| VA | SB994 | Intro
25% | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB980 | Intro
25% | Secretary of Transportation; Disadvantaged Business Enterprises; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to convene a work group to evaluate how the Department of Transportation determines the usage of Disadvantaged Business Enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB978 | Intro
25% | Keeper of vehicles; liens; certain towing and recovery drivers and operators. Expands a keeper of vehicle's lien in the case of a tow truck driver or towing and recovery operator furnishing services to a truck, tractor truck, or combination of vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1148 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; work group on twelfth grade transition planning and assistance online programs. Requires the Department of Education to convene a work group to evaluate options and make recommendations for online twelfth grade transition pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1466 | Intro
25% | Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund created. Creates the Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1473 | Intro
25% | Toll operators; Department of Motor Vehicles records. Authorizes toll facility operators to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the email address or other electronic address of the owner of a vehicle that failed to pay a toll. Existing provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB852 | Intro
25% | Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited; definition. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information related to menstrual he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1471 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR299 | Engross
50% | Commending the Honorable William J. Minor, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Laid on Speaker's table |
| VA | SJR255 | Intro
25% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | SB979 | Intro
25% | Towing trespassing vehicles; limitations on fees. Prohibits localities from setting limits on towing fees and other associated fees for trespassing passenger cars and vehicles that are lower than the respective statewide maximum charges authorized fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1162 | Intro
25% | Commissioner of Highways; roadways operating under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate whether it is in the public interest for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB1320 | Engross
50% | Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and Program; report. Codifies the Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the Fund), originally created in the 2021 Appropriation Act, and establishes the Virginia Communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SR104 | Pass | Commending Abigail Zwerner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | SJR289 | Intro
25% | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Spence Reid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB901 | Engross
50% | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, unless the vehicle is locked and the handgun is secured in a locked container o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB981 | Engross
50% | Flashing red and white warning lights; emergency vehicle exemptions; WMATA Response and Recovery Coordination Branch vehicles. Authorizes vehicles operated by the Response and Recovery Coordination Branch of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB995 | Engross
50% | Use of handheld personal communication devices in certain motor vehicles. Clarifies the penalty structure for a first offense and a second or subsequent offense of using a handheld personal communication device in certain motor vehicles, as well as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SB1528 | Intro
25% | Libraries; acquisition of books and other library matter; electronic literary material. Provides certain restrictions, outlined in the bill, for publishers contracting with The Library of Virginia and other libraries for the purpose of acquiring a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1351 | Engross
50% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene as many all-virtual public meetings as each such public body deems acceptable in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N) |
| VA | SB1382 | Engross
50% | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB1139 | Engross
50% | Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor under 18 years of age or a person who is prohibited by law from possessing a firearm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB993 | Engross
50% | Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees; membership. Expands from 19 to 20 members the total membership of the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees by adding an additional nonlegislative citizen member and stipulates that the 12 nonlegis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1149 | Engross
50% | Plans and programs; drought evaluation and response plans; Potomac River. Requires the State Water Control Board to recognize service areas for water utilities in the Commonwealth that use the Potomac River as a water supply source as a distinct drou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SJR252 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Jane Haycock Woods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SB1192 | Engross
50% | Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB1181 | Engross
50% | Sale, transfer, or purchase of unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, for any person to knowingly sell, offer to se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) |
| VA | SJR260 | Pass | Commending Colonel Anthony Steven Pike.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SB1067 | Engross
50% | Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate shall consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SJR280 | Pass | Commending Doreen Gentzler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SB1354 | Engross
50% | Worker misclassification; debarment procedures. Revises the procedure under which a contractor may be debarred from public contracts for misclassification of workers. The bill requires the Tax Department to notify an employer of a determination that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1276 | Engross
50% | Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1167 | Engross
50% | Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill requires any firearm industry member that sells, manufac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SB909 | Engross
50% | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) |
| VA | SB1543 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; eligible host localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1251 | Intro
25% | Elections; conduct of election; election results to be delivered by officers representing both major parties on election night. Requires ballots, election materials, and equipment keys to be returned to the clerk of the circuit court or the general r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB1112 | Engross
50% | Health insurance; coverage for prescription contraceptives. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for any pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) |
| VA | SB1158 | Intro
25% | Regulation of garbage and refuse pickup and disposal services; exclusive service areas; Planning District 8. Grants localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) authority to establish exclusive service areas and award such service areas to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1157 | Intro
25% | Health insurance; coverage for audio-only telehealth services. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage beginning January 1, 2024, for the cost of health care services provided...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (9-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| VA | SJR238 | Pass | Commending Vivian Cheatham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ238ER) |
| VA | SB1283 | Intro
25% | Assault firearms; age requirement; penalty. Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| VA | SB918 | Intro
25% | Carrying, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Prohibits the sale of an assault firearm and a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| VA | SJR266 | Pass | Commending Nancy A. Creech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ266ER) |
| VA | SB982 | Engross
50% | Yielding or reducing speed for stationary vehicles; vehicles displaying hazard lights, caution signs, or road flares. Requires drivers to make a lane change or reduce speed when passing stationary vehicles that have activated the vehicular hazard war...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB943 | Engross
50% | Public high schools; special education; identification of faculty member responsible for school transition planning and coordination. Requires each public high school in the Commonwealth to publicly identify on its official website the faculty member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-17
Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB803 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SJR257 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Glenn L. Clayton II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ257ER) |
| VA | SJR259 | Pass | Commending the Library of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ259ER) |
| VA | SJR233 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Tilghman Hazel, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ233ER) |
| VA | SB1243 | Intro
25% | Abortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
