| VA | HB5001 | Intro | Department of Motor Vehicles; open hours. Requires all Department of Motor Vehicles customer service centers to be open and accept walk-in customers six days a week between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. This requirement expires upon the expiration or revoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB5009 | Intro | School boards; in-person instruction; student home internet access; emergency. Requires each school board to provide in-person instruction to any student whose primary residence is not capable of receiving Internet access at speeds greater than 10 MB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB5006 | Intro | Waiver of penalties and interest; refunds; taxpayers suffering job loss or business closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Waives penalties and interest for six months for taxpayers who suffered a job loss, business closure, or reduction in business o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HJR5007 | 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 | HJR5008 | Intro | COVID-19 pandemic; executive orders. Urges the Governor to rescind executive orders declaring a public health emergency and imposing restrictions on citizens, businesses, and schools in the Commonwealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB5020 | Intro | Local control of firearms; concealed handgun permit. Provides that any local ordinances that prohibit the possession, carrying, or transportation of any firearms, ammunition, or components or combination shall not apply to a person who has a valid co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HJR5004 | Intro | Abolition Day. Designating December 6, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Abolition Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB5080 | Intro | Projecting laser at another person unlawful; penalties. Provides that if any person intentionally projects a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser at another person with the intent to cause bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5075 | Intro | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB5071 | Intro | Collective bargaining; law enforcement; transparency and accountability. Prohibits a county, city, or town from entering into a collective bargaining contract with a labor union or other employee association representing law-enforcement officers or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB5008 | Intro | School closure; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that a public school in the Commonwealth is closed for in-person instruction for 30 or more days during a school year, the parent of an enrolled student who withdraws his child fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB5140 | Intro | Long-term care facilities; public health emergency; patient visitation; end of life. Provides that during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, every hospital, nursing home, nursing facility, ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB5125 | Intro | Riots and unlawful assemblies; dangerous weapons; penalty. Provides that (i) a projectile of any kind; (ii) a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser; (iii) a blunt instrument; or (iv) a shield is a dangerous weapon for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5132 | Intro | Obstructing emergency medical services agency personnel in performance of mission; penalty. Increases the penalty for the crime of obstructing emergency medical services agency personnel in the performance of their mission from a Class 2 misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5139 | Intro | Projecting laser at law-enforcement officer; penalties. Increases from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for any person who intentionally projects a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5124 | Intro | State Inspector General; investigation of the Commonwealth's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Directs the State Inspector General to (i) investigate the Commonwealth's response to the public health emergency related to the novel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB5088 | Intro | Electric utility regulation; triennial Electric utility regulation; triennial review proceeding; emergency investigations; administration of earnings. Directs the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), for Dominion's 2021 triennial review, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| 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 | HB5021 | Intro | Collective bargaining; prohibited considerations during negotiations. Prohibits any local ordinance or resolution granting or permitting collective bargaining from permitting consideration during collective bargaining negotiations of any action or di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB5026 | Intro | Locality responsible for damages caused by inadequate police response. Provides that in any instance in which a locality intentionally or negligently fails to provide an adequate police response so as to prevent damage to the property of a property o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5017 | Intro | 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] | 2020-11-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5011 | Intro | In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB5095 | Intro | COVID-19; impact of distance learning; Department of Health to develop criteria and information; civil immunity; emergency. Directs the Department of Health to work with the Department of Education and representatives of the Virginia Chapter of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB5121 | Intro | State Board of Health; public health emergency; patient visitation; notice to family; emergency. Requires each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice facility to allow each patient to receive visits, either virtually or in person, at l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HJR5003 | Intro | Constitutional amendment (first reference); special sessions; required in certain states of emergency. Requires the Governor to convene a special session whenever declaring a state of emergency for a period that exceeds 90 days or whenever extending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB5041 | Pass | Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| 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 | HJR5002 | Intro | Hydroxychloroquine; use for COVID-19 treatment. Encourages that hydroxychloroquine should be made available for treating COVID-19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-10
VOTE: Rejected (29-Y 65-N) |
| VA | HR536 | Engross | Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR521 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Edward T. Scott.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Bill text as passed House (HR521ER) |
| VA | HB5007 | Intro | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; executive orders; limitation on duration of executive orders declaring a state of emergency; civil penalty. Provides that executive orders declaring a state of emergency, and any other executive orders pertaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Public Safety (13-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB5070 | Intro | Public health emergency; immunizations. Eliminates the authority of the Board of Health or Commissioner of Health to require, during an epidemic of a disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists, that a person receive such vaccine d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB5082 | Intro | Vaccines; requirements for inclusion on list of required vaccines. Provides that no vaccine shall be added to the list of required vaccines if (i) the vaccine is derived from human fetal tissue, (ii) the vaccine modifies the ribonucleic acid (RNA) or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB1271 | Pass | Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1026) |
| VA | HB43 | Pass | Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts. Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0920) |
| VA | HB1522 | Pass | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1000) |
| VA | HB1196 | Pass | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0964) |
| VA | HB590 | Pass | Tax credit for participating landlords; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for the housing choice voucher tax credit to include Virginia census tracts in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| VA | HB742 | Pass | Local regulation of unmanned aircraft. Authorizes a political subdivision, by ordinance or regulation, to regulate the take-off or landing of certain unmanned aircraft on property owned by the political subdivision in accordance with the rules and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| VA | HB316 | Pass | Refunds of local taxes; authority of treasurer. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the maximum amount at which the governing body of a locality may authorize its treasurer to approve and issue a refund of taxes paid as a result of an erroneous tax asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| VA | HB378 | Pass | Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset on the program established in 2017 that allows the Commissioner of Health to establish and operate local or regional comprehensive harm reduction progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| VA | HB1244 | Pass | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Act (the Act), "telephone solicitation call" includes any text message sent to any wireless telephone with a Virginia area code, or to a wirel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| VA | HR151 | Engross | Commemorating the life and legacy of Boaz Fleming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR210 | Engross | Commending Loudoun County wineries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR211 | Engross | Commending the Clarke County High School academic team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR173 | Engross | Commending Rosa B. Price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR190 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Lorine Bernice Allen Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR481 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Betsey Jean Smith Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ481ER) |
| VA | HJR505 | Pass | Commending Heidi Trude.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ505ER) |
| VA | HJR506 | Pass | Commending Tree of Life Ministries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ506ER) |
