assisted living facilities to disclose to each prospective resident, or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| VA | HB1675 | Pass | Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; attorney fees. Provides that, where the appointment of counsel is necessary pursuant to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, any attorney fees assessed shall not exceed $125, unless the court deems a higher amount app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| VA | HB1659 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect ministers, priests, rabbis, imams, and duly accredited practitioners of any religious organization or denomination u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| VA | HB2597 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect report or complaint; victims of sex trafficking; taking child victim into custody. Requires a local department of social services to conduct a sex trafficking assessment upon receiving a complaint of suspected child abuse that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| VA | HB1914 | Pass | Requirements for issuing prescriptions; exceptions for public health practitioners. Authorizes practitioners contracted by the Department of Health and practitioners employed or contracted by a local health department to prescribe antibiotic therapy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| VA | HB1753 | Pass | School buildings; electronic room partitions. Prohibits school employees from opening or closing an electronic room partition in any school building except under certain limited circumstances. The bill requires any annual safety review or exercise fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB2739 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; City of Alexandria. Adds six cemeteries in Alexandria to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| VA | HB2400 | Pass | School boards; School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; web-based application. Requires each local school board that collects information to determine eligibility for participation in the School Breakfast Program or the National Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | HJR873 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ralph L. Axselle, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ873ER) |
| VA | HJR1134 | Pass | Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library; sit-in. Commemorates the 80th anniversary of the sit-in at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch of the Alexandria Library.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1134ER) |
| VA | HJR1022 | Pass | Commending the West Springfield High School baseball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1022ER) |
| VA | HJR1058 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Alexis Wesolowsky Press.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1058ER) |
| VA | HJR1139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Bradford Turner Clark.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1139ER) |
| VA | HJR1113 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1113ER) |
| VA | HJR1124 | Pass | Commending the Fairfax County Park Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1124ER) |
| VA | HJR1138 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Captain Anthony Reid Adams, USCG, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1138ER) |
| VA | HR416 | Pass | Commending Black women in the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR416ER) |
| VA | HR455 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joshua Wayne Bell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR455ER) |
| VA | HB1732 | Pass | School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training. Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| VA | HJR593 | Pass | Remembering the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Remembering the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ593ER) |
| VA | HJR1095 | Pass | Commending Sharon Bulova.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1095ER) |
| VA | HR397 | Pass | Commending Virginia Indians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR397ER) |
| VA | HR439 | Pass | Commending the Alexandria Library Company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR439ER) |
| VA | HB1711 | Pass | Reorganization of motor vehicle registration, licensing, and certificates of title statutes; segregation of criminal offenses and traffic offenses. Moves the criminal offenses related to registration, licensing, and certificates of title included wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| VA | HJR599 | Pass | Commending the Washington Capitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ599ER) |
| VA | HJR630 | Pass | Silence Empowers Violence Break the Code Awareness-to-Action Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as Silence Empowers Violence Break the Code Awareness-to-Action Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ630ER) |
| VA | HJR720 | Pass | World Refugee Day. Designates June 20, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as World Refugee Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ720ER) |
| VA | HJR948 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Annie Lee Farmer McGuire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ948ER) |
| VA | HJR941 | Pass | Celebrating the life of George Shelbourne Bussey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ941ER) |
| VA | HR274 | Intro | Rules of the House of Delegates; motion for immediate consideration of Senate Joint Resolution ratifying an amendment to the United States Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
VOTE: REJECTED (50-Y 50-N) |
| VA | HB2347 | Pass | Small Business Investment Grant Fund; recapture of awards. Provides that if an eligible investor is awarded a grant from the Small Business Investment Grant Fund and the small business in which the investment was made (i) relocates outside of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| VA | HB1752 | Engross | Election day; school holiday. Prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HJR742 | Pass | Commending Living Legends of Alexandria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ742ER) |
| VA | HB1712 | Pass | Dismissal of summons for expiration of vehicle registration; proof of compliance. Authorizes courts to dismiss a summons issued for expiration of vehicle registration if the defendant provides to the court proof of compliance with the law on or befor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) |
| VA | HB2417 | Engross | Emergency protective order; required conditions; petition to dissolve or modify. Requires any emergency protective order to prohibit (i) the respondent from committing acts of family abuse or criminal offenses that result in injury to person or prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HJR727 | Pass | Commending Louis Kokonis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ727ER) |
| VA | HJR579 | Intro | Constitution of the United States; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1641 | Intro | Absentee voting; no-excuse absentee. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by abse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2369 | Intro | Virginia Human Rights Act; establishment of right to reproductive choice. Establishes that (i) every individual has a fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization and (ii) every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2348 | Intro | Economic development investments and grants; minimum wage requirements. Increases the minimum wage requirements from 135 percent to 175 percent of the federal minimum wage for new jobs to be eligible for economic development incentives under the Smal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2418 | Intro | Condominium Act; management of condominiums; distribution of information by electoral candidates. Requires the executive organ of a condominium unit owners' association to establish a reasonable, effective, and free method, appropriate to the size an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1628 | Intro | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons age 65 or older. Entitles a person who will be age 65 or older on the day of an election to vote by absentee ballot in that election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2370 | Intro | Possession and consumption of marijuana; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $250. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1616 | Intro | Use or display of firearm during commission of a felony; killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Adds maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, or otherwise causing bodily injury to or administering poison to any animal used or trained by a law-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1701 | Intro | Gender-neutral terms; assisted conception; prohibitions on Gender-neutral terms; assisted conception; prohibitions on same-sex marriage and civil unions; certain gender-specific crimes; penalty. Replaces the terms "husband" and "wife" as well as rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1690 | Intro | Line of Duty Act; Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police officers. Expands the list of disabled persons and the beneficiaries of disabled or deceased persons eligible to receive benefits under the Line of Duty Act to include Metropolitan W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2696 | Intro | Environmental Justice Advisory Council established. Establishes the Environmental Justice Advisory Council, consisting of 13 members, to advise the Governor on environmental justice in the Commonwealth through equitable development, implementation, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2307 | Intro | Killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Requires a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of six months for any person who maliciously kills or injures an animal owned, used, or trained by a law-enforcement agency, regional jail, or the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1647 | Intro | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines; (ii) in the permitting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
