| VA | SR564 | Intro | Commending the Honorable Janine M. Saxe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB5039 | 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] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| VA | SR567 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR567ER) |
| VA | SR562 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Manley Garber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR562ER) |
| VA | SB5082 | 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 (CHAP0007) |
| VA | SR546 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph Alexander.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-01
Bill text as passed Senate (SR546ER) |
| VA | SR556 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Walter H. Peake III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-01
Bill text as passed Senate (SR556ER) |
| VA | SR542 | Pass | Commending Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Semyon Vindman, USA Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR542ER) |
| VA | SR540 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lori Lee Brickley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR540ER) |
| VA | SR532 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-09
Bill text as passed Senate (SR532ER) |
| VA | SR534 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Bishop Gerald O. Glenn.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-09
Bill text as passed Senate (SR534ER) |
| VA | SB891 | Pass | Animal welfare regulations; keeping of animals; State Animal Welfare Inspector. Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt comprehensive regulations governing the keeping of dogs and cats by any pet shop by July 1, 2022. The regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1284) |
| VA | SB758 | Pass | Electric personal delivery devices. Makes several changes related to electric personal delivery devices, including changing the term used to refer to such devices to "personal delivery devices" and changing the weight limit of such devices from 50 to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1269) |
| VA | SB976 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; pharmaceutical processors; cannabis dispensing facilities. Defines "cannabis dispensing facilities" and allows the Board of Pharmacy to issue up to five permits for cannabis dispensing facilities per health service area. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1278) |
| VA | SB561 | Pass | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder; law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by a law-enforcement officer or firefighter is compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1262) |
| VA | SB7 | Pass | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $9.50 per hour effective May 1, 2021; to $11.00 per hour effective January 1, 2022; to $12.00 per hour effective January 1, 2023; to $13.50 per ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1242) |
| VA | SB851 | Pass | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1194) |
| VA | SB868 | Pass | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1140) |
| VA | SB957 | Pass | Commission on Civic Education; sunset and funding; membership. Repeals the sunset provision for the Commission on Civic Education and repeals a prohibition on the use of general funds to support the work of the Commission. The bill also increases and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1045) |
| VA | SB423 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1094) |
| VA | SB219 | Pass | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0909) |
| VA | SB885 | Pass | Performance of laboratory analysis; cannabidiol oil; THC-A oil; tetrahydrocannabinol. Provides that no person employed by an analytical laboratory to retrieve, deliver, or possess cannabidiol oil, THC-A oil, or industrial hemp samples from a permitte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0941) |
| VA | SB968 | Pass | Maintenance and repair of relocated billboard signs. Provides for the maintenance and repair of nonconforming billboard signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0983) |
| VA | SB754 | Pass | Electric cooperatives; on-bill tariff programs. Authorizes electric cooperatives to establish on-bill tariff programs under which the cooperative and a customer enter into an agreement that provides for the costs, including financing costs, of energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| VA | SB935 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that any student is eligible for in-state tuition who (i) attended high school for at least two years in the Commonwealth and either (a) graduated on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| VA | SB918 | Pass | Industrial hemp extract; approval as food or ingredient; regulations; fund; emergency. Provides that an industrial hemp extract, as defined in the bill, is a food and is subject to applicable laws and regulations. The bill establishes (i) requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| VA | SB1004 | Pass | Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; road construction projects. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, in collaboration with the Department of Transportation and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, to create a Wildlife Corridor Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| VA | SB1015 | Pass | Possession of marijuana; cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil. Provides that a person who possesses marijuana in the form of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitioner in the course of his professional pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| VA | SB499 | Pass | Specialty dockets; veterans docket. Provides that any veterans docket authorized and established as a local specialty docket in accordance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia shall be deemed a "Veterans Treatment Court Program," as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| VA | SB1005 | Pass | Corporal Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Guinea Station Road over Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County the CPL Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| VA | SB103 | Pass | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| VA | SB101 | Pass | Scanning information from driver's license. Allows a merchant to scan the machine-readable zone of an individual's Department of Motor Vehicles-issued identification card or driver's license in order to verify authenticity of the identification card ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| VA | SB296 | Pass | Credit unions; director compensation. Provides that compensation of members of a credit union's board of directors and members of the credit and supervisory committees shall be determined by a written policy approved by the board of directors, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| VA | SB294 | Pass | Bail bondsman; petition for return of deposit for surrender of principal; deposited funds credited to Literary Fund. Provides that if a bail bondsman does not petition the court for the return of funds deposited for the surrender of his principal wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| VA | SB160 | Pass | Holding handheld personal communications devices while driving a motor vehicle. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle. Current law prohibits (i) the reading of any email or text mess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| VA | SB9 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| VA | SB114 | Pass | Comprehensive animal care; enforceable under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Subjects certain animal care statutes to enforcement under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (§ 59.1-196 et seq.). These statutes relate to the posting of informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| VA | SB870 | Pass | Special exceptions for solar photovoltaic projects. Authorizes a locality to include reasonable regulations and provisions in its zoning ordinance for a special exception for any solar photovoltaic (electric energy) project. The bill authorizes the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| VA | SB875 | Pass | Solar energy projects; national standards. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance provisions to incorporate generally accepted national standards for the use of solar panels and battery technologies for solar photovoltaic (electric ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| VA | SB481 | Fail | Earned paid sick time. Requires public and private employers with 15 or more employees to provide those employees with earned paid sick time; however, the provisions of the bill would not apply to an employer that has entered into a bona fide collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB412 | Pass | Family assessments; timeline. Increases from 45 days to 60 days the allowable time for completing a family assessment by a local department of social services and removes the local department's opportunity to request a 15-day extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | SB871 | Pass | Electric power-assisted bicycles. Amends the definition of "electric power-assisted bicycle" to include three classes of such bicycles, based upon the type of motor and the maximum miles per hour that the motor is capable of propelling the bicycle. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| VA | SR79 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Henry J. Abraham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR79ER) |
| VA | SJR205 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Katherine Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ205ER) |
| VA | SJR197 | Pass | Celebrating the life of E. Bruce Heilman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ197ER) |
| VA | SJR181 | Pass | Commending Bob Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ181ER) |
| VA | SJR221 | Pass | Commending Shirley Morrow Marshall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ221ER) |
| VA | SJR258 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Henry Duff, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ258ER) |
| VA | SJR217 | Pass | Commending the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ217ER) |
| VA | SB4 | 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 solely for the purpose of rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
